The Carl Edon case combines striking childhood memories with behavioural and physical correspondences, but also with serious evidential dispute. It has become a useful example of how a reincarnation case can appear persuasive to witnesses while still leaving key questions about identification, documentation and interpretation unresolved. As a young child,…
In 1977, a house in the north London suburb of Enfield was the scene of violent disturbances similar to what has been reported in poltergeist-type episodes – knockings and other noises with no apparent cause, doors opening and closing by themselves, small objects hurled across rooms, and suchlike. The case…
In a Brooklyn sleep laboratory from 1964 to 1978, researchers testing whether dreamers could pick up imagery mentally sent from another room. The resulting studies became some of the best-known work in dream ESP, admired for striking hits, disputed for their replication record, and central to later debates about experimental…
Stage magic, sceptical activism and media performance combined in the career of one of the paranormal field’s most influential antagonists. Celebrated for exposing fraud and ridiculed by opponents for polemics and overreach, he shaped public perceptions of psychics and parapsychology far beyond the laboratory or séance room. Randi’s exposure of…
…encountered. He writes: With mediums, generally it is necessary to sit for a formal séance before anything is heard; but in the case of Miss Fox it seems only necessary for her to place her hand on any substance for loud thuds to be heard in it, like a triple…
…most significant item of information connected with object. In a face-to-face encounter the psychometrist might first take the sitter’s hand, if the purpose is to demonstrate his or her powers by telling the sitter details of his past life and other people connected to him. However, most psi practitioners are…
…down; the experience of seeing the physical body from another location in space; and perceptions of events that the patient could not have perceived or guessed normally.4Cook [Kelly], Greyson, & Stevenson (1998), Kelly, Greyson, & Stevenson (1999–2000). A fourth feature of NDEs suggestive of survival is the encounter with deceased…
…later as an office secretary. Cranshaw became involved in mediumship after a chance encounter on a train with Harry Price, a paranormal investigator. Price engaged her in conversation after she showed interest in the spiritualist periodical Light, a copy of which was among his papers: she mentioned that she occasionally…
…either that Ariel’s phenomena were fraudulent or that his investigators had committed some kind of error which they were determined to uncover. Previous encounters with members of that latter group had been unpleasant and inhibiting for Ariel. So further requests from that group were indefinitely delayed. On the other hand,…
