Abstract

Presents a detailed account of attempts to verify information given at "home circle" sittings by communicators who were unknown to both medium and group. Information was obtained by ouija board and generally involved details of communicator's identity or circumstances of death; various physical phenomena which occurred are described in the appendix. Of those sittings where "drop in" communicators appeared and records were available: 13 were uncheckable, 15 are still unverified, and 10 have been at least partially verified. These cases are interesting in that the common explanation for correct information, that it was obtained telepathically from persons present at the sitting, is inadequate. It is also unlikely in some cases that the information could have been obtained from normal public sources. The medium would have had to apprehend it paranormally from a complex diversity of records, tap the mind of some living person, or make contact with the deceased.