Tag Archives: RSPK

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 →

Posted in Debunking myths, Paranormal, Reviews and Past Events, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life | Tagged Alan Gauld, Anomalous experience, ANOMALY journal, apparitions, ASSAP, ASSAP 30, ASSAP conference, Edmund Gurney, Frederick Myers, ghosts, hauntings, parapsychology, poltergeists, psychical research, Rebecca Smith, RSPK, S.P.R | 8 Comments

Are Ghosts Hallucinations?

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Over at http://www.rationalskepticism.org I’m debating the poster known as Campermon, an excellent chap. So far we are just really getting started, but I thought I’d share one of my posts, just in case anyone interested… Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal, Science | Tagged apparitions, Campermon, Census of Hallucinations, David Aukett, Dr Barrie Colvin, ed-Richard Dawkins forums folks, ghostr as hallucinations, ghosts, gurney, hallucination, hypangogia, myers, Ouija boards, parapsychology, physical phenomena, poltergeist phenomena, poltergeists, rationalskepticism.org, rationalskeptiicism, RSPK, Society for Psychical Research, SPR Report On the Census of Hallucinations, theories of ghosts, Thetford Priory, Tyrell, Veridical Hallucinations | 5 Comments

Poltergeists

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Yesterday (Halloween) Becky and I attended the SPR Study Day on Poltergeists. I won’t be writing a review for my blog as I have been asked to write a review for the SPR magazine The Paranormal Review but obviously the subject is one of considerable interest. I have been fascinated for nearly twenty years with Poltergeist/RSPK cases, and have participated in a number of investigations (one minor one is reported elsewhere in an earlier post on this blog). I have a very real interest in following up any case – those who feel they may be experiencing something of this nature are welcome to drop me an email at christianjennsenromer@hotmail.com and if nothing else I can put you in touch with the SPR Spontaneous Cases committee, or perhaps offer some advice and support. Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal, Science | Tagged Alan Gauld, Becky Smith, David Fontana, discarnate hypothesis, Entity Hypothesis, Ghosthunting, Guy Lyon Playfair, GW Lambert, haunting, how do I stop my poltergeist?, Maurice Grosse, parapsychology, person centred hauntings, place centred hauntings, poltergeist, poltergeist activity, poltergeist cases, poltergeist investigators, poltergeist outbreak, poltergeists, polterwotsits, psychical research, Recurrent Spontaneous Psycho-Kinesis, RSPK, S.P.R, Small Object Displacement, Society for Psychical Research, Spirit hypothesis, spontaneous cases, spooks, SPR Study Day, The Cardiff Responsive Poltergeist, The Enfield Poltergeist, Tony Cornell | 5 Comments

CJ goes to the cinema: ‘Paranormal Activity’

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

I don’t often go to the cinema – in order I think I saw The Wizard of Oz (got scared and had to be taken out), Excalibur, Ghostbusters, Mississippi Burning, Dracula, the first Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings part one – The Fellowship of the Ring. That’s it, every film I have ever seen in my whole life at the cinema, until last night. when I went with Becky to see a film called Paranormal Activity.

I have watched about the same number of films on TV, and maybe the same again on DVD (including Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, Battleship Potemkin, Oktober, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Producers (original version, never seen the new one) and Dr Strangelove. I have enjoyed all these films, and maybe I should watch more; but I acknowledge that many people watch more films in a month than I have seen in my entire life, so I may be the worst person in the world to review films. However compared with the other films i have seen, let’s get one thing straight – Paranormal Activity, the film I saw last night was not very good. Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal, Reviews and Past Events | Tagged ambiivalent response to film Paranormal Activity, Barrie Colvin, Becky Smith, bites like a demon, Christian Jensen Romer, cj.23, D Scott Rogo, daemonic, David Carter-Green, David Sivier, David Wells, Dogme95, Ed and Lorraine Warren, Exorcism kills, film reviews, Gertrude Schmeidler, ghosthunters, if it acts like a demon, Jeff Belanger, Jo Blair, Katie Featherstone, Lars von Trier, Lisa Langood, Micah Sloat, Most Haunted, Most Haunted Live, movie reviews, Oh Whistle I'll And Come To You My Lad, Oren Peli, Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity (movie), parrot and poltergeists, Phil Whyman, poltergeist, poltergeist cases, poltergeists, Professor Ian Stevenson, psychical research, pyrogeist, Quantitative Assesment of a Haunted House, Riget, RSPK, Society for Psychical Research, spontaneous case investigation, SPR Study Day on Poltergeists, stinks like a demon it's a demon, talking mongoose called Gef, The Blair Witch Project, The Turn of the Screw., Theosophophist's shopping list, William Roll | 8 Comments

