by Joe Nickell
and sleep paralysis
Oviedo Cloth
blood, testing for
debunking
history of
link to Shroud of Turin
pollen analysis
Oviedo Cloth, The (Guscin)
Owlman
owls, Mothman sightings
pagan ceremonies, Kolomenskoye stone
pain, and power of suggestion
paintings
Oviedo Cloth
Shroud of Turin as
See also drawings, unknown sources
Panic of 1857
Pardee, Sarah L.
Paris, Jacques
Patterson,Roger
pencil reading
Pepper,John
Persinger, Michael A.
Personal Freedom Outreach
personality traits
and demonic possession
suggestibility to hypnosis
See also fantasyprone personality
Peru
Cuzco, layout of
Nazca lines
pet mediums
pet psychics
animal healers
explaining
finding lost animals
seances by
stunts of
Pet Psychic, The (TV show)
petrified man
pets, psychic. See psychic pets
Pfungst, Oskar
photographic images
aura
deceased, images in photographs
Kirlian photography
Shroud of Turin
spirit photography
phrenology
Pickens, Ray
Pickett, Thomas J.
pilgrimage, Santiago de Compostela
placebo effect, and healing phenomenon
plasma vortices, and crop circles
Point Pleasant (West Virginia)
Mothman
pollen analysis
Oviedo Cloth
Shroud of Turin
poltergeists
explaining
manifestations of
and spiritualism
Ponchartrain, Lake
popobawa. See Zanzibar demons
Possessed (Allen)
possession
by loas in voodoo
See also demonic possession
precipitations on silk
precognitive perception
Primetime,
Prince Randian, the Hindu Living Torso
psi research
of animals
remoteviewing
Soviet Union
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron
Curtain (Ostrander and Schroeder)
Psychic Mafia, The (Keene)
psychic pets
explaining
psychics
Barnum effect
cold readings
errors, methods of covering
as fantasyprone personalities
See also clairvoyance; mediums; pet
psychics; psychic pets;psychic
sleuths
psychic sleuths
discrediting
Dorothy Allison
retrofitting technique
Psychic Sleuths (Dennett)
psychokinesis
meaning of
Russian interest
psychokinetic energy, and poltergeist
Psychology of Superstition, The (Jahoda)
Puerto Rico, El Chupacabras (the goatsucker)
Pullavar,Subbayah
puma shape,Cuzco, Peru
Puthoff, Harold
pyramid power
claims about
photos
Russia
qi (life force)
Radford, Benjamin
radiocarbon dating, Shroud of Turin
Rambo, Ralph
Ramsay, JonBenet
Randi, James
Randies, Jenny
rape
incubus and succubus
Zanzibar demons
Reeser, Mary
Rees,Vaughn
reflexology
Reiche, Maria
reincarnation and karma
Shirley MacLaine, pastlives of
relics of saints
medieval relicmongering
nature of
Oviedo Cloth
Shroud of Turin
St. James the Greater
religion and supernatural
icons, weeping
visionaries, Joseph Smith
voodoo
See also Roman Catholicism
remoteviewing
Charlie Jordan case
conclusions about
definition of
research methods
retrofitting
scientific investigations of
Resch, Tina
Resurrection of the Shroud, The (Antonacci)
retrocognitive perception
retrofitting
meaning of
psychic sleuths
Reynolds, Bobby
Rhine, Dr. J.B.
Rice, Anne
Rice, Madame
Richeliue, Cardinal
RichTwinn Octagon House
Ridler,Horace
Riffle, Mable
Riley, Mel
Ripley, Robert
Ritter, Archbishop Joseph
rituals
for rain
voodoo
River Dreams (Graff)
Roads to Santiago (Nooteboom)
Robertson, Pat
Rodgers, Peter
Roman Catholicism
exorcism
image of Guadalupe
indulgences
Oviedo Cloth
relics of saints
Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral of
Shroud of Turin
and voodoo
weeping/bleeding effigies
Rookwood Cemetery
William Davenport’s grave
Roosevelt, Theodore
rubes (outsiders)
Russia
ghosts of Moscow
icons, weeping
Kolomenskoye stone
psychic studies/interests of
pyramid power craze
Russian Orthodox Church, icons
weeping
Sainte Chapelle (Paris)
saints
James and Santiago de Compostela
cathedral
Virgin Mary, images of
and voodoo
weeping effigies
Salem witch hysteria
Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral of
apparitions of pilgrims
Camino route
investigation/explanations
miracles
photos
pilgrimage to
relics at
remains of St. James the Greater
Sardinia, bleeding effigy
sasquatch
carnival exhibit
See Bigfootlike creatures
Satan
banishing.See Exorcism
possession by
Sawyer,Alan
Scape Ore Swamp Lizardman
Scarberry, Linda
Schafersman, Steven D.
