Publications – The Penn Ghost Project

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Schlitz, M, Wiseman R, Watt C, Radin D. Submitted. Of Two Minds: Sceptic–Proponent Collaboration within Parapsychology. British Journal of Psychology. 97:313-322.

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2014. A call for an open, informed study of all aspects of consciousness.

Howard, B. 2014. The Effect of Extraordinary Experiences (EEs) on Healing, Recovery, and Adaptation in Grief. : Fielding Graduate University

Sar, V, Alioğlu F, Akyüz G. 2014. Experiences of Possession and Paranormal Phenomena Among Women in the General Population: Are They Related to Traumatic Stress and Dissociation? Journal of Trauma and Disassociation. 15(3):303-318.

Simmonds-Moore, C. 2014. Exploring the Perceptual Biases Associated with Believing and Disbelieving in Paranormal Phenomena. Conscious Cognition. 28:30-46.

von Lucadou, W, Wald F. 2014. Extraordinary Experiences in its Cultural and Theoretical Context.. International Review of Psychiatry. 26(3):324-334.

2014. Ghosts and their Relationship with the Age of a City.

Schmaltz, R, Lilienfeld S. 2014. Hauntings, Homeopathy, and the Hopkinsville Goblins: Using Pseudoscience to Teach Scientific Thinking. Frontiers in Psychology. 5:336.

Loetschert, AM. 2014. The Lived Experience of Bereaved Adults with Assisted After Death Communication Through a Medium. : Argosy University

Baker, JO, Bader CD. 2014. A Social Anthropology of Ghosts in Twenty-First-Century America. Social Compass. 61(4):569-593.

2014. Terminally Haunted: Aviation Ghosts, Hybrid Buddhist Practices, and Disaster Aversion Strategies Amongst Airport Workers in Myanmar and Thailand.

↑ | 2013

Williams, B. 2013. Deathbed Phantasms: Mere Terminal Hallucinations, or Harbingers of the Afterlife?, 1 :11-17. | PDF – theta_newsletter_no_1-16dpmnr

Savage, P. 2013. Anomalous Phenomena and the Limits of Science. : Temple University

Kokubo, H. 2013. Biophysical Approach to Psi Phenomena. NeuroQuantology. 11(1):8-15.

Reis, R. 2013. Children Enacting Idioms of Witchcraft and Spirit Possession as a Response to Trauma: Therapeutically Beneficial, and for Whom? Transcultural Psychiatry. 50(15):622-643.

Laythe, BR, Owen K. 2013. A Critical Test of the EMF-Paranormal Phenomena Theory: Evidence from a Haunted Site without Electricity-Generating fields. The Journal of Parapsychology. 77(2):212.

Blinston, I. 2013. Disclosure of Childhood Spiritual Encounter Phenomena. Transpersonal Journal.

Friedman, H. 2013. Exploring the Nature of Exceptional Human Experiences: Recognizing, Understanding, and Appreciating EHEs. The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology.

Ferrier-Watson, S. 2013. Fearful Beginnings: The Evolution of the American Ghost Story for Children. : Texas A&M University

Ladwig, P. 2013. Haunting the State: Rumours, Spectral Apparitions and the Longing for Buddhist Charisma in Laos. Asian Studies Review. 37(4):509-526.

Thun, T. 2013. “I am not sure what is real, or what my mind wants to be real”: A study on epistemology among ghost hunters in Northern California.

Robertson, BA. 2013. In the Laboratory of the Spirits: Gender, Embodiment and the Scientific Quest for Life Beyond the Grave 1918–1939. : Carleton University

Renner, KJ. 2013. Negotiations of Masculinity in American Ghost-Hunting Reality Television. Horror Studies. 4(2)

Walter, BG. 2013. Phantasmic Science: Medieval Theology, Victorian Spiritualism, and the Specific Rationality of Twenty-First Century Ghost Hunting. Jefferson Journal. | PDF – 24-99-1-pb-2akq3sy

Adamson, L. 2013. The Presence of Ghosts in African American Literature. : University of Maryland
2013. PROGRESS AND ITS RUINS: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand.

