In his book The History of Spiritualism, Vol. II, Arthur Conan Doyle relates the following story. (This material appears in Chapter 9, "Spiritualism and the War.") Of the many cases recorded of the return of dead soldiers, the following stands out because the particulars were received from two independent sources. It is related by Mr.…

Reading Jon Klimo’s well-known book Channeling, I came across this interesting passage: The clairvoyant and precognitive material of the later fifteenth-century semi-mythical English medium Mother Shipton also appears to have come true. Like a number of other prophetic mediums before and after her, she chose to record what she received in poetic form: Carriages without…

It’s considered one of skepticism’s great moments. To discredit the medium Leonora Piper, the investigator Stanley Hall asked her about his dead niece, Bessie Beals. The entranced Piper’s spirit control, "Hodgson," dutifully produced information about Bessie … only to be informed that there was no Bessie, after all! The niece had never existed; she was…

The Open Door by Theon Wright was published in 1970. It’s the detailed record of experiments in automatic writing carried out by Wright’s parents, Nella and George, and later by Theon’s brother Stowell and by Theon himself. The unusual thing about these experiments is that little effort was made to obtain verifiable evidence of identity,…