PARTICIPANT 079 GUIDE TO SCORING 0 = Nothing in your perception of the object was generally or specifically accurate. +1 = One or two general things from your perception correlated with the object or owner's life. +2 = Several specific things from your perception correlated with the object or owner's life. +3 = Your reading generally was on target, with at least a few specific details, about the object and/or owner's life. +4 = Your reading specifically was on target about the object and/or owner's life. +5 = An incredibly accurate perception of the object and/or owner's life from beginning to end of reading. OBJECT G - "PERFUME BOTTLE" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Italian 2 Grandmother 3 with white hair 4 (fluffy white hair) 5 Sweet, kind 6 Elderly 7 Apple cheeks, rosy cheeks 8 She went to church 9 This is the fragrance of another generation – not modern 10 Crinoline evening dress 11 Knee-length poofy skirt 12 Pastel colours: pale blue or green 13 A special event, like a dance or a party 14 1950s 15 Has this person passed away? 16 Stored in a jewelry box 17 lined with red velvet OBJECT G - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT OWNER: This object was lent by a female of Chinese descent born in 1984 who lives on her own in a sixth floor condo in downtown Toronto. She graduated a few years ago with a university degree in the fine arts, actively shows her artwork, and works a retail job part-time. She has travelled through Europe, the U.S., China and Hong Kong. She has a boyfriend who does not live with her. She has not had any psychical experiences. STORY OF THE OBJECT: The object she submitted was a bottle of perfume with a dent in it. Her mother gave it to her one day, but she disregarded it because she does not wear perfume and she crammed it into her bathroom cupboard. One day, it fell out (thus the dent) and she found a note in the box that she hadn’t seen from her mother telling her she was so happy her daughter had grown into a woman. This was meaningful, because her mother is not the type of person who openly expresses such feelings. Also, the daughter had recently lost her virginity – and her grandmother had died around that time. Had the object not fallen out of the cupboard, it would never have had such meaning. RESULT = 0 Owner of object and experimenter found no correlation between what was perceived from the object and the object itself or the owner's life. OBJECT C - "BROOCH" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Tidy, orderly person 2 Does this belong to a man? (masculine energy) 3 Makes me think of cuff links more than women’s jewelry 4 May be stored together with men’s jewelry and personal items, for example a tie clip 5 Image on the box makes me think "Roman" 6 The name “Sam” comes to mind 7 Was worn at the collar (buttoned) 8 as opposed to the left or right side/lapel 9 Are there earrings in a similar shape/colours/cut of the stone? OBJECT C - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT OWNER: The owner of this object is a Caucasian, Catholic female born in 1958. She was raised and still lives in the Niagara region of Ontario. She is married with two sons and daughter (all currently in their 20s), and has a dog. She has worked in a variety of administrative jobs. She has travelled in North America. She reported having a variety of highly intuitive experiences in her life, including a religious vision. STORY OF THE OBJECT This woman submitted a replica of a British Royal Family sapphire brooch. It was given to her by her youngest son in 2005 as a Christmas present, purchased from his place of employment. It is kept in a small cardboard box in a chest on the top of her dresser in her bedroom. She values the object because her son put a lot of thought into selecting it. The original brooch had been given to Queen Victoria. The son felt this was significant because it was given to the Queen on the day after his mother’s birthday. The first object this woman submitted for the Psychometry Experiment was lost in the mail (but luckily later retrieved), so she submitted the brooch instead. RESULT = 0 While it is true the owner is a tidy, orderly person, she and the experimenter found no correlation between what was perceived from the object and the object itself or the owner's life. OBJECT F - "MINI-TRUMPET" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Band hand 2 Open air 3 Something like Montezello Park grass 4 Crisp shirts with long sleeves 5 Evening performance 6 Something about the 1930s or 1940s 7 Thin man 8 Round-shaped glasses 9 Stripes on awnings (red and white) 10 Band leader – big band? 11 Toy 12 Small boy 13 with short pants 14 Early part of century 15 Kneeling, playing on grass OBJECT F - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT This was a “control object” in the experiment, purchased by the experimenter, Chris Laursen, new from a shop that has good from around the world on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario. Once purchased, it was kept in the original bag and hidden away behind books in one of his bookshelves. It was only removed once the Psychometry Experiment commenced, at which point, it was stored on a shelf in boxes with all of the other objects used in the experiment. The idea was to see if those reading could perceive this was a control object in some way. RESULT = 0 Experimenter found no correlation between what was perceived from the object and the object itself or the owner's life. OBJECT D - "PLAQUE OF VIRGIN MARY" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Comes from an older woman’s home 2a Hanging in the kitchen 2b or maybe in the bedroom 3 very sad 4a Connected to the loss of someone 4b (perhaps a baby) 5a There are a lot of people connected to / looking at the object 5b They seemed to be tanned 6 Something has been forgotten concerning this object or the circumstances OBJECT D - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT OWNER: The owner is Chris Laursen, a Caucasian university student born in Alberta in 1974 who was living in downtown Toronto at the time of the experiment in an apartment by the harbour with an art student. He studies history, and is making this his second career after having worked in the media as a journalist and then administrator. He was working at a broadcasting association at the time, and was about to return to university to prepare for graduate school. He has travelled in North America, South America and Europe. STORY OF THE OBJECT: This object was purchased a few months prior to the Psychometry Experiment by Chris Laursen from eBay. The previous owner (who lived on Long Island, New York, and claimed to be a paranormal investigator, although this could not be verified) of the plaque contended that it was from a haunted house in Belmez, Spain, where in the 1970s faces inexplicably appeared on the floor (as if they were painted or drawn with charcoal). Laursen was sceptical that this object actually originated from this house, and thought it would be interesting to test it in the experiment to see what people would get from it. RESULT = 0 It is hard to correlate the accuracy of any reading on this object given the circumstances. However, no aspects of the experimenter's life, how the object was obtained, or its alleged history were perceived in the reading.