References in Popular Culture
During the height of the Bridey Murphy craze, two popular songs were "For The Love of Bridey Murphy" and "Do You Believe in Reincarnation". There was a Bridey Murphy dance, "come as you were" parties and a Reincarnation cocktail. The 1956 film I've Lived Before was inspired by her story.
Stan Freberg recorded a satire in 1956, with June Foray, titled The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen, wherein Freberg hypnotizes Goldie Smith to regress to different eras with humorous interruption by Foray. At the end, Foray hypnotizes Freberg, who becomes Davy Crockett; when Foray tells him that he won't be able to profit on the recent Davy Crockett products, Freberg says that in his next life, he would become Walt Disney.
In Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963), a character called Esther is reading The Search for Bridey Murphy as she is sitting on a bus. This occurs in the fourth chapter of the novel, "In which Esther gets a nose job".
In The Haunting (1963 film) Luke refers to Theo and Eleanor as "Miss ESP and Bridey Murphy, some combination!"
Bridey Murphy was the name of a band consisting of Bill Cowsill, Paul Cowsill, Barry Cowsill, and Waddy Wachtel. In 1974 Capitol released one single, "The Time Has Come."
In Passage (novel) by Connie Willis (2001) the main character, Joanna Lander, references Bridey Murphy several times as she attempts to explain to her fellow researcher that she's certain of what she sees in the NDEs she's experienced. In an earlier Novel Lincoln's Dream (page 31) the main character references Bridey Murphy, too.
In Time Out of Mind (novel) by John R. Maxim (1986) Bridey Murphy is referenced as an example of genetic memory.
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