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Ghosts: Working Notes (Part 4).

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Chris Jensen Romer

“I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlorDrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so fineDon’t think you knew you were in this song” David Bowie – Five Years So if living brains are involved in … Continue reading →

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Ghosts: Working Notes (Part 3)

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Chris Jensen Romer

“When we play at cards you use an extra sense(it’s really not cheating)You can read my hand, I’ve got no defense“ Blondie, I’m Always Touched by Your Presence Dear. I’m currently working through my current thinking on ghosts and sharing … Continue reading →

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Ghosts: working notes (Part 2)

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Chris Jensen Romer

“Heavy footsteps in your attic means a spectre telepathicIs descending just to spirit you away, Ya-a-a-ay!” Theme from Rentaghost – Michael Staniforth In the first part I briefly discussed the mechanics of “seeing” Ghosts and described how the SPR group … Continue reading →

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Ghosts: working notes (Part One)

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Chris Jensen Romer

“That stole the only girl I lovedAnd drowned her deep inside of me”— The Cure, Just Like Heaven I’ve written a lot on UFOs recently, a topic where I know relatively little so I’m just going to write a little … Continue reading →

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The Nature of Paranormal Events?

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Chris Jensen Romer

What is the actual underlying nature of paranormal events? I will suggest three ideas of how it might work – tell me which you think the evidence most suggests? This is my three tier model so feel free to critique … Continue reading →

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Understanding Ghosts: thoughts before Uncanny 2

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Chris Jensen Romer

I just had a thought: unusual I know! It’s about ghost (or any anomaly) investigation though so I will pop it here. As you probably know I regard the basis of all research to be listening to the witnesses recount … Continue reading →

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The Presence and the Press: Once Again Science Journalists Tell Us Ghosts Explained Away!

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Chris Jensen Romer

OK, I blog very rarely nowadays, but I thought I had best respond to all the press excitement caused by an article from Current Biology, which pretty much everyone (including the authors) seem to think explains away “ghosts”.  You should … Continue reading →

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The Day I Met Myself: or how I survived my death-omen doppleganger.

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Chris Jensen Romer

It was an overcast day, and I was walking through Bury St Edmunds with my best friend, Hugh. After lunch sometime, killing time before our scheduled afternoon classes. I don’t know the date or even the year — and Hugh … Continue reading →

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A Suffolk Tragedy –The Red Barn Murder; Polstead, Suffolk, 1828

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Chris Jensen Romer

I don’t have time to give a full account of the case, so I will quickly summarize it here. On Saturday 18th May 1827 William Corder, a son of a prosperous Suffolk family apparently set out to elope with Maria Marten, a village beauty of humble origin. The two walked separately through the night to a barn, the now infamous ‘Red Barn’ on Corder’s property, Maria dressed in men’s clothing to avoid local notice. In the barn Maria change in to her women’s attire, and while changing met her death, and was buried by Corder within the barn. Continue reading →

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Why Everything We Think We Know About Ghosts Is (Probably!) Wrong

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Chris Jensen Romer

If you are interested in ghosts you may want to take a look. By kind permission of the editor, Dave Wood, my paper, with only the graph missing, follows. Continue reading →

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