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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

BEST OF (#67 of 521) THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY (PT 1)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

(One of my top ten all time favs at 1001) In 1952, a Pueblo, Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe volunteered for a hypnosis session, unaware that she would be revealing the fully detailed life of an Irish woman named Bridget Kathleen (Bridey) Murphy (1798-1864),. It it was detailed-featuring a full view of Cork and Belfast in the early 1800's, and containing lots of details that couldn't have been found in any books, as well as unusual words, folk songs, social morays and customs, names of shops, streets. crops, schools, and much more. And Virginia had never been to Ireland.

The full story became a best seller, then a movie,in 1956, before a steady stream of journalists as well as religious leaders began a campaign to discredit the story, Join us for one of the most incredible stories from world of psychiatry and the paranormal......and a story that will challenge your beliefs in reincarnation.

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0:00.0

The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries.

0:32.3

And the true story of an event that rocked the world of psychiatry and brought the subject of reincarnation

0:38.1

rocketing to the surface of public consciousness in 1956. When the spirit of a 19th-century

0:45.2

Irish woman named Bridget Kathleen Murphy, nicknamed Bridie, poured hours of her life story

0:52.9

into six long recording sessions with an amateur hypnotist,

0:57.4

all given to us by a Pueblo, Colorado, mother and housewife who volunteered for hypnosis,

1:04.0

sought no public attention, and who had never been to Ireland.

1:08.4

That story becoming a million-seller book and blockbuster movie in

1:12.2

1956 called The Search for Bridie Murphy. And what a search it was and has been. The subject of

1:21.2

reincarnation is a very sensitive one to certain sectors of organized religion. It's also a subject

1:26.8

which is debated hotly by believers

1:28.7

and non-believers, and treated with caution and fear by many who choose not to discuss it.

1:35.6

It's an easy target for skeptics who say it, it meaning the pseudoscience, has never been

1:41.3

proven, and it lives in the realm of the paranormal. In psychology, regressive

1:47.4

hypnotherapy for the purpose of curing psychosomatic ailments is accepted, though closely guarded

1:53.1

and left only to experts. While parlor hypnotists, they say, give it a bad name, especially

1:59.6

when it comes to regression, regression to past lives.

2:04.5

Many still consider it to be a pseudoscience and that regressive hypnotherapy that goes the next step,

2:10.5

revealing past lives, in addition to early life, is an area reserved for believers who can afford it.

2:17.3

As the classic TV show, The Twilight Zone, once told us,

2:21.4

it is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition,

2:27.1

and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.

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