…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’,…
…out. European psi research has depended heavily on small clusters around institutes, societies and a few durable laboratories rather than large permanent departments. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden have been especially important modern nodes, with Austria and France making significant contributions in the past. European psi research is increasingly…
…an ‘order during sleep’. In Britain a Romano-Celtic temple dating from the fourth century CE was discovered at Dwarf’s Hill in Lydney Park estate, Gloucestershire, with the help of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.11Tolkien (2014). The temple was dedicated to the healing deity called Nodens, who is equivalent…
…is coming home: Videotaped experiments and observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration 14, 233-55. Storr, W. (2013). Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science. Picador, London. Tsakiris, A. (2009). Dr. Richard Wiseman on Rupert Sheldrake’s dogs that know. [Interview published on Skeptiko.] Tsakiris, A. (2010). Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Wiseman clash…
…the sisters pretended to receive written ‘spirit messages’.10Krebs (1901), 5-16. Further details of trick methods attributed to the sisters were published by SPR researchers Richard Hodgson11Hodgson (1899), 223-36. and Hereward Carrington12Carrington (1913), 76-94. and by David P Abbot, a stage magician.13Abbot (1913). Portraits Collection A collection of portraits produced by…
…the message had been passed on to ‘Myers’, also that ‘Myers’ was being helped in the task by Richard Hodgson, an SPR researcher who had died the year before. In a session on 16 January, Rector passed on a brief statement from ‘Myers’, to the effect that he thought he…
…is devoted to the Scole phenomena. Mollie Goldney. A large quantity of written material concerning mediums, the Soal-Shackleton experiments and Borley rectory. Her extensive correspondence can be found scattered elsewhere throughout the archive. Maurice Grosse. The Enfield poltergeist collection and other investigations. Richard Hodgson. Extensive correspondence about Leonora Piper, also…
…the ASPR.5Associate Members (1885–89).. He was on familiar terms with Richard Hodgson, who assumed the helm of the ASPR when it became a Branch of the SPR in 1890, and with James Hervey Hyslop, who reconstituted the ASPR as Section B of his American Institute for Scientific Research following Hodgson’s…
