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O'Donnell, Elliott (1872-1965)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...In later life he became a ghost hunter, but first he traveled in...claimed as true stories of ghosts and hauntings. These were...supernatural, he was called upon as a ghost hunter. He also lectured and...reputed hauntings. I believe in ghosts but am not a spiritualist...
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Hudson, Frederick A. (ca. 1877)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...visions. To play the part of the ghost, Hudson occasionally dressed up...the legs of the sitter and of the ghost was ingeniously explained by refraction...Price, in his book Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter (1936; reprinted in 1974), Hudson...
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Tabori, Paul (1908-1974)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost Hunter (1950), the first of several books...Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost Hunter. London: Athenaeum Press, 1950...and Peter Underwood. The Borley Ghosts. N.p., 1973.
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Underwood, Peter (1923-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...A Gazetteer of British Ghosts. New York: Walker, 1975...Gazetteer of Scottish and Irish Ghosts. New York: Bell,1985. — — . Ghosts and How to See Them. North...Light on the Greatest True Ghost Stories of the World. London...The Autobiography of a Ghost Hunter. N.p., ...
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Price, Harry (1881-1948)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Helix Press, 1964. Price, Harry. Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter. London: Putnam,1936. Reprint, New York: Causeway...Tabori, Paul. Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost-Hunter. London: Athenaenum Press, 1930.
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Tillyard, R(obin) J(ohn) (1881-1937)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Till-yard also investigated the phenomena of Eleonore Z ü gun and Stella C. In his book Confessions of a Ghost Hunter (1936; 1974), Harry Price described a visit to Jeanne Laplace, a French clairvoyant, who gave a remarkable series...
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National Laboratory of Psychical Research(NLPR)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Price's death (1948), the collection has existed as the Harry Price Collection, at the Senate House, University of London. Sources: Tabori, Paul. Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost-Hunter. London: Atheneum Press, 1930.
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Austria
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...confirmed. Holzer who was born in 1920, and a naturalized American, became famous in the 1960s for his work as a "ghost-hunter," appearing on television talk shows and serving as a favorite of celebrities. While he continued to pursue his...
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Brocken Tryst
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...phenomena became a talking point in the stifled atmosphere of the 1930s. Sources: Price, Harry. Confessions of a Ghost Hunter. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Reprint, New York: Causeway Books, 1974.
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Pellet Reading (or Billet Reading)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...the procedure suggests a conjuring trick. The psychical researcher Harry Price described in his book Confessions of a Ghost Hunter (1974) how he bought the secret of the trick from a man from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As practiced by fake mediums...
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