Former COW student founded parapsychology

by Dottie Sines

In a darkened room in Boston in 1926, Joseph Banks Rhine was among those gathered around a table watching Mina Crandon attempt to contact the dead. The famed medium was conducting a séance, and Rhine was observing as research. He later reported in the “Journal of Abnormal Psychology” that Crandon had used trickery. His claim was attacked by some including Arthur Conan Doyle, who ran newspaper ads claiming simply “J.B. Rhine is an Ass.”

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