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Ghosts, Poltergeists and Hauntings

 This presentation provides a survey of
academic parapsychology research on
ghosts, poltergeists and hauntings from
1885 ...

 " Death is one of two things. Either it is
annihilation, and the dead have no
consciousness of anything, or, as we are
t...

 Parapsychology is the scientific study
of psi phenomena

 Psi phenomena are experiences in
which information or energy seems
to have been transferred or
apprehended without the o...

Mind Matter
Interaction
Extra Sensory
Perception
Survival of
Consciousness
reincarnation
ghosts/hauntings/adc
near death e...

 Agency: Someone capable of producing
an effect or of transferring information
 Percipient: Someone who perceives or
who...

 Is a situation normal or paranormal?
place-centered
post mortem
person-centered
living
perceptions
hauntings
effects
age...

person
centered
place
centered
non-local effectslocal effects
sociocultural effects
- information access
- belief systems
...

person
centered
place
centered
post-mortem agencyliving agency
after-death
communication
non-recurring
apparitions
-person...

 Parapsychology as a discipline traces its
origin to the founding of the Society for
Psychical Research (SPR) on Feb 20 1...

 Early work of the SPR often focused on the
investigation/exposure of fraudulent mediums
in connection with the Spiritual...

 A ghost is a popular term for a discarnate
(or spirit) being
 Visually experienced in the form (or
projection) of an ap...

 In Letters to Sura, Pliny (61-113 a.d.) tells
the story of a restless ghost in Athens
 The ghost was gaunt, appearing i...

 Sidgwick, E. M. (1885). Notes on the
evidence, collected by the Society, for
phantasms of the dead. In Proceedings of
th...

 No evidence for the notion that ghosts
primarily haunt old houses
 No evidence that ghosts are primarily
connected with...

 Ghosts rarely appear in the clothing of a
bygone era
 Ghosts may be seen in daylight or artificial
light, at dawn or du...

 Ghosts may or may not be recognized, but
it is rare for percipients to see a ghost that
is fixed to a location and is kn...

 Unaccountable sounds may accompany
ghosts or ambient sound may be normal
 If multiple persons are present some may
see ...

 Gurney, E., Myers, F.W. H., & Podmore, F.
(1886). Phantasms of the living (Vols. 1-2).
London: Trübner & Co.

Gurney, E., Myers, F.W. H., & Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the living (Vols. 1-2). London: Trübner
&Co.
 Collection o...

Gurney, E., Myers, F.W. H., & Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the living (Vols. 1-2). London: Trübner
&Co.
 Problems aro...

 Sidgwick, H., Johnson, A., Myers, F.W.,
Podmore, F., & Sidgwick, E. M. (1894).
Report on the census of hallucinations. I...

 Survey of paranormal experiences in the
UK: visual, audible and tactile apparitions
 17k responses with 1,684=yes repli...

 Most visual apparitions were experienced
during waking hours, indoors or out (57%)
 Others occurred after waking/in bed...

 Myers, F.W. (1903). Human personality
and its survival of bodily death,Vol I and
Vol II. NY, Longman, Green and Co.

Myers, F.W. (1907). Human personality and its survival of bodily death,Vol I andVol II. NY, Longman,
Green andCo.
 Collec...

Myers, F.W. (1907). Human personality and its survival of bodily death,Vol I andVol II. NY, Longman,
Green andCo.
 Extend...

Tyrrell, G. N. (1953). Apparitions (rev. ed.). London: Butler &Tanner.
 Studied 4 classes of apparitions: living
agent; c...

Hart, H and collaborators (1956). Six theories about apparitions. In Proceedings of the Society for
Psychical Research. 50...

Stevenson, I (1982).The Contribution of Apparitions to the Evidence for Survival. In Journal of the
American Society for P...

 Conditions under which an apparition
appeared (n=449 cases) (1991 study)
Daylight/ normal electric light 51 %
Semidarkne...

 Identities of apparitions (n=423 cases)
(1991 study)
Relatives 214 50 %
Friends 38 9 %
Co-workers 11 3 %
Acquaintances 5...

 Appearance of apparitions in relation to
time of death (n=272 cases) (1991 study)
Within 1 hour 18 7 %
Within 1-24 hours...

 Known causes of death for apparitions
(n=346 cases) (1991 study)
All Men Women
Disease 248 (72%) 148 (62%) 100 (92%)
Vio...

Tyrrell, G. N. (1953). Apparitions (rev. ed.). London: Butler &Tanner.
Zingrone, N. (Jun 2015). IsThere Anybody inThere: E...

 Poltergeists (German for noisy spirit) are
usually short-lived phenomena involving
physical manifestations such as disru...

 "The poltergeist is not a ghost. It is a
bundle of projected repressions .. "
 Regarded poltergeist phenomena as a
prod...

Roll,W. G. (1972).The poltergeist. NY, Nelson Doubleday, Inc.Roll,W. G. (1972).The poltergeist. NY, Nelson Doubleday, Inc....

 1977 Study on Poltergeists (n=116 cases)
Movement of objects 91%
Sounds 54%
Apparitions 23%
Effects over people 12%
Voic...

 Hauntings involve recurring apparitional
experiences in a fixed location. Many
ghost hunters identify two basic types:
...

Adams, P. (2015, Feb 9). Was the Cheltenham Poltergeist the real ‘Woman in Black’? Spookyisles blog.
MacKenzie, A. (1988),...

 From 1884-89, haunting was thoroughly
documented by resident Rosina Despard
 The ghost followed habitual paths.There
we...

 Described as "The most haunted house in
England" by famed ghost hunter H. Price
 Media publicized case featured a mix o...

 Poltergeist that plagued ancestral home of
Melchior Jollier in Stans Switzerland
 Jollier diarized intensifying events ...

Gauld,A., & Cornell, A. D. (1979). Poltergeists. Routledge Kegan & Paul.
 Cluster analysis of 500 published cases of
para...

Colvin, B (Jan 2015). Poltergeists (Overview). In PSI Encyclopedia: Society of Psychical Research
Gauld,A., & Cornell, A. ...

Alvarado, C. S., & Zingrone, N. L. (1995). Characteristics of hauntings with and without apparitions: An
analysis of publi...

Maher, M. (2015). Ghosts and Poltergeists, an Eternal Enigma. Parapsychology. A Handbook for the 21st
Century.
 What is t...

 Correlation of apparitional experiences
with geomagnetic activity (1868-1889)
 1991 study. Randall/Randall
Randall,W., ...

Sense of being stared at
 Common psi experience/ability
 Frequent claim in haunting cases
 Possibly evolved from predat...

 Super-psi hypothesis is the notion that
psychic functioning is more pervasive in
everyday affairs than experimentation
s...

 The notion of post-mortem survival
that a disembodied consciousness or
some such discarnate element of
human personality...

 The Model of Pragmatic Information (MPI)
is a notion inspired by quantum field
theory that psi phenomena represent
meani...

 Apparitions, poltergeists and hauntings
phenomena involve an interplay of living
and post mortem agencies
 Some apparit...

 The materiality of apparitions remains
unsettled. Many encounters are telepathic
 Hauntings with apparitions have eleva...

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