Published research on aerial phenomena, hauntings, consciousness and enduring mysteries. Explore the papers by topic, with the newest publication dates first.
65 papers
Ghosts & Hauntings
26 October 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Spatial aspects of felt presence and the phenomenon of childhood imaginary companions: Peripersonal space, embodied perspective, and continuity of agent propensity
Consciousness and cognition · Retrospective felt-presence survey
Adults who recalled childhood imaginary companions reported more felt-presence experiences. Recollections also allowed researchers to examine where companions had seemed to be relative to the body.
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15 October 2026First online (indexed publication record)
The perceptual geometry and chromaticity of near-death experience spaces
Frontiers in psychology · Exploratory experience study
Drawings and structured questions were combined to explore how people describe the spaces and colours of near-death experiences. Recurrent visual configurations emerged, with uneven statistical support for differences between them.
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28 September 2026Published online
Virtual reality as a metacognitive training tool for lucid dreaming
Frontiers in Psychology · Original research
A small Trento experiment tested dream-oriented VR alongside diaries, reality checks and meditation. Its experimental group reported more lucid-like dreams than the comparison groups.
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24 September 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Interrogating The Telepathy Tapes: Ethical Obligations at the Intersection of Disability, Lived Experience, and Entertainment
Journal of bioethical inquiry · Narrative-ethics analysis
This paper examines ethical responsibilities surrounding The Telepathy Tapes, particularly the treatment of nonspeaking autistic people and claims involving facilitated communication.
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22 September 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Pooled prevalence of sleep paralysis in South Asian countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Sleep medicine · Systematic review and meta-analysis
A review pooled sleep-paralysis studies from South Asia and found substantial variation between samples. Estimates changed markedly with study quality, sample size and the questionnaires used.
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21 September 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Self-reported near-death and near-death-like experiences in a Chinese online sample: an exploratory mixed-methods study
Frontiers in psychology · Exploratory mixed-methods survey
A Chinese online survey examined common near-death-experience features alongside culturally specific imagery. Accounts combined recurring themes with occasional references to Chinese religious and afterlife traditions.
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11 September 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Lucid Dream Control: Mechanisms, Challenges and Future Directions
Journal of sleep research · Narrative review
Awareness that one is dreaming does not always bring control over dream content. This review distinguishes deliberate control from changes shaped by expectations and discusses gaps in the evidence.
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6 July 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Neuroimaging findings in extrasensory perception research: A PRISMA-informed descriptive synthesis
Explore (New York, N.Y.) · Descriptive research synthesis
A synthesis maps brain-imaging and electrophysiology reports associated with ESP tasks. It retains weak and null findings and describes a varied literature rather than a single neural signature.
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23 June 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Validation of the Near-Death Experience Content Scale in cardiac arrest survivors
Danish medical journal · Validation study
A Danish version of the Near-Death Experience Content Scale was tested with cardiac-arrest survivors. The overall score showed strong internal consistency, while some aspects of its factor structure remained uncertain.
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12 June 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Prisoners of the Body: The Link Between Interoception and Sleep Paralysis
Journal of sleep research · Sleep-paralysis questionnaire study
An Italian survey explored sleep paralysis, bodily awareness and vivid accompanying experiences. Reports included a sensed being, fear and inability to move or speak.
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13 April 2026First online (indexed publication record)
EEG microstates reveal distinct network dynamics in lucid and non-lucid REM sleep
Consciousness and cognition · EEG microstate comparison
Lucid and non-lucid REM sleep showed different patterns of brief EEG configurations. Researchers relate these patterns to possible differences in self-awareness and executive processing.
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18 March 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Anomalous Perceptual Experience During Ultra-Endurance Sport: A Systematic Review
Wilderness & environmental medicine · Systematic review
Unusual perceptions during ultra-endurance sport include figures, sounds and a sensed companion. A review links such experiences with demanding conditions, especially sleep loss, exhaustion and darkness.
