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 that has recently be...

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 apparitional experiences th...

For many people, one of the joys of Thanksgiving comes in being with friends and family who've traveled from afar to celebrate the holiday with them. These h...

The Psychical Research Foundation has had the opportunity to test the reported abilities of a number of psychics and mediums over the years, and one of the m...

Over the course of his life-long career in parapsychology, the late William Roll (the PRF's first research director) had conducted numerous field investigati...

Among the conflicts that were influential in turning the course of the American Revolutionary War (which serves as the historical background for the Independ...

Case surveys tend to indicate that many instances of ostensible precognition (i.e., psychic perception of the future) come in the form of dreams, and that th...

Occasionally there are moments when people tell of having felt a sudden urge, impulse, or desire coming on, without any clear reason or purpose behind it. Wh...

In 1922 - a little over three decades after psychical researchers Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers, and Frank Podmore had initially published their classic two-...

People occasionally tell of moments in which they find themselves suddenly having a particular thought or image come to mind, and then later learn that someo...

There have been a number of documented instances in which people say that they'd seen the spectral figure of a certain person suddenly appear before them at ...

The PRF has had a number of delightful individuals serve on its research staff over the years, and in this blog entry, we wish to take a moment to fondly rem...

One of the earliest surveys conducted to find out how common apparitional experiences are among the general populace was done as far back as the latter part ...

Typically in our modern Western culture, Halloween has been considered the haunting time of the year - the time that has been most often reserved for telling...

A number of people have said that there have been times in which they've noticed some rather intriguing behavior being exhibited by their beloved pets. For i...

There are a number of well-known places across the U.S. (and around the world) which carry a high-profile reputation for being haunted, with one of them bein...

Random number generators (or RNGs, for short) are small electronic circuits designed to produce random sequences of binary numbers (i.e., random strings of "...

While they are typically thought of as being seen, there are times in which apparitions have reportedly been heard, as well: Reports of phantom voices, foots...

Although they don't seem to be very common, there have been limited occasions in which people reported apparitional experiences where they'd felt the sensati...

Although they've traditionally been associated with the pesky and mischievous actions of disembodied spirits, a good amount of parapsychological research now...