Engineering technician who experimented in the field of parapsychology. He was born on January 19, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied structural design and building at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia (1914-18). He was a draftsman, power plant engineer, and chief draftsman at the Philadelphia Gas Works, 1911-55.
Lancaster developed games for testing telepathy and psychokinesis, which he presented to the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. During 1959 he conducted long-distance experiments in telepathy with students of Cambridge and Oxford Universities in England and Wayland College in Plainview, Texas.
Lancaster died in February 1974.
Sources:
Lancaster, John B. "A GESP Experiment with a Dual (Color-Symbol) Target." Journal of Parapsychology (December 1959).
