The Haunted Castles and Ruins of the Palatinate in Germany
A new illustrated book explores these intriguing stories…. In 1938 a gentleman from Oberdonau in Germany wrote to Times newspaper in Great Britain having learned from the German press that there were reputedly 150 haunted castles in England that were proving difficult to sell. He stated: “ I am very interested in these ghosts and […]
IMAGES OF THE DEAD?
IMAGES OF THE DEAD? PERMANENT PARANORMAL OBJECTS AND THE ‘FACES OF BELMEZ’, SPAIN The January 2017 edition of the Spanish magazine Ano Cero (No.318) carries an examination by Isabela Herranz of the historic Battersea Poltergeist case that occurred in Battersea, South London 60 years ago. This case had been virtually forgotten until the book The […]
MAGIC, SKEPTICISM AND THE TIMES
In a piece entitled ‘Illusionists must be honest if magic is to survive’ carried by The Times of London on 25 July 2016, one of its leader writers Oliver Kamm paid tribute to conjurers, stage magicians and illusionists such as Houdini. However, Kamm veered into error when turning his article into an attack upon parapsychology, […]
Does this photograph show a ghostly girl?
Many people say they can make out a figure in the window of this Victorian house – known as ‘The House of Suicides’ – that stood at 16 Montpelier Road, West Ealing London. Taken in 1944, does it show the ghost of a servant girl, believed to have committed by jumping from a tower of […]
SCARED TO DEATH?
HYSTERICAL TALES FROM ASIA AND ELSEWHERE A story in the Times of India that an unnamed 65 year-old (or in some reports a 62 or 68 year-old) man staying at an Ashram in India died after suffering chest pains on a night out at the cinema to see the Conjuring 2 in Tiruvannamalai Town, South […]
THE SOUTH SHIELDS POLTERGEIST
THE SOUTH SHIELDS POLTERGEIST The following is a review by Alan Murdie of the book on the case of the South Shields Poltergeist of 2006. The book attracted a lot of controversy on-line. In reviewing this book I decided to go and examine the evidence for myself – something which no critics or sceptics were […]
THE HANNATH HALL POLTERGEIST
Hannath Hall poltergeist case begins like the start of a classic ghost or horror story. One stormy evening in 1957 a local newspaper reporter from Peterborough was suddenlystranded by a car breakdown near Hannath Hall, in the Cambridgeshire Fens. He was given shelter by a couple living at the Hall who went on to tell […]
GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE
Illustration of ‘Gef’ (1936) from the Haunting of Cashen’s Gap by Price and Lambert GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE “You can think as you like,” said the monk, with a faint smile. “I exist in your imagination, and your imagination is part of nature, so I exist in nature.” Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk (1894). The […]
COLOMBIAN POLTERGEISTS
‘Just like the others’….Colombian poltergeists and two predictions for researchers The late Scott Rogo stated in his book The Poltergeist Experience (1979): All through the study of the poltergeist we have seen how fickle it is. If it is called a demon it readily assumes the role. If it is treated as an intelligent […]
A PRECOGNITIVE DREAM OF A FLOOD DISASTER
A PRECOGNITIVE DREAM OF A FLOOD DISASTER: A “QUASI HIT” REGARDING THE 2004 BOXING DAY “TSUNAMI DISASTER By Alan Murdie (First published in the Paranormal Review Issue 9, July 2006, Society for Psychical Research) During the period 2003-2004 it was comparatively rare for the Society to receive letters or reports concerning premonitions. However, an […]