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Psychic Animals: A Fascinating Investigation of Paranormal Behavior
(In this unique study, well-known psychic investigator Den...)
In this unique study, well-known psychic investigator Dennis Bardens presents a persuasive body of evidence revealing and documenting remarkable feats of telepathy, precognition and long-distance perception, as well as other mysterious phenomena of the animal kingdom. Throughout the ages animals of all kinds have displayed amazing powers of psychic intelligence, which have often proved as bizarre and inexplicable as any strictly human paranormal experiences.
Dennis Bardens was a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. He was the first editor of the BBC current affairs documentary program Panorama.
Background
Dennis Bardens was born on July 19, 1911, in Midhurst, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. He was the son of an army major and an actor. His mother deserted him and went to Australia when he was three, and his father was often away on military duty. Bardens did not get on with his siblings.
Education
Dennis Bardens attended Portsmouth Grammar School, which he left early.
Dennis Bardens traveled to London in the hope of becoming a poet. But he wound up becoming a journalist, joining the staff at the Sunday Chronicle in 1930. Jobs with other newspapers, including the Sunday Express, Sunday Referee, and Daily Mirror followed during the 1930s. With the onset of war, Bardens joined the Royal Artillery and later became press officer for the Ministry of Information, building a reputation as a reporter on the Blitz, lie also worked with Czechoslovakia's government in exile and was involved in the secret service in eastern Europe.
After the war, Bardens was hired by the British Broadcasting Corporation, editing weekly radio documentaries for Focus and becoming the founding editor for the current affairs program Panorama in the early 1950s. This was followed, in the late 1950s, with positions in the information research department of the British Foreign Office and with a three-year stint in the British War Office. During his time with the BBC. Bardens wrote radio plays: he also authored over a hundred documentaries for independent television producers.
Bardens, who began publishing books by the mid-1940s, started as an author with such works as Training for Democracy (1945), and Crime Doesn't Pay: A Galaxy of Notable Rascals (1948). In the 1950s and 1960s, he penned several biographies, such as Elizabeth Fry (1961) and Princess Margaret (1964). His involvement with the Ghost Club Society and his interest in the paranormal led to the books Ghosts and Hauntings (1965), Mysterious Worlds: A Personal Investigation of the Weird, the Uncanny, and the Unexplained (1970), and Psychic Animals: A Fascinating Investigation of Paranormal behavior (1987).
Dennis Bardens was a life member of the Ghost Club Society. He was also a member of International Pen, the Society of Authors, and the National Union of Journalists.
Personality
A man as sharp as he was kindly, as mischievous as he was portentous, Dennis Bardens was an indefatigable coureur de femmes, and was the center of a vast, vivid, and sometimes quarrelsome circle which, despite a whiff of the aristocracy, was essentially democratic.
Interests
psychical research, occultism
Connections
Dennis Bardens was married to Marie Marks. Their son, Peter, was a rock keyboard musician who died on January 22, 2002.