At age 14, he wanted an encyclopædia very badly. His parents had to refuse on the grounds that they were apple farmers and a bad harvest had left them short of money. Stanley went to his room and cried. After a while, he began thinking of ways of raising the money himself and his thoughts turned to his rich Uncle Max and how to best approach him for the funds.
   Suddenly, the teenager sat bold upright in bed as a horrible thought flooded his mind: "Uncle Max can’t help me because he’s dead." At that moment, he heard the telephone ring. His mother answered the phone, then began sobbing as his cousin told her that Max had unexpectedly taken ill, was rushed into hospital, and had just died.
   Many years later, Krippner became one of America’s leading psychic investigators.

A friend asked the wife of Prof. F S Luther - a mathematician of Trinity College, Cambridge - if she had a book about the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. She said she did not, but night she dreamed she was giving such a book to her friend. The friend also had a dream in which she received the book from Mrs Luther. Next day the professor saw his wife suddenly turn to the bookshelves, prompted by an unexplained compulsion. She reached down a copy of Century Magazine and it opened immediately at an article entitled "The Homes and Haunts of Emerson"