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The Mtstery Chronicles

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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

 

 

 


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