PSY 300- Exam 2 (1)

Biological Healings

Bio-PK, psychic healing

Theresa Caputo

Yellow flowers (sunflower), mother went before sun, has his teeth--you're such a good boy, he wants a tattoo and his mom did not want him to, go back to church, girl kissed her mom's eyes, the guys birthday was the next Wednesday, he did not want to come--girl did her mom's hair and makeup, more lipstick--first time the guy had cried since her passing, let it out, one day he did not see her she died

Cecelia Houdini

· Harry's mom o Who he wanted to communicate with after she died

Arthur Ford

· Spiritualist medium o Achieved fame in 1929 by allegedly breaking the "secret code" between Houdini and his wife Beatrice. Ford is credited with revealing that code through his control, "Fletcher."

Dean Koontz

· Talks about wuhan-400 being the perfect weapon being made in an RDNA lab, original book did not say wuhan-400, it said Gorky (Russia)

Wizard Clip (The Unknown Stranger)

· Who visited Livingston, did not feel well but when they woke up, they were about to die, wanted Adam to find a catholic priest for his last rights, dies, memorial for him today with a cross

Wizard Clip

WV case, late 1700's, Smithfield VA, Middleway WV, moved from PA to WV, scissors or sheers were heard by the family, things were cut by crescent moon shaped something (tailor or clothing major maybe was the stranger), went on for 3 months, passing Livingston someone said it looked like a rope was across the road but there was not one, cut to ribbons, men stayed the night and a rock came from fireplace and scared them away

Floating Levitation

Wall of metal is a flexible rubber panel with a solid steel arm attached to forklift, girls are a distraction, plate with magnet, harness with heavy duty plate, forklift switches to make it magnetic, frame has a piece of foam rubber when arm passes through, uses angles

Automatic Writing

Bring back information from way back and use bodies as a channel to allow these messages to come through

John Edward

See, hear, and feel--just say yes or no--started by section with car accident and month of May/ day of 5, talk about dad, different father figure, M figure that is living, breast or lung cancer was mom and misdiagnosed, Jennifer living, son passed that was 5 months old, J M name, gives advice about dealing with the issue, twin girl passed C or K (aunt), really personal not being able to cope with the accident

Stair

Slit in front of the pants so that one foot can actually be on the stair or whatever platform, can sometimes magnetize/tape shoes to the front of the platform or together, depends all on angles, hands up to the side above or below the head

AGT (Mike Super)

Spirit named Dezmond that helps him with the trick, mystifier, pitcher and box, rubbing hands, temp change, orb, or heavy, breaks glass, mouth change first and second attempts (mouth closed second time that has a bb that shatters the glass)

Spontaneous-PK

Spontaneous movement of objects and other effects, Adam Livingston, Tina Resch, Enfield Poltergeist, see things moving but we don't have someone purposely making it happen

James van Praagh

Talks about specific family issues, houses, cancer, father figure, specific times throughout her life, kids number and difficult deliveries, boats--heart condition chest area ended up being lungs, mystery novels, does not finish books, need to have kidneys looked at, other person beside her that had heart problems, girl gave him a lot of information he did not ask for

Remote Viewing

The practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target, purportedly "sensing" with the mind

Tyler Henry

Things could have been googled to find some of that stuff out because the song has been heard by many and Macklemore is a recovering addict as well, playing a probability game, Macklemore clarified who the person was the medium did not

Psychokinesis

Umbrella term for a variety of claimed phenomena: telekinesis (movement of matter), levitation (rising unassisted), influencing events (gambling, weather), biological healings (bio-pk, psychic healing), electro-pk (electronic devices), energy shield (force field/qi/chi), control of magnetism (skin conductance)

BGT (James Moore)

Using angles, takes 2 pieces of equipment, levitation (holding him up by a platform in his shirt), impale (device on his stomach that gets triggered when he lays on the sword)

How to be like Geller Using Slight of Hand and Deception

· Pick up a spoon o Hold spoon between thumb and forefinger o Rub gently and believe that it will start melting o Tampering with spoons, can be cheap, misdirection (spoon doesn't appear that he is pressuring the spoon or bending it, but he is in reality) o Stroke neck to heat up the spoon and bend with thumb · Forks a little differently · Steel bar- rubbing and think bend--but using angles and turning

Four Major Types of ESP Studied by Parapsychologists and How They are Studied (Precognition)

· Precognition- obtaining information about future events (premonition), believe that one can tell the future; studied by verifying the telling of the future and analyzing it, Nostradamus

