Olof Jonsson

Olof Jonsson (1918-1998) was a Swedish-American engineer and psychic.[1][2]

He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He later moved to Chicago where he worked as an engineer. In 1953, he was tested in a series of ESP experiments by the parapsychologist J. B. Rhine at Duke University.[3] He was caught cheating in the experiments.[4]

Jonsson is most notable for his long-distance telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Four psychics on earth were chosen to receive telepathic signals from astronaut Edgar Mitchell in space. The experiment was a complete failure.[5][6]

References
  1. "Olof Jonsson, Engineer, Psychic". Chicago Tribune.
  2. "Prominent Swedish-born psychic Jonsson dies at 79". Las Vegas Sun.
  3. Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-7864-2770-3
  4. Semitjov, E. (1979). Mellan dröm och verklighet. Askild & Kärnekull.
  5. Christopher, Milbourne. (1975). Mediums, Mystics & the Occult. Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 105-106. ISBN 0-690-00476-1
  6. Randi, James. (1982). Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-198-3

Further reading
  • Brad Steiger. (1971). The Psychic Feats of Olof Jonsson. Prentice-Hall
  • Olle Holmberg. (1968). Den osannolika verkligheten. Stockholm: Bonniers
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