WHAT HAUNTS THE SOMME AND OTHER FIRST WORLD WAR BATTLEFIELDS?
The 1st of July 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, one of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Along with Verdun in France, and Flanders in Belgium, the Somme...
ORBS ARE NO MYSTERY
ORBS ARE NO MYSTERY
By Alan Murdie
Since the late 1990s, small blotches of light appearing on photographs taken with digital cameras have been treated by many people as a ghostly mystery. Dubbed âorbsâ they have been often been claimed as...
THE âGHOSTâ OF OLIVER CROMWELL (1599-1658)
By Alan Murdie
September 3rd 2008 marked the 350th anniversary of the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658. Not surprisingly such a powerful and controversial ruler is reputed to have left a number of echoes in ghostly form. But are...
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...
Has the Ghost of Lawrence of Arabia returned ?
Apparition seen at Clouds Hill on 31st July 2016 near the cottage once owned by T.E. Lawrence
By Alan Murdie
Europaranormal has received an interesting report of an apparition seen on Cloudâs Hill, Dorset, close to an isolated cottage that was...
THE WEM GHOST PHOTOGRAPH EXPOSED
The dwindling pool of credible ghost photographs has been reduced yet further, with another âclassic imageâ succumbing to normal explanation - a hoax.
The famous Wem Town Hall ghost girl was allegedly captured in a photograph on November 19th 1995...
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. ...
GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE
Illustration of âGefâ (1936) from the Haunting of Cashenâs 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...
HAUNTED SOCIAL HOUSING
SOCIAL HOUSING HAUNTS
The rationalist ghost hunter Andrew Green (1927-2004) was employed for five years between 1980-1985 by several local authorities in the south of England looking into cases of hauntings reported by occupiers and tenants in social housing. He...
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF GHOSTS ON THE RADIO
âNO SPOOKS ON THE AIRWAVES!â â THE DECLINE AND FALL OF GHOSTS AS A TOPIC FOR BBC RADIO
Long ago talks and discussions of ghosts and ghost hunting were a feature of BBC radio, with the subject being covered...
THE OUIJA BOARD
by Alan Murdie
Depending upon your point of view, the ouija board is either a parlour game which taps into the unconscious mind, a legitimate way of contacting the spirit world or a dangerous practice that exposes users to malevolent...
Swedish Parapsychologists launch survey of hauntings
In February 2017 the Swedish Society for Parapsychology  announced the launch of a study into ghostly experiences occurring in domestic dwellings. See:
http://parapsykologi.se/2017/02/upplever-du-andar-eller-spoken-i-ditt-hem/
It will be interesting to see the responses this elicits and how its results will compare to earlier...
APPARITION SUGGESTIVE OF SURVIVAL
THE APPARITION OF âUNCLE BERTâ - A CASE SUGGESTIVE OF SURVIVAL
One of the most interesting collections of testimony for modern apparitions published before World War II is Sir Ernest Bennettâs Apparitions and Haunted Houses (1939). Drawing partly on material...
The Hammersmith Ghost
The Hammersmith Ghost
That the law of England can have problems with ghosts demonstrated by the strange case of the Hammersmith Ghost which occurred in the winter of 1803/04.
It features as a podcast in the Radio 4 series The Natural...
HAUNTING FORCES
GHOSTLY FORCE AGAINST THE PERSON?
âOne of the major points that must be made clear and continually stressed to the witness is that âphantoms cannot hurtâ. Provide details of some of the other ghost stories of which you have knowledge...
GHOST AT CHRISTMAS
Five reasons why ghost experiences are more common at Christmas time
by Alan Murdie
Traditionally Christmas is the time for ghosts and hauntings and telling spine-chilling tales.
Fortunately, genuine ghost experiences are seldom as terrifying as those in folklore and fiction,...
SKELETONS BENEATH THE FLOOR
SKELETONS BENEATH THE FLOOR
Stories in which the ghost is linked with the presence of human remains have been told around the world over for centuries. It is a tradition that can be traced back to classical times, and may...
COLOMBIAN POLTERGEISTS
âJust like the othersââŚ.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...
Renovation Hauntings
This century house in Bury St Edmunds next to the Cathedral incorporates parts of the walls of the old St Edmunds Abbey dissolved during the Reformation.
Over the years they have been periodically occupied as well as having stood empty...