Four Major Types of ESP Studied by Parapsychologists and How They are Studied (Presentiment)

· Presentiment- physiological changes prior to the onset of a stimulus, newest of all, body sending signals that something is going to happen; studied by Darrell Bem: brought people to the lab and show them pictures--some neutral but other aggressive/sexual, so that the body would show some sort of arousal, hooked people up to machines to tell about arousal, took all the cards, shuffled them together so that you would not know what kind of picture you would see and looked at patterns of physiological responses: noticed that sexual pictures brought arousal before the picture was even shown-better than chance

JB Rhine, Louisa Rhine, and William McDougall Founding Parapsychology

· Rhine was not a psychologist · Rhine studied botany · Rhyne was the father of modern parapsychology · Timeline of events: o Married Louisa (Weckesser) Rhine in 1920 o Attended lecture by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on o "Spiritualism" in 1922 o Botanist (Ph.D. University of Chicago - 1925) o Went to Harvard to study with William McDougall o Tested Medium Mina ("Margery") Crandon o Tested Psychic Horse ("Lady Wonder") o Founded Parapsychology lab at Duke University o Conducted Lab-Based ESP/Psychokinesis Research o Founded the Journal of Parapsychology o Founded the Parapsychological Association o Founded Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (now known as the Rhine Research Center) o Wrote books such as Extrasensory Perception and Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind

JB Rhine and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fooled by Photographs by Cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, Demonstrations of Mediumship/Seances, and Lady Wonder (Demonstrations of Mediumship/Seances)

· Studied mediums- Mina Crandon (Margery), thought she was fraudulent due to magic and deception since he was credible through science o Walter Crandon- who mina communicated with (older bro), responsible for spiritual activity o Harry Houdini- debunked mediums (mina- the bell rung, levitation, box made for everything but arms o Ectoplasmic hands- represents spirit energy by mina o Spirit fingerprints- perfect match for Walter's fingerprints, later found as perfect match from dentist that gave her the wax

Columbus Poltergeist

1984 it began, clock in Tina's room that time kept spinning for no apparent reason, then a radio turned on and off by itself as well as the volume would blare out of nowhere and then shut off, when she was about 14 things began to move around the house--in Tina's room her burettes would slide across the desk or appeared to levitate, drinking glasses and photographs would fall or break, lamps would tip over or slide across tables, chairs and sofas would move on their own even when people were on them, objects were thrown and broken, all sorts of electrical things--lights on and off, appliances on and off, phones would ring and horrible squealing would be in the phone, people said they were just mentally ill

Dr. JB Ferguson

A longtime follower of Spiritualism, who falsely assured the audience the brothers worked exclusively by spirit power rather than deceptive trickery

Energy Manipulation (Chi)

All sorts of electrical things--lights on and off, appliances on and off, phones would ring

Telekinesis

Alleged ability to move physical objects via the power of the mind

Floating Woman

Center plank hides the third leg with his pants because they are the same color

Levitation

Rising unassisted

Invisible Chair

Romana, levitation, baggy clothing, hidden pieces help them support themselves and they appear to be floating in the air

Clairaudience

Clear hearing, voices of the dead

Electro-PK

Electronic devices

10 Techniques Used by Psychics Performing Cold Readings

· 1. The Rainbow Ruse o Describes someone in a 2-sided manner o Example: You can be a very considerate, but there are times you have a bit of a selfish streak in yourself o Example: You can be a reserved, but if the mood strikes, you can be the life of the party · 2. Barnum Statements o Named after P.T. Barnum, are statements that seem personal, yet apply to many people. o Examples: Many people treasure a piece of jewelry from deceased family member; many people have been involved in childhood accident involving water · 3. Fine Flattery o Talk about people really good o Examples: Honest, Hard-Working, Independent Fair-Minded; Warm; Loving; Wise in the ways of the world; a wisdom gained through experience · 4. The Fuzzy Fact o Vague statement likely to be accepted as true, interpreted multiple ways o Example: I am getting a link with some kind of uniform, does that make sense to you? o Example: What's that? He seems regretful he didn't get to spend more time with you · 5. The Veiled Question o Asking themselves questions to see reactions/body language o Example: Does your job require a lot of travel? "Now I'm picking up the impression here, not a clear one, that you could be involved in work that involves a lot of traveling. Now, I don't know if this is now, or in the past, or in the future, but that's what the cards are telling me" · 6. The Jargon Blitz o Picking a fortune telling system and peppering a client with important sounding terms. This makes the reader seem like an authority figure and distracts client from realizing they are being pumped for information. · 7. "Peter Pan" Predictions o Tell the person what they want to hear about the future § (a) 4 classic themes: Money, Love, Health, Career § (b) Accuracy can't be immediately assessed § (c) Tendency to remember hits and forget misses · 8. Shot gunning o "I see a woman that isn't a blood relative. Someone around when you were growing up, an aunt, a friend of your mother, a stepmother with blackness in the chest, lung cancer, heart disease, breast cancer..." · 9. The "Hot" Reading o The use of foreknowledge when giving a "psychic" reading o This technique is suspected by many in the skeptic community as being o Used by some television psychics in conjunction with cold reading. o Psychics send collaborators to people's homes to collect information. o The "psychic" may then be briefed on the information and where the person will sit in the audience" · 10. The "Multiple Out" o "Make statements or predictions that are vague and nebulous, so that they can be interpreted, often after the fact, to fit almost any outcome." o Technique is used extensively by psychics when making "predictions about the future" and attempting to "solve crimes"

