Abstract: Observing What Shouldn’t Be There – Ramsés D’León

Psi in Practice: Observation Talk | October 23, 2026 | Online at Airmeet Observing What Shouldn’t Be There: Cooperative Inquiry with the Agents of a Non-Mediumistic Apport Case Ramsés D’LeónUnidad Parapsicológica de Investigación, Difusión y Enseñanza (UPIDE) Parapsychology is a field where the most striking phenomena tend to refuse two things at once. They refuse to happen on schedule, and they refuse to happen in laboratories. Apports, the apparent spontaneous appearance of physical objects without a conventional cause, are a textbook example. They have historically been documented around mediums in séance rooms, where the observer chooses the setting. But what happens when the phenomenon chooses you? This lecture is built around a case my colleagues Alfredo Silva, Alex Álvarez and I published in 2025 in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (D’León et al., 2025): a recurrent apport phenomenon, mostly involving coins, that has been following a non-mediumistic couple, whom we call HM and LS, through four houses on the outskirts of Mexico City since 2018. Between June 2021 and July 2022 alone, we documented 42 events. Two of them were captured on high-definition survei…

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