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The Boom in Paranormal Belief After the Second World War
There was a very famous investigator in the 20th century named Harry Price. He worked sometimes with the Society for Psychical Research. And he took her into a laboratory setting and he turned out the lights, let her do her thing and then turned the lights on during the middle of it. They caught her sitting there with this white cheesecloth dangling out of her mouth. So horrible. But that was taking place in the Second World War. I did read somewhere that after the First World War in particular, there was another big boom in psychics. Because so many people died that you would want to make contact.
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