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The Real Paranormal, a conversation with Stacy Horn and Mitch Horowitz

Date: Wednesday, March 16th
Time: 7pm ( Lecture will start at 7.15 sharp )
Admission: $10
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn NY

A monthly series of provocative and useful dialogues with artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars who broaden our understanding of the ill-considered and the unknown, hosted by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz

Stacy wrote one of the truly great works exploring ESP research,Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory.She and Mitch will discuss the compelling evidence for the reality of ESP and why it hasn't reached the public and also consider the career of pioneering parapsychologist JB Rhine. Stacy will explore some of the extraordinary stories she has produced for NPR's "All Things Considered," including the cold case of five children who disappeared in West Virginia in 1945.

Stacy Horn is a writer, journalist, and contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered," for which she has produced pieces on the 1945 story of five missing five children in West Virginia, the Vatican's search for a patron saint of the internet, and an overview of cold case investigations in the United States. Her books include Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others; The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad; Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir; and Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory

Your Morbid Academy host MITCH HOROWITZ is a writer and publisher with a lifelong interest in man's search for meaning. The PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and One Simple Idea, Mitch has written on everything from the war on witches to the secret life of Ronald Reagan for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, and Time. The Washington Post says Mitch "treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today's raised-voice discussions." Mitch hosts the web series ORIGINS: SUPERSTITIONS, directed by Morbid Anatomy filmmaker-in-residence RONNI THOMAS.