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Ghostly Cure. Jeanne Devors, 23, of Belgium, had been operated upon twice and given up as hopeless with her deformed, tubercular hip. Delegate Connecks had treated her, including direct prayer to God and magnetic passes by mediums, and behold! the hip regains its shape! Jeanne walks!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Ghost Radio. The Congress agreed that human mediums are quite unreliable for communication with departed spirits. They have a way of picking up irrelevancies and fragmentary messages that confuse. It was thought desirable (none said possible or likely) that delicate radio equipment should be perfected soon for direct communication with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Dr. William McDougall, Professor of Psychology at the University, and a member of the committee invited by the Scientific American to judge the claims of mediums to produce super-normal physical phenomena, yesterday made the first public statement as to why the committee would not recognize "Margery".

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McDOUGALL DOUBTS TRUTH OF "MARGERY'S" CLAIMS | 2/19/1925 | See Source »

It is curious that scientists are taking the initiative in an attempt to prove the reality of spirits. A natural skepticism of the limits of their own ability should be a part of their intellectual make-up, but to strike boldly into a field at which they have previously scoffed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVING THE PUDDING | 11/12/1924 | See Source »

The Book. Haunted Houses falls into three main divisions: death haunts; personal haunts; house haunts. Scientifically, each haunt is inexplicable unless the psychic influence of mediums, conscious or unconscious of their power, is taken into undefined account. The death haunts are all connected with mysterious happenings-the fall of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunts* | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

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