Occult Experiments in the Home

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Duncan Barford. Occult Experiments in the Home

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. My sister wore our granddad’s ghost

CHAPTER TWO. A nice place to meet dead people

CHAPTER THREE. I’m the urban shaman

CHAPTER FOUR. The absolute truth

CHAPTER FIVE. Dream yourself awake

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If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

(Charles Fort, 1997: chapter 1).

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The dice had been lying on the carpet where they fell, close to each other, but had then “jumped” apart. You might argue—like the man on the train—that they simply hadn’t finished rolling yet. But it was not that. I’d allowed a good few seconds between each roll whilst I mentally repeated my “command”. It was a movement of a couple of centimetres; exactly the kind of movement you would expect to see if two magnets had been placed side by side with their like-poles facing, so that each repulsed the other.

Nervously I picked them up and rolled again. They felt quite normal as I set them loose. Was it imagination, or did they seem to tumble more slowly than gravity ought to have allowed? But beyond doubt was the result: double six.

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