The PowerPoint from a presentation for the Forever Family Foundation Conference in Durham, NC, November 8th and 9th, 2014. A look at apparition research and what constitutes spirit communication in these types of investigations.

1. Evidence

2. • Selected Apparitions and Hauntings
• The Cheltenham Ghost: Was She in There?
• What Constitutes Communication?
• Quantifying “Communication”
• Can Apparitions and Hauntings Really Provide Evidence
of Survival?
The Talk:

4. Hauntings and Apparitions:

5. 2010, Cambridge University Press
1984, Prometheus Press
1848, T.C. Newby
2002, John Murray
Covers retrieved from amazon.com

6. 2002, Parapsychology
Foundation
2005, Atriad
Cornell & Roll Covers retrieved
from amazon.com; Auerbach
cover retrieved from tower.com
1963, University Books
1982, Heinemann

7. Selected Apparitions
and Hauntings

8. Ghostly Battles on a Grand Scale:

9. Pausanias
2nd Century AD
Retrieved from wikipedia.com,
“Pausanias, the Geographer” Battle of Marathon, 490 BCE
Retrieved from ancientgreekbattle.net

10. The Battle of Edge Hill, 1642
Retrieved from heritage-history.com
British soldiers
in a
Revolutionary War
Re-enactment
Retrieved from notmytribe.com
Field Museum
of Natural History
Chicago, Illinois
Retrieved from chicago.about.com

11. Ghosts with a Purpose:

12. By Henry Ford, “Athenodorus the Philosopher
Rents a Haunted House”
Retrieved from wikipedia, “Athenodorus Cananites”
Athenodorus Cananites
Stoic Philosopher
(74-7 BCE)
Original source:
Letters of Pliny the Younger
Traveled in the Greco-Roman world
Tutor of Octavian
(later Caesar Augustus)
The haunted house was in Athens

13. Retrieved from http://www.independent.co.uk,
From the photo gallery “Sin and the Single Mother”
Eileen J. Garret’s Early Experience
As a child saw a favorite aunt walking up the
path to the cottage with her newborn
Word came later that her aunt had died in
childbirth and the baby was still born
Eileen J. Garret
1895–1970

14. Horace Traubel
(1858-1919)
Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave
(1890-1971)
Walt Whitman
1819-1892
A Visit to a Dying Friend:

15. Retrieved from sisterhood.fash.blogspot.com
F. Reed Brown case, Maryland 1942
Two small boys see an apparition with red hair
who looks like their mother only younger
The family decides it’s the great-grandmother
back to see them but ….

16. Ghosts with No Purpose or a Purpose
that is Difficult to Discern:
Retrieved from ghosts.ws

17. The Cheltenham Ghost

18. The Cheltenham Ghost
Retrieved from art.com
SPR Researcher
Andrew MacKenzie
Retrieved from ufopsi.com

19. Leaders of the Society for Psychical Research
Henry Sidgwick
(1838-1900)
Eleanor Sidgwick
(1845-1936)
F. W. H. Myers
(1843-1901)
Edmund Gurney
(1847-1888)

20. From the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
Experiments
Richet, C. (1889). Further experiments in hypnotic lucidity or clairvoyance.
Theory/Concepts
Sidgwick, H. (1889). The canons of evidence in psychical research.
Reports, Analysis, and Discussions of Many Cases
Sidgwick, Mrs. H. (1885). Notes on the evidence, collected by the Society, for phantasms of the dead.
Report of a Single Case
Marillier, L. (1891) Apparitions of the Virgin in Dordogne.
Morton, R.C. (1892) Report of a haunted house.
Reports of Séances
Hodgson, R. (1892). A record of observations of certain phenomena of trance.
Methodological Discussions
Edgeworth, F.Y. (1885) The calculus of probability applied to psychical research.

21. St. Anne’s — “Garden Reach” — Cheltenham
Retrieved from ghostsofbritain.com

28. One of Rosina’s three maps

34. What Constitutes
Communication?

45. Can Apparitions and Hauntings
Really Provide Evidence of Survival?

49. http://blogs.forteana.org/node/87

50. Thank you …
nancy@theazire.org
http://www.parapsychologyonline.
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office@parapsychology.org
http://www.parapsychology.org
http://www.pflyceum.org
http://www.psi-mart.com
http://www.psychicexplorers.org