The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations

Stephen Braude's 2007 book recounting his personal investigations of parapsychological phenomena — including Katie Rhea, a woman who allegedly precipitates gold leaf on her skin — examining these cases with philosophical rigor and personal honesty about the difficulty of drawing conclusions.

Demonstrates the philosophical and methodological challenges of parapsychological investigation — the gap between anecdotal evidence and controlled experiment, the difficulty of fraud detection, the standards of evidence — making it the most philosophically honest account of what a rigorous skeptic encounters in direct investigation.