May 30, 2012

Communicating with the dead… What do you believe?

By Patrick Keller

 

It has been a while since I’ve done one of these. Can you match the categories with the correct columns? (Don’t think too hard on this one.)

Find the answers in the comments. 

(From the Baylor Religion Survey, 2005, n = 1636)

 

 

1. Strongly Agree

2. Agree

3. Undecided

4. Disagree

5. Strongly Disagree

 

 

Source: Bader, C., Mencken, F, & Baker, J. (2010). Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture. New York & London: New York University Press.

 

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About Patrick Keller

Patrick Keller is an educator, blogger, and the host of the Big Séance Podcast, which is a place for paranerds to have an open discussion on all things paranormal, but specifically topics like ghosts and hauntings, paranormal research, spirit communication, psychics and mediums, and life after death. He’s the founder of the now inactive Missouri Spirit Seekers and has spent a lot of time experimenting with spirit communication tools and techniques, such as EVP. Patrick also has a passion for spending hours at a time in cemeteries and loves cemetery photography. Visit BigSeance.com! View all posts by Patrick Keller

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7 responses to “Communicating with the dead… What do you believe?”

• Patrick
  May 30th, 2012 at 1:52 pm

  ANSWERS:

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D
  5. E

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• LeeAllenHoward
  May 30th, 2012 at 2:24 pm

  I’m a 1.A. 🙂

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  • Patrick
    May 30th, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    Me too! 🙂

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• Maria Laing
  May 30th, 2012 at 5:18 pm

  Wow, I am surprised that so few believe! I believe I am in the minority. I would have thought there were more!! Thanks.

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  • Patrick
    May 30th, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    Ya know… I bet with the whole paranormal craze that has happened since 2005, the numbers are probably drastically different.

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• Paranormalogistically
  November 22nd, 2013 at 4:38 am

  1.A of course. You know, there might be an increase in that percentage since this post… been a lot of waking up going on in the last year or so.

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  • Patrick Keller
    November 25th, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    Yeah I’d LOVE for them to come out with an update to this book if there were newer statistics available. It is fascinating.

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