Unbelievable - (P.S.) by Stacy Horn (Paperback)

About the Book

Investigates the scientific community's attempts to prove or disprove the existence of the paranormal world, tracing a half century of ghost stories and other unexplained phenomena as investigated by a Duke University team.

From the Back Cover

From The Sixth Sense to Medium, Ghost Whisperer to Ghost Hunters, the paranormal stirs heated debate, spawning millions of believers and skeptics alike. Nearly half of us say we believe in ghosts, and two-thirds of us believe in life after death.

What would you make of rain barrels that refill themselves? Psychic horses? Mind-reading Cold War spies? For a group of scientists at the Duke Parapsychology Lab under the leadership of Dr. J. B. Rhine--considered the Einstein of the paranormal--such mysteries demanded further investigation. From 1930 to 1980, these dedicated men and women attempted to test the bizarre, the frightening, and the unexplainable against the rigors of science, ultimately finding proof that the human mind possesses telepathic powers.

Review Quotes

Praise for THE RESTLESS SLEEP: "Masterful storytelling." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Gripping." - Entertainment Weekly
"Author Stacy Horn dissects all the things that go bump in the night--ghosts, poltergeists, your ex-boyfriend Klaus--in the macabre book Unbelievable." - Marie Claire
"A sympathetic . . . history of parapsychology investigations at Duke University . . . solid on the details of Rhine's life and work." - Kirkus Reviews
"Some of the explanations here, backed by scientific fact, will send shivers up readers' spines." - Bust Magazine
"A good read, almost like a novel . . . quite accurate." - Charles Tart, veteran parapsychologist
"Unbelievable gives a comprehensive and very interesting account of the scientific studies in Parapsychology . . . fascinating." - Elizabeth McMahan, former Duke Parapsychology Lab scientist