In the mid-19th century, the United States went through a period of time called the Spiritualist’s Era. Many people that study ESP believe that spiritualism started because of two sisters- Kate and Margaret Fox who claimed to hear sounds and communicate with a man named Charles B. Rosma. The sisters told people that he was murdered in their house and buried underneath it. By the year 1849, these sisters were the most famous mediums in the whole world. Many people believed them, but only for a while. They eventually started abusing alcohol and many people forgot about them.
“ESP, or extrasensory perception is most easily defined as the ability to perform tasks outside the normal human senses by tapping into the power of the human mind (PC8).” Sometimes, ESP is called the sixth sense, psychic…show more content… Among these are telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, and clairaudience. But, there is also related phenomena such as PK, materialization, levitation, and OBE, OOBE, or out-of-body experiences. The word telepathy comes from two Greek words, “Tele” meaning distance and “Pathy” meaning experience. People who claim to use telepathy say they can read people's minds, thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Clairvoyance users claim to use their abilities to gather information on people, places, things, and events. “Clairvoyants “see” a picture of an event in their mind, “hear” the voices of the dead, “feel” emotions of distant people, “taste a substances without putting it in their mouths, and “smell the scent of a spirit (PC9).” Precognitions are knowledge of future events, such as 9/11 or
