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What happens when reports of apparitions, thought-transference and haunted houses are treated as subjects for organized investigation? Frank Podmore follows the work of the Society for Psychical Research through experiments, personal narratives and debates about the reliability of testimony.
Chapters distinguish experimental telepathy from spontaneous impressions and coincident dreams, then consider hallucinations, poltergeists, automatic writing and related phenomena. The accounts are accompanied by discussion of memory, chance coincidence, documentary corroboration and the difficulties of drawing conclusions from exceptional events.
This is the complete original 1908 Putnam edition, retaining its illustrations, tables, index and historical source acknowledgments.