Sabine, William H(enry) W(aldo)(1903-1994)

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Sabine, William H(enry) W(aldo)(1903-1994)

Author, historian and writer on parapsychological subjects. He was born on April 2, 1903, in Birkenhead, England. He was educated in private schools and emigrated to the United States in 1947. Before leaving England, Sabine taught at schools in Middlesex and London. In the United States he worked as an author, editor, and book dealer from 1947 onward, and he completed a number of books on American and European history. He had a number of spontaneous psi experiences, mainly of a precognitive kind, some of which he recorded in his book Second Sight in Daily Life (1949). He died on July 13, 1994.

Sources:

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.

Sabine, William Henry Waldo. "Is There a Case for Retrocognition?" Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 44 (April 1950): 43-64. Reprint as Surveys in Parapsychology. Edited by Rhea A. White. 1976.

. A Prophecy Concerning the Swedish Monarchy. N.p., 1968.

Strommenburg, Aaders Gabriel. A Prophecy Concerning the Swedish Monarchy As It was Related in 1809. New York: Colburn & Tegg, 1968.

. Second Sight in Daily Life. New York: Coward-McCann, 1949.

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