Charles Ozanne, the Parapsychology Lab and the Psychical Research Foundation

Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research, People in Parapsychology | 1 Comment »

I originally had a lot more in the book about one of the lab's contributors, a retired history teacher from Cleveland, Ohio, named Charles Ozanne. For a long time Ozanne was glad to give money to the lab. He was ...

Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research | 5 Comments »

I came across so many interesting people while researching my book, more people than I could possibly research myself. Among them was Frederic W. H. Myers, from the Society of Psychical Research.  It always bothered me that I couldn't spend ...

Ethel Johnson Meyers - The Medium at Bank Street

Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research | 1 Comment »

I wasn’t able to find out a lot about Ethel Johnson Meyers, the medium who accompanied Hans Holzer to Bank Street (the story I tell below). But as I say in the preface to the book, it always comes back ...

Bank Street in 1942

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research | No Comments »

Below, I tell the story of a possibly once haunted house on Bank Street in the West Village of New York City. (It's the May 26th post.) I searched the digital archives of the New York Public Library and found this ...

Gertrude Schmeidler, RIP

Sunday, May 24th, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research, People in Parapsychology | 3 Comments »

  I only just heard that Gertrude Schmeidler, a well known psychologist and parapsychologist, died on March 9, 2009.  She was 96 years old!  We talked a number of times while I was researching my book, although she preferred email.   ...

Gaither Pratt and Pigeon Homing

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research | 2 Comments »

This picture makes me a little sad.  The Office of Naval Research had funded a project, headed by Gaither Pratt, to see if homing pigeons were using ESP to find their way.  In 1958 Rhine asked Gaither to give up ...

CIA and Parapsychology

Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted in Parapsychology Organizations/Research | No Comments »

In 1961, a purchase order came from the CIA for Betty Humphrey’s “Handbook of Tests in Parapsychology,” a set of ESP cards and record sheets, and the entire set of the Journal of Parapsychology (Betty Humphrey was one of the ...