…his dissertation in theology was devoted to the mystic Antoinette Bourignon. (During his studies, Björkhem had to travel in Europe to get access to some of the writings by and about her.) When he was going to defend his dissertation in 1940, it was first necessary to change to a…
…also appeared in handwritten notes, apparently not in Shirley’s handwriting. A reporter, Joyce Lewis, slept in the same bed as Shirley one night and witnessed the girl being clawed and pulled out of the bed. Shortly after the publication of a sceptical news article the incidents took a darker turn,…
…Slip. [Blog post.] Goodman, D., & Kaiser, T.E. (2003). Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen. London: Routledge. IMDb (n.d.). Miss Morison’s Ghosts. [Web page.] Iremonger, L. (1975). The Ghosts of Versailles: Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain and their Adventure. London: White Lion. Jullian, P. (1967). Robert de…
…some trick methods used by Miss Bangs of Chicago. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 10, 5-16. Moore, W.U. (1911). Glimpses of the Next State. London: Watts & Co. Quaestor Vitae et al. (1896). Type-writing without human contact. Light 16/785 (Jan. 25), 43-45. 4 Endnotes 1 Jones (1872), 4….
…a year or so, his health improved; however, having achieved very little success in the gold-mining venture, he returned to New York City, where he supported himself with some inheritance money and occasional writing jobs, as well as by assisting Hodgson in investigations for the ASPR, then the American Branch…
Psychical research has long included gifted experimenters, but also critics, bibliographers and independent commentators who hold the field to account. George Zorab (1898–1990) belonged to that tradition, combining investigation with prolific writing, methodological criticism and a determined preference for qualitative approaches to psi phenomena. Zorab investigated spontaneous phenomena and ESP,…
…related to the theosophical positions of Helena Blavatsky and AP Sinnett. In the preface, Dodgson (writing as Lewis Carroll) asserts that his story is an attempt to show what might possibly happen, supposing that Fairies really existed and … were sometimes visible to us, and we to them; and that…
…in psi began after a dowser apparently helped recover her daughter’s stolen harp. She later reviewed evidence from dream telepathy, ganzfeld work, presentiment, remote viewing and related research. Her writing emphasised both the empirical challenge of paranormal claims and the emotional resistance they can provoke. Life and Career Elizabeth ‘Lisby’…
…with Tina Resch, the girl raised from infancy by her foster parents.35Roll & Storey (2004). Tina received three neurological examinations when she was fourteen, all of which seemed to indicate that she faced mild difficulty with coordinated movements of her left hand (like those involved in handwriting) and motion of…
