Deer Thoughts
On the same day in September, 1913, two mediums sat in two separate sessions, one in Paris and the other 200 miles away near Bordeaux. Three short un-connected phrases are transmitted in the Paris session while an original and rather lengthy story with three obvious gaps is written at the other. The three Paris pieces perfectly fit the gaps in the longer story. [Case #54]

A Cameo Reappearance
In the1930s, the spirit of movie star Olive Thomas came through unexpectedly to a member of the American Society of Psychical Research to urge him to tell her mother that her death was due to an accident and was not a suicide as had been widely reported. Among the evidence that was revealed was the location of a cameo that all had assumed was lost. [Case #64]

The Picture of Raymond Lodge
Sir Oliver Lodge, a renowned physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, lost a son in WWI. He and his family, in six sessions with three mediums, receive many messages convincing them that they were talking to his son. The most convincing, because it rules out mind reading, is the description of a picture of the young man, taken in France, that they do not receive until several months later. [Case #62]

Soule Proves the Soul
A medium in America sits for the sister of a woman in Germany who is seeking proof of her deceased husband's continuation. Through several sittings she provides numerous specific facts that are only known to the wife in Germany. In addition, the researcher has a conversation in German with the spirit, a language not known by the medium. [Case #56]

Friends and Strangers
A researcher arranges séances for over 150 persons, of whom about 30 were friends or acquaintances of the medium's controlling spirit. In almost every instance, the visitors whom the control knew in life are recognized with "the appropriate emotional and intellectual relations," while those he had not met are treated as strangers. There are two apparent exceptions, but they provide the most convincing evidence. [Case #48]

The Phantom Fingertips
Over a period of two years, three different mediums ask a sitter if he remembers a man named Kennedy who was missing two fingertips. While he knows of such a person, he is unaware that the man had died. Investigation confirms the death, the cause of it, and the identity of several of his friends as mentioned by the mediums. [Case #41]

The Mysterious Death of Edgar Vandy
In the mid 1930s, because of the unexplained issues surrounding Edgar Vandy's death by drowning, his brothers attend a series of séances using several sitters and five different mediums that provide a strong argument against the "Super ESP" hypothesis. [Case #39]

An Untimely Valentine
The Ginsbergs founded The Forever Family Foundation after being convinced that they were really hearing from the spirit of their daughter in a special telephone reading that was designed by psychologists to eliminate mind reading as a feasible explanation. [Case #35]

The A.B.C. Séances
In the early 1900s, a researcher and his professional magician friend have four sessions with a farmer's wife in a remote village in West Virginia. In spite of their extreme precautions to hide their identities from anyone in the village as well as the medium, the spirits came through addressing each by name and providing a great deal of relevant information including some not yet known by either. [Case #30]

A Very Confidential Secretary
A spirit unknown to the medium requests that she contact a man the medium does know. Over several sessions she provides 15 pieces of specific information that are later confirmed. [Case #26]

A New Meaning for "Soul Mate"
A chess game between two chess masters, one living and the other in spirit, is conducted through communications by a non-chess-playing medium. Many obscure details of the deceased player's life are revealed and confirmed. [Case #24]

Relics Revealed & Revisited
Over a period of 20 years, a couple were directed to dig up 1500 pre-Christian crosses and hundreds of finds of gold, silver and paper money by the spirits of Indians and Christian missionaries of the mid 1800's. Subsequent to the couple's death, Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer-prize author, works with a medium to contact the original couple and their Indian and missionary associates and is guided to additional artifacts. [Case #15]

The R-101 Disaster
In a sitting at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research on October 7, 1930, two days after the explosion of the R101, Flight Lieutenant H. C. Irwin, captain of the airship, interrupted a séance with medium Eileen Garrett and gave a highly technical account of how the ship crashed. [Case #14]

Evidence By The Book
The control of a famous medium tells a researcher that his deceased father has devised a test to show that the medium is not just reading minds. The son is directed to go to his bookshelf and select the fifth book from the left and look at the third line from the top of page 17. The selection perfectly answers a question that was discussed at the sessions. [Case #11]

Uncle Jerry's Watch
A medium in trance is provided with a watch by the researcher. She immediately identifies the both the present owner and the deceased original owner. The latter proceeds to answer questions about his own boyhood with his brother, supplying details known to no single person but later confirmed. [Case #10]