Harry Price : British psychic researcher

Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British psychic researcher and author.

Although Price claimed his birth was in Shropshire, he was actually born in London in Red Lion Square othe site of the South Place Ethical Society's Conway Hall. 
He was educated in New Cross, first at Waller Road Infants School and then Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School At 15, Price founded the Carlton Dramatic Society [and wrote small plays including a drama about his early experience with a poltergeist which he said took place at a haunted manor house in Shropshire


Harry Price & a Spirit

A few years later, Price came to the attention of the Press when he claimed an early interest in space-telegraphy.

He set up a receiver and transmitter between Telegraph Hill, Hatcham and St Peter's Church Brockley and captured a spark on a photographic plate, though according to the most recent biography of Price by Richard Morris, this was nothing more than Harry writing a press release saying he had done the experiment as nothing was verified.

The young Price also had an avid interest in coin collecting and wrote several articles for The Askean, the magazine for Haberdashers' School. In his autobiography, Search for Truth, written between 1941 and 1942, Price claimed he was involved with archaeological excavations in Greenwich Park, London but in earlier writings on Greenwich denied he had a hand in the excavation.

The above is from Harry's Wikipedia entry. You can read more on Haryy Price here.

an interview with Harry Price:

Scientist Claims Proof Of Afterlife

Scientist Claims Proof Of Afterlife

Research Finds Accuracy Of Mediums Channeling Dead People

CLEVELAND -- What happens after we die -- do we continue on or is this life the end?

Many of us hope there is an afterlife, and now some Arizona scientists say they have proof through their afterlife experiments.

There are many people who say they have died and come back to life. They claim to have experienced an afterlife, even if for only a short time.
Scientists at The University of Arizona have done extensive research, and say that they have the proof that when we die we continue to live beyond our physical bodies.

"Almost anyone who sees the data says there's something real here," said one of the researchers.

Allison Dubois is a spiritual medium, or someone thought to be able to communicate with the dead.

Christine Vettore was brought in for a reading with Dubois, who attempted to contact Vettore's dead relatives.
"I'm hopeful that there's an afterlife so I can see everybody I've lost already," said Vettore.

It doesn't take long -- within seconds, Dubois says Vettore's daughter is coming through.

It is a gift Dubois says she's had her whole life, but it comes with a lot of criticism.

"I think there are some people that are Charlatans, and with any profession there's going to be some bad apples, so I mean that just goes with the territory, so the ones that are accurate and are legitimate just have to prove themselves," said Dubois.

This reading is part of a science experiment -- Dr. Gary Schwartz, of the University of Arizona, is observing.

The Harvard-trained doctor looked for what he calls hits and misses, or the accuracy of the reading.

He's building on his hypothesis that there is life after death, and that mediums can talk to those who have died. After Vettore's daughter is contacted, Dubois contacted Vettore's brother and mother. She is able nail facts, giving details about the relations that she could not have known beforehand.

For instance, Dubois tells Vettore that her mother knows there's a carrot cake and a bowl of peanuts in her house.

Read more here.

Judge Edmonds

Judge John Worth Edmonds (1816-1874)

John W. Edmonds was one of the most influential early American Spiritualists. After a great public career, as a member of both branches of the New York State Legislature and, for some time, President of the Senate and Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, he resigned the latter position on account of the outcry raised against his Spiritualistic beliefs and, especially, his support of the Fox sisters.


His interest in the Rochester knockings was aroused in early 1851, and the first account of his experiences was published on August 1, 1853, in the New York Courier, in an article "To the Public." In this article, in order to meet the constant attacks against him by the Press, he confessed his complete conversion to Spiritualism and related his experiences. This bold step aroused a tremendous sensation, and a furious controversy arose.

In a letter published in the New York Herald, on August 6, 1853, he wrote:

"I went into the investigation originally thinking it a deception, and intending to make public my exposure of it. Having from my researches come to a different conclusion, I feel that the obligation to make known the result is just as strong. Therefore it is, mainly, that I give the result to the world. I say mainly because there is another consideration which influences me, and that is, the desire to extend to others a knowledge which I am conscious cannot but make them happier and better."

The Fox Sisters

His investigations into mediumship were logical, hard, and indicative of a man of the law. He was very shrewd, and, consistently, his conclusions were the same: spirit out of body can and does communicate with spirit in body.

From: First Spiritual Temple

As time passed on, Judge Edmonds developed mediumship himself. Between the years 1853 and 1854, within a small circle formed with a few close friends, he received many spirit messages and communications. The chief communicators were alleged to be Swedenborg and Bacon.

Science explains materializations

Victor Zammit has a fascinating piece on materializations on his website : Some of you would know that my partner Wendy and I, who are both professionally qualified in Scientific Method and Psychology, have been attending and investigating David Thompson's materializations for almost five years now. We need to remember that it was materializations which convinced some of the greatest scientists this world has ever seen of the existence of the afterlife. I can tell you from personal experience that even if you believe in the afterlife nothing can prepare you for the reality of that first experience of materialization. On more than seventy occasions we have seen guests to the circle speaking directly with and touching their loved ones from the spirit world.

Read more at Victor's website Friday Afterlife Report : here.

Medium Elwood Babbitt lectures at Amherst College

In the later part of the 20th century, Elwood Babbitt carved out a niche for himself in the domain of deep-trance mediumship. Though not as widely-known as Edgar Cayce, Babbitt’s predictions concerning climate change, pole shift, and ancient civilizations caused many to take notice. Some of these have already come to pass. Do you consider predictions to be true and factual, or wild-ass guesses that happen to coincide with reality, and why?