Tools for distinguishing apport like phenomena

[paigetheoracle]

I thought this would make a merry little after Christmas puzzle!:naughty:

 

In November 2003, the SPR focused its Study Day on the “jottle.” The jottle, we are told in April 2004 Paranormal Review, “Is a particular form of JOTT (Just One of Those Things), a general term for discontinuities with time and place.” Mary Rose Barrington has identified six variants of the jottle:

 

1) Walkabout: The basic jottle; when an object disappears from a known location and reappears in a new location.

 

2) Comeback: An object disappears and later reappears in the same place.

 

3) Flyaway: The object disappears and never comes back.

 

4) Turn-up: An object appears in a location where it couldn’t have been before.

 

5) Windfall: An object appears that has never been seen before.

 

6) Trade-in: An object disappears, and is replaced with a similar object.

 

The article written by Nicola Holt tells us that, “The jottle is distinguished from apports in séances and bereavement cases, or from the movement of objects in poltergeist cases, the term referring to discontinuities out of the context of an ongoing paranormal event or syndrome.”

 

From Study Day No. 45: “Discontinuities: Things That Come, Go and Relocate” by Nicola Holt, The Paranormal Review, April 2004, Issue 30.