Cox and Nobbers
OK, so it all started with the radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage (and you can listen to it from this link). It was quite funny, and as normal irreverent. Ince and Cox were funny, and joined by...
View ArticleFive things I learned from #ghostnobbergate
You can say what you like about Professor Brian Cox, the guy has style. The discussion of the Infinite Monkey Cage episode on spooks et al. led to his Twitter postings that apparently caused outrage,...
View ArticleWhy Do Ghosts Go “Woo”? Part One.
OK, a light-hearted one this lunchtime. “why do ghosts go woo?” is an excellent question that was asked on Twitter by Ian Rennie to Hayley Stevens, and she, Kimberley Kendall and I discussed it for a...
View ArticleWhy Everything We Think We Know About Ghosts Is (Probably!) Wrong
A few months ago I was, as a former member of ASSAP who had left more than a decade before, asked to speak at the ASSAP 30th anniversary conference. A brave move on the conference organizers part I...
View ArticleA Suffolk Tragedy –The Red Barn Murder; Polstead, Suffolk, 1828
Growing up in Bury St. Edmunds it is almost impossible to not know the story of ‘Maria Marten and the Red Barn’ one of the most famous murder cases of 19th century England. In essence a fairly tawdry...
View ArticleThe Day I Met Myself: or how I survived my death-omen doppleganger.
It was an overcast day, and I was walking through Bury St Edmunds with my best friend, Hugh. After lunch sometime, killing time before our scheduled afternoon classes. I don’t know the date or even the...
View ArticleThe Presence and the Press: Once Again Science Journalists Tell Us Ghosts...
OK, I blog very rarely nowadays, but I thought I had best respond to all the press excitement caused by an article from Current Biology, which pretty much everyone (including the authors) seem to think...
View ArticleUnderstanding Ghosts: thoughts before Uncanny 2
I just had a thought: unusual I know! It’s about ghost (or any anomaly) investigation though so I will pop it here. As you probably know I regard the basis of all research to be listening to the...
View ArticleThe Nature of Paranormal Events?
What is the actual underlying nature of paranormal events? I will suggest three ideas of how it might work – tell me which you think the evidence most suggests? This is my three tier model so feel...
View ArticleThe One In Which Everyone but CJ embraces the Christmas Spirit…
Merry Advent everybody! Soon Christmas will be upon us, I will write another ghost story and the Association for Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (www.assap.ac.uk) will shut its doors for a...
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