Mike Lamp

Historical background and foundational material on psychic traditions, notable figures, early theories, and how these ideas developed over time 📜

J. W. Dunne Dream Experiments Began With a Man Who Should Have Known Better Than to Believe Them In the early 1900s, a British aeronautical engineer began keeping a notebook beside his bed. Every morning, before he spoke to anyone or read a newspaper or allowed the ordinary events of the day to crowd into […]

Ted Serios Psychic Photographer Began as the Last Person Anyone Expected Most unexplained stories in psychic history begin with someone unusual. A medium from a prominent family, a mystic with a following, a performer who built a career around mysterious abilities. The story of Ted Serios begins in a Chicago bar with a bellhop who […]

Arthur Ford’s Incredible Message From Beyond Harry Houdini died on Halloween night, October 31, 1926. He was 52 years old, and he left behind a world that had watched him escape from handcuffs, locked trunks, submerged crates, and sealed milk cans for three decades. But the one thing the great Houdini could not escape was […]

Jeane Dixon Prediction: That Made a Legend The Woman Behind the Headlines Jeane Dixon was not simply a fortune teller who found a wide audience. She was a carefully cultivated public figure, a Washington fixture, a syndicated columnist, and a media personality who shaped how millions of Americans thought about prophecy, fate, and the limits […]

Stage Psychics: Vaudeville’s Powerful Mental Acts The curtain rises on a dimly lit stage. A man in formal evening wear stands before an audience, eyes closed, fingers pressed to his temples. A woman in the third row has written something on a slip of paper. Without looking, without asking a single direct question, he describes […]