…them phonetically, and German words spelled correctly, as if the writer knew how to write in German. The letters were separate, unlike Dolores’s usual cursive handwriting. Figure 1: Gretchen’s German writing, and the normal handwriting of Dolores Jay Fig. 1: Gretchen’s German script, and a sample of Dolores Jay’s handwriting…
…labelled ‘Hauntings & Poltergeists’ lists hundreds of unpublished cases with detailed information and geographical locations. In addition to this list there are numerous accounts scattered throughout the archive. Automatic writing/ drawing. Over one hundred references, with examples, from well-known cases such as Bligh Bond at Glastonbury, as well as obscure…
A chess match between a living grandmaster and an ostensible deceased one provides unusual evidence for post-mortem survival. Conducted through automatic writing over nearly eight years, it drew attention not only for the quality of play but also for historically obscure information about his life apparently supplied by the communicator….
…communications through automatic writing or talking might simultaneously prepare food in the kitchen, write letters, or carry on a conversation. But even when we focus only on those cases of mediumship where the similarity to DID holds, there is no reason for taking the medium’s amnesia (say) as a prima…
…become an automatic writing medium. Mapes asked his daughter to give a demonstration, at which she wrote a message that appeared to come from his deceased father. As proof of identity his daughter’s hand wrote: ‘You may recollect that I gave you, among other books, an encyclopedia; look at page…
…serious study of Hernani Guimãraes Andrade, who founded the Brazilian Institute for Psycho-Biophysical Research (IBPP) in 1963. Despite initial scepticism, Playfair became increasingly intrigued by the phenomena he investigated and was eventually persuaded of their genuineness. He researched a number of cases of ‘psychic surgery, automatic writing, materializations and poltergeist…
…to reach cases early enough so that he or a colleague could record a child’s statements in writing or on tape before assessing the accuracy of the memories, but it proved difficult to do this in the Asian countries in which he concentrated his research. As Stevenson built up a…
…writing, a rough bottle drawing and the package’s coloured envelopes. Life and Career Stefan Ossowiecki was born in 1877 in Moscow. His father was a wealthy chemical manufacturer who in his youth had been assistant to Dmitri Mendeleev, inventor of the Periodic Table of elements. Both parents’ families were landed…
…table-turning and spirit rappings, sitting with notable séance mediums of the day, such as William Eglinton, DD Home and Mrs Guppy, and claiming to have repeatedly witnessed materializations, slate-writing, music from unknown sources, apports, and the like.6Fodor (1934), 403. This led him to a belief in the existence of ‘preterhuman…
