WALKING THROUGH TIME: VISITING THE

PAST?NANCY L. ZINGRONE, PHD, RESEARCH FELLOW, PARAPSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION

AKA MAGGIE LARIMORE, CURATOR, THE AZIRE LIBRARY AND LEARNING CENTER,

ROUTE 9 IN MADHUPAK (146, 70, 0), THE CHILBO COMMUNITY, JEOGEOT, SL

THE CASES …• Ghostly Battles

• Marathon• Edge Hill• Nechtainesmere

• Entering another time• Red coats on the road• Versaille• Medieval Kersey

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THEM• Methods:

• The SPR verification methods• Anecdotes with historical research• Anecdotes simply retold

• Distinguishing between hauntings and visiting the past• Recurrent non-responsive hauntings• Atmospheric features

THEORIES

• Clairvoyant hallucinations• Spirits repeating meaningful moments

without any sense of time• Recurrent hauntings as visual / audio

“replay”• An intrusion of time that bypasses our

chronological filter• Unexpected time travel but of a limited

kind

THE CASESGHOSTLY BATTLES

Pausanias2nd Century AD

Retrieved from wikipedia.com, “Pausanias, the Geographer”

Battle of Marathon, 490 BCERetrieved from ancientgreekbattle.net

The Battle of Edgehill, 1642Retrieved from heritage-history.com

The Battle of Nechtanesmere, 685 AD

Retrieved from http://blogs.forteana.org/node/87

GHOSTLY BATTLES

• Begin soon after the event they depict is over• Reoccur sometimes over centuries• Might be only sounds, distant and faint but identifiable• Might be complete visual suggestions of the original event with sounds,

smells and identifiable individuals• Seem to fade away as the memory of the event fades away• Arising from profoundly emotional moments or sometimes quiet,

pastoral but elaborate

THE CASESENTERING ANOTHER TIME?

Field Museum of Natural HistoryChicago, Illinois

Retrieved from chicago.about.com

British soldiers in a Revolutionary War Re-enactment

Retrieved from notmytribe.com

The Petit TrianonRetrieved from my.opera.com

Annie MoberlyEleanor Jourdain

Retrieved from itdidntcostmeadime.com

Original book cover retrieved from Google books

Adventure retrieved from bookshop.unimelb.edu.au

Ghosts of the Trianon retrieved from rennes-le-chateau-

rhedae.com

Kersey in 1957 Navel Cadets in the 1950sRetrieved from

https://allkindsofhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/chathamcadets‐1940.jpg)

Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-three-

british-boys-traveled-to-medieval-england-or-did-they-35698485/

ENTERING ANOTHER TIME?

• Spontaneous experiences depicting times long past and recent past• Usually one-off reports of a vivid experience• Usually silent or windless or exceedingly still• But might be complete visual suggestions of the original event with

sounds, smells and identifiable individuals• Entry point and exit point, or the “turned away for a second” feature• Sometimes solitary but often shared

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THEMHAUNTINGS

1963, University Books2002, John Murray2016, Arcadia Publishing Retrieved from www.chicagohauntings.com

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THEM• Methods:

• The SPR verification methods• Anecdotes with historical research• Anecdotes simply retold

• Distinguishing between hauntings and visiting the past• Recurrent non-responsive hauntings• Atmospheric features

SPR Leaders

Henry Sidgwick(1838-1900)

Eleanor Sidgwick(1845-1936)

F. W. H. Myers(1843-1901)

Edmund Gurney(1847-1888)

From the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research

ExperimentsRichet, C. (1889). Further experiments in hypnotic lucidity or

clairvoyance.

Theory/ConceptsSidgwick, H. (1889). The canons of evidence in psychical research.

Reports, Analysis, and Discussions of Many CasesSidgwick, Mrs. H. (1885). Notes on the evidence, collected by the

Society, for phantasms of the dead.

Report of a Single CaseMarillier, L. (1891) Apparitions of the Virgin in Dordogne.

Morton, R.C. (1892) Report of a haunted house.

Reports of SéancesHodgson, R. (1892). A record of observations of certain

phenomena of trance.

Methodological DiscussionsEdgeworth, F.Y. (1885) The calculus of probability applied to

psychical research.

www.spr.ac.uk

http://www.spr.ac.uk/publications/psi-encyclopedia

THE SPR METHODOLOGY• Separate interviews with witnesses• Historical information at a deeper level• Floor plans• Attempts to communicate• Emphasis on:

• Independent corroboration• Of testimony• Of historical detail• Of events

McCue & Gauld, JSPR, 2005, Vol 69, pp 78-94

THEORYEXPLANATIONS IN FLUX …

THEORIES

• Clairvoyant hallucinations• Spirits repeating meaningful moments

without any sense of time• Recurrent hauntings as visual / audio

“replay”• An intrusion of time that bypasses our

chronological filter• Unexpected time travel but of a limited

kind

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