---
aliases:
- Robert Van de Castle
born: 1927-11-16
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
died: 2014
location: Rochester, New York
summary: Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence
  and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities
  for ARPA.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- SRI
---

Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with [George Lawrence](/people/george-lawrence/) and [Ray Hyman](/people/ray-hyman/), traveled to [SRI](/organizations/stanford-research-institute/) to test [Uri Geller](/people/uri-geller/)'s purported psychic abilities for [DARPA](/organizations/darpa/). Their conclusion, later reported in *Time* magazine, was that anyone who believed in Geller's powers was falling for the "ridiculous"[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.