This century house in Bury St Edmunds next to the Cathedral incorporates parts of the walls of the old St ...

A new illustrated book explores these intriguing stories…. In 1938 a gentleman from Oberdonau in Germany wrote to Times newspaper ...

The Hammersmith Ghost That the law of England can have problems with ghosts demonstrated by the strange case of the ...

A Note On The Alleged  ‘Confession’ Of A  ‘Hoax’ in the Enfield Poltergeist What the man who recorded an alleged ...

  ‘Weirdness and Complexity’ – the full review by Alan Murdie of Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary ...

Five reasons why ghost experiences are more common at Christmas time by Alan Murdie Traditionally Christmas is the time for ...

Leonora Piper (1857 – 1950) ‘The medium who makes sceptics pant and tremble like nervous horses’ Nearly seventy years after ...

Guy Lyon Playfair By Alan Murdie It is with great regret and sorrow we record the death of psychical researcher ...

Eleonore Zugun (1913-1998) focus of aggressive poltergeist activity 1925-27 THE ROMANIAN POLTERGEIST GIRL It is some 90 years since Eleonore ...

In February 2017 the Swedish Society for Parapsychology  announced the launch of a study into ghostly experiences occurring in domestic ...

‘NO SPOOKS ON THE AIRWAVES!’ – THE DECLINE AND FALL OF GHOSTS AS A TOPIC FOR BBC RADIO Long ago ...

IMAGES OF THE DEAD? PERMANENT PARANORMAL OBJECTS AND THE ‘FACES OF BELMEZ’, SPAIN The January 2017 edition of the Spanish ...

The Dagworth Poltergeist – the return of a medieval spook? In spring 2000 I received a letter from the late ...

Apparition seen at Clouds Hill on 31st July 2016 near the cottage once owned by T.E. Lawrence By Alan Murdie ...

In a piece entitled ‘Illusionists must be honest if magic is to survive’ carried by  The Times of London on ...

Many people say they can make out a figure in the window of this Victorian house – known as ‘The ...

A TIME HAUNTED MAN We stand on the shoulders of giants. Yet sometimes we don’t realise it, particularly when the ...

The 1st of July 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, one of ...

HYSTERICAL TALES FROM ASIA AND ELSEWHERE A story in the Times of India that an unnamed 65 year-old (or in ...

The film promotion says it’s true – but whose truth? The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist – A Look at ...

THE  VERSAILLES  ‘ADVENTURE’ A new BBC television series is Versailles, a docu-drama set in the opulent court and palace of ...

THE APPARITION OF ‘UNCLE BERT’ – A CASE SUGGESTIVE OF SURVIVAL One of the most interesting collections of testimony for ...

The dwindling pool of credible ghost photographs has been reduced yet further, with another ‘classic image’ succumbing to normal explanation  ...

by Alan Murdie Depending upon your point of view, the ouija board is either a parlour game which taps into ...

  GHOSTLY FORCE AGAINST THE PERSON? “One of the major points that must be made clear and continually stressed to ...

SOCIAL HOUSING HAUNTS The rationalist ghost hunter Andrew Green (1927-2004) was employed for five years between 1980-1985 by several local ...

  By Alan Murdie That you can’t libel the dead is well-known. It will have been ghost hunters and TV ...

By Alan Murdie September 3rd 2008 marked the 350th anniversary of the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658. Not surprisingly ...

Charles Fort (1874-1932) the famed collector of anomalies was the centre of one himself…. By Alan Murdie “I was reading ...