Bryan Williams
Comments on a Recent Skeptical Revisitation of the Columbus Poltergeist Case
In a December 1, 2022 entry (with accompanying YouTube video) that he posted to his "Ghosts in the Machine" blog on the Skeptical...
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Bryan Williams
- Oct 31
- 10 min
The Haunted Road: Revisiting a Case from the Annals of Psychical Research
Popular cultural stereotypes tend to most often associate hauntings with houses (something that's even inherent in the term haunt itself,...
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Bryan Williams
- Aug 17
- 7 min
Sean Harribance (1939 - 2022): A Special Blog Entry in His Memory
[Cover image: Linnea Harribance Haggerty] The PRF is saddened by the news recently shared by the Sean Harribance Institute for...
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Bryan Williams
- Nov 24, 2021
- 5 min
Arrival Apparitions Revisited (Thanksgiving Entry)
Holidays like Thanksgiving are made more special when a loved one unexpectedly arrives home from afar to celebrate with friends & family....
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Bryan Williams
- Oct 31, 2021
- 6 min
Ghost Sightings by Daylight?
Stories, folklore, horror films, and the ghost hunting shows all tend to continually emphasize and perpetuate the idea that ghosts are a...
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Bryan Williams
- Sep 18, 2021
- 4 min
Collective Consciousness During the "World's Largest Ghost Hunt?": 2021 Prediction
Pre-specifying the parameters and test prediction for a field RNG exploration on National Ghost Hunting Day - September 25, 2021
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Bryan Williams
- Oct 31, 2020
- 1 min
Experiencing Ghosts & Poltergeists in Quarantine?
Back in May of 2020, there was an article that appeared on The New York Times website which discussed the ghostly experiences that some...
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Bryan Williams
- Jul 3, 2020
- 1 min
The Spirits of '76: Looking into the Alleged Haunting of the General Wayne Inn
The General Wayne Inn, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, has a rich history that extends all the way back to the beginning of the...
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Bryan Williams
- May 10, 2020
- 4 min
A Mother's Warning from Beyond the Grave?
It has been said that "love knows no bounds," particularly when it comes to the loving bond that a mother shares with her children. One...
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Bryan Williams
- Dec 31, 2019
- 10 min
Haunted Holidays
In one of last year's PRF holiday blog entries, we'd taken a look back at an old and long-forgotten holiday custom from the 19th century...
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Bryan Williams
- Dec 24, 2019
- 4 min
An Auditory Phantom Experience at Christmas
Although they don't seem to be as common as visual sightings, phantom sounds do tend to make up a fair proportion of the kinds of...
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Bryan Williams
- Nov 28, 2019
- 4 min
An Intuitively-Sensed Holiday Homecoming?
For many people, one of the joys of Thanksgiving comes in being with friends and family who've traveled from afar to celebrate the...
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Bryan Williams
- Nov 11, 2019
- 7 min
Sean Harribance: A Special Blog Entry for His 80th Birthday
The Psychical Research Foundation has had the opportunity to test the reported abilities of a number of psychics and mediums over the...
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Bryan Williams
- Oct 31, 2019
- 2 min
Case Study Review: Investigating an Allegedly Haunted Japanese Restaurant
Over the course of his life-long career in parapsychology, the late William Roll (the PRF's first research director) had conducted...
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Bryan Williams
- Jul 4, 2019
- 4 min
A Reported Psychic Vision During the American Revolution
Among the conflicts that were influential in turning the course of the American Revolutionary War (which serves as the historical...
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Bryan Williams
- Jun 6, 2019
- 2 min
A Reported Precognitive Dream of D-Day, 75 Years Ago
Case surveys tend to indicate that many instances of ostensible precognition (i.e., psychic perception of the future) come in the form of...
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Bryan Williams
- May 26, 2019
- 3 min
An Intuitively-Driven Cemetery Visit?
Occasionally there are moments when people tell of having felt a sudden urge, impulse, or desire coming on, without any clear reason or...
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Bryan Williams
- May 12, 2019
- 5 min
Spontaneous Sightings of a Mother's Spectral Figure
In 1922 - a little over three decades after psychical researchers Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers, and Frank Podmore had initially...
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Bryan Williams
- Apr 20, 2019
- 5 min
I've Got My Mind on You: Pondering Thought Correspondences for Easter
People occasionally tell of moments in which they find themselves suddenly having a particular thought or image come to mind, and then...
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Bryan Williams
- Feb 14, 2019
- 5 min
Another Touching Moment: A Second Tender Tactile Apparitional Experience
There have been a number of documented instances in which people say that they'd seen the spectral figure of a certain person suddenly...
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