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Chasing a Rabbit
by Hildur Sif
The rabbit hole goes deeper than you think. Remote viewing, near-death experiences, poltergeists and Project Blue Book: Chasing a Rabbit follows the world's strangest stories back to the people who studied them, and finds out where the trail really leads. Narrated with AI voices from the original articles at chasingarabbit.com.
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The Questionnaire That Could Not Capture What Witnesses Saw
From Project Blue Book's data-hungry forms to Hynek's close-encounter categories, explore the decades-long argument over how UFO witness testimony should be collected and classified. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/ufo-testimony-blue-book-hynek-close-encounters/
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The Condon Report's Methodology and Its Critics
Edward Condon announced his UFO conclusions before the investigation began. A close look at the Condon Report's methodology, its contradictions, and the critics who noticed. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/condon-report-methodology-and-critics/
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What Is Possession — and How Do Researchers Tell It Apart?
From Pierre Janet's Achille to modern parapsychology, how do researchers distinguish possession from psychosis, performance, and genuine anomaly? Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/what-is-possession-researchers-distinguish-psychosis-anomaly/
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The Wildman at the Edge of the Record
A century of giant hominid sightings, suppressed fossil anomalies, and credentialed field research point toward a mystery mainstream science refuses to examine. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/wildman-giant-hominid-reports-cryptozoology-fossil-evidence/
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What Graham Hancock's *Entangled* Proposed About Consciousness
Graham Hancock's novel *Entangled* dramatizes bold ideas about consciousness, shamanic contact, and whether our prehistoric ancestors were truly alone in becoming human. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/graham-hancock-entangled-consciousness-shamanic-contact/
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The Birdman, the Bent Pyramid, and the Predynastic Centre
When sacred sites on three continents share geometry, astronomy, and soul mythology despite millennia of isolation, coincidence starts to feel insufficient. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/birdman-bent-pyramid-predynastic-astronomical-alignments/
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The Forgotten Fieldworker: Christophe Aubeck's Historical Archive
How Chris Aubeck's two-decade archive of pre-modern aerial phenomena shaped Jacques Vallée's landmark research — and why his name rarely leads. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/christophe-aubeck-historical-archive-aerial-phenomena/
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What the Mesmer Expulsion Actually Settled — and What It Left Open
The 1784 Franklin Commission debunked Mesmer's fluid theory — but left the stranger phenomena of animal magnetism entirely unexamined. Here's what history quietly buried. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/mesmer-expulsion-franklin-commission-animal-magnetism/
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The Daemon, the Eidolon, and the Near-Death Life Review
Ancient Greek soul-anatomy and modern near-death experience research reveal striking parallels. What do the daemon, the eidolon, and the life review share? Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/daemon-eidolon-nde-life-review-ancient-soul/
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The Retrocausal Sunrise: Omega Point, Attractors & Psychedelic Time
When retrocausal physics, Teilhard's Omega Point, and psilocybin time-reversal reports all point the same direction, is that a coincidence — or a convergence? Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/retrocausal-sunrise-omega-point-attractors-psychedelic-time/
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The Naturalist Who Preceded the Scientists: Neville's Daimonic Framework
Robert Cummings Neville's process philosophy built a framework for daimonic experience decades before parapsychology needed it. Here's why researchers should pay attention. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/neville-process-philosophy-daimonic-parapsychology/
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The Recurring Testimony of Mary's Witnesses Across Five Centuries
Twenty-two first-person apparition accounts spanning five centuries reveal striking patterns that resist easy explanation — religious, psychological, or otherwise. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/recurring-testimony-marian-apparition-accounts-five-centuries/
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What the Flood Remembered: Geology, Climate, and Myth Converge
Across every continent, cultures recall a catastrophic flood. New geological and climate data suggest these myths may share a single, terrifying origin. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/flood-myth-geology-climate-convergence/
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What Is Remote Viewing — and Why Did the US Government Fund It?
