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	Bridey Murphy - Skeptic's Dictionary
		Bridey Murphy was a 19th century woman from Cork, Ireland, who began speaking through Virginia Tighe in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1952 when Morey Bernstein, a local businessman and amateur hypnotist, hypnotized her.
		While under hypnosis, she sang Irish songs and told Irish stories, always as Bridey Murphy.
		Was there a red-headed Bridey Murphy who lived in Ireland in the nineteenth century?
	skepdic.com /bridey.html (564 words)

	Bridey Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, 1923 - July 12, 1995) claimed to have been in her previous life.
		In 1952, amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein hypnotized Virginia Tighe in Pueblo, Colorado.
		They concluded that Tighe's "memories" as Bridey Murphy were based on Corkell's tales of her childhood experiences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridey_Murphy (328 words)

	ISS: Chapter 25: The Case of "The Search for Bridey Murphy": C. J. Ducasse
		At the age of 20, Bridey was married in a Protestant ceremony to a Catholic, Brian Joseph McCarthy, son of a Cork barrister.
		Bridey stated also that in her days a big rope company and a tobacco house were in operation in Belfast; and this has been found to be correct.
		The very first of the utterances ascribed to Bridey on the tape of the first session is that (as of age four, i.e., 1802) she had scratched the paint off all her bed, that "it was a metal bed," and that she got an awful spanking.
	www.survivalafterdeath.org /books/ducasse/critical/25.htm (6503 words)

	Coming Back - Chapter 7
		Virginia Tighe, to her last "incarnation," in which she claimed to be a girl named Bridey Murphy, who was born in Ireland in 1798, lived there all her life, and died at age sixty-six in Belfast.
		Under hypnosis, Tighe disclosed details of "Bridey's" childhood home, gave the names of parents, friends, and relatives, and reported many other particulars of her "past life." The book reported that Bridey entered the "spiritual world" at death, only to be reborn again in America in 1923 as Virginia Tighe.
		For example, the subject who thought she was Bridey Murphy claimed to have died in 1864 in her last life, leaving a sixty-year period before her "next incarnation" as Virginia Tighe.
	www.webcom.com /ara/col/books/KR/cb/chapter7.html (2857 words)

	Commentary, August 31, 2001 — Remembering Ireland, Martial Arts Warning, the Penta Saga Again, the Art of Cold ...
		A newspaper reporter from the Chicago American was sent to Ireland to check the items in the Bridey Murphy account against whatever facts could be unearthed in official documents of her alleged existence.
		The story of Bridey Murphy is in large part the story of the childhood of Ruth Simmons [Virginia Tighe].
		Tighe - as Bridey - described the process of kissing of the Blarney Stone and specified that the kisser was held upside-down over a parapet to accomplish this, it established her validity beyond doubt.
	www.randi.org /jr/08-31-01.html (3360 words)

	Bridey Murphy
		The case of Bridey Murphy brought broad attention to the notions of past lives, reincarnation and the use of hypnotic regression to reveal hidden memories.
		In 1952 Virginia Tighe, the wife of a Colorado businessman, was hypnotized by Morey Bernstein.
		A Chicago newspaper made the claim that Virginia Tighe had lived across the street from an Irish woman named Bridey Murphy Corkell when she was a child, causing many to dismiss Bernstein and Tighe as frauds.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/brideymurphy.html (215 words)

	Bridey Murphy - TheBestLinks.com - April 27, Denver, Colorado, Hypnosis, ...
		Bridey Murphy, April 27, Denver, Colorado, Hypnosis, July 12, Pueblo,...
		Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, 1923 in Madison, Wisconsin - July 12, 1995 near Denver, Colorado) claimed to have been in her previous life.
		He 'regressed' her to her alleged past life as a 19th century Irishwoman Bridey Murphy who had allegedly lived about 1798-1864.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bridey_Murphy.html (332 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Woman's story basis for spiritual study 12/12/99
		As Bridey, she married Brian McCarthy when she was 20 years old and settled in a small cottage in Belfast.
		There were Bridey Murphy parties ("come as you were") and Bridey Murphy jokes (parents greeting newborns with "Welcome back.") The book triggered an interest in reincarnation and the use of hypnosis to regress a subject to early childhood, and perhaps beyond.
		Investigators seeking to burst the Bridey Murphy bubble combed the archives in Ireland examining the particulars of the story.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/121299/fea_223-5988.000.shtml (566 words)

