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created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
title: Bill Church
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
tags:
- person
- philanthropist
- scientist
description: Bill Church was a philanthropist and amateur scientist, known for being a part owner of Church's Fried Chicken and an early funder of Hal Puthoff's psi research.
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- SRI
summary: "Philanthropist and part-owner of Church's Fried Chicken who provided initial funding for Hal Puthoff's psi research at SRI."
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[[Bill Church]] was a philanthropist and amateur scientist, known for being a part owner of [[Church's Fried Chicken]]. In the early 1970s, he provided [[Hal Puthoff]] with ten thousand dollars in initial funding to begin his [[Parapsychology|psi]] experiments at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]]. This private funding was crucial in the nascent stages of the remote viewing research program, preceding the involvement of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].[^1]
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