For twenty years the US government secretly funded remote viewing research. Here's what it was, how it worked, and why intelligence agencies took it seriously. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/what-is-remote-viewing-us-government-funded/
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When the Self Splits: Victorian Psychical Research and the Unconscious
How Victorian investigators of ghosts and telepathy stumbled into building the first empirical theory of the unconscious through dissociation and multiple personality. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/victorian-psychical-research-dissociation-unconscious/
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What the Azande Actually Knew About Invisible Causation
The Azande of Central Africa built a sophisticated system for detecting why misfortune strikes specific people. It asks questions Western science quietly ignores. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/azande-witchcraft-invisible-causation-coherent-system/
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The Siddhis as a Research Framework for Psychic Phenomena
How yoga psychology's ancient map of supernormal abilities — the siddhis — became an unexpected research framework for modern parapsychology. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/siddhis-research-framework-yoga-psychology-parapsychology/
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What the Psychedelic Mysteries of Ancient Greece Tell Us About Consciousness
For two thousand years, the rites at Eleusis transformed the greatest minds of antiquity. New research into what they drank may rewrite our understanding of consciousness. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/eleusinian-mysteries-psychedelics-consciousness/
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What Ancient Witnesses Described When They Looked Up
Long before Kenneth Arnold coined "flying saucer," Roman legionaries and medieval monks recorded strange objects in the sky. A careful look at the oldest UFO accounts. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/ancient-medieval-aerial-phenomena-before-ufo-era/
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What Would It Mean If Precognitive Remote Viewing Were Real?
If precognitive remote viewing is real, the implications touch physics, philosophy, and the nature of time itself. We take the evidence seriously and follow it. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/precognitive-remote-viewing-theoretical-implications/
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The Recurring Structure of Veridical Dreams
Across more than a century of case records, a distinct pattern emerges: dreamers who woke with accurate knowledge of distant events they had no way of knowing. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/recurring-structure-veridical-dreams-distant-events/
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What the Scole Experiment Documented: Phenomena, Witnesses, and an Open Question
Inside the Scole Report: what serious psychical researchers witnessed in a Norfolk cellar in the 1990s, and why their 500-page investigation left the question open. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/scole-experiment-documented-phenomena-witnesses-investigators/
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When Close Encounter Accounts Got Stranger Months Later
UFO witnesses often report richer, stranger details months after a sighting. Here's what serious investigators found when they went back and asked harder questions. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/close-encounter-witnesses-deepening-accounts-months-later/
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What Happens to Human Personality When the Brain Stops Running It
From near-death clarity to children's past-life memories, mounting evidence challenges the assumption that mind ends when brain activity does. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/personality-brain-extreme-mental-states-evidence/
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The Mind That Cannot Be Localised: Five Disciplines, One Problem
Neuroscience, physics, parapsychology, philosophy, and consciousness research have each hit the same wall. Here's what they found when they got there. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/mind-cannot-be-localised-five-disciplines-one-problem/
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When Intention Meets Illness: Faith, Prayer, and Healing Research
Decades of lab and clinical studies have quietly challenged the assumption that prayer and healing intention are causally inert. Here's what the research actually shows. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/intention-illness-faith-prayer-healing-research/
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What Happens to a Personality Under Deep Trance
A century of field documentation reveals recurring patterns in trance possession cases — stranger and more structured than believers or skeptics typically admit. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/personality-under-deep-trance-possession-profiles/
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What Vallée's *Dimensions* Revealed When He Mapped 200 Years of Cases
Jacques Vallée mapped 200 years of alien contact reports and found a pattern nobody expected. Here's what *Dimensions* revealed — and why it still matters. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/vallee-dimensions-alien-contact-pattern/
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The Recurring Anatomy of a Haunting: What Investigations Have Found
Across more than a century of on-site research, haunting investigations reveal striking patterns. Here's what the literature shows again and again. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/recurring-anatomy-of-a-haunting-investigations/
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What Happens When a Healer Intends to Heal from a Distance?
From Bernard Grad's mouse experiments to modern cell studies, five decades of laboratory research ask a bold question: can healing intention work across space? Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/distant-healing-intention-laboratory-evidence/
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The Dreaming Mind as Psi Receiver: Dream-Telepathy in the Lab
When researchers brought dream telepathy into the sleep lab, they found something surprising. Here's what decades of careful experiments revealed. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/dream-telepathy-sleep-lab-studies/
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What UFOs Leave Behind: The Physical Evidence Investigators Found
From scorched rings to altered soil, physical trace evidence is the most tangible side of UFO research. Here's what investigators found when they looked closely. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/ufo-physical-trace-evidence-investigators-analyzed/
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When the Body Speaks in Someone Else's Voice
A century of careful documentation on trance mediumship and possession raises questions no tidy explanation has yet answered. Here's what was actually found. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/century-of-trance-possession-cases-documented/
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The Case Against Psi: What the Sharpest Critics Actually Argued
A century of psi evidence has met a shifting wall of skeptical objections. This article examines what the sharpest critics actually argued — and where their reasoning broke down. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/case-against-psi-critics-reasoning-examined/
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The Anticipatory Body: What Lab Studies of Presentiment Reveal
Decades of psychophysiology experiments suggest the human body responds to future events before they occur. Here's what the science of presentiment shows. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/anticipatory-body-presentiment-laboratory-studies/
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Why Do NDE Experiencers All Describe the Same Landscape?
