Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
The search for Bridey Murphy
On 29 November 1952 businessman Morey Bernstein of Pueblo, Colorado, hypnotized local housewife Virginia Tighe, who spoke as 'Bridey Murphy', an Irishwoman born in 1798; his 1956 book set off a worldwide craze for past-life regression.
1952 CE · 38.25, -104.61 · status: explained
The sceptical view
Reporters found that Tighe had grown up in Chicago across from an Irish immigrant named Bridie Murphy Corkell and had absorbed Irish lore; the case is a textbook example of cryptomnesia.