	Search for Bridey Murphy review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is an account of the famous "Bridey Murphy" case, in which Morey Bernstein hypnotised Ruth Simmons in the early 1950's, and the Irish character of Bridey from 100 years earlier emerged, giving a detailed account of her life and circumstances.
		For example, "Bridey" was able to demonstrate an old Irish jig, sing parts of a song, and gave numerous geographic, linguistic and historical references which checked out.
		The Bridey Murphy case is a perfect example of a genuine case "hushed" unfairly by debunkers.
	www.ial.goldthread.com /bridey.html (251 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The life after death described by Bridey Murphy is drab and depressing, but it is merely the devil's description of a false estate.
		The Bridey Murphy story is definitely in contradiction to the Bible, and I for one will take the Bible and its true story rather than the falsehoods of the Bridey Murphy story.
		The Bridey Murphy story will lend great strength to the master deception of the devil that the dead go to some other form of life, the moment they expire.
	www.adventist4truth.com /index2.php?HarrisPages=24-bridey_murphy (3216 words)

	Bridey Murphy
		Bridey Murphy was a 19th century woman from Cork, Ireland, who began speaking through Virginia Tighe in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1952...
		Bridey Murphey was, under hypnosis, was able to recall details of a past life.
		The case of Bridey Murphy brought broad attention to the notions of past lives, reincarnation and the use of hypnotic regression to reveal hidden...
	www.inneans.com /paranormal/Bridey-Murphy.html (450 words)

	Fifties Web Pop History - Bridey Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But she became famous as Bridey Murphy, a 19th century woman from Cork, Ireland.
		So in 1956 Bernstein wrote a book, "The Search for Bridey Murphy" which became a bestseller, as did his recordings of her regressions.
		The Chicago American newspaper looked a little closer to home and found a Bridey Murphy Corkell who had lived in Chicago across the street from Virginia Tighe when she was a child.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /pop/bridey.htm (187 words)

	Bridey Murphy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The book and recordings made of the hypnosis sessions became very popular and were turned into a 1956 movie.
		They concluded that Tighe's "memories" as Bridey Murphy were based on her tales of her childhood experiences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bridey_murphy.htm (755 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is it possible to recall past lives through hypnosis?
		The most notorious example of this is the case of Bridey Murphy, which burst upon the scene in 1956 with the publication of a book by hypnotist Morey Bernstein called The Search for Bridey Murphy.
		In subsequent sessions, "Bridey" claimed she had been born in 1798, the daughter of Kathleen and Duncan Murphy.
		Various clues convinced hypnotist Bernstein that Bridey's story was authentic: she used several genuine bits of Irish dialect, she claimed to have patronized a grocer named Carrigan, who had actually had a shop near the neighborhood where she supposedly lived; and so on.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_287.html (2084 words)

	THEISTWATCH FOR JULY 24, 1995 Contents: United States - BABY BOOMERS IN SPIRITUAL CRISIS,
		While her name is known to few people today, the life she claimed to have led as an Irish girl known as Bridey Murphy nearly a century before captured the public imagination, after the story was first publicized in the Denver Post in 1954.
		While many people accepted the story of Bridey Murphy as "proof" of reincarnation the idea that a "soul" is reborn over and over again as it moves toward a state of "perfection" critics pointed out that there was little or no verifiability in Murphy's claim.
		Barker also traveled to Ireland to investigate details in the Bridey Murphy account, but found that "records from the period were far from complete." The renewed interest in reincarnation, along with the technique of "past lives hypnotic regression" resulted in an outpouring of spiritualist, religious, and New Age books on various aspects of the subject.
	www.skepticfiles.org /american/24july95.htm (2710 words)

	Holy Spirit Interactive: Deal Hudson - 12 Myths Every Catholic Should Be Able To Answer
		Perhaps the greatest example of this carelessness is the famous Bridey Murphy case.
		While nothing ever turned up, the case of Bridey Murphy continues to be used to buttress claims of reincarnation.
		As the Bridey Murphy case shows, the claims of past-life regression are always more impressive than the reality.
	www.holyspiritinteractive.net /columns/guests/dealhudson/12_12.asp (512 words)

	Bridey Murphy
		The little nondenominational Christian church down the street from me that has been periodically putting on its sign the words "Great churches are built from relationships, not religion" has now posted the message "Believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved." Seems there are competing schools of thought in that congregation.
		The admirable Patterico posts about a "spoof" of the movie industry that uses original footage from The Shining to make its point and says that, if it's not legal, something is "reaaallllly wrong with copyright." I don't see it, myself.
		This report at Editor & Publisher is mildly disturbing, as Sen. Richard Lugar says that under his new federal shield law, bloggers aren't apt to be protected from being required to reveal their sources.
	bridey.blogspot.com (1637 words)

	Astop: "Fact Sheet Reincarnation, Life after Death, Astral Travel"
		One of the most dramatic incidents in the history of pseudoscience was the Bridey Murphy case, the subject of a best-selling book published in 1956.
		Thus, by asking leading questions and dropping hints, the “hypnotist” can elicit any story whatsoever that is desired.
		Books on reincarnation since Bridey have learned the lesson that stories must be quoted or summarized only very vaguely, and no incriminating details that anyone can check up on.
	icsahome.com /infoserv_articles/astop_reincarnation.htm (1647 words)

