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74 relations: Alan Gauld, Allan Kardec, Andrew Lang, Anomalistic psychology, Apparitional experience, Arthur Goldstuck, Auchencairn, Ball lightning, Ballechin House, Bell Witch, Birmingham, Biting, Borley Rectory, Caledonia Mills, Cape Cod, Caronia, Classical element, Delusion, Drummer of Tedworth, Earthquake, Edward Moor, Enfield Poltergeist, Eric Dingwall, Folklore, Frank Podmore, Gef, Geist, George Sinclair (mathematician), German language, Ghost, Ghost hunting, Goblin, God helmet, Great Amherst Mystery, Hallucination, Harry Price, Hinton Ampner, Hoax, Illusion, Imp, Joe Nickell, Leonard Zusne, Levitation, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, Lithobolia, Matthew Manning, Michael Persinger, Milbourne Christopher, Nandor Fodor, Old Rectory, Epworth, ..., Outline of parapsychology, Parapsychology, Pinch (action), Psychokinesis, René Sudre, Richard Wiseman, Rosenheim Poltergeist, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sampford Peverell, Spirit, Spiritism, Stigmatized property, Stockwell ghost, Strike (attack), Terence Hines, The Psychology of the Occult, Thornton Road poltergeist, Tina Resch, Tony Cornell, Trevor H. Hall, Turbulence, When the Lights Went Out, William G. Roll, Wishful thinking. Expand index (24 more) »
Alan Gauld
Alan Gauld (born 1932) is a British parapsychologist, psychologist and writer best known for his research on the history of hypnotism.
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Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French educator, translator and author Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869).
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, FBA (31 March 184420 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.
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Anomalistic psychology
In psychology, anomalistic psychology is the study of human behaviour and experience connected with what is often called the paranormal, with the assumption that there is nothing paranormal involved.
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Apparitional experience
In parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous experience characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception.
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Arthur Goldstuck
Arthur Goldstuck (born 1959) is a South African journalist, media analyst and commentator on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Internet and mobile communications and technologies.
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Auchencairn
Auchencairn is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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Ball lightning
Ball lightning is an unexplained and potentially dangerous atmospheric electrical phenomenon.
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Ballechin House
Ballechin House was a Georgian estate home near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland.
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Bell Witch
The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern American folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Biting
Biting is a common behaviour which involves the opening and closing of the jaw found in many animals.
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Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory was a Victorian house that gained fame as "the most haunted house in England" after being described as such by psychic researcher Harry Price.
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Caledonia Mills
Caledonia Mills is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County.
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
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Caronia
Caronia (Sicilian: Carunìa, Greek: Καλάκτα (Ptol.) or Καλὴ Ἀκτὴ (Diod. et al.), Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about half way between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù).
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Classical element
Classical elements typically refer to the concepts in ancient Greece of earth, water, air, fire, and aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
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Delusion
A delusion is a mistaken belief that is held with strong conviction even in the presence of superior evidence to the contrary.
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Drummer of Tedworth
The Drummer of Tedworth is a case of an alleged poltergeist manifestation in the West Country of England by Joseph Glanvill, from his book Saducismus Triumphatus (1681).
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Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Edward Moor
Edward Moor (1771–1848) was a British soldier and Indologist, known for his book The Hindu Pantheon, an early treatment in English of Hinduism as a religion.
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Enfield Poltergeist
The Enfield Poltergeist is the name given to seemingly supernatural activity at 284 Green Street, a council house in Brimsdown, Enfield, England between 1977 and 1979 involving two sisters, aged 11 and 13.
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Eric Dingwall
Eric John Dingwall (1890–1986) was a British anthropologist and psychical researcher.
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Folklore
Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.
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Frank Podmore
Frank Podmore (5 February 1856 – 14 August 1910) was an English author, and founding member of the Fabian Society.
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Gef
Gef, also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was the name given to a talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family.
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Geist
Geist is a German noun with a degree of importance in German philosophy.
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George Sinclair (mathematician)
George Sinclair (Sinclar) (d. 1696) was a Scottish mathematician, engineer and demonologist.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Ghost
In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.
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Ghost hunting
Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are reported to be haunted by ghosts.
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Goblin
A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages.
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God helmet
The God Helmet is an experimental apparatus originally called the Koren helmet after its inventor Stanley Koren.
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Great Amherst Mystery
The Great Amherst Mystery was a notorious case of reported poltergeist activity in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada between 1878 and 1879.