Millions of near-death experiencers across cultures and centuries describe the same landscape. What explains this stubborn, unsettling consistency? Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/recurring-architecture-near-death-experience/
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Why Clairvoyant Impressions Arrive as Symbols, Not Sentences
If extrasensory perception exists, why does it speak in metaphor and imagery rather than clear messages? Exploring the signal-noise problem in spontaneous psi. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/clairvoyant-impressions-symbols-signal-noise-psi/
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The Altered Mind as a Research Tool: Flow, Ecstasis, and Consciousness
How flow states and ecstatic experience have been used as deliberate research tools to investigate whether consciousness extends beyond the brain. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/altered-mind-flow-ecstasis-consciousness-research/
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What the Case Files Revealed: William Roll and the Logic of Poltergeists
William Roll spent decades hunting patterns in poltergeist cases. Here's what his fieldwork — and one unforgettable Kentucky kitchen — revealed. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/william-roll-poltergeist-patterns-case-files/
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What Really Happens in the Hours Before Death
Researchers have documented thousands of deathbed visions across cultures — consistent, repeatable phenomena that challenge the dying-brain explanation. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/deathbed-visions-recurring-phenomena-researchers-documented/
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What Joe McMoneagle Saw When the Army Sent Him to View a Soviet Sub
In 1979, the NSC gave Army officer Joe McMoneagle only map coordinates. What he described—later confirmed by satellite—became one of remote viewing's most compelling cases. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/joe-mcmoneagle-soviet-submarine-remote-viewing/
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What F.W.H. Myers Found in 700 Crisis Apparition Cases
How Frederic Myers and Edmund Gurney built the first systematic study of crisis apparitions—and why Phantasms of the Living still matters today. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/fwh-myers-phantasms-of-the-living-crisis-apparitions/
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What Diana Pasulka Found in the Vatican Secret Archives
Diana Pasulka's *American Cosmic* explores UFO belief as a hidden religion — from the Vatican Archives to Silicon Valley. A review of a remarkable book. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/diana-pasulka-american-cosmic-ufo-religion/
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Inside Vallée's *Passport to Magonia*: Fairy Abductions & UFOs
Jacques Vallée's *Passport to Magonia* reveals a startling pattern: modern UFO encounters and ancient fairy abductions share the same enduring blueprint. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/vallee-passport-to-magonia-fairy-abductions-ufo-encounters/
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Charles Tart's Altered States of Consciousness: The 1969 Anthology
How Charles Tart's 1969 anthology brought dreams, hypnosis, and psychedelics into serious scientific conversation about human consciousness. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/charles-tart-altered-states-of-consciousness-1969/
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What Ingo Swann Discovered When the U.S. Government Asked Him to Visit Jupiter
In 1973, artist and psychic Ingo Swann proposed a remote viewing session targeting Jupiter—months before NASA's Pioneer 10 arrived. What he reported was startling. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/ingo-swann-jupiter-sri-remote-viewing-experiments/
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Children Who Remember Past Lives: What Louisa Rhine Revealed
Louisa Rhine's landmark research into spontaneous ESP cases offers surprising insights into children who remember past lives with verified details. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/children-past-lives-louisa-rhine-spontaneous-esp/
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John Keel's Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis and the Mothman Mystery
John Keel's *Operation Trojan Horse* reframed UFOs not as alien spacecraft but as something far older. Explore his ultraterrestrial hypothesis and the Point Pleasant enigma. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/keel-ultraterrestrial-hypothesis-mothman-men-in-black/
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The Enfield Poltergeist and the Problem of Witness Testimony
What did Richard Wiseman's 2003 séance research actually measure? A close look at witness testimony, the Enfield case, and what the numbers really prove. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/enfield-poltergeist-wiseman-witness-testimony/
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The Soviet UFO Files: What Jacques Vallée Found in KGB Records
When the Soviet Union cracked open its secret UFO files, Jacques Vallée was there. Here's what he uncovered — and why it still matters. Read the full article with sources: https://www.chasingarabbit.com/jacques-vallee-soviet-ufo-kgb-files/
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The rabbit hole goes deeper than you think. Remote viewing, near-death experiences, poltergeists and Project Blue Book: Chasing a Rabbit follows the world's strangest stories back to the people who studied them, and finds out where the trail really leads. Narrated with AI voices from the original articles at chasingarabbit.com.
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