Seated Man

Romana, levitation, boot placed onto metal pole that is anchored to the ground under the carpet, stick is most of the time a metal pole that is anchored below the carpet

AGT (The Clairvoyants)

Game of chance, guessing dice numbers, guessing cards, guessing serial numbers on money, something built into the seat to feel codes or codes with conversations

Emannuel Swedenborg

· Swedish scientist, philosopher, inventor, and scholar o 1. Age 56, he began to have mystical dreams/visions o 2. He claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity o 3. He was a "traveling clairvoyant" (one whose soul leaves the body in order to travel to distant places to bring back information to the world). o 4. He claimed to be able to converse with spirits of ancient philosophers (Aristotle and Plato) o 5. He believed upon the biological death of the body, the spirit goes to an intermediate plane where it then makes choices about its next transition (to one of the heavens or hells). o Psychic Prediction § During a dinner party in 1758, he told guests there was a fire in Stockholm that consumed his neighbor's house but stopped 3 doors from his home (prediction was later confirmed). o Judeo-Christian: Advocates liner model (life of the soul goes on within the space-time continuum) o Hindu-Buddhist: Advocates circular model (When our present form expires, we return again and again in other forms in "infinite circularity") o Swedenborg View: Advocates a "non-recycling" view of the spirit and "spirit" choice as to its next transition (In support, reincarnation tends to be dismissed by the majority of spirits contacted through mediums).

Types of Tests and Demonstrations Used on the American Psychic Challenge and Britain's Psychic Challenge to Test Abilities Under Controlled Conditions

· Take a crime that is fully known about and has been investigated and bring a psychic in to see if they get the details correct with a cold reading · Took into a desert and buried someone in the ground and they were given 30 minutes to find him; Whitedove found him · Took to a car dealership and put someone in a trunk; apparently a vision the night before of a car, so she knew what car to go to · Man buried in a Gilly suit and camouflage and people have to find him within 30 minutes--also tested a police dog

JB Rhine's Attempt to Verify the Existence of ESP under Lab Conditions

· Telepathy- Zener cards, sender/receiver, 25 set cards (5 of each), had to do better than chance 5-9 · Could remember what cards had been used already · Hubert Pierce- lab celebrity 25/25 cards · Adams/Zener- revolt about research being able to be debunked, but Rhine was an extreme believer

Four Major Types of ESP Studied by Parapsychologists and How They are Studied (Telepathy)

· Telepathy- direct mind-to-mind communication "distant feeling"; Zener cards

How Parapsychologists Demonstrate Psychics are Willing to Cheat

· Undercover research-- making people think they were doing well on ESP tests and then put them in a lab and then they were able to fool the scientists by using techniques used by magicians, all of them wore gloves and people were separated to minimize conversation · Old chocolate factory and came up with a fake ghost story—George bull and wanted to see if the psychics cheated · Do a reading and get points for accurate answers/false information given by the person getting the reading to see if the psychic notices

Walter Crandon

· Who mina communicated with (older bro), responsible for spiritual activity o Harry Houdini- debunked mediums (mina- the bell rung, levitation, box made for everything but arms o Ectoplasmic hands- represents spirit energy by Mina

