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Remote Viewing and Mind Control
Cold War Intelligence and the Search for Psychic Advantage The desk of a Remote Viewer. A government office after hours, 1965. In a secure room at Fort Meade in the 1970s, a man sat at a plain table, a pen in his hand, sketching what he claimed was a secret Soviet installation thousands of miles away. He had never seen it. No satellite photograph… -
Victorian Obsession with Death and the Rise of Spiritualism
How grief, high mortality, and scientific upheaval shaped a culture determined to speak with the dead A Victorian parlour séance, where candlelight and longing invite the illusion of spirit presence. In the dim glow of a parlour lamp, a table trembles. Hands rest lightly upon polished wood, fingers touching, breath held. A widow listens for a knock from the other side. In Victorian Britain… -
The Hedge Witch in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Healer, Cunning Woman, and Quiet Rival to the Chemist The Hedge Witch heals with natures medicine. In a narrow lane at the edge of a mining village, a woman keeps jars in her cupboard. Dried foxglove hangs from a beam. Chamomile and yarrow sit in paper twists. Neighbours knock at dusk, not loudly, and not all at once. They come because a child is… -
Can Buildings Remember?
Environmental Memory, Psychical Research, and the Idea of Recorded Trauma The house replays its past. Old houses sometimes feel as though they are holding their breath. A staircase carries a tension that has nothing to do with creaking timber. A particular room feels heavy, charged, as though something once happened there and has not entirely settled. Whether one interprets this as imagination, suggestion, or… -
Ghost vs Spirit
The Taxonomy of the Unseen in Paranormal Research Mermaid Inn Rye – Ghosts Duel At four in the morning, in a timber-framed inn in Rye, guests have reported the same scene for decades: the clash of steel, the stagger of a wounded man, a body dragged across floorboards toward a hidden door. The figures do not look at the witnesses. They do not vary… -
When You Feel You Cannot Cope
A Letter on Overwhelm, Anxiety, and Finding Space When Life Feels Too Much From the Archive of Mabel Shirley — Introduced by Joyce Turner “When cataloguing Mabel Shirley’s papers in 1967, I began to notice a pattern. Many wrote to her not about scandal or sickness, but about strain. They spoke of feeling overwhelmed, unable to cope, pressed on all sides by demands they…