…by Richard Hodgson through correspondence and first published by Eleanor Sidgwick in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research in 1891.1Sidgwick (1891-92), 41-46. On October 3rd, 1863, I sailed from Liverpool for New York …. On the evening of the second day out, soon after leaving Kinsale Head, a…
…thereby tricking them into thinking she was really their daughter. Michael Tymn Works Cited Baird, A. (1949). The Life of Richard Hodgson. London: Psychic Press. Bruce, H.A. (1908). Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. Hoffman, F.S. (1903). Psychology and Common Life: A Survey of the…
…professional séance’.5Goodrich Freer (1899), xiv. Richard Hodgson judged her portrayal of Piper to be ‘unreliable’.6Hodgson (1899), 395-96. Guy Lambert has suggested that Goodrich Freer’s ‘violent antagonism against Mrs Piper and other mediums can be put down to her finding that [Piper’s arrival] led to her (Miss Freer) no longer being…
…Myers was himself a member of the TS for a while and appeared at one stage to give credence to Blavatsky’s claims.40Price (1985), 25-35. However, the robust, if partially flawed, exposure of Blavatsky reported by his SPR colleague Richard Hodgson in 1885, changed his mind.41Price (1986). Phantasms of the Living…
…What Happens When We Die (2006), Sam Parnia includes a case related to him by cardiologist Richard Mansfield.23Parnia (2006). During a night shift, Mansfield had been called to deal with a cardiac arrest; the patient, a 32-year-old man, had no pulse, was not breathing and had a flat ECG. The…
…American Journal of Science. In 1855, he declared his conversion to Spiritualism and published a book about his investigations of mediums, for which he developed experimental apparatus. Hare’s reputation ensured a wide audience, although his claims were harshly attacked by fellow scientists. Richard Hodgson (1855–1905) Australian by birth, Richard Hodgson…
…under certain (rather poor) séance conditions and for certain kinds of small-scale ostensibly paranormal phenomena (e.g., slate-writing), subjects err in their observations and sometimes report events that never occurred.17Besterman (1932); Hodgson (1892); Hodgson & Davey (1887). But the conditions of these tests were much more conducive to malobservation than those…
…fraud was strongly suspected. Knockings and scratchings centred on Richard Parsons’s house and seemed closely linked with his daughter Elizabeth, turning a domestic disturbance into a public sensation. A séance code of one knock for ‘yes’ and two for ‘no’ transformed the noises into an apparent conversation with the dead…
…report by Oliver Lodge, Richard Hodgson, Margaret Verrall and others. As well as describing sittings of his own7For instance, Piddington (1902b), 116-37. Piddington authored a second major report,8Piddington (1904a), 104-307. in which he reviewed the collected material to comment on features such as the personalities and behaviour of Thompson’s ‘controls’,…
