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Strange Survey – have you had an unusual experience?
Long term readers of this blog will recall that I have mentioned a few times Becky Smith’s PhD research (based at Coventry Uni) in to anomalous experiences – ghosts, poltergeists, hallucinations, hauntings, call them what you will. Well she has started the mail data colletion phase now, and is trying to get as many accounts as possible from people who would answer positively to this main question
Have you ever (when fully awake and unaffected by illness, alcohol or drugs) had an experience of seeing something or someone, or of hearing a voice, when there was no ordinary cause for it that you could find? Continue reading
No April Fools Joke?
Sorry chaps, owing to a slight sniffle and being generally run down I have missed April Fool’s day this year! Last year of course was my spoof on James Randi’s silly nonsense about Nazareth never existed – but this year … Continue reading
CJ starts a new blog!
OK, firstly a huge vote of thanks to all the readers of this my personal blog. The blog is not going anywhere: it will continue with exactly the same kind of articles as before, including the parapsychology and ghost ones. However, after much thought I have decided to launch a second blog, POLTERWOTSIT. Continue reading
GSUK update
I wrote this update for Facebook fans of my little ghost research group, GSUK. I thought I may as well share it on my blog as well! We maintain a quiet but social forum, and are always delighted to welcome … Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Reviews and Past Events, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged Becky Smith, Chris Jensen Romer, Coventry University MSc Parapsychology, Ed Woods, Facebook updates, Ghosthunting, ghosthunting groups, GhostlyStayUK, ghosts, GSUK, MSc PArapsychology, online parapsychology masters degree, S.P.R, Society for Psychical Research
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Age and Anomalous Experience
Please note all this is a work in progress: little more than a series of memo’s in which Becky and I are developing ideas we want to explore… OK last night I posted on a topic that interested me, and … Continue reading
Charting the Unknown: Ghosts, Memory & the Progress of Time
OK something mildly interesting tonight – very much a preliminary set of thoughts on something Becky and I are still working on. Before she started her PhD we undertook some simple research on reports of “paranormal experiences” together, using a novel new methodology which is actually quite close to that used by the SPR in the 1894 Census of Hallucinations. And something has already come up that I find fascinating! Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Paranormal, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged "paranormal" type experiences, apparitions, Axel Johnston, Becky Smith, Caroline Watt, Census of Hallucinations, Chris Jensen Romer, D.J.West, Dave Williams, Donald West, Emma Tudor, forgetting anomalous experiences, Hallucinations, Lynn Cinderey, memory and anomalous experiences, Miranda Cardew, Mrs Sidgwick, parasychology, Paul Tudor, Richard Wiseman, Rupert Scott-Ward, S.P.R, Science of Ghosts, Society for Psychical Research, spontaneous cases, SPR Report On the Census of Hallucinations, Thomas Nowell, Veridical Hallucinations, Yvette Nicole Hall, Zuul
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Quick update and a new button!
So what goes on in my world? I’m actually quite busy – Becky is down to visit for a few days tonight, and I am very glad as an unexpected bank charge, just as mysterious as the last set, has cleared me out and i am now flat broke. I will get to the bottom of it and as before get it refunded, but it’s deeply frustrating as you can imagine. Continue reading
"And sometimes he's so nameless" 
Wheelchairs, brothels and community spirit!
OK, it seems like forever since I last wrote. I stopped blogging during the election, and it has proved hard to start up again, but I suppose I will slowly get back in to it. Part of the reason is I have been so incredibly busy with the old lady down my street who I have long been friends with; we know go for an hour long walk every evening, and her cup of tea every night takes another hour, with frequent visits during the day eating up my spare time. She’s lovely but the endless phone calls as she has become forgetful do drive me mad! Still I guess this is part of the “big community” we hear so much about — I’m lucky enough to live in a street where people are very friendly, (yes, that includes very much the really nice folks from the brothel that used to be down the road till the big police raid a couple of years back — not that I ever twigged it was a brothel till the police kicked the door in, and I lived next door to it!), and spend a lot of time talking to one another and helping one another out. Continue reading →