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Hereward Carrington

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Hereward Carrington (17 October 1880 – 26 December 1958) was a well-known British-born American investigator of psychic phenomena and author. [1]

69 relations: Ada Besinnet, Agénor de Gasparin, American Society for Psychical Research, Andrea Rabagliati, Anna Eva Fay, Annie Fairlamb Mellon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Astral projection, Bangs Sisters, Bernard M. L. Ernst, Billet reading, Charles H. Foster, Daniel Dunglas Home, David Abbott (magician), Ectoplasm (paranormal), Eddy Brothers, Edward H. Dewey, Eileen J. Garrett, Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Eusapia Palladino, Everard Feilding, Ford Hall Forum, Francis Ward Monck, Franek Kluski, Fruitarianism, Gef, Great Amherst Mystery, Harry Houdini, Henry Slade, Hilton Hotema, Hugh Urban, Hugo Münsterberg, International Club for Psychical Research, International Institute for Psychical Research, J. Arthur Hill, Jack Webber, James H. Hyslop, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Kathleen Goligher, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonora Piper, Materialization (paranormal), Mediumship, Mina Crandon, Mme. d'Esperance, Nandor Fodor, Nino Pecoraro, Outline of parapsychology, Parapsychology, Pierre L. O. A. Keeler, ..., Plane (esotericism), Podesta (island), Pyrokinesis, Raymond Buckland, Richard Hodgson (parapsychologist), Rider (imprint), Séance, Spiritualism, Sylvan Muldoon, Théodore Flournoy, Thoughtography, W. W. Baggally, Walter Franklin Prince, William Cartheuser, William Eglinton, William H. Mumler, William Henry Irwin, William Stainton Moses, William Usborne Moore. Expand index (19 more) »

Ada Besinnet

Ada Maud Besinnet Roche (1890–1936) also known as Ada Bessinet was an American spiritualist medium.

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Agénor de Gasparin

Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 - 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author.

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American Society for Psychical Research

The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is an organisation dedicated to parapsychology based in New York City, where it maintains offices and a library.

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Andrea Rabagliati

Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati (1843 in Scotland – 7 December 1930 in Bradford, England) was the author of books on dietary practice.

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Anna Eva Fay

Anna Eva Fay Pingree (March 31, 1851 – May 20, 1927) was a famous medium and stage mentalist of the twentieth century.

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Annie Fairlamb Mellon

Annie Fairlamb Mellon (1850–1938) also known as Mrs.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Astral projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it throughout the universe.

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Bangs Sisters

The Bangs Sisters, Mary "May" E. Bangs (1862-1917) and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Snow Bangs (1859-1920), were two fraudulent spiritualist mediums from Chicago, who made a career out of painting the dead or "Spirit Portraits".

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Bernard M. L. Ernst

Bernard Morris Leon Ernst (March 17, 1879 – November 28, 1938) most well known as Bernard M. L. Ernst was an American lawyer, magician and associate of Harry Houdini.

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Billet reading

Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes.

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Charles H. Foster

Charles Henry Foster (1838-1888) was an American spiritualist medium.

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Daniel Dunglas Home

Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume; 20 March 183321 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will.

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David Abbott (magician)

David Phelps Abbott (September 22, 1863 – June 12, 1934) was a magician, author and inventor who created such effects as the floating ball, later made famous by Okito.

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Ectoplasm (paranormal)

Ectoplasm (from the Greek ektos, meaning "outside", and plasma, meaning "something formed or molded") is a term used in spiritualism to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums.

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Eddy Brothers

The Eddy Brothers were William and Horatio Eddy, two American mediums best known in the 1870s, who claimed psychic powers.

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Edward H. Dewey

Edward Hooker Dewey (21 May 1837 - 21 December 1904), best known as Edward H. Dewey was an American physician.

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Eileen J. Garrett

Eileen Jeanette Vancho Lyttle Garrett (17 March 1893 – 15 September 1970) was an Irish medium and parapsychologist.

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Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, (née Balfour; 11 March 1845 – 10 February 1936), known as Nora to her family and friends, was a physics researcher assisting Lord Rayleigh, an activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.

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Eusapia Palladino

Eusapia Palladino (alternate spelling: Paladino; 21 January 1854 – 16 May 1918) was an Italian Spiritualist physical medium.

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Everard Feilding

Francis Henry Everard Joseph Feilding (6 March 1867 – 8 February 1936) best known as Everard Feilding was an English barrister, naval intelligence officer and psychical researcher.

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Ford Hall Forum

The Ford Hall Forum is the oldest free public lecture series in the United States.

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Francis Ward Monck

Francis Ward Monck (born 1842) was a British clergyman and spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud.

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Franek Kluski

Franek Kluski, real name Teofil Modrzejewski (1873-1943), was a Polish medium.

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Fruitarianism

Fruitarianism is a diet that consists entirely or primarily of fruits in the botanical sense, and possibly nuts and seeds, without animal products.