Enfield Poltergeist

Case focuses on two girls, family sees chest move across floors, flying marbles/toys/objects, noises (banging, knocking), pools of water appearing on floor, fires which spontaneously ignited/extinguished, kids played with a Ouija board shortly before events happened, went to neighbor and he also heard the knocking himself, called the police to see if there was an intruder and a police officer saw a chair move across the floor, reporters come to the house and Graham Morris comes out and waits to see if something happens but nothing happens until after they leave--objects are flying everywhere and the photographer was hit with a Lego, his photos did not capture anything, investigators saw levitation, got hit with a cardboard box, sheets pulled off girls, heavy fireplace grill rips away and levitates over girls in her bedroom, Janet pulled out of bed and dragged down the stairs, activity focused mostly on Janet, Margaret was shy, Janet was outgoing and mischievous, two girls were around puberty, family went through terrible divorce at the time, Anita Gregory and John Beloff (also SPR members) spent time with the family and came to the conclusion that the children had faked the poltergeist activity. Janet admitted to Gregory they fabricated some of the occurrences. She stated, "Oh yeah, once or twice, just to see if Mr. Grose and Mr. Playfair would catch us. They always did.", Janet began to have incidents of violent behavior. She would scream, attempt to injure herself, and began drawing violent pictures. Janet also began to have episodes in which she appeared to be levitating around her bedroom. Neighbors claimed to have looked into the window of the home and saw Janet floating around the room followed by other toys and objects close behind., Janet began speaking in a strange voice. Janet said the voice belonged to "Bill" who had died in the house of a brain hemorrhage. "Bill" had a nasty temper and often swore at Maurice Grosse during interviews. Researchers later learned that a man named Bill Wilkins had died in the home of a brain hemorrhage., The poltergeist activity died down in September 1978. Margaret publicly stated that although she did fake a few phenomena, she and Janet were not responsible for all the phenomena in the house. Peggy Hodgson remained in the house until her death in 2003. Maurice Grosse died in 2006. Guy Lyon Playfair wrote a book on the investigation (This House is Haunted)., Janet bent metal in a lab without touching it

AGT (Special Head)

Chair snaps and locks in place once he pulls himself up on the pole, seated man, matrix levitation act, real deal levitation on top of pyramid but he was spotted running away due to lighting issues, homelessness and levitation, something connected to the roof so when he jumps up it locks

Clairsentience

Clear feeling, empath, or the emotions in a location

Claircognizance

Clear knowing, intuitive, know information but not how they know it

Clairvoyance

Clear seeing, seeing things that no one else can

Clairalience

Clear smelling, smelling things that remind of past experiences

Clairgustance

Clear tasting, tasting of things that are not being ate

Clairtangency

Clear touching, psychometry, get senses of information from touching

Enfield Poltergeist (Ed and Lorraine)

Demonologist/psychic abilities, movies make them heroes of the family but they only stopped at the house for a day or two, ed said they could make money off the family, the girls were at her 90th birthday party

Balducci

Dr. Jaw Rechlo, levitation by putting all your weight on one foot and using a certain angle to make it look like you are levitating, PowerPoint 10 slide 4, 45-degree angle

Matrix

Dynamo, walk down the sidewalk in the middle of the city and then all of a sudden lean back to the point where you should fall over and balances on both feet and then one leg, avoiding bullets, platform up the leg and on the sidewalk (looks different) because there was manipulation with the sidewalk, has hinging action and anchor point (screw into the ground), when he steps on sidewalk the anchor pops up, when he leans back the device locks in place so it will not move and be able to lean back, when he is ready to end when he throws himself up to unlock the hinge and take the settle step up

Water Walk

Dynamo, walking on water, used kayaks and police for distraction, platform under the water for support (his feet were not completely above the water)

Macro-PK

Effects on the environment visible with unaided eye, you can actually see it happen, moving object on a table, Ted Owens

Columbus Poltergeist (Tina Resch)

