Phantasms of the Living

Record summary

Edmund Gurney, Frederic W. H. Myers and Frank Podmore published Phantasms of the Living in 1886, collecting hundreds of reports of apparitions, telepathic impressions and crisis experiences. The work is a central nineteenth-century source for comparative research because it records witness statements, correspondence, dates and attempts at corroboration rather than presenting only folklore. It also embeds cases within a contested telepathic model and uneven editorial standards. Individual entries must be treated separately, since their documentary quality ranges from contemporaneous correspondence to retrospective testimony.