false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224877005m/4863441.jpg 4863441 1 <p> Rain barrels that refill themselves. Psychic horses. Mind-reading Cold War spies. For many, these phenomena are evidence of an unseen world just beyond the grasp of our five senses. For a group of scientists at Duke University, such mysteries demanded further investigation. From 1930 to 1980, under the leadership of Dr. J. B. Rhine, often considered the Einstein of the paranormal, the scientists at the Duke Parapsychology Lab attempted to test the bizarre, the frightening, and the unexplainable against the rigors of science. </p> <p> In <i>Unbelievable</i>, Stacy Horn reveals the strange, lost history of these first attempts to prove—or disprove—the existence of the para­normal, bringing to light a half-century's worth of ghost stories, poltergeists, and paranormal activity. The Duke scientists were queried by the likes of Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, and Helen Keller; the U.S. Army and blue-chip corporations such as IBM and Zenith seized upon their findings. </p> <p> Investigating telepathy, clairvoyance, ghosts, poltergeists, and the myriad other strange phenomena that people claim to have experienced, the scientists did find proof that the human mind can exhibit telepathic powers—but their discov­ery would put them at odds with both the scientific community and the community of believers at large, beginning a multidecade battle among unyielding critics, die-hard believers, and scientists themselves. Yet Horn reveals that between the power of belief and the promise of scientific investigation, there is room for everyone to acknowledge that the truth is out there. </p> 4928772 1 3 2009 Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory total:40|5:5|4:10|3:15|2:6|1:4| 40 126 114 17 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 12:39:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:59:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jun 11 02:28:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 23:35:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 02:28:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 18:56:57 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 19:11:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:53:44 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 05:53:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 20:55:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 11:48:57 -0700 2009 Ugh. This is a terribly-written collection of credulous craposity. Ostensibly a history of the Duke Paraspychology Lab, it uses the lab only as a springboard to promote bullshit like poltergeists, ghosts, and psychics. The work of the lab itself was interesting but accounts for only about a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 13:38:34 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 15:22:46 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 13 07:12:51 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 07:23:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 14 18:26:23 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 16:54:31 -0700 2009
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