After Professor Sylvia Hart Wright's husband Paul died in 1983, Wright and her son jointly had an experience which suggested that Paul was trying to contact them. At this time two of his male friends reported similar events. This was startling to people steeped in the scientific method and agnosticism! Scholar that she was, Wright started researching the writings of doctors and social scientists on such phenomena and in time interviewed almost a hundred healthy, everyday people who had sensed contact with the dead. "When Spirits Come Calling: The Open-Minded Skeptic’s Guide to After-Death Contacts, is the book which grew out of this work."

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Professor Wright left her position at the City University of New York in 1991 to devote herself full-time to afterlife research.