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Albert von Schrenck-Notzing

Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (18 May 1862 – 12 February 1929) was a German physician, psychiatrist and notable psychical researcher, who devoted his time to the study of paranormal events connected with mediumship, hypnotism and telepathy.

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Ectoplasm (paranormal)

In spiritualism, ectoplasm, also known as simply ecto, is a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums.

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Eusapia Palladino

Eusapia Palladino (alternative spelling: Paladino; 21 January 1854 – 16 May 1918) was an Italian Spiritualist physical medium.

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Eva Carrière

Eva Carrière (born Marthe Béraud 1886 in France, died 1943),.

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Extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as a sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.

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Harry Houdini

Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known as Harry Houdini, was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts.

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Institut Métapsychique International

The Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) is a French parapsychological organization that studies paranormal phenomena.

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Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.

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Joseph McCabe

Joseph Martin McCabe (12 November 1867 – 10 January 1955) was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life.

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Leonora Piper

Leonora Piper (née Leonora Evelina Simonds; 27 June 1857 – 3 June 1950) was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism.

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Linda Gazzera

Linda Gazzera (1890, Italy - 1942, Brazil) was an Italian spiritualist medium.

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Massimo Polidoro

Massimo Polidoro (born 10 March 1969) is an Italian psychologist, writer, journalist, television personality, and co-founder and executive director of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences (CICAP).

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Nandor Fodor

Nandor Fodor (May 13, 1895 – May 17, 1964) was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.

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Psychic

A psychic is a person who claims to use powers rooted in parapsychology such as extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, such as psychokinesis or teleportation.

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Ruth Brandon

Ruth Brandon (born 1943) is a British journalist, historian and author.

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Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Spiritualism (movement)

Spiritualism is a social religious movement popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, according to which an individual's awareness persists after death and may be contacted by the living.

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Telekinesis

Telekinesis is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction.

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William Eglinton

William Eglinton (1857–1933), also known as William Eglington was a British spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud.

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