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"Here, Mr. Splitfoot"

其他書名	An Informal Exploration Into Modern Occultism
出版	Viking Press, 1971
主題	Body, Mind & Spirit / OccultismBody, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / General
ISBN	06703687689780670368761
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GycNAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The Fox sisters of Rochester, New York, may have turned out ultimately to be toe-cracking frauds, but it was their debut that opened the door to the golden age of the psychic on both sides of the Atlantic. In point of fact, the rapping and knocking of a Fox seance is but one tiny episode in Robert Somerlott's hugely entertaining, sometimes appallingly eerie, exploration into that region of psychic phenomena known as -- the Unexplained. It is a story that ranges back to the Elizabethans and forward to today, but the bulk of it lies in the nineteenth century, when occult stardom shone most brightly. Consider the great Eusapia Palladino of Naples, 'the Amazon of the occult,' whose trials and tribulations in proving her powers easily dispel any notion of a happy medium. The fact that she was caught in fraud on occasion has obscured her many feats of genuine telekinesis, for she could, in a trance, move heavy furniture and confound the severest of her investigators. But it was Mrs. Leonora Piper of Boston who outdid them all. Outwardly the most ordinary of women, she still defies any explanation. The famous 1889 'Uncle Jerry' test, in which she answered questions about certain of the audience's relatives about whom she could not possibly have knoen before, including facts even they did not know, makes her the most disturbing riddle a materialist can encounter. Ascribe these powers to whatever one will, to ESP or mental telepathy or spirited ghosts, after reading 'Here, Mr. Splitfoot,' one will find ignoring the whole matter very difficult indeed."--front flap.