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16 March 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Inducing Lucid Dreaming Based on a Contemplative Practice of Compassion
Brain sciences · Exploratory sleep-laboratory study
A small collaboration examined whether contemplative visualisation and REM-sleep cues could shape lucid dreams. Some participants reported lucid dreams, including one with the intended imagery.
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26 February 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Exploring the link between synesthesia and lucid dreaming through perceptual presence
Frontiers in psychology · Survey of synesthesia and dreams
A survey explored links between types of synesthesia and different aspects of lucid dreaming. The associations varied by subtype and interacted with personality measures.
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12 February 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Lucid Dreaming Frequency Associated With Grey-White Matter Networks: An Exploratory Multimodal MRI Study
Journal of sleep research · Exploratory MRI study
An imaging study linked self-reported lucid-dream frequency with patterns spanning grey and white matter. The associated patterns differed from those linked with ordinary dream recall.
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2 February 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Brain functional network dynamics in women with alleged mediumship: a controlled study
Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · Controlled EEG comparison
A small study compared brain-network changes during mediumistic trance and prayer. Both tasks altered EEG-derived connectivity measures, with different frequency-band patterns.
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18 January 2026First online (indexed publication record)
Operationalizing near‑death experiences: Stability of the NDE Rasch hierarchy over two decades
Consciousness and cognition · Psychometric comparison
Two established near-death-experience questionnaires were compared using Rasch modelling. They appeared to measure a closely related construct, but their response categories and newer items did not perform equally well.
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19 November 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Deep learning twined spatial analysis for detection of mysterious fairy circles
Scientific reports · Computational image-screening study
Researchers trained image-classification models to locate circular landscape patterns in satellite imagery. The study presents a way to screen large areas for candidates requiring further investigation.
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10 November 2025First online (indexed publication record)
The Multifaceted Ganzfeld at the Crossroad Between Visual Perception and Consciousness: Behavioral, Neural and Qualitative Aspects
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · Multimethod Ganzfeld study
Researchers examined Ganzfeld experiences using interviews, questionnaires, eye tracking and EEG. Reported visual changes were accompanied by bodily experiences and changes in attention.
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20 October 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena
Scientific reports · Exploratory historical correlation study
Researchers compared transient marks in early Palomar survey material with nuclear-test dates and historical UAP reports, reporting statistical associations in their assembled dataset.
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17 October 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Rethinking communication and consciousness: Lessons from the telepathy tapes podcast
Explore (New York, N.Y.) · Perspective on communication research
The authors discuss The Telepathy Tapes as a cultural prompt to reconsider assumptions about nonspeaking people, communication and consciousness. They advocate carefully controlled follow-up research.
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16 October 2025First online (indexed publication record)
The veridical Near-Death Experience Scale: construction and a first validation with human and artificial raters
Frontiers in psychology · Scale development and initial validation
Researchers developed a framework for rating the evidential strength of perceptions reported during near-death experiences, covering timing, verification and the specificity of reported information.
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23 September 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Wave after wave: The suggestibility of noise in the experience of multisensory hallucinations under multimodal Ganzfeld stimulation
i-Perception · Multisensory perception experiments
Experiments examined whether different noise backgrounds shape experiences during uniform visual stimulation. Visual imagery was common; reported sounds were less frequent and sometimes resembled water.
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18 August 2025First online (indexed publication record)
And then there was light in the ganzfeld: clarifying the methods, experiences, and modulating factors of hallucinations and decays
Neuroscience of consciousness · Ganzfeld perception study
A homogeneous visual field can produce imagery and changes in perceived brightness. This study clarifies several kinds of visual fading and combines participants’ descriptions with quantitative observations.
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10 August 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Out-of-Body Experiences and Threat Sensitivity
Perceptual and motor skills · Comparative questionnaire study
People who reported seeing their own body from an external viewpoint scored higher on a threat-sensitivity questionnaire than a comparison group.