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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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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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Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts.

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Henry Slade

Henry Slade (1835–1905) was a famous fraudulent medium who lived and practiced in both Europe and North America.

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Hilton Hotema

Hilton Hotema, born George R. Clements (7 February 1878, Fitchburg, Massachusetts - 1970), was a 20th-century American alternative health writer, esoteric author and mystic, who also adopted the names Kenyon Klamonti and Dr.

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Hugh Urban

Hugh Urban is a professor of religious studies at Ohio State Universities Department of Comparative Studies and author of eight books and several academic articles, including a history of the Church of Scientology, published by Princeton University Press in 2012.

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Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist.

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International Club for Psychical Research

The International Club for Psychical Research (ICPR) was a short-lived psychical organization that was formed in May 1911 by Annie Besant.

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International Institute for Psychical Research

The International Institute for Psychical Research (IIPR) was a short-lived psychical organization based in London that was formed in 1934.

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J. Arthur Hill

John Arthur Hill (December 4, 1872 - March 22, 1951), best known as J. Arthur Hill was a British psychical researcher and writer.

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Jack Webber

Jack Webber (1907-1940) was a Welsh spiritualist medium.

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James H. Hyslop

James Hervey Hyslop, Ph.D, LL.D, (August 18, 1854 – June 17, 1920) was a professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University, a psychologist, and a psychical researcher.

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Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner

Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (8 November 1834, Berlin25 April 1882, Leipzig) was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions.

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Kathleen Goligher

Kathleen Goligher (born 1898) was an Irish spiritualist medium.

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L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), often referred to by his initials LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology.

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Leonora Piper

Leonora Piper (née Leonora Evelina Simonds; 27 June 1857 – 3 June 1950) was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism.

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Materialization (paranormal)

In spiritualism, paranormal literature and some religions, materialization (or manifestation) is the creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Mina Crandon

Mina "Margery" Crandon (1888–November 1, 1941) was a well known psychical medium who claimed that she channeled her dead brother, Walter Stinson.

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Mme. d'Esperance

Mme.

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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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Nino Pecoraro

Nino Pecoraro (1899–1973) was an Italian spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud.

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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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Pierre L. O. A. Keeler

Pierre Louis Ormond Augustus Keeler (1855-1942) most well known as Pierre L. O. A. Keeler was an American spiritualist medium.

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Plane (esotericism)

In esoteric cosmology, a plane is conceived as a subtle state, level, or region of reality, each plane corresponding to some type, kind, or category of being.

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Podesta (island)

Podesta is a phantom island reported at by the Italian Captain Pinocchio of the vessel Barone Podestà (Hereward Carrington, Carrington Collection, page 21) in 1879 claiming it to be just over a kilometre in circumference located 1390 km due west of El Quisco, Chile.

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Pyrokinesis

Pyrokinesis is the purported psychic ability allowing a person to create and control fire with the mind.

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Raymond Buckland

Raymond Buckland (31 August 1934 – 27 September 2017), whose craft name was Robat, was an English writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he was a high priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax-Wica traditions.

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Richard Hodgson (parapsychologist)

Richard Hodgson (1855–1905) was an Australian-born psychical researcher.

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Rider (imprint)

Rider is a publishing imprint of Ebury Publishing, a Penguin Random House division.

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Séance

A séance or seance is an attempt to communicate with spirits.

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Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.

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Sylvan Muldoon

Sylvan Muldoon (February 18, 1903October 1969) was an American esotericist who promoted the concept of astral projection.

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Théodore Flournoy

Théodore Flournoy (15 August 1854 – 5 November 1920) was a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and author of books on parapsychology and spiritism.

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Thoughtography

Thoughtography, also called projected thermography, psychic photography, nengraphy, and nensha, is the claimed ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by psychic means.

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W. W. Baggally

William Wortley Baggally (1848 - 14 March 1928), most well known as W. W. Baggally was a British psychical researcher who investigated spiritualist mediums.

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Walter Franklin Prince

Walter Franklin Prince (22 April 1863 – 7 August 1934) was an American parapsychologist and founder of the Boston Society for Psychical Research in Boston.

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William Cartheuser

William Cartheuser (ca. 1930) was an American spiritualist medium.

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William Eglinton

William Eglinton (1857–1933), also known as William Eglington was a British spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud.

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William H. Mumler

William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York and Boston.

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William Henry Irwin

William Henry "Will" Irwin (September 14, 1873 – February 24, 1948) was an American author, writer and journalist who was associated with the muckrakers.

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William Stainton Moses

William Stainton Moses (1839–1892) was an English cleric and spiritualist medium.

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William Usborne Moore

Vice admiral William Usborne Moore (March 8, 1849 – March 15, 1918) also known as W. Usborne Moore was a British naval commander, psychical researcher and spiritualist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereward_Carrington

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