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On Thursday I’m Talking Ghosts At Skeptics In the Pub, Cheltenham Science Festival Fringe. Controversy May Ensue :D
So I am trying to write my talk on The Science of Ghosts for Thursday night… Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Fun forthcoming events, Paranormal, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged Cheltenham, Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham Skeptics in the Pub, Chris Jensen Romer, Fake Sceptic, JREF, Rational Scepticism forum, Scepticism, Science of Ghosts, Science Show Offs, skepticism
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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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The Science of Ghosts: how it went, part 4
After a short break we were back for another excellent talk, Things that go bump in the mind: The psychology of apparitions by Dr Caroline Watt of the Koestler Psychology Unit at Edinburgh. Dr Watt has to be one of … Continue reading
The Science of Ghosts: how it went! Part 2 (Ghost Photos)
This is the second part of my (somewhat lengthy) discussion of the Science of Ghosts event at Edinburgh Science Festival this week. Hopefully not bored everyone to death yet! One thing I forgot to mention in my brief comments on … Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, History, Paranormal, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged Christopher Aitchison, Edinburgh Science Festival, ghost photos, Richard Wiseman, Science of Ghosts, Scottish Ghosts, Scottish History, spooky pictures, Tantallon Castle, Tantallon Castle investigated
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The Science of Ghosts: how it went!
So what can I say about the Science of Ghosts event? Continue reading
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Tagged Becky Smith, Cheltenham Ghost, Ciaran O keefe, Despard Family, Dowdeswell Reservoir, Dr Serena Roney-Dougal, Dudley Castle, Earth Mysteries, earthlights, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Parking, Edinburgh Science Festival, Edinburgh Vaults, European Journal of Parapsychology, fault lines., Fortean Times, Gertrude Schmeidler, ghost photos, ghosts, GSUK, GW Lambert, Hampton Court pAlace, hauntings, Ian Hume, JASPR, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, megalithic tumuli and henges, Monster Mash, Most Haunted Live, parapsychologists, parapsychology, Parasoc, Paul Devereaux, psychical research, Quantitative investigation of a “haunted house”, Richard Wiseman, S.P.R, Science of Ghosts, St. Anne's Ghost, Station Hotel Dudley, T.C.Lethbridge, Tamworth Castle, Tony Cornell, Tony Lawrence, Travelodge Dreghorn, Underground Water Hypothesis, Vic Tandy, water flowing underground
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Ghosthunting Techniques: Quantatitive Assessment of Haunted Houses…
A technique I have been playing with for some years, which may be of interest… A way of employing psychic claimanats and sceptics in investigating a purported haunting. Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Science
Tagged Gertrude Schmeidler, ghost witnesses, Ghosthunting, ghosts, haunted houses, hauntings, how to investigate a haunted house, investigative technniques, mapping haunted houses, parapsychology, psychical research, psychics, Quantitative Assessment of A Haunted House, Science of Ghosts, sensitives, spontaneous case investigation, spooks, testing psychics
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Wild “paranormal” theory! Why ever not?
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
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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
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The Haunted and the Haunters: the House and the Brain
When investigating a “haunting” there are two main schools of thought in the [[group]]. Continue reading
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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
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Six Types of Ghosthunters
A bad attempt at humour on my part, originally written back in the days when I was a researcher/consultant for the TV show Most Haunted , and posted by me on a few websites since. I rather like it though, … Continue reading
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Tagged apparitions, bad humour, beasticles, EMF meter, ghost hunts, ghost investigation, ghosthunters, Ghosthunting, ghosthunting culture, ghosthunting in the UK, ghosthunting methodology, ghosts, haunted houses, hauntings, in to the light, Most Haunted, parapsychology, phantasms, psychical research, psychics, Science of Ghosts, spooks, types of ghosthunter, vigil
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"And sometimes he's so nameless" 
The Science of Ghosts – how it went, Part 5
On the outskirts of nowhere On the ring road to somewhere On the verge of indecision I’ll always take the roundabout way Marillion – Blind Curve There is something about that Marillion quote which captures the road outside Dreghorn Travelodge … Continue reading →