Author Archives: Chris Jensen Romer

About Chris Jensen Romer

I am a profoundly dull, tedious and irritable individual. I have no friends apart from two equally ill mannered cats, and a lunatic kitten. I am a ghosthunter by profession, and professional cat herder. I write stuff and do TV things and play games. It's better than being real I find.

Revisiting a Haunted House: Gustav Holst and The Cheltenham Ghosts.

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Christian Jensen Romer. Reproduced with permission from Anomaly 51 (2021) p.35-91. You can join ASSAP at http://www.assap.ac.uk Abstract In this paper the Swinhoe era of residence at St. Anne’s House is discussed with reference to contemporary documents to provide the … Continue reading →

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Absent Friends?

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

So some of the college generation before me are planning a reunion and it made me think about all the people I knew over the years and lost touch with. What made me think of even it even more though … Continue reading →

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Image from The Wizard Torn 3: an online Ars Magica convention.

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Tonight I am writing about my gaming hobby so feel free to skip reading this unless you are a tabletop rpg gamer or very curious! I will be back tomorrow to normal topics (whatever they are?) Well another Image from … Continue reading →

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Webinar uploaded: Haunted Northeast Derbyshire with Bill Eyre

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Very brief post tonight as I am in the middle of hosting Image from the Wizard Torn an online Ars Magica rpg convention. I am also these days Chair of the Association for Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena and every … Continue reading →

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Review: We Keep The Dead Close by Becky Cooper

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

I don’t read True Crime normally as I find it depressing and disturbing but this book has been highly praised and deals with a case I had heard of, the 1969 murder of Jane Britton at Harvard. It is a … Continue reading →

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Review: The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story, by Kate Summerscale

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Sometimes you should not review a book: it is a job for someone else. It was the morning of my mother’s funeral; late September 2020, bright sunlight and sudden darkness; an angry wind shouting at me as my housemates gathered … Continue reading →

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Can we fix Britain’s Big Cat Flap?

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Are big cats the new UFOs? Or are they the extraterrestrial pilots of the Flying Saucers, or perhaps Black Triangles? Are we being invaded by felines from Outer Space? (And wasn’t that the plot of a sixties Disney movie?). I … Continue reading →

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Review: Waiting for Another War – The Sisters of Mercy 1980 to 1985 by Trevor Ristow

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

So I read Waiting for Another War the history of the Sisters of Mercy (till 1985) by Trevor Ristow. It is a really good readable book with a limited market (probably people who bought The Reptile House ep) and charts … Continue reading →

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The Fakenham Ghost: a monster for April Fool’s Day

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Originally posted on Games From Folktales:
A little poem by Robert Bloomfield, read for Librivox by Colleen McMahon. Thanks to the Librivoxians. I was going to save it until Halloween, but I’m sure I can find other ghosts before then.…

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The Case Against “Paranormal Unity”; or why Ghost Hunters have become meaningless.

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Chris Jensen Romer

Those who know me probably know that I am a ghost hunter. What does that actually mean, in real terms? Do I wear a pith helmet and shorts, and carry an elephant gun, and like the big game hunters of … Continue reading →

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