{"id":689,"date":"2008-12-17T20:20:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2008-12-17T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:18:19","slug":"meet-the-man-eager-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-ghost-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/17\/meet-the-man-eager-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-ghost-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man eager to get to the bottom of the ghost mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Published Date: <\/strong> 17 December 2008<\/div>\n<div id=\"ds-byline\" class=\"byline\">By MARK McLAUGHLIN<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<div id=\"ds-firstpara\" class=\"ds-firstpara\">WHILE visiting a friend in hospital, a woman suddenly finds herself transported to a beautiful garden where she is surrounded by friendly people and the sound of happy laughter, in an apparent near-death experience.<\/div>\n<p>A poltergeist takes up residence in a suburban home terrifying the family who move in there, while a man foresees the mortal danger facing his young son just in time to avert a terrible accident.<\/p>\n<p>It all sounds like the stuff of Hollywood psychological horror films \u2013 the kind of thing most of us would probably scoff at if we were told it was happening next door.<\/p>\n<p>But these stories do not come from the imagination of a fiction writer, they are real cases which are being investigated at Edinburgh University.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these stories has been told, perfectly sincerely, to one researcher based at the famous Koestler Parapsychology Institute in recent months, by people who you would otherwise regard as absolutely &#8220;normal&#8221;, sane and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>There, French clinical psychologist Thomas Rabeyron, 27, is undertaking a year&#8217;s research attempting to trace the roots of paranormal experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/features\/Meet-the-man-eager-to.4800144.jp\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published Date: 17 December 2008 By MARK McLAUGHLIN WHILE visiting a friend in hospital, a woman suddenly finds herself transported to a beautiful garden where she is surrounded by friendly people and the sound of happy laughter, in an apparent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/17\/meet-the-man-eager-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-ghost-mysteries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}