…the psychomanteum, a device first used by the Greeks to summon spirits of the dead and recently replicated with a small dimly lit space furnished with a mirror. Thirty people were recruited who had a prior ghost encounter, of whom half were synesthetes, and had baseline readings taken for EMF…
…area at the time of his enquiries. Eventually he encountered an elderly man who had lived in Cengelkoy for many years, who told him that an Armenian had definitely lived in that house at one time. Keil then interviewed a local historian, born in 1924, who provided additional information. Keil…
…the 1600s. Walking in a colonial-era street at night he encountered a man dressed in period costume, who entered a house by walking through the closed front door. A local historian traced the address to an ancestor of Schwartz, whose portrait he recognized as the ghost. Aged 24, Schwartz experienced…
…some ‘unknowable alien entity’, at the centre of the experience, and viewed it in psychological and cultural terms,2Rickard (2011), 26. making it amenable to further study. He compared historical claimed encounters with fairies, demons, spirits and the like with more recent claimed accounts of encounters with extra-terrestrials.3Grossman (2011). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/16/hilary-evans-obituary. He…
…LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, ketamine and ayahuasca. They are defined as those ‘which, without causing physical addiction, craving, major physiological disturbances, delirium, disorientation, or amnesia, more or less reliably produce thought, mood, and perceptual changes’.10Grinspoon & Bakalar (1998). Intellectuals, scientists, explorers and academics in the developed world have only encountered them…
…Müller’s first remote viewing study, 36 subjects were asked to describe one of six photographs in a sealed envelope. Fourteen made direct hits, which is highly significant (p < 0.0009).4Müller & Wittmann (2017). In a second study published in 2019, Wittmann, together with husband and wife team Maximilian and Laura…
…constantly in the back of his mind. From time to time, Scott searched the internet for an account of the tragedy that matched his memories but found nothing until February 2019, when he happened to watch an episode of Hollywood Graveyard on YouTube. This mentioned actors who had died in…
…in-text references (eg Wehrstein, 2019) or footnotes to cite sources. Whenever possible, position endnotes at the end of clauses, sentences or paragraphs. Use your word processor to assign the endnote number (in Microsoft Word, position your cursor where you want the endnote number to appear, go to References, and select…
…BLACK BEAUTY.15Bean (2019). The second code, based on a book cipher, was solved in 2019 by Richard Bean, an IT expert at the University of Queensland, who used computers to scan all 37,000 English-language books in Project Gutenberg. After about five days this revealed the source text as the poem…
