The Study of Human Experiences Project

Saturday, June 19th, 2010 Posted in People in Parapsychology, Science Experiments | No Comments »

Two people who helped me with my book, Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado and Dr. Nancy L. Zingrone, have set up a new research website called the Study of Human Experiences Project. In addition to a project they're working on with residents ...

Adam Linzmayer

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Posted in People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

I always felt bad about cutting Adam Linzmayer from my book.  But there were so many people in the first draft it was hard to keep track.  Adam was the lab’s first ESP star, however.  From the Fall of 1930 ...

Oliver Lodge

Monday, April 26th, 2010 Posted in Letters to the Lab, People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

One June 29, 1940, just under two months before he died, the physicist Oliver Lodge wrote J. B. Rhine. The first half of the letter is typed and the rest is handwritten with a very shaky hand. Dear Dr. Rhine, I ...

Harry Houdini

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 Posted in People in Parapsychology | 1 Comment »

This is just a snippet from a 1954 letter from J. B. Rhine to his daughter Sally, where he briefly mentions a meeting with Houdini. His letter seems to indicate that the encounter was completely friendly, respectful and civil. ...

Commander McDonald to Captain Rickenbacker

Monday, April 5th, 2010 Posted in Letters to the Lab, People in Parapsychology | 2 Comments »

On November 1, 1943, Commander Eugene F. McDonald, the founder and president of the Zenith Radio Corporation, sat down and wrote WWI hero Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who was then working for Eastern Airlines. My Dear Eddie: "... I am enclosing a copy ...

Forgotten Mediums of New York

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 Posted in Hoaxes, Letters to the Lab, People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

In 1945, J. B. Rhine started corresponding with the widow of Lt. Ernest D. Wenberg, an Army doctor who died on December 23, 1944, while a POW of the German government. Like so many other widows who wrote J.B., ...

A Letter to the Lab from Denis Conan Doyle

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in Letters to the Lab, People in Parapsychology | 4 Comments »

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J. B. Rhine were not friends. When J.B. and Louisa Rhine published a report in 1927 denouncing the medium Mina Crandon, (aka Margery) Doyle slammed them in the press. Only the year before ...