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6 August 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Investigation of mediumistic letter: A deceased son supposedly writes to his parents
Transcultural psychiatry · Qualitative mediumship case investigation
Researchers examined a letter attributed to a deceased son, separating generic, deducible and more specific information and considering what the account meant to his parents.
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25 June 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Hoops, loops and eyewitness reliability: a history of biologically impossible aquatic monsters
Endeavour · Historical analysis of monster reports
A history of aquatic-monster imagery compares familiar looped bodies in art with the much rarer appearance of such shapes in eyewitness accounts.
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27 March 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Allan Kardec’s theories and methods to investigate the nature of psychical experiences
History of psychiatry · History of psychical research
A historical study revisits Allan Kardec’s investigations of mediumship and the competing explanations he considered, from fraud and unconscious processes to discarnate minds.
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16 February 2025First online (indexed publication record)
What do the cases of the reincarnation type tell us about the mind beyond the brain?
International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · Narrative review and case overview
A review surveys children’s reports of past-life memories and the kinds of evidence researchers have collected. The author considers several explanations for reported correspondences.
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3 February 2025First online (indexed publication record)
“Open” reincarnation stories: The dialectic between doubt and certainty
Transcultural psychiatry · Qualitative cultural study
Interviews explore what it is like to live with an unresolved past-life story within Druze culture. The paper focuses on the interplay between personal uncertainty and a shared reincarnation narrative.
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28 January 2025Published online
Commissioning an All-Sky Infrared Camera Array for Detection of Airborne Objects
Sensors · Instrument commissioning
The Galileo Project reports a five-month commissioning test of an eight-camera infrared sky monitor, including aircraft-based calibration and automated trajectory detection.
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11 January 2025First online (indexed publication record)
Unveiling the EEG signatures of extrasensory perception during spiritual experiences: A single-case study with a well-renowned channeler
Explore (New York, N.Y.) · Single-case EEG study
A study recorded EEG during a reported channeling experience and considered several possible interpretations. The authors describe the work as a starting point for more rigorous protocols.
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29 January 2024First online (indexed publication record)
Visual hallucinations induced by Ganzflicker and Ganzfeld differ in frequency, complexity, and content
Scientific reports · Experimental visual-perception comparison
Flickering light and homogeneous visual stimulation produced different balances of simple and complex imagery. Simple visual effects were especially frequent with flicker.
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14 December 2023First online (indexed publication record)
An environmental analysis of public UAP sightings and sky view potential
Scientific reports · Geographical analysis of sighting reports
A national analysis links the distribution of public UAP reports with opportunities to view the sky and encounter aerial objects. The study adds geographical context to reported sightings.
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19 October 2023Journal publication date
Assessing 36 Years of the Forced Choice Design in Extra Sensory Perception Research: A Meta-Analysis, 1987 to 2022
Journal of Scientific Exploration · Meta-analysis
This update examines ESP experiments in which participants choose from defined targets, such as symbols or pictures. The authors report a small positive pooled effect.
Journal abstract and publication record reviewed; underlying experiments not individually re-audited.
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19 October 2023Journal publication date
Remote Viewing: A 1974–2022 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Journal of Scientific Exploration · Systematic review and meta-analysis
A review brings together remote-viewing experiments published across almost five decades. The authors report an average result above the chance expectation in their selected studies.
Journal abstract and publication record reviewed; full study-level audit not performed.
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25 September 2023First online (indexed publication record)
The global biogeography and environmental drivers of fairy circles
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · Global environmental survey
A global survey identified fairy-circle-like vegetation patterns across multiple dryland regions, extending the discussion beyond the best-known examples in Namibia and Australia.
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10 July 2023First online (indexed publication record)
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · Ecological review and synthesis
A review examines Namib sand-termite colonies and the moisture-storage function attributed to their bare circular patches, focusing on adaptation to an extremely dry environment.
