…closely to the remembered life. Especially significant from the evidential point of view are cases with ‘stranger’ relationships in which a child’s memories were recorded in writing before verifications were attempted. These cases, known as ‘early bird cases’, are indicated in the line above the case summary. Ampan Petcherat Born…
…Jones’s. He also liked to design golf courses with his blankets, and his favourite golf course was Augusta National Golf Club, which Jones had founded and helped design. As of Tucker’s writing, Hunter dominated the child golf circuit.8Tucker (2014), 130. Commercially Published Cases Informal FPL claims abound on social media…
…this phenomenon remained to be fully established.19Newbold (1895), 149. Reviewers less concerned with survival approved of Podmore’s conservatism. Writing in Annales des Sciences Psychiques, Marcel Mangin called it the best book available on the topic, and praised the author for being cautious in his conclusions, ‘which cannot be too much…
…him,’ he commented.‘ I had not attempted to visualize his signature, and no one in the circle knew his writing or that he was related to me. There was something inexplicable in this fact.’ 7Garland (1936), 160. A month later, Garland sat with Peters in his Sunday evening family circle,…
…real writing talent and gained a reputation as a writer of fiction on South African themes. However, he was chronically short of money all his life: a prime motive for his claims with regard to the SPR experiments appears to have been the need for cash and to publicize his…
…teacher never ceased to confess his belief in the alleged phenomena, as is evident from Fechner’s diary, his letters to Wundt and others, and his published writings.16Wundt (1901), 85-90. Other excerpts from Fechner’s diaries, which tell a different story than Wundt’s selections, were first printed in Fechner (1888). His diaries…
‘Patience Worth’ was the putative author of novels, poems and other writings channeled by Pearl Curran (1883–1937) from 1913 to her death, first through the use of a Ouija board, then by clairvoyant and clairaudient dictation. The material consisted of seven full length novels along with short stories, plays, thousands…
…beliefs and experiences arise from cognitive illusions and category errors. In her paper ‘What is Spirit Possession?’, cognitive anthropologist Emma Cohen suggests that the apparent similarities in spirit possession practices and beliefs across cultures arise from innate human cognitive processes. This work draws heavily on the writings of of cognitive…
…taught as the University of Southern Maine. In 2013, an unpublished manuscript entitled Conversations with Ghosts was finally edited and published with the assistance of Callum E Cooper. Today, further archival research is being conducted, with unpublished writings by Tanous – concerning clinical parapsychology, healing, ufology, and the Bermuda Triangle…