Williams, G. 2013. Psi and the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Mind and Behavior . 34:259-284.

Niedermeier, LE. 2013. The Spirits Make the Hill: Ghost Hunting at WKU. WKU Spirit. :16-27.

Lauro, SJ, Paul C. 2013. ‘Make Me Believe!’: Ghost-Hunting Technology and the Postmodern Fantastic. Horror Studies. 4(2)

↑ | 2012

Bubandt, N. 2012. A Psychology of Ghosts: The Regime of the Self and the Reinvention of Spirits in Indonesia and Beyond. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology. 22(1):1-23.

Pennycook, G, Cheyne J, Seli P, Koehler D, Fugelsang J. 2012. Analytic Cognitive Style Predicts Religious and Paranormal Belief. Cognition. 123(3):335–346.

Hanks, M. 2012. Between Belief and Science: Paranormal Investigators and the Production of Ghostly Knowledge in Contemporary England. : University of Illinois

Bader, CD, Baker JO, Molle A. 2012. Countervailing Forces: Religiosity and Paranormal Belief in Italy. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religio. 51(4):705-720.

Panesar, N, Graham C. 2012. Does the Death Rate of Hong Kong Chinese Change During the Lunar Ghost Month? Emergency Medicine. 29(4):319-321.

Sharps, MJ. 2012. Eyewitness to the Paranormal: The Experimental Psychology of the ‘Unexplained’. Skeptical Inquirer. 36(4)

Timms, J. 2012. Ghost-Hunters and Psychical Research in Interwar England. History Workshop Journal . 74(1):88-104.

Neunera, F, Pfeifferb A, Schauer-Kaiserb E, Odenwaldc M, Elbertc T, Ertla V. 2012. Haunted by Ghosts: Prevalence, Predictors and Outcomes of Spirit Possession Experiences Among Former Child Soldiers and War-Affected Civilians in Northern Uganda. Social Science & Medicine. 75(3):548–554.

Neuner, F. 2012. Haunted by Ghosts: Prevalence, Predictors and Outcomes of Spirit Possession Experiences Among Former Child Soldiers and War-Affected Civilians in Northern Uganda. Social Science & Medicine. 75(3):548-554.

Edwards, KA. 2012. The History of Ghosts in Early Modern Europe: Recent Research and Future Trajectories. History Compass. 10(4):353-366.

Lamont, P. 2012. The Making of Extraordinary Psychological Phenomena. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 48(1):1-15.

Jeska, K. 2012. Parents and Their Children’s Meaning-Making and Understanding of After-Death Communication: An Intuitive Inquiry. : Sofia University

Woodard, FJ. 2012. A Phenomenological Study of Spontaneous Spiritual and Paranormal Experiences in a 21st-Century Sample of Normal People. Psychological Reports . 110(1):73-132.

Woodard, FJ. 2012. A Phenomenological Study of Spontaneous Spiritual and Paranormal Experiences in a 21st-Century Sample of Normal People. Psychological Reports. 110(1):73-132.

Heholt, R. 2012. Subversive Ghost Hunting: A-Technology, the Imagination and the Gothic Spaces of Most Haunted. Textus. :37-48.

Wolffram, H. 2012. ‘Trick’, ‘Manipulation’ and ‘Farce’: Albert Moll’s Critique of Occultism. Medical History. 56(2):277-295.

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Hernandez-Sutton, O. 2011. A Study of the Personality and Psychological Variables of Puerto Rican Spiritist Mediums and Nonmediums. : Sofia University

Hill, SA. 2011. Being Scientifical: Popularity, Purpose, and Promotion of Amateur Research and Investigation Groups in the US. : State University of New York at Buffalo

Rittichainuwat, B. 2011. Ghosts: A Travel Barrier to Tourism Recovery. Annals of Tourism Research. 38(2):437-459.

D’Harlingue, B. 2011. Haunted Tourism: Sites of Violence and Memory in the United States. : UC Davis

Dobry, DH. 2011. How Do Fans/Viewers Use Paranormal Reality Television and Associated Media to Interpret Death and the Afterlife? : Teachers College, Columbia University

McDaniel, JT. 2011. The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk. , New York: Columbia University Press | Website

Hemingway, A. 2011. The Near-Death Experience: A Mythic Model for Conscious Living and Dying.
Laycock, J. 2011. Paranormal Belief: A New Frontier? Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 15(1):92-97.

Polidoro, M. 2011. Photos of Ghosts: The Burden of Believing the Unbelievable. Skeptical Inquirer.

Williams, B, Ventola A. 2011. Poltergeist Phenomena: A Primer on Parapsychological Research and Perspectives. | PDF – poltergeist_phenomena-_a_primer_on_parapsychological_research_and_perspectives-247fv93

Williams, B. 2011. PRF Haunting Case Study: Past Echoes Aboard “The Grey Ghost? | PDF – prf_haunting_case_study_-_queen_mary-1ghu8a5

Pasricha, SK. 2011. Relevance of Para-Psychology in Psychiatric Practice. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 53(1):4-8.

Pasricha, S. 2011. Relevance of Para-Psychology in Psychiatric Practice. Indian Journal of Psychiatry . 53(1):4-8.

Nilsen, M. 2011. The Spirit of a Heroine: Ya Mo—Spirit Reverence, Patriotism and Thai Buddhism. Modern Asian Studies. 45(6):1599-1625.

Clay, PL. 2011. Understanding the Experiences of Individuals Who Believe They are Mentored by Someone Who is No Longer Living. : Saybrook University

Leary, M. 2011. Why Are (Some) Scientists So Opposed to Parapsychology? Explore. 7(5):275.

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Espirito, SD. 2010. ‘Who else is in the Drawer?’ Trauma, Personhood and Prophylaxis among Cuban Scientific Spiritists Antrophology and Medicine. 17(3):249-259.

Colvin, B. 2010. The Acoustic Properties of Unexplained Rapping Sounds. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 73(2) | PDF – unexplainedrappingsounds-150tq76

Thompson, RC. 2010. “Am I Going to See a Ghost Tonight?”: Gettysburg Ghost Tours and the Performance of Belief The Journal of American Culture. 33(2):79-91.” | PDF – 431590_20110103160621-tlrv5j

Williams, B, Ventola A, Wilson M. 2010. Apparitional Experiences: A Primer on Parapsychological Research and Perspectives. | PDF – apparitional_experiences_primer_final-1cqch3b

2010. Chinese Ghosts in Mongolia.

Wu, C-R. 2010. Encountering Spectral Traces: Ghost Narratives in Chinese America and Taiwan. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tranguch, J. 2010. From Bigfoot in the Backyard to Ghosts in the Attic: Predictors of Paranormal Belief. : West Virginia University

Ferguson, ME. 2010. The Ghost in the Irish Psyche: Ghost Stories in Contemporary Irish Literature. : University of Connecticut

2010. Ghost-Hunting Mistakes: Science and Pseudoscience in Ghost Investigations.

Radford, B. 2010. Ghost-Hunting Mistakes: Science and Pseudoscience in Ghost Investigations. Skeptical Inquirer. 34(6)

Goff, P. 2010. Ghosts and Sparse Properties: Why Physicalists Have More to Fear from Ghosts than Zombies. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 81(1):119-139.

2010. Neuromagnetic Effects on Anomalous Cognitive Experiences. NeuroQuantology. 8(4):517-529. | PDF – 369-559-1-pb-1z67i97

Friedman, H. 2010. Parapsychology Studies. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. 63(3):129-130.

Hanks, MM. 2010. Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism. Contested Cultural Heritage. :125-139., New York: Springer New York

2010. Scientific Investigation vs. Ghost Hunters.

Greyson, B. 2010. Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences. Anthropology and Humanism. 35(2):159-171.

Ridolfo, H, Baxter A, Lucas JW. 2010. Social Influence on Paranormal Beliefs. Current Research in Social Psychology. 15(3):33-41. | PDF – crisp15_3-2-1row9i4

Taborda, FA. 2010. Spirits and Images in Dreams: A Comparative Analysis Between Archetypal Psychology and Shamans’ Healing Practices. : Roosevelt University

Jacobs, MS. 2010. Things that go ‘spark’ in the night: The Uncanniness of Electricity and Electronic Media in Ghost Hunting Reality Television.

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Wolffram, H. 2009. In the laboratory of the Ghost-Baron: Parapsychology in Germany in the Early 20th Century. Endeavour. 33(4):152-157.

Hui, L. 2009. The Ghost of “Liaozhai”: Pu Songling’s Ghostlore and its History of Reception. : University of Toronto

Bann, J. 2009. Ghostly Hands and Ghostly Agency: The Changing Figure of the Nineteenth-Century Specter. Victorian Studies. 51(4):663-686.

Maulod, N ‘A. 2009. The Haunting of Fatimah Rock: History, Embodiment and Spectral Urbanism in Contemporary Singapore. :1-118.: National University of Singapore | PDF – nuradlinam-2-2le75il

2009. Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths.

2009. Nang Nak—Ghost Wife: Desire, Embodiment, and Buddhist Melancholia in a Contemporary Thai Ghost Film.

2009. Round Trip to Hell in a Flying Saucer: The Relationship between Conventional Christian and Paranormal Beliefs in the United States.

Shimakazi, S. 2009. Shades of Jealousy: Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan and the Cultural Imagination of Female Ghosts in Early Nineteenth-Century Japanese Theater and Literature. : Columbia University

Faber, L. 2009. The Spectre of Death: Suppression of Bodily Death Through Representations of the Afterlife in “Ghostbusters”, “Beetlejuice”, and “Ghost”. : West Virginia University,

Kwilecki, S. 2009. Twenty-First-Century American Ghosts: The After-Death Communication—Therapy and Revelation from beyond the Grave. Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation . 19(1):101-133.

Stollznow, K. 2009. The ‘Ethics’ of Ghost Hunting? Skeptical Inquirer.

Frencha, CC, Haqueb U, Bunton-Stasyshyna R, Davisa R. 45. The “Haunt” Project: An Attempt to Build a “Haunted” Room by Manipulating Complex Electro Infrasound. Cortex. 2009:619-629. | PDF – hauntproject-274kmdq

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Williams, B, Ventola A, Wilson M. 2008. Temperature in Haunting Experiences: A Basic Primer for Paranormal Enthusiasts. Public Parapsychology. | PDF – haunttempprimer-1ml070k

Fleck, J, Green D, Stevenson JL, Payne L, Bowden EM, Jung-Beeman M, Kounios J. 2008. The Transliminal Brain at Rest: Baseline EEG, Unusual Experiences, and Access to Unconscious Mental Activity. Cortex. 44(10):1353-1363.

Yang, CH, Huang YT, Janes C, Lin KC, Lu TH. 2008. Belief in Ghost Month Can Help Prevent Drowning Deaths: A Natural Experiment on the Effects of Cultural Beliefs on Risky Behaviours. Social Science and Medicine. 66(9):1990-1998.

2008. Blackwood Hotel Investigational Report. | PDF – blackwood200508lr-2fkqri4

2008. CONVENTIONAL CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE PARANORMAL .

Thompson, R. 2008. Entertaining Ghosts: Gettysburg Ghost Tours and the Performance of Belief.

McCleary, T. 2008. Ghosts on the Land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art. : University of Illinois

Hauser, BR. 2008. Haunted Detectives: The Mysteries of American Trauma. : The Ohio State University

Shirkey, J. 2008. The Moral Economy of the “Petavatthu”: Hungry Ghosts and Theravada Buddhist Cosmology. : University of Chicago

Tomasini, F. 2008. Research on the Recently Dead: An Historical and Ethical Examination. British Medical Bulletin. 87:7-16.