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3 May 2023First online (indexed publication record)
Follow-up on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) remote viewing experiments
Brain and behavior · Quasi-experimental remote-viewing study
Two participant groups completed different remote-viewing tasks while researchers examined emotional intelligence. The first group analysis was not significant; the second produced positive associations in the authors’ analysis.
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3 April 2023First online (indexed publication record)
First Peoples’ knowledge leads scientists to reveal ‘fairy circles’ and termite linyji are linked in Australia
Nature ecology & evolution · Collaborative ecological investigation
Aboriginal knowledge, art and narratives were combined with excavation evidence to examine Australian circles known as linyji or mingkirri. The authors emphasise harvester termites within a wider landscape system.
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8 February 2023First online (indexed publication record)
Sensed Presence, Attenuated Psychosis, and Transliminality: At the Threshold of Consciousness
Psychopathology · Online survey and cluster analysis
A survey examined sensed presences alongside absorption, unusual experiences and mental-health measures. Different participant clusters showed that presence experiences do not have one uniform psychological context.
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2023Journal publication year
A Hardware and Software Platform for Aerial Object Localization
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · Instrumentation paper
A multispectral camera platform is designed to turn aerial observations into three-dimensional tracks, providing measurements needed to estimate motion rather than relying only on appearance.
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2023Journal publication year
Detection of Moving Objects in Earth Observation Satellite Images
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · Image-analysis methods
Multispectral satellite images can contain motion signatures because their colour bands are recorded at different times. This study examines how those offsets can reveal moving vehicles.
Author-institution abstract and journal citation reviewed; the later repository upload is not treated as the paper’s publication date.
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2023Journal publication year
Multi-Band Acoustic Monitoring of Aerial Signatures
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · Acoustic instrumentation
A microphone suite spans infrasound, audible sound and ultrasound to help characterise aerial objects. Sound can provide evidence independent of a camera’s light-based measurements.
Author-deposited abstract, publisher article excerpts and institutional journal citation reviewed.
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2023Journal publication year
SkyWatch: A Passive Multistatic Radar Network for the Measurement of Object Position and Velocity
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · Radar instrumentation
SkyWatch proposes using echoes of existing FM broadcasts to reconstruct the positions and velocities of aerial objects, adding an independent measurement channel to optical observations.
Author-deposited abstract and institutional journal citation reviewed; full engineering performance not independently assessed.
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2023Journal publication year
The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-Based Observatories
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · Instrumentation paper
The Galileo Project sets out how cameras, radio receivers, acoustic instruments and environmental sensors could work together to investigate aerial anomalies.
Author-institution abstract and publication record reviewed.
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12 October 2022First online (indexed publication record)
The impact of interoceptive accuracy and stimulation type on the out-of-body experience
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · Experimental body-ownership study
A virtual-body experiment examined how movement, touch and awareness of internal bodily signals influence embodiment. Synchrony affected reported ownership, with differences between stimulation types.
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14 September 2022First online (indexed publication record)
Paranormal experiences, sensory-processing sensitivity, and the priming of pareidolia
PloS one · Auditory pareidolia experiment
An experiment examined how paranormal framing affects the perception of voices in ambiguous recordings. Some priming effects were reproduced, while other expected differences were not.
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12 April 2021Journal issue date
Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep
Current Biology · Experimental study
Four laboratory groups explored whether people in verified REM sleep could answer an experimenter’s questions using eye movements or facial-muscle signals.
Primary paper summary and publication details reviewed.
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28 January 2021Published online
Mechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959
Communications Earth & Environment · Physical modelling
Snow and avalanche researchers model how a cut in a slope, local terrain and wind-deposited snow could produce a delayed slab release above the hikers’ tent.
Publisher article, model discussion and stated limits reviewed.
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14 December 2020First online · February 2021 journal issue
Virtual reality training of lucid dreaming
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · Experimental study
Dream-like virtual environments were used to support lucid-dreaming practice. The VR group improved more than a group receiving no training.
