Stacy Horn of NPR talks about exorcism and her new book UNBELIEVABLE

UNBELIEVABLE - on sale 3/10/09. Rain barrels that refill themselves. Psychic horses. Mind-reading Cold War spies. For many, these phenomena are evidence of an unseen world just beyond our grasp, and for a group of scientists at Duke University, it was evidence that demanded further investigation. From 1930 to 1980, under the leadership of Dr. JB Rhine-the Einstein of the paranormal-these scientists were queried by the likes of Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung and Helen Keller; the US Army, IBM, and Zenith seized upon their findings. Sciences forays into the paranormal would be a multi-decade battle between unyielding critics, die-hard believers, and scientists themselves. In 50 years, much remained unexplained-and yet Horn reveals that between the power of belief and the promise that science will keep exploring, there is room for everyone to acknowledge that the truth is out there.

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• paranormal
• exorcism
• ghost
• hunters
• telepathy

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Well, it's an accurate title anyway.