Not everyone believes in ESP, but I wondered about it when I was young. I wondered how my parents could tell what I had just done that I shouldn't have done. All they had to do was look at me and they knew what my crime had been. I figured they must have ESP-- extra-sensory perception, which might enable them to read my mind. When I was older, I spent time researching the possibilities of ESP...and wrote a book about it entitled How to Read Your Mother's Mind. I have my doubts about ESP, too--it just doesn't work the way we want it to (and don't ever waste the money to call a telephone psychic, no matter how nice and friendly he or she is).

Still, I have had a number of interesting ESP experiences in my life. One involves my book The Very Real Ghost Book of Christina Rose. The novel is set in a fictional California town called North Klondike. In the book, Christina and her family move to a haunted pink Victorian house in North Klondike. After I finished the book in February 1994, I went to California and visited some small towns in the vicinity of "North Klondike"--mostly because I had never been to that part of California before. In one really small town very near where I had set the imaginary N. Klondike, I discovered a restaurant named the Klondike Cafe. I also discovered that this particular town had a Victorian house said to be haunted--of course, the house was painted pink! How could I have imagined these coincidences? I don't know. Maybe a little ESP was involved (and if it wasn't, it's still fun to think so!).

I've included a few stories taken from my book here, as well as a few ESP-type activities. You can try them out and see what you think.

 

ESP Story 1: Animal Psychics (can dogs and other animals really predict the future?)

ESP Story 2: Analyzing an ESP Story (Just because someone writes a "true ESP story", you can check if the facts are correct...here's how)