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Hallucination
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.
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Harry Price
Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and his exposing fraudulent spiritualist mediums.
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Hinton Ampner
Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.
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Hoax
A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.
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Illusion
An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.
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Imp
An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or goblin, frequently described in folklore and superstition.
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Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American prominent skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.
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Leonard Zusne
Leonard Zusne (1924-2003) was an American psychologist.
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Levitation
Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is held aloft, without mechanical support, in a stable position.
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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
This is a list of topics that have, at one point or another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.
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Lithobolia
Lithobolia is a 7,000-word narrative folk tale by "Richard Chamberlayne" first printed in London 1698.
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Matthew Manning
Matthew Manning (born August 17, 1955) is a best selling British author and healer, alleged to have psychic abilities.
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Michael Persinger
Michael A. Persinger (born June 26, 1945) is a professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he held since 1971.
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Milbourne Christopher
Milbourne Christopher (23 March 1914 – 17 June 1984) was a prominent American illusionist, magic historian, and author.
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Nandor Fodor
Nandor Fodor (May 13, 1895 in Beregszász, Hungary – May 17, 1964 in New York City, New York) was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
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Old Rectory, Epworth
The Old Rectory in Epworth, Lincolnshire is a Queen Anne style building, rebuilt after a fire in 1709, which has been completely restored and is now the property of the British Methodist Church, who maintain it as a museum.
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Outline of parapsychology
Parapsychology is a field of research that studies a number of ostensible paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, and apparitional experiences.
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Parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.
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Pinch (action)
A pinch is a grip of a flexible object in which a portion is taken between two fingers, until it hurts, or something of resemblance and squeezed so the gripped portion of the object is lifted from its normal level.
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Psychokinesis
Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement"), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis experiments have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no convincing evidence that psychokinesis is a real phenomenon, and the topic is generally regarded as pseudoscience.
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René Sudre
René Sudre (April 19, 1880 - 1968) was a French journalist, parapsychologist and writer.
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Richard Wiseman
Richard J. Wiseman (born 1966) is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
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Rosenheim Poltergeist
The Rosenheim Poltergeist is the name given to claims of a poltergeist in Rosenheim in southern Bavaria in the late 1960s by German parapsychologist Hans Bender.
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Sacheverell Sitwell
Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.
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Sampford Peverell
Sampford Peverell is a village and civil parish in Mid-Devon, England.
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Spirit
A spirit is a supernatural being, often but not exclusively a non-physical entity; such as a ghost, fairy, or angel.
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Spiritism
Spiritism is a spiritualistic religion codified in the 19th century by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the codename Allan Kardec; it proposed the study of "the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world".
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Stigmatized property
In real estate, stigmatized property is property that buyers or tenants may shun for reasons that are unrelated to its physical condition or features.
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Stockwell ghost
The Stockwell ghost also known as the Stockwell poltergeist was an alleged case of poltergeist disturbance in Stockwell that occurred in 1772.
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Strike (attack)
A strike is a directed physical attack with either a part of the human body or with an inanimate object (such as a weapon) intended to cause blunt trauma or penetrating trauma upon an opponent.
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Terence Hines
Terence Hines (born 22 March 1951) is professor of neurology at Pace University and adjunct professor at the New York Medical College and a science writer.
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The Psychology of the Occult
The Psychology of the Occult is a 1952 skeptical book on the paranormal by psychologist D. H. Rawcliffe.
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Thornton Road poltergeist
The Thornton Road Poltergeist refers to stone-throwing incidents in a residential area of Birmingham, England and the subsequent police investigation.
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Tina Resch
Tina Resch (born October 23, 1969) was a central figure in a series of incidents that came to be called the Columbus poltergeist case.
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Tony Cornell
Anthony Donald Cornell (born 1924, died 10 April 2010, aged 86) was a British parapsychologist and prominent figure in the investigations of ghosts and other paranormal activity across the United Kingdom during the later part of the twentieth century.
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Trevor H. Hall
Trevor Henry Hall (1910–1991) was a British author, surveyor, and sceptic of paranormal phenomena.
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Turbulence
In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is any pattern of fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.
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When the Lights Went Out
When the Lights Went Out is a 2012 British supernatural horror film directed by Pat Holden.
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William G. Roll
William G. Roll (July 3, 1926 – January 9, 2012) was a noted psychologist and parapsychologist on the faculty of the Psychology Department of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, in the United States.
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Wishful thinking
Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality, or reality.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist
