These are the people that have been associated with the occult, through direct participation, victims of hauntings or possessions, actual ghosts, witches, authors or anyone involved with the supernatural.
People who practice voodoo
Marie Laveau
People who have successfully pulled off a supernatural hoax
The Fox Sisters, Kate & Maggie They lived in Hydesville, part of the Burned Over District of upstate New York. Their family cottage was filled with strange noises such as booms, raps, crackings and poundings. The girls used an apple tied to a string to fool their parents into thinking that their home was haunted by the ghost of a peddler who was robbed and killed by a former tenant.
Their sister, Leah Fox Fish, learned the girls' tricks and used them to perform sceances.
In 1887 Richard Hodgson and S. John Davey held seances in Britain in which phenomena were faked by trickery.
Singer and Benassi in the United States (1980) had a stage magician perform fake psychic phenomena before two groups of university students.
People Involved in Actual Hauntings
Mediums
A medium named Lorri gave a two-part interview to the Boston Record-American about the Mary Wallace house in Henniken, N.H.
People who are ghosts
Teresita Basa was killed in Chicago at 2740 N. Pine Grove. She haunted one of her friends until her killer was found.
People who have encountered ghosts
Mrs. Betty Salter saw a black figure in the living room of a haunted house in Rye, New York.
Gail Benedict a ghost hunter whose sister�s apartment used to be plagued by a poltergeist.
Molly Guin a psychic who once lived in a haunted house in Rye, New York. She once had a mental image of her boyfriend going out with another girl, which later proved to be correct.
Belinda has seen apparitions and lives in San Antonio.
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Gus Roy believed his deceased mother was attempting to contact him. Her picture repeatedly fell off the wall and he constantly sensed her presence.
Ernest Walbourne heard a female voice inside the loom or death room telling him to leave the house of Mary Wallace, in Henniken, N.H.
Occult people
Psychic Photographers
Hans Holzer
John Meyers
Psychics
Owen Lake, a public relations man who dabbles in psychic matters.
Sybil Leek a famed British psychic.
Abraham Lincoln He had a psychic gift and an interest in spiritualism. He had paranormal experience and dreamed of his own death.
People who have experienced Astral Travel
Charles A. Lindberg had an out-of-body experience while piloting a plane.
Ernest Hemmingway During a battle he felt his spirit leave his body and felt that he was dead before it returned.
People who run haunted ghost tours
Fran Hollinrake runs walking tours through many of these dark chambers
at Edinburgh Castle.
Authors of Spiritalist Liturature
E. E. Lewis wrote a pamphlet entitled A Report of the Mysterious Noises Heard in the House of Mr. John D. Fox. It was the first spiritualist publication.
People who delved into Occultism
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert held sceances in their royal home at Osborne. Tables were rotated and tipped away by spirits.
Paul Amsdent a spiritualist.
Spirits that have Channeled through others
Saint Thomas Aquinas Dead 700 years, channeled through a man in the late 1980's, in the month of Febuary. He talked of finding truth for the spirit.
Ghost Researchers
G. N. M. Tyrrell Educated at Haileybury and London University. In 1923 he decided to devote himself entirely to Psychical Research. He wrote several highly acclaimed works. He joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1908 and became President in 1945.
Dr. Walter Franklin Prince is well known for his work as Research Officer of the Boston Society for Psychic Research. He wrote an exhaustive volume entitled The Case of Patience Worth.
Wiseman and Morris (1995a) in Britain carried out two studies investigating the effect that belief in the paranormal has on the observation of conjuring tricks.
Ann
EskridgeIs currently researching information on haunted underground railroads and would appreciate any input. [email protected]
People to Contact about Ghostly Experiences
Ashley She is located about an hour north of Houston. She has had many personal experiences with spirits and loves to interact with not only fellow beleivers, but people who have experiences with them as well. She will answer most questions.
AIM - Txdream123
ICQ - 9777705
Yahoo - Universe4254
Livejournal: Universe4254
MSN - [email protected]
Lucretia
E-Mail: NATIVELASVEGAN@MSN
Sue Floyd She�s currently compiling a travel book and
looking for information on haunted homes, hotels & motels, museums, cemeteries, art galleries and anything off the beaten path.
email: "[email protected]"
Dr. Johnny Peebles, III, psychic and pro wrestler has investigated lots of haunted buildings in Alabama. See July 1998 Fate Magazine.
His home phone #204-879-8895.
Television Programs Delving into the Occult
Hollywood Ghost Stories listed on the American Movie Classics Channel. www.amctv.com
Channel 2 News is interviewing and doing a story on an investigator who filmed some unique footage at Wunsche Bros. Cafe. Airing in October, 2003, around Halloween.
Haunting in Connecticut shows on the Discovery Channel.
Movies about Actual Manifestations
The Legacy of Hilltop Drive, a CBS movie made in 1992, is about the phenomenon at Newport Subdivision, Poppet's Way, in Crosby, Texas.
Metaphysical Schools
Celestial Visions School of Metaphysical Arts - New Annex called Celestial Visions School of Parapsychology