Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Hernani Andrade's psychical research institute
In 1963 the engineer Hernani Guimarães Andrade founded the Brazilian Institute for Psychobiophysical Research (IBPP) in São Paulo. It collected Brazilian poltergeist and reincarnation cases for decades.
1963 CE · -23.56, -46.64 · status: official
The account
Andrade worked with Guy Lyon Playfair, and with Ian Stevenson on Brazilian children who said they remembered past lives. He wrote on poltergeists and on a theory of a 'biological organising model'.
The sceptical view
The institute worked within a Spiritist framework, and its case reports were not independently replicated.