Has one of the most sad life experience with poltergeist being a part of it, her early life added up to the poltergeist, 10 months old was left and went into foster system, adopted by John and Jone Resch (adopted over 200 kids), very hyperactive young kid, expelled from school in 4th grade so she was homeschooled, got bullied a lot, was put on Ridelin at 13, became interested in seeking out her birth mother during her teen years but her adopted parents did not like the idea, lost one of her very good friends Tina Scott, described her household as very abusive, felt that John was physically abusive but Jone was mentally abusive, one night Tina threatened john with a knife and then stormed to her bedroom (when it began), heart monitor on and off, only happened around Tina, chairs would feel like they were pushed out, the force is what they called the energy in the house, parents (mother) contacted Mike Hardin, got the permission and published the pictures in the paper, invited 40 reporters to come to the house at one time, followed Tina from room to room and nothing happened, as some of them started to leave a lamp tipped over but one of the photographers had a video camera towards her and turns out she did it (she admitted to it because she was getting followed around and get them off her back), when photographers were gone they called Mike Hardin again for help and he knew William Roll, married John Bennett who was abusive and stole money from her, went to women's shelter, married Larry Boyer and had Amber Bennett who was also abusive, moved near William Roll and his family, charged for her daughters murder and went to jail for two years, plead guilty but claimed innocence due to fear of death sentencing, got life + 20 years with possibility of parole

Wizard Clip (Father Demetrius Fallitzin)

Helped Dennis Cahill with mass, had connections with Vatican

Impaled Man

Impaled is a classic stage illusion in which a performer appears to be impaled on or by a sword or pole. The name is most commonly associated with an illusion that was created by designer Ken Whitaker in the 1970s and which is sometimes also referred to as "Beyond Belief" or "Impaled Beyond Belief". This version has become part of the stage magic repertoire and has been performed by many of the world's most famous magic acts.

Columbus Poltergeist (Mike Hardin)

Reporter for Columbus dispatch and did a lot of the stories on the Resch's, he went over and brought a photographer to see if they could catch anything

Mina Crandon

Rhine/Houdini thought they debunked her, and Doyle supported her

Levitation

Rising unassisted, using baggy clothes to deceive, using angles and distance to an advantage, using objects as distractions, floor looks differently, wall/backdrops for distraction or help with the trick (real deal levitation)

Channeling

Letting spirits or entities to enter your body to speak through them for a communication channel

Influence of Gambling Outcomes/Weather

Make weather events happen, control weather: lightning strikes, drought, earthquakes, hurricane (David, 1979), tornadoes, volcanoes, snowstorms, accidents

Micro-PK

Manipulation of molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, Uri Geller

Enfield Poltergeist (Guy Lyon Playfair)

Member of society for physical research investigated the incident during the 13 month investigation, investigative journalist, was brought in by Grosse, this house is haunted book

Enfield Poltergeist (Maurice Grosse)

Member of society for physical research investigated the incident during the 13 month investigation, new to the organization, the death of his daughter was recent, principle investigator and basically lived with the family for over a year

Control of Magnetism

Objects stick to bodies, Miroslaw Magola (Magnetic Man) and Jaime Keeton (Can Head), sticky skin, pores are like suction cups

Joseph Tittel

PA home, asked group expectations of what they wanted to happen before the show, cancer in stomach area/lungs, father energy, big apology, spirit hug, bear is significant, giggle, he has sister also and two grandbabies, mom had a miscarriage and still mourns over it--G Gary, Greg, George, George is coming through with George, brother of the dad, amputation of a toe for his mom, diabetic, sneaks chocolates and sweets, Reese cups in back of the fridge, big apology

Columbus Poltergeist (William Roll)

Parapsychologist that Mike Hardin knew, got called and invited to the home, brought his assistant (Kelly Powers), claimed that they saw objects move, furniture move, and in Tina's room when she was mopping a teacup lifted up and flew twelve feet across the room, became convinced that something real was happening, did a press conference saying that it was real, when he did the press conference he caught the attention of James Randi, invited Tina to NC to his house until she broke her leg, while she went back the second time he tested her scientifically, claims that she moved objects 16 different times (batteries, metal brackets, tools), took Tina to neurologist and there was evidence she had muscle jerks, eyes blinking, mild tourettes and had her tested psychologically that showed a sad childhood and she had been raped, took tina in, challenge to his observational skills, wrote unleashed about tina

Enfield Poltergeist (The Hodgson Family)

Peggy (mother), Billy (7), Johnny (10), Janet (11), and Margaret (12)

Columbus Poltergeist (Fred Shannon)

Photographer that was brought with Mike Hardin, captured two photographs of tina setting in the family room and a phone flying across the room without any assistance

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

creator of Sherlock Holmes and a firm believer in Spiritualism speaking engagements for spiritualism did presentations with each other

