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category	tags	summary	born	died	location	updated	relations
Psychics & Remote Viewers	Psi Person RemoteViewer	Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles.	1893-03-17	1970-09-15	Beauparc, County Meath, Ireland	2026-10-09	type with reverse role start end fn reported_to Martin Ebon true administrative secretary to the founder of the Parapsychology Foundation 1953 1965 4

Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles. She was one of the psychics tested by Andrija Puharich at his Round Table Foundation in Maine.¹

Garrett's psychic abilities were tested in a Faraday cage using Zener cards. According to Puharich, her ESP scores were significantly higher inside the cage, which suggested that electronic shielding had a positive impact on psychic functioning.¹

Puharich testified in 1968 that Garrett, inside the treated cage, produced results he gave as a probability against chance of 5.5 times ten to the minus seventh. A control subject placed outside the cage scored at chance expectation (probability .64) in the same series, and in a run with the cage uncharged her own score was at the .28 level.² Puharich also testified that Garrett was one of nine principal subjects he used at the Round Table Foundation.³

Martin Ebon was administrative secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation, which Garrett founded, from 1953 to 1965 according to the Skeptical Inquirer's biography of him; another biography dates the post from 1954.⁴ Ebon's masthead roles at the magazine Tomorrow are documented: volume 4 (1956) lists Garrett as editor-publisher, Ebon as managing editor, Lenore Davison as assistant to the publisher and Lester Buckland as circulation and business manager, Garrett Publications, 500 Fifth Avenue; volume 9 (1961) lists Phoebe Moss as associate editor and Gorham Munson as consulting editor, with Ebon identified as managing editor of Tomorrow and administrative secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation.⁵ Ebon is listed among participants (U.S.A.) at the Foundation's First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies, Utrecht, July 1953, with Miss I. Jephson, Dr. Henry Margenau and Dr. Louis Mars.⁵ The New School Archives hold an "Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship, 1975" file regarding a scholarship to take a New School course in parapsychology.⁶

Footnotes

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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.), testimony of Henry K. Puharich on cross-examination, Appx. 73a-74a. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner ↩︎

3. Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, Appx. 66a-67a. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner ↩︎

4. Skeptical Inquirer, "Martin Ebon," author biography (administrative secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation, 1953 to 1965). https://skepticalinquirer.org/authors/martin-ebon/ ↩︎

5. Tomorrow, vol. 4 (1956), p. 122, https://books.google.com/books?id=OHUPAQAAIAAJ ; vol. 9 (1961), https://books.google.com/books?id=8HAPAQAAIAAJ ↩︎

6. New School Archives and Special Collections, Adult Division Office of the Dean records (NS-02-01-01), Series 5, Box 7, Folder 43, "Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship, 1975." https://findingaids.archives.newschool.edu/repositories/3 ↩︎