…labelled ‘Hauntings & Poltergeists’ lists hundreds of unpublished cases with detailed information and geographical locations.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…
…return very soon: he then told her also the reason why he had been unable to write. The woman went home pretty much at ease. What the solitary had told her was minutely fulfilled, her husband returned, and the reasons of his delay and his not writing were just the…
…the result. In each case the three girls were correct, giving male in red, Zhou in red, and see (colour not mentioned) (see Fig 1: second line). The boy, who was unable to identify the writing in his package became upset at having failed the test. Following this demonstration, more…
…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 made during her normal waking state.4Reproduced in Stevenson (1984), 43. Criticism and Controversy Stevenson…
…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…
…automatically reliable nor automatically worthless, but as evidence whose force depends on context, convergence and the nature of the claim. Stephen Braude argues that appeals to general human bias cannot by themselves explain away every strong case, because some reports contain features that are difficult to assimilate to ordinary perceptual…
…founded or ran several newspapers and journals before turning serious attention to psychology and séance phenomena. Held that mediumistic effects were real yet produced by an automatic force generated within the human organism rather than by spirits. Worked with William Crookes on mediumistic investigations, later breaking with him over the…
…(1925). and the views expressed there were developed further as his career progressed, most notably in another monumental book, Lectures on Psychical Research.2Broad (1962). Broad’s writing on parapsychology was confined primarily to the topics of ESP and postmortem survival. Psychokinesis, on the other hand, was a topic he dismissed more…
…investigate spontaneous cases with Edmund Gurney and FWH Myers for Phantasms of the Living (1886). His later writings increasingly explained mediumship and poltergeist claims through fraud, conjuring and witness error. Survival evidence he could not explain away he believed could be accounted for by ESP. Life and Career Podmore was…
