Dr. J.B. Rhine, the "father" of ESP, who 35 years ago started the now famous Institute of Parapsychology at Duke University, North Carolina. Dr. Rhine and his scientist wife, Laura, have been probing man's psychic senses by investigation thousands of "queer stories", testing men and women for "sixth sense" capacity in the course of countless card and dice experiments, and publishing learned papers in the Parapsychology Journal which has gained international respect. January 01, 1953.