John Geiger says that many people who experience the Third Man explain it as a religious experience.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

And I almost hit John along the way great. My third right, exactly, what can I say?

我会一直像John投球,这是第三次了，确切的说，我还能说什么呢？

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John Geiger points out that these Third Man experiences are very common among mountain climbers.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

A third candidate was John Sherman, the Secretary of the Treasury.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

It doesnt matter whether they are at great elevation or at sea level. John Geiger suggests that the brains effort to create a Third Man is not an accident of human brain structure, or a sign of injury in extreme conditions.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

VOA: special.2010.02.24