In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 People

In 1927, a respected physicist conducted one of the largest experiments into telepathy the world has ever undertaken, involving over 25,000 participants. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Born in 1851, Oliver Lodge was an English physicist whose work was key to the development of radio communication, creating a device that became standard in wireless telegraph receivers after he demonstrated it in 1894 . But he also had other interests and was a member of "The Ghost Club", a paranormal investigation group that counted Charles Darwin and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle amongst its members , and regularly attended seances .

In 1927, Lodge, along with the Psychical Research Society and six collaborators, attempted to investig