---
aliases:
- Harry Stump
- Harry Stone
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
tags:
  - Psi
  - Person
  - RemoteViewer
summary: "Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler whose trance states, automatic writing and drawings drew the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors."
born: 1923
died: 1998
location: "Netherlands"
---
Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of [[Andrija Puharich]] and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings and drawings[^1].

Stump was a [[World War II]] resistance fighter in his native Holland, honored by the Dutch government for his work against the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]]. He was captured, beaten, and tortured by the [[Gestapo]] during the war[^1].

Puharich met Stump at a dinner party hosted by [[Alice Astor Bouverie]]. In June 1954, Bouverie contacted Puharich about an incident where Stump, after handling a 3,400-year-old scarab-shaped necklace, entered a trance state and began drawing Egyptian hieroglyphs and speaking in a guttural voice, seemingly channeling an entity from ancient Egypt. During this trance, Stump spoke of "a drug that would stimulate one's psychic faculties" and drew a picture of a mushroom, which Puharich later identified as *Amanita muscaria*[^1]. This event was significant as it provided the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] with a key lead in their year-long, unsuccessful quest to locate the *teonanáctl* mushroom for [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA Subproject 58]][^1].

Puharich testified in 1968 that Stump was one of nine principal subjects he tested at the Round Table Foundation.[^2]

Puharich became obsessed with Stump's channeling abilities and the hallucinogenic mushroom. He brought Stump to the [[Round Table Foundation]] and, in August 1955, attempted to drug him with *teonanáctl* to test its divinatory powers, with [[Aldous Huxley]] as a witness. The experiment did not yield the desired results, with Stump appearing drunk and confused[^1].

On September 29 and 30, 1956, Puharich ran a demonstration at the foundation for members of the Psychic Research Society of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. The demonstration included split Matching Abacus Test series between [[Peter Hurkos]] and Stump, each in a separate [[Faraday cage]] about 18 feet apart. Most runs scored at chance; for Demonstration No. 11 (50 trials, 18 on-target hits) the report states that the results "were considered evidence for the existence of telepathic interaction on the part of Mr. Stone and Mr. Hurkos."[^3] The report writes the subject's name "Mr. Stone"; appellant's counsel writes "Harry Stone," and Puharich's testimony spells it "Harry Stump."[^4]

Stump's psychic powers began to wane, and the "Egyptian persona" rarely appeared. He became depressed as his trance powers vanished, and his traditional sculpture and painting work suffered[^1].

### Footnotes

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^2]: Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, No. 22286 (D.C. Cir.), Appx. 66a-67a. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner
[^3]: Plaintiff's Exhibit 7, Puharich report, Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, Appendix, sections 8.80 to 8.85 (Appx. p. 178a). https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner
[^4]: Transcript of Record, Appendix, Puharich v. Brenner, No. 22286 (D.C. Cir.), Appx. 66a-67a and the Plaintiff's Exhibit 7 report. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner