If you are searching for further information, other than what you find on this site, do not consult Wikipedia: Go instead to the Psi Encyclopedia created by the Society for Psychical Research. The references they cite are mostly those of other pseudo-skeptics. These zealous psi-deniers use innuendo and half-truths to denigrate anything to do with anomalous phenomena. The anti-psi bias of some news outlets and especially the gross distortions and outright untruths of pseudo-skeptics on Wikipedia also misleads the public. Consequently what a scientist might recognize or study in private he (or she, but it’s usually he) will not acknowledge publicly. “Professional” scientific journals will not publish findings, and the media will deride reports if they report them at all. If you believe them you are not worthy of being a scientist…” All reported cases are examples of fraud. According to the skeptics: “These powers defy the known laws of physics –- It’s impossible for them to exist, therefore they don’t exist. The vast literature and acknowledgement by famous scientists and researchers of the last two centuries is completely ignored by them and any interest in or acceptance of these occurrences by a member is taboo. Unfortunately these rare occurrences are considered by most mainstream scientists as either fraudulent tricks or delusions. I hope, too, that you are inspired to ask the kinds of questions that might eventually lead to solving these mysteries. Palladino caused the table to levitate seven times in the fully-lighted room.I hope that the rare people, with extraordinary abilities that you encounter here, will lead you to understand that there is much to be learned about human potential.

Paris, 1898: Scientists and researchers carefully observe Eusapia Palladino during a séance at the home of Camille Flammarion. These phenomena as well as others such as telepathy and precognition all fall under the heading of psi, as the next-to-last letter of the Greek alphabet (ψ) pronounced “sigh.” You will find discussions of puzzling phenomena such as levitation, anomalous knocks or “spirit raps,” phantom apparitions, materialization and dematerialization, metal-bending, so-called “ poltergeist” outbreaks and other seemingly “impossible” occurrences. You won’t find religious judgments or spiritist interpretations here. As the name Séance Science suggests, the focus of this site will be on facts, on what scientists and others have observed and reported.

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