In this case, Heather believed she was channeling a French perfume saleswoman who supposedly died during the 1930s in the Glen Tavern Inn. The session was an example of automatic writing, in which the spirit of a dead person allegedly communicates through a living person, or medium. 'Are you the lady in white?' Sarah tried again. The pen in Heather's hand moved, but there were no legible words. 'Who is this? Can you give me your name?' Sarah asked. Her sister, Sarah Woodward of Ojai, sat next to her asking questions as Heather's pen looped and scratched. Ventura paranormal investigator Heather Woodward sat in one of the rooms at Santa Paula's Glen Tavern Inn, her eyes closed, her pen moving across a sheet of paper. The following are some beliefs and the percentage of Americans who hold them:ģ1% Telepathy (communication between minds)ģ1% Clairvoyance (power of the mind to predict the future)Ģ0% Reincarnation (rebirth of a soul in a new body)ĩ% Channeling (allowing a spirit to assume control of living person)ħ3% Americans who believe in at least one of the 10 items listed aboveħ6% Americans who said in a 2001 Gallup survey they believed in at least one of the items listed above. The most popular belief is in ESP, or extrasensory perception, followed by a belief in haunted houses. About three in four Americans profess to having at least one paranormal belief, according to a 2005 Gallup survey.

The Paranormal by Sarah Fleming