An investigation into alleged 'hauntings'

R Wiseman, C Watt, P Stevens, E Greening… - …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
In cases of alleged hauntings, a large number of seemingly trustworthy witnesses
consistently report experiencing unusual phenomena (eg apparitions, sudden changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Things That go bump in the literature: An environmental appraisal of “haunted houses”

N Dagnall, KG Drinkwater, C O'Keeffe… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on
anomalous experiences attributed to “haunted house.” This exercise served as a much …

An investigation into the alleged haunting of Hampton Court Palace: Psychological variables and magnetic fields

R Wiseman, C Watt, E Greening, P Stevens… - Journal of …, 2002 - uhra.herts.ac.uk
Hampton Court Palace is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in England, with
both staff and visitors reporting unusual phenomena in many areas of the building. This …

[PDF][PDF] Perceptual-personality characteristics associated with naturalistic haunt experiences

J Houran, R Wiseman, M Thalboume - European Journal of …, 2002 - uhra.herts.ac.uk
Motivated by previous suggestions in the literature, we addressed the relation between
haunt experiences and Paranormal Belief (New Age Philosophy and Traditional Paranormal …

[PDF][PDF] Suggestion, belief in the paranormal, proneness to reality testing deficits, and perception of an allegedly haunted building

N Dagnall, K Drinkwater, A Denovan… - The Journal of …, 2015 - researchgate.net
The present study investigated whether suggestion, level of belief in the paranormal, and
proneness to reality testing deficits influenced participants' expectation of haunt-related …

Technical Paper No. 3: Analysis of Haunt Experiences at a Historical Illinois Landmark

J Houran - Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 2002 - search.informit.org
Previous questionnaire and field research shows that the report and phenomenology of
haunt experiences correlate with a number of perceptual-personality variables, suggesting …

Characteristics of hauntings with and without apparitions: An analysis of published cases.

CS Alvarado, NL Zingrone - Journal of the Society for Psychical …, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
Studied the characteristics of 172 haunting cases collected and coded for specific
characteristics by A. Gauld (Gauld and AD Cornell, 1979). Focus was on the features of the …

Quantitative investigation of a reported haunting using several detection techniques.

MC Maher, GP Hansen - Journal of the American Society for …, 1992 - psycnet.apa.org
Studied the belief of occupants of a residential building in New York City that a ghost was
inhabiting the premises. The primary technique involved having 4 sensitives and 4 skeptics …

[PDF][PDF] The need for independent control sites: A methodological suggestion with special reference to haunting and poltergeist field research

JHP Brugger - The Psychology and Parapsychology of …, 2000 - ejp.wyrdwise.com
The results of field investigations of haunting and poltergeist cases are limited in that they
are not compared to the results from independent control sites. This is needed in order to …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative investigation of the general Wayne inn

MC Maher - Journal of Parapsychology, 2000 - parapsych.org
Apparitions and poltergeist-like disturbances were reported by the owner and employees of
a wayside inn in Merion, Pensylvannia. The legend that a “ghost” haunted the premises had …