This book attempts to answer three questions: first, can I believe the testimony of my senses; second, how can I account for happenings that apparently contradict natural laws; and third, what motivations and psychodynamics are manifested by such happenings? Of universal interest, these queries were specifically raised when a storm of flying objects and shattered glassware broke loose in a London suburb around a bevy of people whose fictional counterparts could have been depicted by Dickens or Arnold Bennett. The author, at the behest of the International Institute for Psychic Research, investigated this tempest with the vigilance of Big Brother, the craft of Sherlock Holmes, and the tact of a diplomat. To the disappointment of many, including his readers, he found that a large number of these seeming miracles could have