Jackie Gleason's Parapsychology Collection

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Jackie Gleason's Parapsychology Collection

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Odd yes, but cool all the same. Jackie Gleason's library is at the University of Miami and it includes materials collected over a lifetime on parapsychology.

"The Jackie Gleason Collection includes approximately 1,700 volumes of books, journals, proceedings, pamphlets, and publications in the field of parapsychology, and a lesser quantity of titles relating to the entertainment industry. The Gleason Collection includes both scholarly and popular works published in the United States and abroad. Within the field of parapsychology, the collection offers materials on such topics as: witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception (ESP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reincarnation, mysticism, spiritualism, mental telepathy, the occult, ghosts, clairvoyance, cosmology, demons, hypnosis, life after death, mediums, psychical research, voodooism, and others."

Yes, that Jackie Gleason.


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Oh cool! He's got a "Cherio."

I also have a large collection, but it looks like his stuff pre-dates mine= different generation. Neat!
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Well, I'll be dipped! I never woulda guessed. :wink:
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