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The Medium and the Massage: a ghost story…
Anyway the summer of 1993 saw me reasonably well versed in parapsychology, and how to investigate a “haunting”. That summer I was contacted by a gentleman who owned a small hotel, and who stated his family who lived there had been troubled by a series of ghostly happenings – could we do something about it? Immediately we have a problem – I want to investigate ghosts, but people who call me usually wanted to get rid of them! I am a researcher, not an exorcist, no not even a ghostbuster! Fortunately a few months earlier we had also met a psychic claimant, Morven, who asked to be tested to see if her mediumship was genuine, or self delusion, or something else! Continue reading →
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Tagged Amy Avery, Archie Roy, Cheltenham Psychic Research Group, CPRG, critique of mediumship, Dursley, ghost stories, ghosts of gloucestershire, JSPR, life after death evidence, Lionel Ayliffe, mediumship, Morven Alexander, Old Bell, Old Bell Dursley, parapsychology, PRISM, psychical research, psychism, S.P.R, Society for Psychical Research, South Park, spiritualism, spontaneous case investigation, survival hypothesis, The Psi-pher, Tom Paine, Trish Robertson, working with mediums
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Review: Heavy Metal (1981) film; music, sexism and gaming culture.
I’m notorious for never watching TV or movies but I’m currently reading Designers & Dragons Shannon Appelcline’s wonderful history of the rpg industry and immersed in 1970s and 1980s culture. While doing so I chanced upon the cover of White … Continue reading →