Silver Birch’s Medium: Maurice Barbanell and Twentieth-Century Spiritualism

Silver Birch’s Medium emerges as a vivid, deeply researched portrait of Maurice Barbanell, the journalist‑turned‑medium whose […]

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Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination

Keith Thompson

AGAINST the backdrop of the UFO’s epic mid-1950s adventures, it’s time to take a closer look at the dramatic structure of these events. Aristotle...

Etta Wriedt: One of the Greatest American Direct Voice Mediums of the 20th Century

N. Riley Heagerty

ETTA WRIEDT IN SCOTLAND A MERCHANT’S TESTIMONY GLASGOW, 1912 William Usborne Moore “In Scotland Mrs. Wriedt’s séances were even more successful than in England....

The Nine: Briefing From Deep Space

Stuart Holroyd

CHAPTER FIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE OPPOSITION Dr. Neil Hitchen is a pseudonym we will use for an acquaintance of Andrija’s who had had an...

Friedel’s Conversations with the Dead: The Fascinating Story of Friedrich Jürgenson, Pioneer of EVP

Anabela Cardoso, Anders Leopold

10 Surreal Messages: Friedel’s Interpretation of the “Hitler” Monologue I repeat what I wrote before: it would be unfair to Friedel not to reproduce...