Moved by the spirits: Some hair-raising ghost stories come to light (Seattle Times)

The real center of “Ghost Hunters” is not, as its subtitle suggests, William James, the American pioneer in psychology and researcher in the paranormal, but Leonora Piper, a Boston housewife, mother and paranormal phenomenon. Her astounding capacities as a medium captured the attention, and often the approbation, of not only James but a crowd of 19th-century scientists.