schizophrenia
Schmiedt, Andreas
Schmiedt, Johanna Sophia
Schnabel, Jim
Schroeder, Lynn
Schulemburg, Guillermo
Science Applications International
Corporation, remotevie wing
research
scrying, meaning of
Sealo the SealBoy
seances
apports trick
believers, growth of
for deceased pets
in octagon houses
spirit voices, production of
Search for the Twelve Apostles (McBirnie) Second Sight(Orloff)
selection fallacy
Senchihina, Uliya
Severs,Henrietta
&nbs
p; sexual manifestations
incubus and succubus
voodoo rituals
Zanzibar demons
Shakers
Shaw, Allen
Shealy, C. Norman
Sheldrake, Rupert
“shotgun” technique, faithhealing
Shroud of Turin
accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS)
dating
DNA analysis
examinations of
in faithhealing scam (1300s)
flower and plant images on
history of
link to Oviedo Cloth
paint traces found
photographic images
pollen analysis
radiocarbon dating
Vatican possession of
Shroud ofTurin Research Project
(STURP)
Siamese twins
Adolph and Rudolph
Chang and Eng
sideshows. See carnivals
signs
coincidences
from deceased
Signs (film)
Silverman, Helaine simulacra,
Sisman, Alan
Skeptical Inquire
Skretny, Judith
SkunkApe
slaves, American, and voodoo
sleepassociated phenomena. See
hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations; lucid dreams; sleep
paralysis
Sleeping Prophet. See Cayce, Edgar
sleep paralysis
and hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations
and UFO abductees
visitation from the dead during
Smith, Emma
Smith, Hyrum
Smith, Joseph
biographical information
as fantasyprone personality
moneydigging
visions of
writings of
Smith, Suzy
Smurljack
snakes
charmers, carnivals
and voodoo
Sol Rosales, Jose
Soviet Union
collapse of
psi research
See also Russia
Spain
Oviedo Cloth
Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral of
speaking in tongues
Spidora the Spider Girl
“Spirit of the Creek, The”(poem)
spirits. See ghosts; mediums;seances;
visitations, of dead
spiritualism
Camp Chesterfield enclave
camp meetings
and Davenport brothers
exposes
Lily Dale village
origin and growth of
spontaneous human combustion (SHC)
cases of
explaining
spontaneous remission, and healing
phenomenon
spys and intelligence, remoteviewing
stagehypnotists, subjects, choosing
Stalin, Joseph
Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
remotevie wing research
Stargate, remoteviewing activity
Steiger, Brad
stelae (tombstones)
Step Right Up! (Mannix)
stigmata, Jeanne des Anges
St. James the Greater
healing by relics
life of
remains at Santiago de Compostela
St. John’s Eve, voodoo ritual
St. Patrick, snake symbol
Stranger Than Science (Edwards)
Stratton, Charles
Sherwood (Tom Thumb)
street performers
Strieber,Whitley
strong people, carnivals
succubus,
sudarium (napkin)
See also Oviedo Cloth
suggestion, power of
and contagion
and ghost sightings
and healing phenomenon
and hypnosis
Sullivan, Helen
Sun Signs (Goodman)
Superminds (Taylor)
supernatural legends
suspensions, and levitation
swamp monsters
Bigfootlike
bunyip
Honey Island Swamp Monster
sword swallowers, carnivals
synchronicity, meaning of
talker, at carnival
talking animals
history of
Tallant, Robert
Targ, Russell
Tasmanian tiger. See thylacine
tattooed persons, carnivals
Taylor, John
telepathy. See
pet psychics; psychic pets; psychic sleuths; remote
viewing
telesthesia
meaning of
remotevie wing
temperance movement
teninone shows
Tereshina, Nadya
Texas Giant
That’s Incredible
Theisen, Donna
Theosophy, founder
therapeutic touch
They Call It Hypnosis (Baker)
Threat, The (Jacobs)
Thummin
thylacine
extinction of
photo
sightings
Toby the Sapient Pig
Tocci brothers, twoheaded boy tombs
of Marie Laveau
William Davenport’s grave
Tom Thumb, wedding of
Toronto, oilweeping effigy
torture acts, carnivals
Tourette’s syndrome
tracer powders
tracks/footprints
Bigfootlike
discrediting
Honey Island Swamp Monster
yowie
Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness (Graff)
trances
and Edgar Cayce
mediums
Trinovantes
trumpets
apports from
levitation of
spirit voices from
Two Curious Birds
TwoHeaded Boy
UFO abductions
accounts of
wakingdream theory
Underwood, William
Unsolved Mysteries
Urim
utopianism
Utts, Jessica
Van Praagh, James
debunking
vaporography
Vargas, Elizabeth
Vatican,on exorcism
Virgin Mary
Image of Guadalupe
weeping icons
visions. See hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations; lucid dreaming
visitations, of dead
dead pets
deathbed visions
dream contacts
explaining
momentofdeath apparitions
signs
See also ghosts
vitiligo, carnival leopard girl
vodun (spirit).See voodoo
voices
hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations
spirits, at seance
Von Daniken, Erich
voodoo
altars
historical view
modern practice
photos
queen. See Laveau, Marie
rituals
Roman Catholic elements of
voodoo doctors
Voodoo in New Orleans (Tallant)
Voodoo Spiritual Temple
vortex effects, crop circles
Wagner, Dr. Paul
Wagner, Sue
waking dreams
basis of
See also hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations; sleep paralysis
Warner, Steve
Warren, Ed
Warren, Lavinia
Washington, George, octagon house of
Water Cure Journal,
Watson, Lyall
Weber, William
weeping icons. See icons, weeping
weightlifters, carnivals
werewolf, Cajun
Whanger, Alan
Whanger, Mary
Whitcomb, Nellie
Whitman, Walt
Whitstine, Earl
Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can
(Myss)
wick effect
Williams, Betty Lou
WillsBrandon, Carla
Wilson, Ian
Wilson, Sheryl C
Winchester, Annie
Winchester Mystery House
facts versus fantasy about
features of
haunting, explaining
photos
Winchester, Oliver Fisher
Winchester, Sarah
Winchester, William Wirt
wolf children
Wonderful Intelligent Goose
wonderworkers, of carnivals
Woodman, Dr.L.C.
Woodman, Jim
Woodward,Kenneth L.
World’s Most Incredible Stories: The Best
of Fortean Times (Sisman)
Worrell, George
writing, unknown sources
and demonic possession
slate trick
spirit card writing
yeti
yowie
questioning
sightings
Zanzibar demons
waking dream theory
Zaragoza, Patricia Lopez
zombies
