ESP Games and Academic Politics

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Parapsychology and Popular Culture, People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

In 1939, Rhine learned that the toy company Cadaco-Ellis was planning to come out with a game called Telepathy. The creator was said to be a psychologist named Dr. Ogden Reed. J. B. Rhine suspected and confirmed that Reed was ...

The Sacred Mushroom

Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | 2 Comments »

On January 24, 1961, the TV show One Step Beyond aired an episode about ESP and psychedelics which is available on YouTube. I loved hearing the One Step Beyond theme music, and host John Newland using his Ooh-I-Am-Saying-Something-Scary-voice to ...

ESP Machines

Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | No Comments »

This machine was built to shuffle the famous Zener cards, aka ESP cards.  That is the late Dr. Elizabeth McMahan in the picture.

More Harold Sherman and Bruce Kremen

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

Once you start researching a story it's hard to let go. I recently asked the librarians at the University of Central Arkansas Archives to search The Harold M. Sherman Papers for anything to due with Bruce Kremen, the missing ...

Pat Marquis, J. B. Rhine and Charlie Chaplin

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Hoaxes, People in Parapsychology | No Comments »

In July, 1936 Rhine went to California to investigate Pat Marquis, a 12-year-old boy who had been wowing everyone with his ESP abilities. Two years before the boy had gone into a trance and Napeji, an 11th century Persian, ...

Photographs from the Cat Experiments

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | No Comments »

In the early 1950's, while he was working at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, Dr. Karlis Osis conducted two experiments with cats.  I didn't study these experiments, and what I know of them I got from Gaither Pratt's book, Parapsychology: An ...

Win a Copy of Unbelievable

Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Posted in ESP and other Phenomena, Science Experiments | No Comments »

I took some pictures of the ESP machines at the Rhine ESP/Parapsychology Museum at the Rhine Research Center and I can't find all my notes!  So I was thinking, that would be a little embarrassing, not being able to properly ...