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Ghosts; Working Notes (Part 5).

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Chris Jensen Romer

“I told youThat we could fly;‘Cause we all have wings,But some of us don’t know why” INXS, Never Tear Us Apart It’s hot today; a haze lies across the bowl in the Cotswolds that holds Cheltenham, and the heat makes … Continue reading →

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Elf larder

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Chris Jensen Romer
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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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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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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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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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A Churchyard Story

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Chris Jensen Romer

It happened one November night in the town of Bury St. Edmunds. From Hardwick Heath to the Tollgate, from Eastgate street to Gibraltar Barracks the snow lay soft as make up on the cheek of a bride; the streets shone … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on a Global Pandemic (and my latest wild idea…)

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Chris Jensen Romer

It has been a long time since I last wrote: longer perhaps than it should have been. I don’t blog much any more, partly because my days are filled with things I should be doing, and I spend much of … Continue reading →

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My Father: Eulogy for Gunnar Romer.

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Chris Jensen Romer

It is a year ago today since my beloved dad died in the West Suffolk Hospital. At his funeral my sister and I both delivered eulogies for dad, Gunnar Jensen Romer but the most moving thing was delivered by mum. … Continue reading →

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