The word telepathy came from Greek words 'tele' (meaning distant) and 'patheia' (meaning feeling). The term was coined by Fredric W.H. Myers, a French researcher for the Society for Physical Research (SPR) back in 1882. Allegedly, it is a form of communication existing without the aid of the five known senses - a conversation of sorts taking place between two people using one's mind.

Telepathy is deemed a paranormal phenomenon, in league with the likes of clairvoyance, precognition, and so on. Through the years, scientific studies were conducted by researchers seeking to prove its existence. J.B. Rhine is among the well-known investigators of this phenomenon. Instead of those with alleged psychic skills, he experimented upon 'ordinary' subjects using the latest developments in Statistics to evaluate the results. He also discovered in his 1930 ESP tests and experiments that it is often hard to determine if the information was channeled through clairvoyance or telepathy. His conclusion was clairvoyance and telepathy were of the same function - the difference lies in their manifestation.

Because of telepathy's increasing popularity in the paranormal circles, it became the first psychic manifestation that was studied using a scientific approach. Investigations begun with the initial research of the SPR, published in a two-volume work called "Phantasms of the Living" in 1886. This marked a change in the perception of telepathy as mere preoccupation of crazed psychics to being a discipline with a scientific basis. However, despite the many experiments that were made, concrete evidences needed to disprove telepathy's existence continue to elude researchers. Thus, the question whether or not there is such a thing as telepathy still remains up to the present.