Ira and William Davenport

o Ira Davenport & William Davenport were American magicians in the late 1800s. The brothers are famous for deceptively presenting illusions that were claimed to be of a supernatural origin. o Their shows were introduced by Dr. J.B. Ferguson, a longtime follower of Spiritualism, who falsely assured the audience the brothers worked exclusively by spirit power rather than deceptive trickery o The Davenports' most famous effect was their "box illusion". The 2 brothers were tied up and closed inside a wooden box containing musical instruments. Once the box closed instruments would emit sound. Upon opening the box, the brothers would be found tied in the same position in which they had started the illusion. Those who witnessed the effect were made to believe supernatural forces caused trick to work. o Before his death in 1911, Ira Davenport was interviewed by escape artist Harry Houdini, a noted skeptic of Spiritualism. Ira told Houdini he and his brother had never actually confirmed belief in Spiritualism to the audiences and the announcements made by Dr. Ferguson were simply part of the act.

Contributions of Louisa Rhine in the Study of "Spontaneous ESP Experiences"

· Not in a controlled lab · Collected thousands of reports and stories--first categorization system of ESP experiences for other scientists to follow · Cataloged these for people to look at · Auditory, tactile, olfactory, or visual hallucinations: crisis apparitions at the time of a death · Sense of foreboding- hunch something will occur; feeling something is wrong at home (fire) · Literal, accurate portrayal of a confirming event: mother dreams of son in a fiery crash the night before the accident occurs · Symbolic representation of a confirming event: mother dreams of a son handing her a rose and walking into dark cave night before his death · ESP-related events not classifiable in other 4 categories: physical effects/clocks stopping/chiming, pictures falling, or objects breaking at exact time of a confirmed death

Edgar Cayce

· ("The Sleeping Prophet") o "Born in 1877 near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Cayce would lie down and put himself into a trance state. His wife would then ask him questions and he would give the answers, while in a trance. For many years the information dealt mainly with medical problems. Eventually the scope of his readings expanded to include such topics as meditation, dreams, reincarnation, and prophecy." o Cayce predicted the arrival of Armageddon in 1999, followed by a new age and the Second Coming of Christ. He described a number of catastrophes that would occur at the end of the 20th Century o A shift in the world's axis around the year 2000, leading to: § (a) The melting of both polar ice caps § (b) The loss of much of England and Japan § (c) The "rising of Atlantis" off U.S. east coast § (d) Destruction of L.A., San Francisco, and Manhattan § (e) A warming of cool areas, and cooling of warm areas § (f) An increase in Pacific Rim volcanic activity § (g)The disappearance of New York o Cayce also prophesized the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 B.C. and that survivors of Atlantis had concealed beneath it a "Hall of Records" containing all the wisdom of their lost civilization and the true history of the human race. o Cayce prophesized that this "Hall of Records" would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998. He connected the opening to the Second Coming of Christ.

Jean Dixon

· (Lydia Emma Pinckert; Wisconsin) o Jean Dixon claimed her prophetic gift comes from God ("The same spirit that worked through John the Baptist also works through me"). She stated, "The future has been shown to me to 2037 AD" o Fulfilled Prophecies § Assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, § Mahatma Ghandi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. § That China would go communistic § Russia launching a silver orb into outer space (Sputnik) § Eisenhower's election, his heart attack, and recovery § The deaths of Carole Lombard and Marilyn Monroe o Unfulfilled Prophecies § World War III would begin in 1958 § The Vietnam War would end in 1966 § Russia would be the first country to put a man on the moon. § Castro would be overthrown in Cuba and would leave the island in 1970 § Attempts would be made on the life of President Nixon § Jacqueline Kennedy would not remarry

Uri Geller and his Psychic Ability

· 1970's from Israel, claimed to have a variety of psychic abilities--demonstrations of mentalism, magic, and psychokinesis (telekinesis, affecting things at the atomic level--bending, moving, breaking) · Bends spoons using the power of his mind

Harry Houdini

· A noted skeptic of Spiritualism o In the 1920's, after the death of his mother Cecelia, he turned his energies towards the debunking of self-proclaimed mediums. o Houdini's training in magic allowed him to expose frauds who had successfully fooled both scientists and numerous academics. o Houdini took to attending séances in disguise and was often accompanied by a reporter and a police-officer. o Thought it was important to make it clear to his audiences that all his escapes were accomplished by feats of skill alone, not supernatural abilities o Before Harry died, he asked his brothers and close friends to hold a séance so that he could do the impossible and escape death.

