At his third visit to the Clark’s home, Roll, to his surprise, has a small bottle from an end table fly off the table and hit Dr. Roll on the head. Including a total of 59 psychokinetic incidents, and lasting over nine months, multiple objects were reported to fly around the home when the Clark’s child Ernie was present.
Events included coffee cups falling one by one off of a mug rack, bottles in the bathroom falling and breaking, a cologne bottle flying from the bathroom and into the living room. Witnesses report the cologne bottle turning in mid-air to fly into the living room from the hallway. Police were unable to account for the reports. When confronted by drunks at the front door, wanting to see the boy who had objects fly around him, a crockery lamp from the living room moved and crashed to the floor.
Ultimately, this case was determined to be fraudulent by Dr. Roll. Many of the events involved conditions where the child, Ernie, could have simply thrown the objects. Ernie was caught smuggling objects out of the house. At one point money was disappearing and reappearing. Events never occurred when Ernie was watched closely. Thus, in this instance, the poltergeist case was debunked.
Reference
Roll, W. (1972).The poltergeist. New York, Doubleday.
Roney-Dougal and colleagues conducted an interesting study where they attempted to examine any relationship between geomagnetic regional activity and psychic ability. Geomagnetic fields are the natural fields created by the earth that protect us from various radiation in space. Interestingly, the current study was performed with Tibetan monks and geomagnetic activity was registered with the help of a British geological institute nearby.
Finally, the current work looked at seizure symptoms, which have been theorized to be associated with sensitivity to magnetic fields. These researchers found no relationship between either seizure symptoms and geomagnetic fields (although this relationship was significant for women, but not for men). As a secondary analysis, these researchers also did not find a relationship between the phases of the moon and psi performance (although there appeared to be a small relationship between full moons and new moons and performance on psi tasks).
Some researchers of extrasensory perception have theorized that we all use ESP to protect ourselves but at an unconscious level. The concept, essentially, is that ESP looks like luck to most of us. The current study examined non-intentional ESP compared with the intentional use of ESP.
Although many previous studies have found reliable findings both with intentional and nonintentional ESP tasks, it is a point of scientific research to publish findings that are not successful so that an accurate record of research can be maintained. Parapsychology is particularly good with publishing significant and non-significant research due to the misunderstandings and prejudice that the field suffers from.
William Roll, an undisputed expert on poltergeist cases, spent much of his career investigating modern Poltergeist. He also spent considerable time writing research articles and looking at historical claims of the Poltergeist, or “noisy ghost”. Unsurprisingly, the phenomena is not a recent trend and often has substantial witnesses to objects flying or breaking. Roll claims in 1979 that he discovered no less than 47 cases of poltergeist activity before 1958.
Recognizing that many cases could be fraudulent, Roll provides the following facts. In 40 of the 47 cases, visitors not belonging to the household witnessed Poltergeist phenomena. In one case between 30-40 people witnessed pieces of wood floating. In 37 out of 47 cases, witnesses watched an object move from beginning to the end of the movement. Roll also states that in all but one case, only certain types of objects (e.g. Furniture, or figurines) were the target of Psychokinesis.
Researchers at the Rhine Institute recently conducted a study in a specially constructed lab with highly sensitive light detection equipment. The goal? To examine if people who meditate, heal others, or regular people produce ultraviolet light (a type of light invisible to the naked eye). These researchers propose that UV (and IR) light emission might serve as an energy mechanism to explain healing or other anomalous abilities.
The authors of this study reason that similar to transmission waves used for TV or satellite, UV light could theoretically be modulated to contain a great deal of information, with the use of very little energy. Whereas the authors admit that this is speculation, the UV light emitted by participants when healing or meditating shows that humans do emit this light under certain states of consciousness.
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Marcusson-Clavertz recently conducted a modified Ganzfeld ESP study in hopes of examining how hypnotizability and altered states of consciousness might affect the ability to use ESP. Using the Ganzfeld method, which has excellently controlled for mistakes and errors in psi research over the last several decades, these researchers recruited 14 highly hypnotizable individuals and 12 individuals resistant to hypnosis. Each participant went through a series of procedures to test for ESP.
Results for this study showed that for people who are easily hypnotizable, the belief in ESP success, prior ESP experiences, and the ability to enter an altered state during the ESP task were significantly related to the participant’s ability to perform in the ESP task. In contrast, for those who were not easily hypnotizable, only belief in the ability to perform ESP and belief in the success of the task were associated with ESP performance.
A study by Haraldsson looks at the features of 337 more recent cases of personal encounters with the dead in Iceland. Inspired by a similar work released by the Society for Psychical Research (Gurney, Meyers, & Podmore, 1886), the current article reviews more modern cases to examine the characteristics of experiences of being visited by the dead.
Who were the undead visitors? Over half of participants reported family or close friends (54%), Sixteen percent were coworkers or acquaintances, and 30% were reported as strangers. In terms of the cause of death of the undead visitors, the bulk was verified to have died from disease (70%), while accidents, suicide, and murder (as well as unknown) comprised the rest of the sample. For those visited by relatives or friends, the cause of death for these visitors was in bulk disease (77 to 82%) or violent death (18 to 23%). Oddly, the odds of being visited by someone murdered increases as the closeness of the participant to the person grows more distant (i.e., being visited by an apparition that was murdered is most likely if they are a stranger to you).
That is not to say that Braude denies the trickery of Mugge. Details of the article show that Mugge all but confessed to some of his trickery. However, Braude also states that in his own sessions with Mugge, good controls were used, and anomalous lights, levitation, and the teleportation of a piece of copper, did not appear to have a rational explanation.