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2 unusual facts about Society for Psychical Research


Estelle Roberts

The Society for Psychical Research offered to test her abilities but she declined to be tested.

Society for Psychical Research

Instead, he was accompanied by his friend, William S. Marriott, a magician of some distinction who had exposed psychic fraud in Pearson's Magazine.


Allen H. Greenfield

A past (elected) member of the Society for Psychical Research and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (from 1960), he has won "UFOlogist of the Year Award" of the National UFO Conference twice (1972 and 1992).

Enfield Poltergeist

Society for Psychical Research members Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair reported “curious whistling and barking noises coming from Janet’s general direction.

Frederic William Henry Myers

Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843, in Keswick, Cumberland – 17 January 1901, in Rome) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

Rudolf Tischner

He was inspired by the British Society for Psychical Research, and with philosopher Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880-1949) tried to establish a similar institute in Germany.


see also

Ballechin House

In 1896 the house was investigated by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute with the assistance of paranormal researchers from the Society for Psychical Research.