Farrington, K. 2008. Seeing Ghosts in Late Eighteenth-century China in Luo Pin’s 1766 “Guiqu Tu” (“Ghost Realm Amusements”) Scroll. : Harvard University

Fleck, J, Green DL, Stevenson JL, Payne L, Bowden EM, Jung-Beeman M, Kounios J. 2008. The Transliminal Brain at Rest: Baseline EEG, Unusual Experiences, and Access to Unconscious Mental Activity. Cortex. 44(10):1353-1363.

↑ | 2007

Houran, J. 2007. Entropy and Environmental Mystery: A Parapsychological Perspective. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 105(2):688-690.

Koven, MJ. 2007. Most Haunted and the Convergence of Traditional Belief and Popular Television. Folklore. 118(2):183-202.

Terhune, D, Ventola A, Houran J. 2007. An Analysis of Contextual Variables and the Incidence of Photographic Anomalies at an Alleged Haunt and a Control Site. Journal of Scientific Exploration . 21(1):99-120. | PDF – jse_21_1_terhune-sij4oz

Ghandi, S, Efthimiou C. 2007. Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality: Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies.

Kwon, H. 2007. The Dollarization of Vietnamese Ghost Money. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 13(1):73-90.

King, LA, Burton CM, Hicks JA, Drigotas SM. 2007. Ghosts, UFOs, and Magic: Positive Affect and the Experiential System. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92(5):905-919.

Clarke, PA. 2007. Indigenous Spirit and Ghost Folklore of “Settled” Australia. Folklore. 118(2):141-161.

Williams, B, Ventola A, Wilson M. 2007. Magnetic Fields and Haunting Phenomena: A Basic Primer for Paranormal Enthusiasts. Public Parapsychology. | PDF – hauntingsandmagnetismprimer-1xj2z9s

Parra, A. 2007. Seeing and Feeling Ghosts. The Parapsychological Association Convention. :84-94., Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sorajjakool, S. 2007. Tsunami and Ghost Stories in Thailand: Exploring the Psychology of Ghosts and Religious Rituals within the Context of Thai Buddhism. The Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling. 61(4):343-349.

Sorajjakool, S. 2007. Tsunami and Ghost Stories in Thailand: Exploring the Psychology of Ghosts and Religious Rituals within the Context of Thai Buddhism. Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling. 61(4):343-349.

2007. A very modern ghost : postcolonialism and the politics of enchantment.

↑ | 2006

Dewan, W. 2006. Anomalous Experiences in North Carolina: A Survey. The Journal of Popular Culture. 39 (1):29-43.

Rogers, P, Qualter P, Phelps G, Gardner K. 2006. Belief in the Paranormal, Coping and Emotional Intelligence . Personality and Individual Differences. 41(6):1089–1105.

Roll, W. 2006. A Discussion of the Evidence that Personal Consciousness Persists After Death with Special Reference to Poltergeist Phenomena. Australian Journal of Parapsychology. 6(1):5-20. | PDF – para-c03_roll_2006-1w9f354

2006. From Ghost-belief of Baiyue to Buddism and Taoism of Han Nationality——On the Historical Change of Folk Religion in South Fujian.
Nickell, J. 2006. Ghost Hunters. Skeptical Inquirer.

Braithwaite, JJ, Townsend M. 2006. Good Vibrations: The Case for a Specific Effect of Infrasound in Instances of Anomalous Experience has yet to be Empirically Demonstrated . Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. :211.

Xirasagar, S, Lin H‐C. 2006. Impact of a Cultural Belief About Ghost Month on Delivery Mode in Taiwan. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 60(6):522-526.

McCreery, C. 2006. Perception and Hallucination: The Case for Continuity .

2006. Sensible Proof of Spirits”: Ghost Belief during the Later Seventeenth Century.

2006. Talking with Ghosts: Haunting in Canadian Cultural Production.

2006. “Sensible Proof of Spirits”: Ghost Belief during the Later Seventeenth Century.