A Cheltenham Poltergeist Investigated

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Tonight I have been privileged to investigate a possible poltergeist case, albeit of a minor nature, which has been troubling a personal friend. I was informed of the case some two weeks ago but owing to other commitments was unable to give it much attention until tonight. I will use a fairly self-explanatory structure in this report, which unfortunately must use pseudonyms. Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life | Tagged A Cheltenham Poltergeist, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ghosts, poltergeist cases, poltergeist investigations, psychical research, RSPK | 3 Comments

SPR Study Day 58 : Poltergeist Outbreaks, Then and Now. London – Halloween 2009

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

SPR Study Day 58 : Poltergeist Outbreaks, Then and Now

Oct 31 2009, All Day

‘Noisy spirits’ were disturbing the peace long before their naming as poltergeist effects (or even more recently as RSPK), and some unfortunate person was commonly identified as what we today would term the focus; he, or more usually she, would probably have been associated with witchcraft or demonic possession, and treated accordingly. Coming up to date, it may well turn out to be true that the raps on walls associated with these outbreaks are indeed not of this world, since acoustic analysis of paranormal raps has disclosed effects that have so far defied replication by human knuckles or other rapping mechanisms…
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Posted in Paranormal, Reviews and Past Events, Science | Tagged APRG, Cheltenham Psychic Research Group, CPRG, Derek & Harry and the SPR, ESPRI, Ghosthunting in early 1990's UK, Mary Rose Barrington, Mike Rose, parapsychology, poltergeists, psychical research, review, RSPK, S.P.R, Society for Psychical Research, SPR Study Day, SPR Study Day Poltergeists, SPR study days 58, Tom Ruffles | 16 Comments

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Posted on September 9, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

I has here reproduced the SPR study day information on the forthcoming event, but having now rejoined the society i note one of the membership guidelines clearly states “Members of the SPR may not issue public notices or advertisements about … Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal, Reviews and Past Events, Science | Tagged Alan Murdie, Barrie Colvin, beasties, Guy Lyon Playfair, Halloween 2009 events, John Newton, John Poynton, Lamb Inn poltergeist, Marie Rose Barrington, Paranormal Review, parapsychology, percussive phenomena, poltergeists, psychical research, Rosenhein poltergeist, RSPK, S.P.R, Society for Psychical Research, South Shields poltergeist, SPR membership guidelines, SPR study days 58 | 6 Comments

Wild “paranormal” theory! Why ever not?

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

WILD PARANORMAL THEORY! I wrote this for fun a couple of years back on James Randi’s forum… thought might amuse! I thought time to allow myself some wild speculation and kookery, and the original featured LOTS OF STUFF IN CAPS, … Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal | Tagged apparitions, dualism, dualist theory of haunting, energy mass and spirits, ghosthunters, Ghosthunting, hauntings, information in physics, James Randi Educational Foundation, JREF, occam's razor, Paranormal, parapsychology, philosophy of ghosts, physical aspsects hauntings, PK, poltergeists, psi, pside effects, psychical research, recording hypothesis, RSPK, Science of Ghosts, spirits, spontaneous case investigation, spooks, stone tape hypothesis, wild theories | 2 Comments

The Haunted and the Haunters: the House and the Brain

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

When investigating a “haunting” there are two main schools of thought in the [[group]]. Continue reading →

Posted in Paranormal | Tagged apparitions, David Curtin, deliverance, environmental theory of ghosts, ESP, exorcism, G.W.Lambert, geophysical, ghost investigation, haunted, haunted and the haunters, haunting, hauntings, house and the brain, Morven Alexander, Most Haunted, moving on spirits, parapsychology, person centred haunting, philosophy of ghosts, PKE, place centred haunting, poltergeists, psi, psychic, psychical, psychical research, Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis, Richard Lay, RSPK, S.P.R, Science of Ghosts, Small Object Displacement, Society for Psychical Research, Super-ESP, The Bell Dursley, Thetford, Thetford Priory, water flowing underground | 5 Comments

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Tag Archives: RSPK

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

Are Ghosts Hallucinations?

Poltergeists

CJ goes to the cinema: ‘Paranormal Activity’

A Cheltenham Poltergeist Investigated

SPR Study Day 58 : Poltergeist Outbreaks, Then and Now. London – Halloween 2009

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Wild “paranormal” theory! Why ever not?

The Haunted and the Haunters: the House and the Brain

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