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Anomalistic psychology

Later the French physician Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont published On Hallucinations: Or, the Rational History of Apparitions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism in 1845 in which he claimed sightings of ghosts were the result of hallucinations.

Apparitional experience

The study and discussion of apparitions developed in a different direction in the 1970s, with the work of Celia Green and Charles McCreery.

Bélmez de la Moraleda

Bélmez is well known as the location for a famous house purported to be haunted by apparitions that manifest as images of human faces in the foundation.

Bovino

Karol Józef Wojtyła returned as Pope John Paul II in the 1980s in order to officially ratify the apparitions and open the church.

Comet Swift–Tuttle

This prompted amateur astronomer and writer Gary W. Kronk to search for previous apparitions of this comet.

Lime Pictures

In 2008, they produced the first (and so far, only) series of Apparitions, starring Martin Shaw as an exorcist.

Lives of the Prophets

After his death, the priests of the Temple could no more, as before, see the apparitions of the angels of the Lord, nor could make divinations with the Ephod, nor give responses from the Debir.

Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book

Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book (1936) is a collection of stories of haunted houses, apparitions and supernatural occurrences made by Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax.

Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst

The Queen of England has enlisted the character's help to solve the mystery behind the ghostly apparitions in and around Ravenhearst manor.

Necedah Shrine

After an investigation failed to support the validity of the apparitions, in 1951 John P. Treacy, Bishop of La Crosse, told the Van Hoofs to remove religious artifacts from their farm and stop circulating literature about the apparitions.

Notre-Dame-de-Pontmain, Quebec

The first pastor, Eugene Trinquier, serving from 1886 to 1907, was originally from Gap in the Hautes-Alpes (France) and named the parish Notre-Dame-de-Pontmain, after the apparitions of Our Lady of Pontmain.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey

The title Our Lady of Guadalupe commemorating the Virgin Mary's apparitions at Tepeyac, near Mexico City in 1531, was originally chosen because of the Mexican influence in the southwestern U.S., and was gladly brought along to the Northwest.

Our Lady of Medjugorje

A 2009 paper by Yale Divinity School student Daniel Klimek details the intricate connection between the Medjugorje apparitions and the writings of Italian mystic Maria Valtorta.

Rex Sterling

In 2004, when Kay started drinking again, apparitions of Rex and Phillip Chancellor III (Thom Bierdz) appeared before her and encouraged her to stop drinking.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Gikongoro

A shrine celebrating the apparitions of Our Lady of Kibeho now stands at the site and serves as a place of pilgrimage.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Niigata

This diocese is well known because the apparitions of Our Lady of Akita were within its territory and Bishop John Shojiro Ito from this diocese initially approved the apparitions in 1984.

Salvador Freixedo

Las apariciones de El Escorial (Las Apariciones Marianas) (1985) (Spanish: The Apparitions of El Escorial — The Marian Apparitions)

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

It was designed by the architect Pierre Vago and completed in 1958 in anticipation of the enormous crowds expected in Lourdes for the centenary of the Apparitions.

Scrying

The Dr. John Dee of the Mind research institute, founded by the parapsychologist Raymond Moody, utilizes crystallomancy to allow people to experience an altered state of consciousness with the intention of invoking apparitions of the dead.

Sylvan Kalib

Analysis: Anthony Iannaccone’s “Apparitions.” Journal of Band Research, Vol.

Tainted Love

The video for the remix, directed by Peter Christopherson of Hipgnosis, features a man pacing at night and dancing with starry apparitions, while Almond sings amongst the stars.

Veronica Lueken

Veronica Lueken (pronounced LEW-ken; July 12, 1923 – August 3, 1995) was a Roman Catholic housewife from Bayside, New York, who, between 1970 until her death in 1995, reported experiencing apparitions of the Virgin Mary and numerous Catholic saints.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament

Based on the popular manga and anime series YuYu Hakusho created by Yoshihiro Togashi, Dark Tournament follows the protagonist Yusuke Urameshi, a rebellious teenager who dies and is brought back to life in order to serve as a “Spirit Detective”, solving cases involving apparitions and demons within the living world.


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