Margaret Jones was found guilty of the crime of witchcraft, and was hanged according to the law
Margaret Jones was found guilty of the crime of witchcraft, and was hanged according to the law
Read record →Explore the records. Follow the sources.
Browse UFO case files, paranormal reports, historical texts and research dossiers. These are accounts and leads for investigation—not proof of an extraordinary explanation.
To combine details, compare matches and investigate connections across the collection, create an account and search Anomaly Graph.
Not sure where to begin? Our research guides explain how to follow sources, compare accounts and turn matches into a useful investigation.
53,266 published records with substantive text · Page 981 of 1,110
In 1655, Ann Hibbins was hanged at Boston for witchcraft; there were witch-executions in different places at…
In 1655, Ann Hibbins was hanged at Boston for witchcraft; there were witch-executions in different places at ever-decreasing intervals
Read record →It was found that she could not say the Lord's Prayer, even when it was repeated to her clause by clause, and…
It was found that she could not say the Lord's Prayer, even when it was repeated to her clause by clause, and when she was committed it was found that all the children "had some present ease." The supposed witch was brought to trial, but, being an Irishwoman,
Read record →In 1692 Salem village was the scene of a fierce outbreak against witchcraft, which lasted some 16 months
In 1692 Salem village was the scene of a fierce outbreak against witchcraft, which lasted some 16 months
Read record →The witchcraft scare in Salem began in the house of Mr
The witchcraft scare in Salem began in the house of Mr
Read record →T may be excited on the brain of another person, transferred thither from our brain by pulling a suitable…
t may be excited on the brain of another person, transferred thither from our brain by pulling a suitable trigger; by liberating energy in the form of sound, for instance, or by the mechanical act of writing, or in other ways
Read record →This newly recognised sense, “the sixth sense,” not only answers the purpose of sight and hearing, but…
This newly recognised sense, “the sixth sense,” not only answers the purpose of sight and hearing, but transcends all senses in vividness and power
Read record →Richardson notwithstanding, “in dreams and visions of the night” God has manifested himself to man in all ages
Richardson notwithstanding, “in dreams and visions of the night” God has manifested himself to man in all ages
Read record →The piece of plaster must have weighed fully a stone, and had it struck Williams the result would doubtless…
The piece of plaster must have weighed fully a stone, and had it struck Williams the result would doubtless have been fatal
Read record →George Wyld, in a paper read before the Psychical Research Society, London, “is French, and means clear-seeing,…
George Wyld, in a paper read before the Psychical Research Society, London, “is French, and means clear-seeing, but it appears to me to be an inadequate term, because it might signify clear optical vision, or clear mental vision
Read record →That certain persons are endowed with this faculty of clear seeing--in some of its various phases--is a matter…
That certain persons are endowed with this faculty of clear seeing--in some of its various phases--is a matter settled beyond dispute
Read record →It is the state of refined psychic perception
It is the state of refined psychic perception
Read record →Ate and mystic ceremonies indulged in by Hindoo mystics, Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman priests, had the one…
ate and mystic ceremonies indulged in by Hindoo mystics, Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman priests, had the one grand end in view--viz., to induce the requisite state of super-sensitivity, and thus prepare the consecrated youths, sybils, and vestal virgins for the
Read record →To illustrate a new subject, it is permissible to draw upon the old and the well-known
To illustrate a new subject, it is permissible to draw upon the old and the well-known
Read record →From the first glimmerings, to the possession of well-defined sight, a period of growth and time elapses
From the first glimmerings, to the possession of well-defined sight, a period of growth and time elapses
Read record →Elevated, or rather, liberated into this new condition, the clairvoyant loses connection with the thrums and…
Elevated, or rather, liberated into this new condition, the clairvoyant loses connection with the thrums and threads of the physical organism, and is unable, or forgets for a time, how to speak of things as they are, or as they would appear to the physical vis
Read record →MʽKinnon, late pastor of Chalmers’ Free Church, Glasgow, told me a short time ago, “Clairvoyance was nothing…
MʽKinnon, late pastor of Chalmers’ Free Church, Glasgow, told me a short time ago, “Clairvoyance was nothing more than a high nervous concentrated form of mental vision,” to which I replied, “Admitting the hypothesis--which, however, explained nothing--it matt
Read record →“There happened to live at this time in Chicago a person named Abraham James, a simple-minded man, of Quaker…
“There happened to live at this time in Chicago a person named Abraham James, a simple-minded man, of Quaker descent, uneducated, and in fact, quite an ignorant person
Read record →We were both sceptical in the matter of clairvoyance
We were both sceptical in the matter of clairvoyance
Read record →Arrived in Rothesay for the first time about four hours previously to taking her seat upon the platform, in the…
arrived in Rothesay for the first time about four hours previously to taking her seat upon the platform, in the New Public Halls
Read record →Croad is deaf, dumb, and paralysed, and stone blind
Croad is deaf, dumb, and paralysed, and stone blind
Read record →Might be further illustrated by the well known case of Miss Eliza Hamilton, who became paralysed in her limbs…
might be further illustrated by the well known case of Miss Eliza Hamilton, who became paralysed in her limbs and right arm, through severe injury to the spine
Read record →Hudson Tuttle, “read in her presence a letter he had received from a friend in Leeds, speaking of the loss of…
Hudson Tuttle, “read in her presence a letter he had received from a friend in Leeds, speaking of the loss of his daughter, about whose fate he was very unhappy, as she had disappeared nearly a month before, and left no trace
