Theater Thursday 04/28/08: The Search for Bridey Murphy
“The Search for Bridey Murphy” was a film made in 1956. Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27,1923 – July 12, 1995) claimed to have been in her previous life. In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado in a trance that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe’s alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman and her rebirth in the United States 59 years later. Bernstein used a technique … Continue reading →