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Cook, P. 2005. 59. Ghost Healer: Music Healing in a North Indian Village. : University of Washington

2005. For Thai Survivors, The Dead Live On In Ghost Sightings.

Edensor, T. 2005. The Ghosts of Industrial Ruins: Ordering and Disordering Memory in Excessive Space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 23(6):829-849.

Cooper, LA. 2005. Gothic Realities: The Emergence of Cultural Forms Through Representations of the Unreal. : Princeton University
Davis, C. 2005. Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms. French Studies. 59(3):373-379.

Lin, H‐C, Xirasagar S, Tung Y‐C. 2005. Impact of a Cultural Belief About Ghost Month on Delivery Mode in Taiwan. J Epidemiol Community Health. 60(6):522–526.

Deac, M. 2005. Mirror of the World or Submerged Unconscious? Hallucinations and the Victorians (1853-1901) : University of Notre Dame
Cohen, D. 2005. Narrative Healing: Ghost Exorcism and Memory. : University of Virginia

Fraser, J. 2005. Never Give Up the Ghost: An Analysis of Three Edinburgh Ghost Tour Companies. : Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)

Lyons, L. 2005. One-Third of Americans Believe Dearly May Not Have Departed. Gallup.

Porte, CA. 2005. Pontmain, Prophecy, and Protest: A Cultural-Historical Study of a Nineteenth-Century Apparition.

Braithwaite, J, Townsend M. 2005. Sleeping with the Entity – A Quantitative Magnetic Investigation of an English Castle’s Reputedly ‘Haunted’ Bedroom. European Journal of Parapsychology. 20(1):65-78. | PDF – ejop_entity_paper-20m8x8h

Gustaffson, ML. 2005. War of the Shadow World: Angry Ghosts and their Victims in Vietnam. : Syracuse University

Blinston, I. 2005. When Children Witness the Sacred: Spiritual and Psychological Impacts, Lifelong Aftereffects, and Disclosure Aspects of Religious Apparitional Encounters. : Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

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Van Der Geest, S. 2004. Dying Peacefully: Considering Good Death and Bad Death in Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana. Social Science and Medicine. 58(5):899-911.

Jiang, QS. 2004. The Ghost Image in Beloved and the Woman Warrior. : Ninkai University

with Measurements, MVA ‘H-type’ E: CUT-SBA. 2004. Magnetic Variances Associated with ‘Haunt-type’ Experiences: A Comparison Using Time-Synchronised Baseline Measurements. European Journal of Parapsychology . 19:3-28.

Tam, W-CC, Shiah Y-J. 2004. Paranormal Belief, Religiosity and Cognitive Complexity. The Parapsychological Association Convention. | PDF – 45-2l4xclv

Parra, A. 2004. PK Occurrences, Epilepsy, and Repressed Aggression. The Paranormal Review . | PDF – paranormal_review_pker_epilepsy_venier-2enl1ji

Lawrence, E, Peters E. 2004. Reasoning in Believers in the Paranormal. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 192(11):727-733.

Tobacyk, JJ. 2004. A Revised Paranormal Belief Scale. The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. 23:94-98.

Laubach, M. 2004. The Social Effects of Psychism: Spiritual Experience and the Construction of Privatized Religion. Sociology of Religion. 65(3):239-263.

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Greyson, B. 2003. Incidence and Correlates of Near-Death Experiences in a Cardiac Care Unit. General Hospital Psychology. 25(4):269-276.
2003. Believe It or Not: Religious and Other Paranormal Beliefs in the United States.

Kokubo, H, Yamamoto M, Hirukawa T. 2003. Case Report on Anomalous Electro-Magnetic Signals: Research of “Poltergeist” Incident in Gifu, Japan. | PDF – tomika-2555r0z

Alvarado, CS. 2003. The Concept of Survival of Bodily Death and the Development of Parapsychology. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 67:65-95. | PDF – the_concept_of_survival_of_bodily_death_and_the_development_of_parapsychology-1kk7s0u

St. Amant, S. 2003. Faith by Demonstration: The Connection Between the History of Paranormal Phenomena and a New Age Spirituality. : State University of New York at Albany

Lye, HY. 2003. Feeding Ghosts: A Study of the Yuqie Yankou Rite. : University of Virginia

Inglis, D, Holmes M. 2003. Highland and Other Haunts: Ghosts in Scottish Tourism. Annals of Tourism Research. 30(1):50-63.