Lady Jean

· Apparent medium, Doyle's wife o Automatic writing from Houdini's mom, but Powell had no response, did not contact his mom she could not read/write or did not know English, cross on paper, was Jewish, kept calling him Harry, but his name was Eric Weiss

Andrew Jackson Davis

· Born in New York, Davis's psychic powers began in his teens. He toured with William Levingston (a hypnotist) and performed his psychic abilities. o 1. Began to use his "spirit eyes" to cure people of disease. Claimed he saw the organs of the body as though the body was transparent. He earned nickname "The Poughkeepsie Seer" o 2. He claimed to be able to see and observe the death process and the way in which the spirit leaves body and forms a new spiritual being. o 3. Emerging from a hypnotically induced trance, Davis claimed to have met the Greek Physician Galen & Swedish Seer Emmanuel Swedenborg o 4. In his lifetime, it was claimed Davis predicted creation of the typewriter, automobile, airplane, and the birth of "Spiritualism" o 5. On March 31st, 1848, Davis wrote: "About daylight this morning a warm breathing passed over my face and I heard a voice saying, "Brother, the good work has begun - behold a living demonstration is born"

Wizard Clip (Father Dennis Cahill)

· Catholic rev, Livingston had a vision about him, said neighbors were playing pranks, spreads holy water around property and money returned, went back with Demetrius and performed mass and it did the trick--activity ceases but Livingston heard voice saying he needed a more spiritual life

Four Major Types of ESP Studied by Parapsychologists and How They are Studied (Clairvoyance)

· Clairvoyance- obtaining information about remote locations "clear vision"; clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience, clairalience, clairgustance, clairtangency, remote viewing, psychograohy, channeling; studied by verifying details the person is bringing back the two scientists

Ted Owens

· Convinced he had psychokinetic abilities · Born 1920 · Abusive father so lived with grandparents · Mamaw could find lost objects and predict deaths · Papaw was a dowser, spontaneous levitation at 4 and 13 · Went to navy and thought he could read minds and make weather events happen · Contacted JB Rhine to become lab person as typist · Did not get included in Booksor reports · When he was around weird things happened · After leaving lab he contacts military and government telling them he can control weather: lightning strikes, drought, earthquakes, hurricane (David, 1979), tornadoes, volcanoes, snowstorms, accidents, UFO appearances · Had a list of witnesses · Told people he just felt a higher connection to nature but changed after seeing UFO and his ability was given to him by SI's · People backed away from him after · Went to conferences and universities trying to be studied and got upset when they would not · Cleveland Illinois says he was crazy and threatened them with things that happened · Could also control sporting events with witnesses · Hurricane David biggest claim 2 months later it was going to hit Florida and he changed it · Create UFO sightings

Types of Tests Used by the James Randi Foundation

· Photos of 11 alive people and 1 famous dead person--has to get the dead person 9/12 times, but he fails · 12 biographies to do tarot card readings on--has to match them with the correct person 9/12 times, but she fails · 12 biographies to do palm readings on--has to match them with the correct person 9/12 times, but she fails

Criticisms Expressed Towards the Methodology, Analysis, and Interpretation of Rhine's ESP Research

· Criticisms: sensory leakage- see through cards, observable reflections, images felt on cards · Lack of reporting non-significant studies · Participants allowed to shuffle/handle cards during tests · People allowed to score their own tests · Inappropriate statistical procedures (overestimate "significance of results") · Non-random shuffling of Zener cards prior to tests · Research assistant dishonesty (cheating, fraud, erasures, providing cues to participants) · Misinterpretation of "results beyond chance" as evidence of ESP ability · Highly motivated participants due to celebrity status on campus · Use of 25-card deck (5 of each) card counter · Decline effect- ESP ability declining over time vs. "regression of the mean" · Psi-Missing-Effect- performance significantly below a chance level due to lack of ESP ability vs. attempt to suppress ESP ability · Observer effect- lack of significant results in the presence of "observer controls" · Failure to replicate Rhine's results in several university research labs

JB Rhine and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fooled by Photographs by Cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, Demonstrations of Mediumship/Seances, and Lady Wonder (Fairies)

· Fairies- little girls took strings and sketches of fairies and tricked Doyle into writing an article and book

Wizard Clip (Adam Livingston)

· Farmer, visited by a stranger in 1794, let them stay at his house, did not know anyone catholic--his wife did not allow priest, hires Jacob foster to set with corpse overnight till they could bury him--candles would not stay lit, Jacob left so the night before burial poltergeist appeared, heard horses galloping around but his horses were locked up, week later his barn was damaged by fire, cattle died, dishes were falling and flying, money disappeared, he noticed his chickens were headless, his fireplace had wood thrown at his family and spark caught stuff on fire, bought 3 conjurers to help but they could not, dream with man in robe, minister will not help him, religion conversion from Lutheran to catholic, gave land to catholic church (priest field and all souls chapel)

