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How To See A Ghost – At Home!
“OK, I’m in a playful mood. Last week I ended with a promise – that we would create a “ghost” in the lab, or our own homes, and experiment with it. And that, dear reader, is exactly what we are going to do today… if you want to!
I will skip the philosophical stuff, and the discussion of the cases I referenced last time for now – Campermon wants science, and while I think we have been doing science from the start let’s play with something empirical. Let’s see a ghost! Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Science
Tagged Annalisa Ventola, apparitions, Charles Dexter Ward, Coventry University, Dean Radin, Derek Acorah, Dr Ian Hume, Dr. Raymond Moody, experimental parapsychology, Hallucinations, Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Houran, how to manufacture a ghost, how to see a ghost, James Houran, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, JSPR, Lange, let's see a ghost, necromanteum, Parapsychological Association, psychic medium, psychical research, psychomanteum, Public Parapsychology blogspot, punk science, Raymond Moody, Reunions, S.P.R, Simon Sherwood, Society for Psychical Research, Terhune
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Thoughts on The Society for Psychical Research
The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) are probably known to many readers of this blog: I first joined back in 1992, was a member for a couple of years, and after a fifteen year hiatus have recently once again become an Associate member. Some of you may still be storing SPR Journals and Proceedings for me – if so thanks! Perhaps some readers would consider joining up? Continue reading
Posted in Fun forthcoming events, Paranormal
Tagged 10 Downing Street, Andrew Mackenzie, Balfour, Becky Smith, Chris Jensen Romer, cj.23, CPRG, EJP, ESP, Ghost Hunters, Ghostbusters quotes, ghosthunters, ghosts, John Beloff, Journal of European Parapsychology, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, JSPR, LEXSCIEN, Manfred Cassirer, Paranormal, paranormal investigation, parapsychological community., parapsychology, Parasoc, peer reviewed parapsychology journals, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, psi, PSPR, Psychic Research, psychical research, Psychical Research Society, S.P.R, Society for Psychical Research, Spontaneous Cases Committee, SPR Journal, SPR Research, The Paranormal Review, www.spr.ac.uk
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"And sometimes he's so nameless" 
The Fall of Parapsychology?
Long time readers of this blog will know I am a genuine fan of Professor Chris French — he is brilliant, hard working, and actually investigates claims, and like Professor Wiseman avoids making the “rationalist myths” howlers that most of … Continue reading →