Investigations

Can You Train Your ESP?

Explore ESP training methods and learn to record first impressions, final choices and feedback with Zener cards and coin predictions.

Before We Die, Something Extraordinary Happens.

Explore deathbed visions, meaningful dreams, terminal lucidity and the possibility that consciousness begins preparing for death before the final moment.

Premonition

From a Vietnam patrol to Aberfan and the Premonitions Bureau: examine warnings, dreams and the possibility of information arriving before an event.

How a Haunting Could Work

An in-depth investigation of haunting mechanisms, from perception and surviving consciousness to residual information, poltergeist effects and haunted objects.

Ouija: Real or Fake

Explore Ouija cases, unconscious movement and knowledge, shared intention, possible PK and spirit communication, from Patience Worth to Philip and Seth.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: The Case for an Afterlife

Explore reported near-death experiences, reincarnation, mediumship and religious maps alongside Jamie Stas’s updated model of consciousness and personal continuity.

Blind Near-Death Experiences: Brad Barrows and Vicki Umipeg

Explore Brad Barrows and Vicki Umipeg’s reported near-death experiences, the original research, and the question of seeing without ordinary sight.

Complex Crop Circles and the Technology Question

Accounts of dying animals’ last goodbyes, sudden rallies and apparent recognition, with the research and its limits.

What Do Animals See Before They Die?

Accounts of dying animals’ last goodbyes, sudden rallies and apparent recognition, with the research and its limits.

The Montrose Ghost Radio

The 2010 Montrose radio report, Desmond Arthur’s documented 1913 crash, a phantom biplane story and the questions a real technical test would need to answer.

Poltergeist Cases: Witnesses, Evidence and Motives

A closer look at Andover, Sauchie, Miami, Rosenheim, Bridgeport and other poltergeist cases, including what witnesses had to gain and what the records can show.

Will You See Your Dog Again?

Explore Cassie, Bobo and Doolittle: reported pet encounters before the news of death, the research behind them, and the questions still open.

The Secretary Who Called After Her Death

Explore the reported Walter Uphoff phone call, its ordinary message, the published account, and the questions it raises about communication after death.

Does God Exist? First, What Would Count as God?

Does God exist? Examine which claims are hidden inside the word God, from a deeper reality to a personal, moral being, and why each needs its own argument.

Did I Choose This Life?

Christian Sundberg remembers choosing a life before birth. Two childhood accounts add a haunting question: when does awareness begin?

The Philip Experiment: Can You Create Your Own Ghost?

Toronto, 1972 — eight ordinary people invented a ghost, and then something started answering.

In 1972 the Toronto Society for Psychical Research set out to manufacture a ghost from nothing but imagination. Within a year the table was rapping answers, the lights were flickering on cue, and the group could no longer agree on who — or what — was in the room.

Peak in Darien: Deathbed Visions of People Not Known to Be Dead

The one class of end-of-life vision that expectation cannot easily explain

Dying patients commonly report seeing deceased relatives. In a small subset, the person seen had died recently and the patient had not been told. These are called Peak in Darien cases, and they are the only deathbed-vision reports with a testable component.

Stargate: Twenty Years of Government Remote Viewing

What the declassified files actually say — and what they carefully avoid saying

From 1972 to 1995 the US government funded research into remote viewing at SRI International and later at Fort Meade. The programme was declassified in 1995 alongside two contradictory evaluations by the same review panel.

Terminal Lucidity: When the Mind Returns at the End

Patients with destroyed brain tissue who speak clearly hours before death

Physicians have recorded, for over 250 years, cases of patients with advanced dementia, brain tumours or meningitis who become abruptly coherent shortly before dying. The phenomenon is documented in mainstream medical literature and has no accepted explanation.

Jaytee: The Dog Who Knew When His Owner Was Coming Home

A decade of videotape, two research teams, and one very patient terrier

Between 1994 and 1999 a terrier in Ramsbottom, England, was filmed hundreds of times waiting at a window before his owner began her journey home. Two research groups analysed the same dog and reached opposite conclusions. The tapes still exist.