Sylvia Brown

· First half was accurate, second half was not as accurate; 2002-03 country struggled with SARS virus and people were talking about possible viruses "around 2020"

Beatrice Houdini

· Harry's wife, wanted to give Houdini's collection about mediums/spiritualists over the years o The magician's widow, Bess Houdini held yearly séances on Halloween for 10 years after Houdini's death. o In 1936, having no success, Bess stated: "Houdini did not come through. My last hope is gone. I do not believe Houdini can come back to me, or to anyone. The Houdini shrine has burned for ten years. I now, reverently turn out the light. It is now finished. Good night, Harry!"

Hoaxed Nostradamus Predictions

· Hoaxed predictions are too precise and almost every detail matches an event; however, with his predictions, there are only few details that are very specific, and the rest are things that can be broad

Fox Sisters

· In 1848, two sisters - Kate (12) and Margaret Fox (15) - were living in a house in Hydesville, New York along with their parents. The family began to be frightened by unexplained sounds that at times sounded like knocking, and at other times like the moving of furniture. o Kate challenged the invisible noisemaker, presumed to be a "spirit", to repeat snaps of her fingers. "It" did. "It" was asked to rap out the ages of the girls. "It" did. Then a code was developed where raps could signify yes/no to questions. o The girls initially addressed the spirit as Mr. Splitfoot (nickname for Devil). Later, entity claimed to be the spirit of a peddler named o Charles B. Rosna, who had been- box was found murdered five years earlier and buried in the cellar ruined by alcohol o First public association of spiritualism, big auditoriums all over New York o Skeptics said they were popping their bones o Banker paid Kate to get away to England from mediumship o Married Elijah Cane and left mediumship to become catholic, after he died, she went back to Kate and their drinking sent them to reunite with Leah in New York--Leah takes over Kate's kids and Margaret went back to catholic o Reporter paid 1500 confessed to cracking joints to produce sounds, went to academy of music and Margaret demonstrates her feet sounds then recants and says she did it for the money o By November 1849, Maggie and Kate were giving public performances of their skills and Spiritualist movement was born o The Fox sisters were joined by their older sister Leah o Their séances became more elaborate, with objects moving about, spirits appearing and tables levitating o Others began to discover their own mystical powers and mediums and séances became all the rage. o 1904- Joe Nickell examines peddler's trunk at Lily Dale Museum probably just a promotion

Role Psychics Played in Kidnapping Cases

· Kidnapping case- Sylvia Brown tells her mom that she is dead and she was under the house or in a house--but she was alive while her mom died before she found out that her daughter was alive the entire time, she was right about the guy that took Amanda

JB Rhine and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fooled by Photographs by Cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, Demonstrations of Mediumship/Seances, and Lady Wonder (Lady Wonder)

· Lady Wonder- owned by Claudia Fonda, spelled engine and farm tractor went by, spelling device for horse, 150-200k people visited, horse led to quarry and found the body, spelled rone for boy, dead, not kidnapped, hole, elm sand, dec----they came to the farms to ask questions and said the horse had psychic abilities o Scarn wrote where do I live, horse had no response, New York but lived in new jersey, horse could see the horse, seeing

Nostradamus

· Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus; 1503-1566) o French apothecary, astrologer, physician and reputed seer o In 1555, Nostradamus published the first of 10 books, all entitled Centuries. Each volume contained 100 predictions written in four line verses known as "quatrains" (942 total "prophecies") o Healer and astrology work, almanac writer o Events of his time that are likely to occur again o Looking for things that are not in his writings o Translated differently o Anti-Christs- Napolean, Hitler, Sudan Hussain or Osama bin Laden o Holocaust o Assassination of JFK o Princess Diana's death o Apollo moon landing o Bombing Hiroshima/Nagasaki o Louis Pasteur o Coronavirus o 9/11 was not o Gangnam style was not o School strike was not

Role Psychics Played in Murder Cases

· Murder investigation- Because the information gifted psychic Etta Smith gave to the police was deadly accurate and led to them finding the body of a missing nurse, the L.A. Police Department jailed her on suspicion of involvement in the crime--gave her a lie detector test and failed, so they put her in jail for 4 days until 3 men were arrested for the murder