Book Recommendation: Telephone Calls from the Dead

Title: Telephone Calls from the Dead Author: Cooper Year: 2012 Topics: Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC/TCI/ITK) Description: This book is a continuation of research published in 1979 by Rogo and Bayless, "Phone Calls from the Dead" Most Useful Amazon Customer Review:and also in the method he uses to analyze them. Cooper explains that "parapsychology" is not just the study of strange events, but the study of why those strange events happened to a particular person at a particular time. So, in many cases, Cooper is quite open to the possibility that some accounts are hallucinations or dreams, particularly if the person who received the call was grieving for someone they had lost. Cooper also does a very thorough job of looking at other psychological effects -- such as bereavement -- when analyzing different accounts. There is a lot of historical research in the book, and Cooper recounts how anomalous messages have been received over electric communication for quite some time, including an account in 1915 of a wireless telegraph producing messages in Morse code when no messages were being sent and even then the receiving antenna was disconnected. When it comes to telephones, there have been accounts of unusual messages for almost as long as telephones have existed. Cooper breaks the calls into different categories and follows up with the people who reported the experience whenever possible. He also has a chapter where he talks about cases that don't really fit into any of the categories, and another chapter for telephone-related messages

that are allegedly from the dead, such as voicemail and text messages.