Category: Paranormal
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ESP: What can science say?
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Ever answer a phone call, only to hear the person you were just thinking of on the other end? Ever had a dream about something that later actually happened? Ever felt like somebody read your mind? Some people may interpret these sorts of experiences as extrasensory perception, or ESP. ESP…
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The 9 Most Convincing Parapsychology Studies Ever Conducted
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The existence of paranormal research suggests that even the most hardened of skeptics want to believe that “there are more things on heaven and earth that are dreamt of in their philosophies,” to paraphrase Shakespeare. However, accredited scientific research into the paranormal remains controversial. Even comprehensive and evidence-heavy studies are often still considered…
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Is There a UFO in That Renaissance Painting? See 7 Historical Artworks That (Possibly) Depict Close Encounters With the Third Kind
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Do you want to believe? Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (15th Century). Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Talk of UFOs—sorry, “unidentified aerial phenomena”—spilled into yet another U.S. congressional hearing in July. The session followed a run of announcements and studies by the likes of NASA and the RAND Corporation regarding…
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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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Human Levitation Experiment
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Learn how to levitate a person About human levitation Reports of paranormal human levitation have been reported down the ages. In most cases, the phenomenon is associated with Christian saints, Yoga practitioners, witchcraft, Spiritualist mediums, ‘demonic possession’, and poltergeist cases. Among the most famous examples are: Also, of course, there…
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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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Psychical Researchers
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Discover notable figures About psychical researchers Scientific approaches to researching psychical and other paranormal phenomena began in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, spiritualism was spreading rapidly across the US and Europe. Séance-room phenomena such as materializations and levitations appeared to violate the laws of physics and this attracted the…
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Paranormal Glossary
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Definitions of terms used in paranormal research About this Glossary All definitions in this Glossary have been composed by Michael Daniels PhD. For more detailed coverage and analysis, we recommend Michael A. Thalbourne’s Glossary of Terms Used in Parapsychology (Second Edition, 2003). To access this glossary: Read More – Paranormal Glossary
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Brown Mountain Mystery: Recurring light phenomenon baffles scientists and witnesses
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Scientific phenomena leaves researchers with unsolved questions The Brown Mountain Lights have been a community and scientific anomaly for years, bringing locals and tourists alike to view the phenomenon. This image organizes a view of the lights, which are infamously shrouded in scientific and even spiritual uncertainty. For centuries, the…
