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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...
Bryan Williams
Dec 31, 20164 min read
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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...
Bryan Williams
Dec 24, 20165 min read
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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...
Bryan Williams
Dec 7, 20168 min read
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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...
Bryan Williams
Oct 31, 20167 min read
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Spirit Photography: Some Considerations on its Capture & Interpretation
In the course of investigating an allegedly haunted site, paranormal investigators often employ the use of cameras in an attempt to...
Bryan Williams
Aug 15, 20161 min read
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Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): Some Considerations in Recording & Interpretation
Paranormal investigators tend to use a variety of methods and techniques in their attempts to gather evidence for the existence of...
Bryan Williams
May 21, 20161 min read
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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...
Bryan Williams
May 8, 20161 min read
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Place Memory & Residual Haunting
Many of the apparitions (or ghosts) that people have reportedly seen nowadays at reputedly haunted locations hardly seem to resemble the...
Bryan Williams
Dec 12, 20151 min read
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Bringing Poltergeists into the Laboratory
Poltergeist disturbances are characterized by a series of short-lived anomalous physical occurrences (e.g., objects sporadically moving...
Bryan Williams
Sep 5, 20151 min read
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Arrival Apparitions ("Vardøgr")
Typically in popular culture, apparitions are depicted as representing the spirits of deceased individuals. But there are also a number...
Bryan Williams
Sep 1, 20152 min read
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