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Price moved in for a year in 1937, and documented his findings — later disputed in a 1956 study known as “The Borley Report,” which led to a schism in psychical research circles.

They flocked to the Isle of Man to learn more about the ghostly mongoose, and the worldwide attention the case garnered sparked an investigation by the International Institute for Psychical Research, a London-based group that claimed it could test various phenomena to determine if they were real.

Her book “The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I” conveys the emotional, physical and psychical effects of having an injured and altered face, directly from those who had to deal with them.

Mr. Stoney had been a member since his 20s of the American Society for Psychical Research and had amassed a collection of more than 1,000 books and other materials on the paranormal and the possibility of life after death.

This spooky true-crime book tells the enthralling story of an investigator at the International Institute for Psychical Research in 1930s London who joins ghost clubs and attends séances while he investigates a woman believed to be harboring a mischievous spirit in her home.