Truth Wizard calls Ramona Bautista's facial expressions "emotionally dull"

What is a Truth Wizard?

"A "Truth Wizard" is a person identified in the Wizards Project, who can identify deception with exceptional accuracy of at least 80% or higher, whereas the average person is only as good as a coin toss. No Truth Wizard, however, is 100% accurate. The term "wizard" refers to "a person of amazing skill or accomplishment"[1].


What is the Wizards Project?

"The Wizards Project (formerly called the Diogenes Project) was a research project conducted by Paul Ekman and Maureen O'Sullivan that studied the ability of people to detect lies told by others. The project was originally named after the Greek philosopher who would look into people's faces using a lamp, claiming to be looking for an honest man."

Who is Paul Ekman?

Paul Ekman is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions.



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Note that the Truth Wizard I asked lives in - and is from - the US, speaks English and does not understand the Filipino language.

She therefore has to rely only on facial expressions shown by Ramona Bautista on the vid below.

I asked what she could discern from Ramona Bautista's facial expressions. I explained that in the video below, Ramona is describing what she saw when her brother was murdered.




With EyesForLies permission, she observes - absent of any translation - that Ramona Bautista is "emotionally dull" -- not a natural thing to be after witnessing the murder of a sibling. She said she had to google Ramona Bautsita's name to know if Ramona was indeed talking about a murder and found it interesting that Ramona is being tagged as a suspect.


EyesforLies is a Truth Wizard. According to her blog, she "has a 97.3% accuracy rate (to date) after identifying truth and deception in 37/38 people before the truth was known by watching media clips. Eyes for Lies is not psychic."


She relies on subtle facial expressions, microexpressions, verbal cues and a host of other minute details the average person mostly cannot see, usually dismiss or conveniently explain away.

"How does she spot lies?

Eyes for Lies looks for behavioral evidence. When people are under high stress situations and they are deceptive, subconscious clues leak out that tell the real story. Eyes for Lies coined this "behavioral evidence".

"They [wizards] seem to have templates of people that they use to make sense of the behavioral deviations they observe." says [Dr. Maureen] O'Sullivan. So it is not a set of disembodied cues, but embedded behaviors that are consistent with each other as well as with the kind of person exhibiting them."


Paul Ekman says at 48:04-48:23 on Truth Wizards:



"...we don't know why they're so good...they're uncanny...They don't miss anything. Every aspect of your speech, mannerism, what you're doing with your hands. They're continuing to generate hypotheses as they go along. "

Ramona Bautista's audition tape for PBB

Yell 5-4-3-2-1......ACTION! at 0:32.



If a murder did not happen, you'd think she's telling the plot of an action movie.

I can't help but think that this is her audition tape for Pinoy Big Brother.

Is that why the related videos shown by YouTube are also PBB-related?

Why does she pause at 1:04? when telling the story of how a man is standing at the door of his brother's room?

What is she trying to remember "correctly?"

When she says, "Hindi ko iniwang bukas yung pinto. Hindi po ako nagbukas." this is probably true

"Hindi ko trabahong i lock ung pinto dahil hindi ko naman alam yun e."

"Si Janelle po ang katabi ng pinto. Dapat sya po ang maglock."


It is as if she is cleansing herself from sin and that it was whoever opened the door who was at fault for the murder because the one who opened the door welcomed the perpetrator.

"..andun yung lalake sa pintuan nagulat po ako."

No she was not startled because her voice does not say so, it seems she has been expecting the man-by-the-door to appear.
Also, that sentence is awkward.

"..andun yung lalake sa pintuan nagulat po ako."

That statement shows she is trying to remember something from the memory of what she saw and not from what she felt when she saw it - if indeed she was authentically startled. If she really was "nagulat," won't she or anyone naturally / normally say:

"..nagulat ako...may lalake sa pintuan."

Why did she say

"..andun YUNG lalake.."?

What's the difference when you refer to someone as "Yung lalake.." (doesn't this suggest familiarity?)

compared to "May lalake.."?



Why do I have the feeling that empathy does not run in the Revilla family.

To be fair, Ramona Bautista is so lucky to not have been hurt by the perpetrator. She really should thank his brother for "saving her life."

It is also fair to say that she probably did not drink the appropriate amount of milk when she was growing up because of the evident memory gaps in her statement as published by Pep.ph on November 4.




Her body language in the news video below contradicts Ramona's own statement in the same video where she says "Her conscience is clear."

Why is she covering her face with her hair and why can't she keep her head up? What is she ashamed of? She says she's ashamed she left her brother and his gf dead. She also cried in an interview when she said she heard the news that Janelle was still alive.

She cried when she heard the news that Janelle was still alive?

Did she cry because she knows that she now has to make her statements consistent with the survivor?

Also, it is not just me who thinks and hears Ramona's voice is devoid of sadness when relating the story of his brother's murder.




Maybe crying on cue with no tears also run in their immediate family - like Mother like Daughter.