Wiseman, R. 2003. An Investigation into Alleged ‘Hauntings’. British Journal of Psychology. 94:195-211. | PDF – bjp-hauntings-2dp8cff

Bobrow, R. 2003. Paranormal Phenomena in the Medical Literature Sufficient Smoke to Warrant a Search for Fire. Medical Hypotheses. 60(6):864–868.

Bobrow, R. 2003. Paranormal Phenomena in the Medical Literature Sufficient Smoke to Warrant a Search for Fire. Medical Hypothesis. 60(6):864-868.

Roll, W. 2003. Poltergeists, Electromagnetism and Consciousness. Journal of Scientific Exploration. 17(1):75-86. | PDF – jse_17_1_roll-pvqcz5

Wang, K. 2003. Releasing Souls in Ghost Festival and the Teaching Drama of Mu-lien Rescuing his Mother. : Sun Yat-Sen University
2003. Sounds Like Terror in the Air. The Sydney Morning Herald.

Zieser, M, Singelmann P. 2003. Walking with Ghosts and Talking with Gods: A Study of Folk Religion in Taiwan. : University of Missouri- Kansas City

Rudski, J. 2003. What Does a “Superstitious” Person Believe? Impressions of Participants. Journal of General Psychology. 130.(4):431-445.

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Shearer, J. 2002. Conversing with the Ghosts of the Himalaya. : Utah State University

Wicclair, M. 2002. Informed Consent and Research Involving the Newly Dead. Kennedy Insitute of Ethics. 12(4):351-372.

Edgcombe, D. 2002. Beyond the Physical: An Exploration into the Structure of Reality Through One Individual’s Exceptional Experiences. : Sofia University

Wiseman, R, Watt C, Greening E, Stevens P, O’Keeffe C. 2002. An Investigation into the Alleged Haunting of Hampton Court Palace: Psychological Variables and Magnetic Fields. Journal of Parapsychology. 66(4):387-408. | PDF – hampton-2874g2m

2002. THEORIES OF HAUNTING: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW.

Nickell, J. 2002. “Visitations”: After-Death Contacts . S. 12(3)

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Pandakalam, JP. 2001. Are the Apparitions of Medjugorje Re. Journal of Scientific Exploration. 15(2):229–239.

Tatonetti, LM. 2001. From Ghost Dance to Grass Dance: Performance and Post-Indian Resistance in American Indian Literature. : The Ohio State University

Roll, W. 2001. The Ghost in the Mind: A Brain-environment Interaction Model of the Apparitional Experience . The Journal of Parapsychology. 65(4):282.

Sparks, G, Miller W. 2001. Investigating the Relationship Between Exposure to Television Programs that Depict Paranormal Phenomena and Beliefs in the Paranormal. Communication Monographs . 68(1):98-113. | PDF – sparks_survey-1e6tqhi

Williams, E. 2001. Near-Death Experiences with Reports of Meeting Deceased People . Death Studies . 25:229-249. | PDF – kel13_ndewithreports_of_meeting_deceased_people-wxfbls

Persinger, M. 2001. The Neuropsychiatry of Paranormal Experiences. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 13(4):515-524.

Storm, LC. 2001. Parapsychological Investigation of the Theory of Psychopraxia: Experimental and Theoretical Researches into an Alternative Theory Explaining Normal and Paranormal Phenomena.

Richardson, JA. 2001. Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley. : Harvard University

Banks, J. 2001. Rorschach Audio: Ghost Voices and Perceptual Creativity. Leonardo Music Journal. 11:77-83.

Markovsky, B, Thye SR. 2001. Social Influence on Paranormal Beliefs. Sociological Perspectives . 44(1):21-44.

