…paranormal, writing that the Geller metal-bending effect is clearly not brought about by fraud and is so exceptional as to present a crucial challenge to modern science.2Taylor (1975). However, Taylor later became sceptical when he failed to find an electromagnetic basis for psychokinesis, the only mechanism that he considered to…
…Resistance Mayrick predicted to Bengston in the 70s that there was no point in conducting scientific experiments on psychic healing since the medical and science communities would never accept the findings. Bengston’s experience had confirmed this at least up to the time of writing of his autobiography in 2010. ‘I’m…
…at one out of every three million visitors.21Carroll (2015). Carroll’s calculation is based on the number of declared ‘miracles’ (67 at the time of writing), when the number of reported cures is around 7,000, and the figure of actual cures (including those that are never reported) may be several times…
…patients and reports of 216 chair tests, also writings by Croiset and articles from newspapers and scientific journals in twenty languages.29John Borgman Fund. See also: Croiset Archive. KM Wehrstein Works Cited Bender, H. (1958). Experimented vooschouw (experimental precognition). Tijdschrijt voor Parapsychologie 26, 9-45. Bender, H. (1981). Pirmasens 1953 – Retrospektive…
…WL Gresham’s 1953 work Monster Midway, although Whaley4Whaley (1989) 173. describes it as ‘originally the argot of psychic mediums by 1924 […] from the fact that the customer walks in ‘cold’ — previously unknown to the fortune-teller’. The stratagem was probably first hinted at in the writings of Conan Doyle…
…thousand applicants, 204 were granted permission to enter. Initially, cash prizes of $500,000, $300,000 and $150,000 were offered for first, second and third place respectively; during the writing period, another eleven prizes of $50,000 each were added, and during the judging period another fifteen $20,000 prizes were added, at the…
…yet, but mean to do so ; some other spiritist had brought ” writing mediums,” the result being uninteresting. The phenomena had increased, according to Z. and the boys’ accounts. They had seen a pipe fly from one side of the shop to the other and back, and settle on…
…a miscarried foetus, but his memories of that as well as of events from the intermission period, the new intrauterine period, and birth, were veridical (their accuracy was confirmed). The case was independently investigated by Jim B Tucker and Carol Bowman, who called Bobby by different names in writing about…
…Longmans, Green, and Co. Lang, A., Teverson, A., Warwick, A., & Wilson, L. (2015). The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Selected Articles Apparitions. (1875). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition. 2. 202-8. The comparative study of ghost stories (1885). The Nineteenth Century 17,…
