Anita Woodley went to the Rhine Research Center for scientific confirmation. Since childhood, she’d dreamt the future and could predict imminent murders in her neighborhood. She prayed away her ...

DURHAM (WTVD) -- For almost 85 years, the Rhine Research Center in Durham near Duke University has served as a place for parapsychology. It was started by J. B. Rhine, a professor at Duke. The center ...

The man throws open a door and swings his arms like a maître d’ presenting his finest table. He’s wearing a bright purple button-down shirt and a neatly kept beard. “Step inside,” he says. Through the ...

The late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in “psychic phenomena,” endowed a chair of psychic research at California’s Stanford University. First occupant was a ...

If psychologists investigated themselves by their own beloved statistical methods, they would probably find that—as a group compared with other scientists—they were cheerful, convivial, well-dressed, ...

However, at least one audience member at this particular séance—a young botanist named Joseph Banks Rhine—was unimpressed. Crandon, he claimed in a review of the performance, had not made a megaphone ...

This book is the history of a will to believe in telepathy and clairvoyance. The recent experiments in extra-sensory perception (ESP) at Duke University have given results of profound interest and ...

The idea of special — apparently paranormal — mental abilities such as psychic powers or extrasensory perception (ESP) has intrigued people for centuries. There are several claimed varieties of ...