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A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. Descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms. Aside from actual ghostly apparitions, traditional signs of haunting range from strange noises, lights, odors or breezes to the displacement of objects, bells that ring spontaneously or musical instruments that seem to play on their own.
Despite centuries of investigation, there is no scientific evidence that anyone has survived death or any location is inhabited by spirits of the dead.
Nevertheless, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomenon: Millions of people are interested in ghosts, and thousands read ghost stories on Reddit every day. A 2019 Ipsos poll found that 46% of Americans say they truly believe in ghosts. According to a 2009 study by the Pew Research Center, 18% of Americans say they have seen a ghost.
Spiritualism as a social movement apparently began in the small New York town of Hydesville in March of 1848, where several months earlier, the Fox family had taken over an old farmhouse about which the previous tenants had complained of strange noises. The Foxes themselves soon noticed unusual rapping sounds that occurred in the night … Read more
L. H. D. Rivail (1803-1869) a doctor of medicine who became celebrated under the pseudonym Allan Kardec coined the word “spiritism” to delineate clearly his teachings from traditional Spiritualism, which was recognized among others by Camille Flammarion, a famous French astronomer and author, who said “spiritism is not a religion but a science”. This philosophy … Read more
Spiritualism is a monotheistic belief system or religion, postulating a belief in God, but with a distinguishing feature of belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world can be contacted by "mediums", who can then provide information about the afterlife. Spiritualism developed and reached its peak growth in membership from the 1840s … Read more
ONE Sunday afternoon in October 1915, schoolgirl sisters Isabella and Robina Houston laughed and played on the landing outside their tenement home. The First World War was raging and thousands of valiant Renfrewshire soldiers served with the colours overseas. Coming up the stairs towards the girls was a handsome young man immaculate in the Highland … Read more
The infamous ‘Mrs. Melloni,’ née Anna Rasmussen, Anna Melloni Rasmussen was born in 1898 in Denmark. She was famous for the séances she held with her husband in the 1940s, in which she claimed to make contact with the dead. As soon as the age of 12 years of age. Anna allegedly began here medium gifts … Read more
The major attempt to synthesize the great mass of data which had been gathered by the SPR was undertaken by Frederick Myers and published in 1903 after his death in a work called The Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. Myers was widely read in all the fields of knowledge of his day. … Read more
The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 by three dons of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sir William F. Barrett, a professor of physics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin, had been conducting experiments in the 1880s testing the notion of thought-transference. Barrett conceived of the idea of forming an organization of … Read more
One of the more significant cases of mediumistic communication concerns the many messages received by Sir Oliver Lodge from his deceased son Raymond. An eminent physicist, Lodge pioneered in the development of radio technology, which actually was as much his brainchild as it was Marconi’s, although he did not pursue its commercial development to the … Read more