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‘Ghostly figures’ in St. Nicholas’s Churchyard
I was passing St. Nicholas’s churchyard, one night this week, when I glimpsed a procession of sinister-looking hooded figures moving quickly through the darkness in the middle distance. In local...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Mary Roach (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005). This was enjoyable and very readable, which didn’t surprise me, given the reviews I had read of her other books. What did...
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Meeting (26th February, 2014)
The focus of the meeting was the live case we are currently working on, involving poltergeist-type activity in a private residence. The residents are not keen to allow investigators onto the premises....
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Conference Report: Seriously Staked Vampire Symposium (2014)
There was some controversy among ASSAP members when the idea of a conference on vampires was first mooted. After all, no one seems in much danger of running into one. But on the day itself I was...
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The city council’s policy on haunted homes
In October 2013, the social housing magazine Inside Housing ran an article on its website about how social landlords deal with complaints from tenants concerning ghosts and other allegedly paranormal...
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Seeing Ghosts: Experiences of the Paranormal
Seeing Ghosts: Experiences of the Paranormal Hilary Evans (London: John Murray, 2002). A well-organised and thoughtful book that bases its analysis on almost 200 cases, which are interspersed...
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The Poltergeist Prince of London
The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist Shirley Hitchings & James Clark (Stroud: The History Press, 2013). Some chocolate is left for a...
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Meeting (26th March, 2014)
Especially for this meeting we booked a room in a community centre to concentrate on a phenomenon in which several members had expressed an interest: the Ouija board. We based our exploration upon four...
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Things that Go Bump in the Night
Things that Go Bump in the Night: How to Investigate and Challenge Ghostly Experiences Emily Peach (London: Aquarian Press, 1991). A commendatory aside in Hilary Evans’s Seeing Ghosts drew me to this...
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In Search of Ghosts
In Search of Ghosts Ian Wilson (London: Headline, 1995). Well-written, substantial, and packed full of cases, what first leapt out at me from this book was its bravery in stripping away certain kinds...
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Ghost Hunting: A Survivor’s Guide
Ghost Hunting: A Survivor’s Guide John Fraser (Stroud: The History Press, 2010). This is a highly readable portrait of present-day, rational ghost-hunting by an author who is a prominent member of...
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Paranormal Brighton Documentary
Lillie Strong are Constance Venn are the makers of this well-balanced and nicely-produced film on the paranormal scene in Brighton. As well as Brighton Paranormal, the film also includes contributions...
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The strange lights of Shirley Street, Hove
In Haunted Brighton [1] Alan Murdie discusses a case of odd optical effects reported by residents of Shirley Street and Clarendon Street in Hove, 2002-3, which some commentators attributed to ghosts...
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Taps that run by themselves
In the past we have encountered cases in which witnesses were confronted with bathroom or kitchen taps found running after having been securely turned off. Although not common, a possible natural...
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Phone calls from the dead: some possible technical explanations
I recently encountered a case that included strange phone calls in the night from a disused number. It made me wonder what possible technical causes we would need to eliminate before resorting to a...
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