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2020Journal publication year
Possible detection of visible light and γ rays from a swarm of ball lightning
Physical review. E · Physical interpretation of recorded emissions
A paper proposes ball lightning as one possible interpretation of a simultaneous light observation and elevated gamma-ray counts during a thunderstorm-related event.
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25 September 2019Published online
Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles
Entropy · Kinematic analysis
The authors use reported aerial encounters to estimate possible motion characteristics. The paper provides a mathematical approach to asking what particular accounts would imply.
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10 September 2019First online (indexed publication record)
Localized microwave-heating (LMH) of basalt – Lava, dusty-plasma, and ball-lightning ejection by a “miniature volcano”
Scientific reports · Laboratory plasma experiments
Microwave-heated basalt produced melting, lava-like flows and luminous plasma ejections in laboratory experiments, offering a controlled way to study phenomena resembling volcanic processes.
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2019Journal publication year
Possible detection of high-energy photons from ball lightning
Physical review. E · Theoretical interpretation
A physical model proposes that a prolonged high-energy photon signal recorded in a thundercloud experiment could have originated in ball lightning.
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22 June 2016First online (indexed publication record)
Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning
Scientific reports · Physical theory and simulation
A proposed ball-lightning mechanism involves intense microwaves becoming trapped within a plasma bubble. Simulations explore whether such a structure could persist and resemble reported properties.
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2 December 2014First online (indexed publication record)
Charge on luminous bodies resembling natural ball lightning produced via electrical arcs through lump silicon
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics · Laboratory electrical-discharge study
Electrical arcs through silicon produced luminous balls resembling some descriptions of ball lightning. Researchers measured a small net charge and examined the surrounding nanoparticle structure.
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27 August 2014Published online
Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion
PLOS ONE · Field observations
Direct observations and instrumented stones helped explain Death Valley’s famous moving-rock trails: light winds drive thin floating ice panels that push stones over wet mud.
Original paper abstract, methods and results reviewed.
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17 January 2014First online (indexed publication record)
Observation of the optical and spectral characteristics of ball lightning
Physical review letters · Field spectroscopy observation
A luminous event associated with a cloud-to-ground lightning strike was recorded using two spectrographs. The spectrum included emissions attributed to soil elements throughout its observed duration.
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3 July 2013First online (indexed publication record)
Further insight into the nature of ball-lightning-like atmospheric pressure plasmoids
The journal of physical chemistry. A · Laboratory plasmoid study
Researchers examined ball-lightning-like plasmoids formed above an electrolyte discharge, testing how solution chemistry affected their size and lifetime.
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July 2010Journal issue date
Meta-analysis of free-response studies, 1992–2008: assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology
Psychological Bulletin · Meta-analysis
A published synthesis of free-response ESP experiments, including ganzfeld work often discussed in relation to telepathy. It compares research conducted under different information-processing conditions.
University publication record and linked bibliographic records reviewed.
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5 June 2008First online · journal issue May 2009
The “Haunt” project: an attempt to build a “haunted” room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound
Cortex · Controlled environment experiment
Researchers varied infrasound and electromagnetic conditions in a purpose-built room. Many participants reported unusual sensations, but their frequency did not track the experimental condition.
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21 September 2006Journal issue date
Induction of an illusory shadow person
Nature · Brief communication
During a clinical evaluation, localised brain stimulation repeatedly produced the sensation of another person nearby. The perceived presence appeared to follow the patient’s posture.
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May 2003Journal issue date
An investigation into alleged ‘hauntings’
British Journal of Psychology · Field studies
Studies at Hampton Court Palace and Edinburgh’s South Bridge Vaults compared where visitors reported unusual experiences with the locations’ reputations and environmental conditions.
Author-institution abstract and citation reviewed.
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October 1974Journal publication year
Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding
Nature · Historical experimental paper
An early published reference in the history of remote-viewing and ESP research, addressing information transfer under conditions intended to restrict ordinary sensory access.
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