Markovsky, B, Thye S. 2001. Social Influence on Paranormal Beliefs. Sociological Perspectives. 44(1):21-44.

Fields, T. 2001. Volatile Spirits: An Ecopsychological Perspective on Experiences of Paranormal Assault in Contemporary America.

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Harte, TM. 2000. Contextual Mediation of Perceptions During Hauntings and Poltergeist-Like Experiences: A Replication and Extension. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 91(2):451-459.

Greyson, B. 2000. Dissociation in People Who Have Near-Death Experiences: Out of Their Bodies or Out of Their Minds? The Lancet . 355(9202):460-463.

Nickell, J. 2000. Haunted Inns: Tales of Spectral Guest. Skeptical Inquirer.

Kurtz, P. 2000. The New Paranatural Paradigm: Claims of Communicating with the Dead . Skeptical Inquirer. 24(6)

Maher, MC. 2000. Quantitative Investigation of the General Wayne Inn . Journal of Parapsychology . 64(3):246. | PDF – general_wayne_inn-2my6u9b

Ruttenberg, BH. 2000. The Role of Paranormal Experiences in Healing, Growth, and Transformation: A Study in Clinical Parapsychology.

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Smoak, G. 1999. 58. Ghost Dances and Identity: Ethnogenesis and Racial Identity Among Shoshones and Bannocks in the Nineteenth Century. : University of Utah

Myrick, J. 1999. Belief and Custom Surrounding the Ouija Board. : Memorial University of Newfoundland

Nichols, A, Roll W. 1999. Discovery of Electromagnetic Anomalies at Two Reputedly Haunted Castles in Scandinavia. Journal of Parapsychology. 63(3):215.

Moskowitz, ML. 1999. Fetus-spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan. : University of California, San Diego

Kattelman, BA. 1999. Magic, Monsters and Movies: America’s Midnight Ghost Shows. : The Ohio State University

Bennet, M. 1999. Religious, Spiritual, and Exceptional Experiences in Trauma Treatment: A Clinical Training Model.

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Myhre, K. 1998. The Appearances of Ghosts in Northern Dramas. : University of California, Berkley

Laria, AJ. 1998. Dissociative Experiences Among Cuban Mental Health Patients and Spiritist Mediums. : University of Massachusetts Boston
1998. The Ghost in the Machine.

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↑ | 1995

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↑ | 1994

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↑ | 1993

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↑ | 1992

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↑ | 1990

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Hess, DJ. 1990. Ghosts and Domestic Politics in Brazil: Some Parallels between Spirit Possession and Spirit Infestation. Ethos. 18(4):407-438.

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Berube, DM. 1990. The Lakotan Ghost Dance of 1890: A Historiocritical Performance Analysis. : New York University

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↑ | 1989

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↑ | 1988

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↑ | 1987

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↑ | 1986

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↑ | 1985

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↑ | 1980

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↑ | 1979

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↑ | 1978

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↑ | 1975

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Mitchell, RE. 1975. Micronesian Ghosts and the Limits of Functional Analysis. Asian Folklore Studies. 34(2):87-101. | PDF – a283-2lw20gd

↑ | 1974

Sheridan, D. 1974. Later Victorian Ghosts: Supernatural Fiction and Social Attitudes. : Northwestern University

↑ | 1972

Matchett, WF. 1972. Repeated Hallucinatory Experiences as a Part of the Mourning Process Among Hopi Indian Women. Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes. 35(2):185-194.

↑ | 1971

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1969

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↑ | 1968

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↑ | 1961

Montgomery, RW. 1961. Ghost Stories from Decatur County. Midwest Folklore. 11(1):62-64.

↑ | 1951

Fathau, GH. 1951. The Mohave “Ghost Doctor”. American Anthropologist. 53:605-607. | PDF – aa.1951.53.4.02a00400.pdfjsessionid0c7607131de39da69e36d46911e60c1d.f02t02-2-1dzs4pm

↑ | 1946

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↑ | 1933

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↑ | 1876

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