Missed One Entry From my Timeline

Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »

1959. Rhine speaks at NYU’s Institute of Philosophy. “I was one of the discussants of a paper given by Norbert Weiner," Rhine wrote. "The audience was mostly philosophers, mathematicians, and computer experts. I do not ...

The New Paperbacks are Here!!

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »

The paperback of Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory came out today. Woohoo!! You can buy it here! This is the slightly different cover. It has a new P.S. section, ...

Dark Intrusions

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in General | 3 Comments »

I haven't read Dark Intrusions, but from a review by Nick Redfern, which can be read in its entirety here: “... this is a truly excellent and wide study of a phenomenon undertaken by a man who has not ...

Great Footage from a 1976 Movie

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »

Thanks to Guy Jackson for pointing me to The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena on YouTube, and thanks to ChortleNEOK, the person who uploaded it. In it are brief appearances from all sorts of people I learned about while ...

Ectoplasm: Myth or Reality - A Lecture on February 16

Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in General | 4 Comments »

As part of the Parapsychology Foundation's Perspectives Lecture Series, Walter Meyer zu Erpen, historian, Archivist and President of the Survival Research Institute of Canada, will give a talk based upon photographs of ectoplasm taken by Dr. T. Glen Hamilton during ...

Happy Holidays!

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in General | 1 Comment »

I tried to find a picture with a holiday theme and this was the best I could do. I scanned this at the Rhine Research Center. Or was it at the Special Collections Library at Duke? Now ...

Belief in the Supernatural is Going Up

Sunday, December 13th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life provides yet more evidence that belief in things supernatural continues to rise. "Roughly three-in-ten Americans (29%) say they have felt in touch with someone who has ...