Category: Paranormal

  • How Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre

    How Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre

    Their account, recovered with the help of hypnosis, detailed extensive medical exams, including a crude pregnancy test. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Is it chasing us? That thought coursed through Betty and Barney Hill’s minds as they drove down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. It was a September…

  • Scientific Proof of Reincarnation Dr. Ian Stevenson’s Life Work

    Scientific Proof of Reincarnation Dr. Ian Stevenson’s Life Work

    “Either he [Dr. Stevenson] is making a colossal mistake. Or he will be known as the Galileo of the 20th century.” Dr Harold Lief in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Probably the best known, if not most respected, collection of scientific data that appears to provide scientific proof that…

  • Evidence for Reincarnation from Western Medical Research: (Part I) Dr. Wambach’s Past Life Regression Studies

    Evidence for Reincarnation from Western Medical Research: (Part I) Dr. Wambach’s Past Life Regression Studies

    Is reincarnation a beautiful fantasy or reality? After hypnosis, many people claim that they can recall prior lives and seem to be able to describe them in great detail. Are they true or just fantasies? Can this be proven scientifically? Has data been collected systematically and analyzed to prove or…

  • Psychological Aspects in Poltergeist Cases

    Psychological Aspects in Poltergeist Cases

    A current theory about poltergeist phenomena is that they represent brief, sporadic and large-scale manifestations of psychokinesis linked to a certain living individual, as opposed to a discarnate spirit. This article briefly examines the underlying basis for the theory, summarizing some of the psychological and neuropsychological aspects that have been…

  • Real Poltergeist Stories – 4 Scary Real Life Poltergeist Cases

    Real Poltergeist Stories – 4 Scary Real Life Poltergeist Cases

    Poltergeists are some of the most disruptive spirits you’ll ever come across. In fact, a poltergeist is the German term for “noisy ghost”, which is quite an apt translation. There are numerous poltergeist stories in folklore and film and they’re well known as being some of the noisiest, most violent…

  • Poltergeists: 3 Most Famous Cases

    Poltergeists: 3 Most Famous Cases

    Furniture move about by themselves. Walls shake from noisy, unexplained banging. Water drips from a ceiling. Hairbrushes vanish for days, only to reappear in their place on the dresser. These are some of the standard signs and symptoms of a poltergeist haunting. From the German for “noisy ghost,” a poltergeist…

  • A comprehensive survey of Poltergeist cases by Alan Gauld & Tony Cornell

    A comprehensive survey of Poltergeist cases by Alan Gauld & Tony Cornell

    with its findings of special relevance to the Dalby Spook case by Christopher Josiffe arapsychologists Alan Gauld and Tony Cornell undertook a scientific study of 460 poltergeist cases from around the world, and they published the results in their 1979 book Poltergeists. They found that in 61% of cases, the poltergeist…

  • The Physician Who Watched Himself Die by Michael E. Tymn

    The Physician Who Watched Himself Die by Michael E. Tymn

    In his 1903 book, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (published two years after his death in 1901), Frederic W. H. Myers, the pioneering psychical researcher, set forth a story about what is now known as a near-death experience, which took place in 1889.  It was told to him by…

  • Experiencing a Pre-Death Life Review

    Experiencing a Pre-Death Life Review

    A number of people have reported a “life review” during a near-death experience (NDE) – seeing every second of their lives flash before them in what might be called a timeless moment.  A man named Tom Sawyer had an NDE in 1978, one in which he recalled living every thought…

  • Amazing Afterlife Experiments in Paris

    Amazing Afterlife Experiments in Paris

    Pierre-Emile Cornillier (1862 – 1933, middle photo) was a French artist who had an interest in psychical research when, in 1912, he realized that Reine, an 18-year-old model (top photo) he had been employing for several months, had psychic abilities of some kind.  He soon began some experiments with her…