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
- 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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Bryan Williams
- Jan 27, 2019
- 6 min
Remembering Muriel Gold Roll (1927 - 2018)
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...
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Bryan Williams
- Dec 21, 2018
- 10 min
The Ghost (Story) of Christmas Past
Typically in our modern Western culture, Halloween has been considered the haunting time of the year - the time that has been most often...
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Bryan Williams
- Sep 20, 2018
- 3 min
Collective Consciousness During the "World's Largest Ghost Hunt?"
Random number generators (or RNGs, for short) are small electronic circuits designed to produce random sequences of binary numbers (i.e.,...
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Bryan Williams
- Sep 3, 2018
- 4 min
An Auditory Phantom Harbinger?
While they are typically thought of as being seen, there are times in which apparitions have reportedly been heard, as well: Reports of...
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Bryan Williams
- Feb 14, 2018
- 4 min
A Touching Moment: Revisiting a Tender Tactile Apparitional Experience
Although they don't seem to be very common, there have been limited occasions in which people reported apparitional experiences where...
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Bryan Williams
- Nov 22, 2017
- 7 min
The Clock Stops for Thee: On a Seemingly Anomalous Physical Effect Reported Around the Time of Death
A number of tales exist in folklore of moments in which people have noticed clocks mysteriously stopping around the time that a loved one...
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Bryan Williams
- Feb 14, 2017
- 6 min
The Man (or Woman) of My Dreams: Precognitive Experiences Relating to that Special Someone
Dreams which seem to foretell the occurrence of future events have been reported throughout the course of human history, with some...
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Bryan Williams
- Dec 31, 2016
- 4 min
A Ghostly Visit on New Year's Eve, 90 Years Ago
Often times, haunted houses are readily thought of as the setting for encounters of a ghostly nature. But apparitions are also...
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Bryan Williams
- Dec 24, 2016
- 5 min
A Christmas Visit from a Lost Love: On the Apparitional Experiences of Widows & Widowers
Many of the encounters that people have with apparitions (or ghosts) of the dead take place over a wide range of time, from days, to...
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Bryan Williams
- Dec 7, 2016
- 8 min
Foreseeing Disaster: Premonitions of Pearl Harbor
Many people have talked about moments when something didn't feel right - moments when they found themselves saying, "I have a bad feeling...
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Bryan Williams
- Oct 31, 2016
- 7 min
Looking Back at the Ghostly Case of "The Scratched Cheek"
Although popular depictions in fiction novels, movies, and TV shows might initially lead us to think otherwise, many of the real-life...
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Bryan Williams
- May 8, 2016
- 1 min
Revisiting the "Cradle of ESP" (A Mother's Day Blog)
Mothers naturally feel a deep loving bond with their children from the very start. It may be so strong that at times, the mother may...
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