psychical

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This winningly spooky historical true-crime book focuses on Nandor Fodor of the International Institute for Psychical Research, who in 1930s London investigated a housewife whose home supposedly harbored a mischievous poltergeist.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2021

I didn’t expect to find anything directly relevant: Fodor had been working for a rival organisation, the International Institute for Psychical Research, whose papers were said to have been destroyed by German bombs.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2020

Barker was a member of Britain’s Society for Psychical Research, which was founded in 1882 to investigate the paranormal.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

In middle-class culture meanwhile, the Society for Psychical Research, founded in Cambridge in 1882, collected hundreds of detailed dreams from people all over the Empire.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2015

The Analysis of Sensations and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John