	Astral Projection Blog - Journeys into the Astral Realm: The Search for Bridey Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I remember when I was about 8 years old a teacher(who would be fired today in the politically correct world) played the audio tape of the hypnosis sessions with Ruth Simmons a.k.a Bridey Murphy.
		If you are not familiar with this case it probably stands as one of the first true new age breakthroughs mixing hypnosis and regression with reincarnation.
		Under hypnosis she regresses to a past life in Ireland (Bridey Murphy being her Irish name - her real name is Ruth Simmons) and reveals details that were verified as historically correct.
	www.astralrealms.com /blog/2006/01/search-for-bridey-murphy.html (242 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Yes, Virginia, There Is a Bridey -- Jun. 18, 1956
		In the national furor over The Search for Bridey Murphy (TIME, March 19), one rational theory gained ground to explain how a hypnotized housewife in Colorado could "recall" a 19th century existence as Bridey, a redhead in Cork.
		That was the trail that Hearst's Chicago American took in searching for Bridey Murphy.
		The little girl was curious about the Corkell family's Irish background, had a crush on a Corkell boy named John, the anglicized version of Sean—the spectral Bridey Murphy's husband.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,862245,00.html (394 words)

	The Voice: How The Bible Reveals Reincarnation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bridey was born in Cork, Ireland in 1798 and died sixty‑six years later.
		When hypnotized, she claimed to have been Bridey Murphy in a previous life.
		I avidly read each installment and was first in line when the movie came to town.
	www.books1234.net /Reincarnation/captlarryex.html (317 words)

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		Such attempts follow closely the pattern set in The Search For Bridey Murphy as attempts were made to track down the truth of Bridey Murphy's previous existence and gather any information about her life in Ireland.
		One researcher, following the Bridey Murphy pattern, tracked the evidence of a possible return of nineteenth-century feminist / prohibitionist Frances Willard.
		(Such proved true in Bridey Murphy's case also.) (4) Such a lack of specifics is most evident in the Atlantis material.
	www.ciis.edu /cayce/melton.html (4566 words)

	Scifilm -- Musings, THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY (1956)
		A hypnotist discovers that his best subject is capable of dredging up memories of a woman who lived before she was born.
		There is something rather haunting in the concept that some veils might have been pierced here, particularly when we discover that the woman not only remembers Bridey Murphy's life, but also her death and afterlife.
		Whatever its flaws, I have to admit I found this one a lot more interesting than many of the other movies of the time that were inspired by this story.
	www.scifilm.org /musings2/musing845.html (252 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Search for Bridey Murphy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The women allegedly named Bridey Murphy who lived across the street upon further investigation turned out to be the mother of the TABLOID's owner.
		As Carnac the Magnificent might've said to Ed McMahon: "WRONG, reincarnation breath." The "next-door-neighbor-named-Bridey" explanation itself has been thoroughly discredited for 40 years (although the debunkers won't concede this), and this book remains as one of the classics that anyone with an interest in reincarnation must read.
		Though this was not revelaed until after the book was published, it's really too bad that Bridey Murphy turned out to be Bridey Murphy Corkell, an Irish woman who lived across the street from the house that Virginia Tighe grew up in, and Virginia's recollections were childhood memories of Mrs.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553400363 (738 words)

	Amazon.com: The Search for Bridey Murphy: Books: Morey Bernstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Father John, Bridey Murphy, New York, Ruth Simmons, New Amsterdam, Edgar Cayce, Belfast News-Letter, Queen's University, Theresa's Church, Dooley Road, Baylings Crossing, John Lawe's Timber Yard, New Testament, The Green Bay, Cadenns House, Experimental Hypnosis, Honorable Ralph Shirley, James Street, John Craig, Morey Bernstein, Reader's Digest, Roman Catholic, Ruth Mills, Shanti Devi, Gina Cerminara
		The biggest past life she talks about is Bridey Murphy, a woman who lived in Ireland in the 1800s.
		After Bridey died, she was worried about her husband and apparently decided to stay in the house with him until he died.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385260032?v=glance (1473 words)

	PHE: THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The story the shocked the world: Bridey Murphy's reincarnation.
		The Search For Bridey Murphy is the movie that takes you behind the astonishing 1950's headlines...
		and into the amazing world of Bridey Murphy, the 19th-century Irish lass who may have been reincarnated as American housewife Ruth Simmons.
	homevideo.paramount.com /Catalog?cmd=display_product_page&release_id=1577 (103 words)

	Llewellyn's On-line Bookstore: Mystery of Reincarnation: The Evidence & Analysis of Rebirth
		In 1952, an American housewife under hypnosis recalled living a previous life in eighteenth century Ireland as Bridey Murphy.
		This case became widely publicized and sparked a Western interest in reincarnation that continues today.
		With arguments supporting and debunking the validity of the famous Bridey Murphy case and the plausibility of rebirth, how can one intelligently decide if reincarnation is fantasy or truth?
	www.llewellyn.com /bookstore/book.php?pn=J704 (190 words)

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