Phantasms of the Living with Simon Thought
This podcast series is a review and discussion of case studies from the seminal, two volume, massive work known as “Phantasms of the Living” published in 1886 by the Society for Psychical Research in England. The Society was made up both skeptics and believers in the paranormal and conducted research into various areas in an attempt to prove whether such phenomenae were real or not.
Episodes
10 episodes
Cases Received Too Late
At last, Season 1 comes to a close with "Cases Received Too Late for Insertion in Their Proper Places”, which covers, as the title suggests, late entries which did not get codified before the Phantasms of the Living book was published. Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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28:00
Visual Cases
This episode covers people who actually see an apparition. These are just seven straight-up ghost stories. Back again and commercial-free.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:41
Frightening Apparitions
Seven, commercial-free case studies of people who saw apparitions. Were they experiencing hallucinations, or were they being visited by ghosts?
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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33:29
Mental Pictures
This episode tells five stories of telephathy of various types, from the banal to the horrific. Now, commercial-free.
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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24:03
Phantasms of the Dead: “More Drama”
This episode is a second dip into Hereward Carrington's book "Phantasms of the Dead". While all of the stories told so far in this podcast have been interesting, or at least the methods of investigation into them have been interesting, th...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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19:14
Phantasms of the Dead: “Haunted Houses”
As I mentioned in the last episode, oh so long ago, the book entitled “Phantasms of the Dead” came into my possession. What we are going to do in this episode is take a break from the "Phantasms of the Living" case studies so we can delve...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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21:18
Reasonable Dreams
This episode comes from Chapter 8 of Volume 1 which is entitled “Dreams”, meaning cases of paranormal events which appear to a person while sleeping, which are considered a link between impressions received telepathically and those directly obs...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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21:43
Discount Wraiths
This episode comes from Chapter 18 of Volume 2 which is entitled “Collective Cases”, meaning cases of paranormal events which appear to more than one person at a time.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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21:43