Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Apparitions

Record summary

Celia Green and Charles McCreery’s Oxford-based study examined reported apparitions and related anomalous perceptual experiences, emphasizing descriptions of experience rather than accepting supernatural interpretation. It is useful for comparing sensed-presence reports, hallucination-like episodes, grief experiences, and possible sleep-related phenomena across historical and contemporary accounts. The book’s evidential base includes collected reports and interpretive analysis rather than controlled experiments. Researchers should establish the exact edition, case-selection method, and the authors’ conceptual distinctions before comparing it with modern sleep-paralysis surveys.