Category: Ghosts
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Is 50 Berkeley Square London’s Most Haunted House?
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Berkeley Square is located in the heart of Mayfair, one of London’s wealthiest and most prestigious boroughs. Property prices on the square easily run into multiples of millions, with many now owned by hedge funds and international investors. Originally, the square was home to London’s 18th and 19th Century elites. Prime Ministers,…
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Scientific Rationality
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An Approach To Ghosts & Ghost Studies Elemental Ghosts Elementals seem to be a type of conscious entity that is closely associated with a specific place or location. This type of creature resides in a realm that is either above or below our levels of perception. Perception is defined as…
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Why The Afterlife Is Beyond Science
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Co-founder in 1882 of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Frederic W. H. Myers, a Cambridge scholar, is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Psychical Research.” As Myers came to realize during his lifetime, mediumship is very complex and does not easily lend itself to human understanding or to scientific research. After…
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Automatic Writing Explained
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The so-called skeptics assume that the automatic writing form of mediumship is just so much bunk, baloney, and bosh, nothing more than the imagination playing tricks on the person. Some parapsychologists believe it is all coming from the individual’s subconscious and unrelated to spirits. But so much of what has…
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Electronic Voice Phenomena
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How to record Raudive Voices What are Raudive Voices? Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) were first discovered by the Swedish artist Friedrich Jürgenson in 1959. Jürgenson was recording birdsong using a reel-to-reel tape recorder. When he replayed the tapes, he heard faint but intelligible voices in the background, even though there…
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What are ghosts?
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Ghosts in modern Western culture are generally considered the ephemeral images of the dead, whether person, animal, or inanimate object. Ghosts may interact with the living or they may simply exist as a non-interactive “recording” of some past event. A single instance of viewing a ghost is called a sighting. When…
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The Haunted Painting – Ghosts Reveal Themselves in Birmingham Artwork
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Next time you pay a visit to a thrift shop, think twice about what you are taking home with you. You may be getting a hidden addition with your purchases in the form of an unwelcome guest and I’m not talking about bed bugs. Whilst most people are familiar with…
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How To Do A Séance? And The History Behind them.
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“We’re here to lay out the basic rules for communicating responsibly with the other side.” In a softly lit room, people gather around a table, hands joined, hoping to hear from the other side. The word ‘séance’ brings to mind old-time parlours, gentle candlelight, and mysterious voices from beyond. But…
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Ouija Board: Topics in Chronicling America
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In 1890, the Ouija board was created for supernatural communication. It was also the focus of several lawsuits. This guide provides access to materials related to the “Ouija Board” in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers. Ouija is a talking board first manufactured in the United States in…
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Necromancy
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occult practice necromancy, communication with the dead, usually in order to obtain insight into the future or to accomplish some otherwise impossible task. Such activity was current in ancient times among the Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Etruscans; in medieval Europe it came to be associated with black (i.e., harmful, or antisocial)…
