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, 20195 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20196 min read
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 31, 20188 min read
A Ghostly Encounter on New Year's Eve, 142 Years Ago
One of the earliest surveys conducted to find out how common apparitional experiences are among the general populace was done as far back...
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Bryan Williams
Dec 21, 201810 min read
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
Nov 27, 20183 min read
Exploring Psychic Abilities in Pets
A number of people have said that there have been times in which they've noticed some rather intriguing behavior being exhibited by their...
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Bryan Williams
Oct 31, 20182 min read
Ghostly Echoes Aboard "The Grey Ghost?"
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,...
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Bryan Williams
Sep 20, 20183 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20184 min read
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
Dec 24, 20179 min read
A Yuletide Poltergeist: Looking Back on the Pearisburg Case
Although they've traditionally been associated with the pesky and mischievous actions of disembodied spirits, a good amount of...
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Bryan Williams
Nov 22, 20177 min read
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
Oct 31, 20172 min read
Revisiting the Johnson Haunt Case
Throughout his extensive career, the late William G. Roll (the PRF's first research director) had carried out a number of field...
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Bryan Williams
Sep 4, 20174 min read
The Worker's Spirit: On Apparitional Sightings in the Workplace
While haunted houses may be commonly thought of as the main place for a ghostly encounter, some apparitions of deceased individuals have...
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Bryan Williams
Jul 30, 20172 min read
Visions Near the Moment of Death
Among the various kinds of encounters that people report having with apparitions are those in which terminally ill patients report seeing...
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Bryan Williams
May 26, 20176 min read
The Memorial Ghost
Traditionally, there has been a lot of ghostly folklore associated with graveyards and cemeteries, mainly due to their close ties with...
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Bryan Williams
Apr 16, 20175 min read
A Spectral Encounter at Easter Time
Encounters with apparitions have reportedly taken place within a number of situational contexts. The one which most people tend to...
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Bryan Williams
Apr 15, 20171 min read
Poltergeist Presentation April 15, 2017: Supplemental Paper
Below is the link to the supplemental paper to the presentation given by PRF Research Director Bryan Williams on poltergeists and...
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Bryan Williams
Feb 14, 20176 min read
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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