F. W. H. Myers

A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained. In the 1863 Wilmot apparition, a wife seemingly appeared aboard the SS City of Limerick. Others reached for telepathy or a shared apparitional drama. F. W. H. Myers went further. He argued that her consciousness really travelled to the ship. Decades later he joined the inquiry at Ballechin House, among about 40 guests who came and went in 1897, alongside Oliver Lodge, while raps, footsteps and a speaking voice filled the record.

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The Wilmot Apparition: A Wife Seen Aboard the SS City of Limerick (1863)

October 1863 · Stateroom aboard the steamer City of Limerick, North Atlantic, between Liverpool and New York (Mrs Wilmot at Watertown, Connecticut)

International waters

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources

20Thinly documented

Psychical researcher; proposed the excursive explanation

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The Hornby Apparition

c. 1875 · Hornby's residence, British settlement, Shanghai

China

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 10 sources

14Thinly documented

SPR researcher, co-author of the 1884 article

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The Watseka Wonder: Lurancy Vennum and the Return of Mary Roff

July 11, 1877 · Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois (Roff house, 300 E. Sheridan Street; Vennum house, 135 S. Belmont Avenue)

United States

Paranormal · Other · 31 sources

35Partially documented

Ballechin House haunting and the Society for Psychical Research inquiry

February 1897 · Ballechin House, near Grandtully, Strathtay, Perthshire, Scotland

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

32Partially documented

Society for Psychical Research; stayed 12 to 22 April 1897