Morey Bernstein

In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado, in a trance, using a technique called hypnotic regression, that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe's alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman, Bridey Murphy, and her rebirth in the United States 59 years later. Bernstein wrote a book in 1956, "The Search for Bridey Murphy," which became a NY Times bestseller, eventually...