Read record →Miss Mollie Fancher, of Brooklyn Heights, fell off a tramway car when eighteen years of age, experienced very…
Miss Mollie Fancher, of Brooklyn Heights, fell off a tramway car when eighteen years of age, experienced very severe injuries to head and spine, her body being dragged a distance, through her dress catching on the step of the car
Read record →Loomis, by passes, threw his wife into a mesmeric state, as he often does, and an intelligence, which claimed…
Loomis, by passes, threw his wife into a mesmeric state, as he often does, and an intelligence, which claimed to be the spirit of her mother, spoke through her lips
Read record →“Prophecy,” says Buchanan, “is the noblest aspect of psychometry, and there is no reason why it should not…
“Prophecy,” says Buchanan, “is the noblest aspect of psychometry, and there is no reason why it should not become the guiding power to each individual life, and the guiding power of the destiny of nations.” For instance, while all Europe feared for Boulanger,
Read record →He had demonstrated the responsive action of cerebral organs to mesmeric touch and influence, and he was…
He had demonstrated the responsive action of cerebral organs to mesmeric touch and influence, and he was already acquainted with the curious psychological phenomena of sense and thought transference, of double consciousness, and all the nervous and pathologica
Read record →Thoughts are things--living, real and tangible, images, visions, deep and pungent sensations--which exist after…
Thoughts are things--living, real and tangible, images, visions, deep and pungent sensations--which exist after their creation distinct and apart from ourselves--“Footprints on the sands of time,” in more senses than one
Read record →The psychometer, unlike the induced clairvoyant or entranced medium, is in general, or outwardly at least, a…
The psychometer, unlike the induced clairvoyant or entranced medium, is in general, or outwardly at least, a mere spectator, as one who beholds a drama or witnesses a panorama, and tells in his own way to someone else what he sees and what he thinks about it
Read record →She held the shilling in her hand for sometime, and said:--‘This carries me back to a time of confusion and…
She held the shilling in her hand for sometime, and said:--‘This carries me back to a time of confusion and much anxiety, with a feeling that everything depended upon a successful result
Read record →While engaged writing the “Real Ghost Stories,” Mr
While engaged writing the “Real Ghost Stories,” Mr
Read record →I held the envelope, with its contents, in my left hand, and wrote the impressions as they came with my right
I held the envelope, with its contents, in my left hand, and wrote the impressions as they came with my right
Read record →Thought-Transference is evidently a phase of psychic perception
Thought-Transference is evidently a phase of psychic perception
Read record →Telepathy bears about the same relation to thought-transference as “second sight” does to clairvoyance
Telepathy bears about the same relation to thought-transference as “second sight” does to clairvoyance
Read record →The operator will slowly eat or taste half-a-dozen lozenges or sweets of different flavours, and the subject or…
The operator will slowly eat or taste half-a-dozen lozenges or sweets of different flavours, and the subject or sensitive most in sympathy with him will also in imagination eat of and describe the taste of the various sweets, concerning which he has no other k
Read record →“Dear Sir,--This morning, at a little before four o’clock, I awoke as the outcome of great mental distress and…
“Dear Sir,--This morning, at a little before four o’clock, I awoke as the outcome of great mental distress and grief through which I had just passed in a dream, my body trembling and in a cold perspiration
Read record →Whether thought-transference is a “relic of a decaying faculty,” or the “germ of a new and fruitful sense,”…
Whether thought-transference is a “relic of a decaying faculty,” or the “germ of a new and fruitful sense,” daily experience in the lives of most furnish abundant evidence of the existence of such a power
Read record →It has been our habit for several years to stay at Rothesay during the summer season
It has been our habit for several years to stay at Rothesay during the summer season
Read record →The mode of procedure adopted by Professor Barrett to test the faculty as possessed by the children was as…
The mode of procedure adopted by Professor Barrett to test the faculty as possessed by the children was as follows:--“One of the children,” says Professor Barrett, “was sent into an adjoining room, the door of which I saw was closed
Read record →The general public, however, enjoyed these entertainments
The general public, however, enjoyed these entertainments
Read record →It seems to me very difficult, if we accept the first, to reject the latter conclusion
It seems to me very difficult, if we accept the first, to reject the latter conclusion
Read record →Sustain on the foregoing pages; and, lastly, concerning spiritualism, I have arrived at the profound conclusion…
sustain on the foregoing pages; and, lastly, concerning spiritualism, I have arrived at the profound conclusion that spirit-communion--that is, thought transmission from the disembodied to the embodied--is a solemn fact
Read record →We may now turn from the wretched arena of imposture, duplicity, and credulity, to genuine, but little…
We may now turn from the wretched arena of imposture, duplicity, and credulity, to genuine, but little understood, phenomena in Spiritualism
Read record →Davis), whose name has come prominently before the public as Mr
Davis), whose name has come prominently before the public as Mr
Read record →I was at this time very enthusiastic in my investigations
I was at this time very enthusiastic in my investigations
Read record →Mporarily dressed his face, and the stevedore had him put on a stretcher and sent to the hospital
mporarily dressed his face, and the stevedore had him put on a stretcher and sent to the hospital
Read record →Automatic writing is a phase of phenomenal Spiritualism most difficult to prove
Automatic writing is a phase of phenomenal Spiritualism most difficult to prove
Read record →Nichols, in his fascinating work, “Forty Years of American Life,” writes:--“I knew a Methodist sailor in New…
Nichols, in his fascinating work, “Forty Years of American Life,” writes:--“I knew a Methodist sailor in New York, a simple, illiterate, earnest man, who became what is called a test medium
Read record →