Overview…
Another week in lockdown here in the UK and another week full of online paranormal content for us all to consume. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have.
As each week goes by I often find myself stumbling across various news, social media posts, blogs, articles, books, and more in relation to the paranormal. Often some of these pass me by never to be seen again, which can be a shame as when I see them I know that I want to read more on them. However, it can often be the wrong time, there are other more pressing things to take care of. As we are often bombarded by lots of this such information on a daily basis, a lot is lost in the digital ether.
So, what I wanted to do with this regular post is attempt to gather some various pieces of information that others like me may be interested to read. I’ve broken this down into a few categories below for now, hopefully you’ll like it – would love to hear your thoughts on the matter?
The SPR calls for Chapters on Life After Death
This week saw the SPR place a call for chapters to be submitted for a book they are compiling that focuses on the age old question of; ‘Is The Life After Death.’ It is a question that many of us in the field constantly ask, so if you believe that you may be able to contribute, please check out the details below.
- Call for Chapters: Is There Life After Death? | spr.ac.uk https://www.spr.ac.uk/news/call-chapters-there-life-after-death
Here is a few of the items that caught my eye this week on social media.
- I’ll be posting a link in the next 24 hours for Aussies to pre order their very own copy with our shipment arriving at the end of this week! Stay tuned! https://twitter.com/sarahllifs/status/1261812390691143680?s=12
- Looking forward to this: some good stuff on Lodge’s spiritualism & psychical research in there. https://twitter.com/forbidhistories/status/1260695849392312321?s=12
- Fancy listening to a ghost story? Here is the latest recording by Ghost Club member Alex. https://twitter.com/ghostclub1862/status/1261595479659380737?s=12
- I can suggest the relevant idea by Dr Angelos Tanagras (1875-1971), president of the Greek Society for Psychical Research (1923-1957) on this very question, the Theory of Psychobolia facebook.com/notes/angelos-… https://twitter.com/fpallikari/status/1261180180510527489?s=12
- Spent the day tracking down the last living relatives of a prominent 50’s era ufologist whose “lost” writing cracked open a whole new can of Kentucky Goblin worms for me today. I was running around the house screaming because I couldn’t believe what I was reading. #Hellier https://twitter.com/nuekerk/status/1261134830730952707?s=12
- Good news! The people of Aus have spoken and they want @hauntedmagazine down under! If you live in Aus and want a copy keep an eye out over the next couple of weeks and you will be able to get your own copy through my website! https://twitter.com/sarahllifs/status/1261105171968319488?s=12
- giants of today DNA is around few body’s too and interesting story’s, but i’m afraid the story begins far earlier then Babylonian times https://twitter.com/multistagecorre/status/1024832797977071621?s=12
- Do any of my ghost research friends know of anyone who believes they are currently having to self isolate in a haunted house? Someone is looking to speak to people in this situation for a thing. https://twitter.com/hayleystevens/status/1260821236818612224?s=12
- This turn-of-the-century “spirit photo” was proven fraudulent after a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York noticed the similarity between one of the “spirits” and a painting by German artist https://twitter.com/weirdhistorian1/status/1260537686294704133?s=12
- Mary Tebb, Georgiana Houghton & Agnes Guppy manifesting spirit matter, captured by spirit photographer Frederick Hudson. In its defence, spiritualism was associated with progressive social causes like emancipation & suffrage. From my copy of ‘The Spirit Rappers’, Ronald Pearsall. https://twitter.com/jourdemayne/status/1260513557952770049?s=12
- This case absolutely fascinated me. Can a spirit really possess a person? In my latest blog, I dive into the famous possession case known as the Watseka Wonder.” https://twitter.com/alexmatsuo/status/1260324840730513408?s=12
- Why was Harry Houdini so obsessed with exposing fake psychics? https://twitter.com/kitty_janusz/status/1260245666607116289?s=12
- Is the Winchester Mystery filled with Freemason puzzles for us to explore? https://twitter.com/spirit_n_angels/status/1260245665407516673?s=12
- John Cutten (1901-1989) was Hon. Sec to the SPR and inventor of ‘The Ghost Detector’. https://twitter.com/spr1882/status/1260229061051387904?s=12
- SPIRITS, SHOW YOURSELF! I’m squealing with glee to share with you the cover for the next issue of @RichardWiseman @RikWorth & my comic HOCUS POCUS, this time all about communicating with the dead. Dropping in a few weeks. hocuspocuscomic.com https://twitter.com/jordancollver/status/1259858730235105280?s=12
- Our friends at Phoenix Paranormal are holding an event at the Haunted Antique Paranormal Research Centre They are an amazing team. phoenixevents.info/paranormal https://twitter.com/paraconceptpod/status/1259880825027473408?s=12
- WEIRD SUFFOLK: At the place where the earth turned red with blood the sound of warrior ghosts can be heard piercing the mist https://twitter.com/ghostclub1862/status/1259833807097692161?s=12
- Haunted Port Arthur: An Analysis of Over 1000 reports Dr.Tony Mowbray – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZKd7yR9Ees
- The Paranormal Detective and Psychic Medium Jessica Potter discuss mediumship, ghosts, and her favorite haunted locations. For those of you that plan on watching please share. This will be a fun and informative 60 minutes!!!! https://www.facebook.com/greghlawson/videos/10217741991726173/?d=n
- Phone Calls From The Dead with Callum Cooper – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDA8nJMbsM0
- Survival of Death by Hans Holzer – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP22oUOHU7k
- PsiChat Episode 6 – Brandon Massullo Interview https://youtu.be/wneCH_An47I
- Nick Kyle, past president of Scottish Society of Psychical Research – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2124xHSfT4
- Marcello Bacci – Direct Radio Voice (Documentary) (English Subtitles) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj3FErg417g
- Life Afterlife (Documentary) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUb__33y9I0
- The Medium and The Airship – (A Documentary by Dr. Keith Parsons) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfTK_qjl_5Y
- Organizing Remote Viewing Projects with Lori Williams – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuerEzRKq_A
- STEVE MERA, Parapsychologist, Paranormal Investigator and Author [Ep. #35] – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGVZsi8Y6W8
- The Veil Movie – Jeffrey Long, M.D. – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6X2VMAf-U
This section is somewhere I would like to share a few of the events, investigations, conventions and more that may interest you all. However, due to our current lockdown situation – I have now included online events.
- Unfortunately, I did not manage to capture anything for this section this week. However, if you know of upcoming events, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
I often spend a lot of my time reading paranormal related blogs, books and articles. So, I figured this would be great to share with you all too. Blogs and online articles are often a great way to discover more on the paranormal and even challenge your own perception of some concepts. There will also likely be items from published journals and magazines too in the future – which of course will be limited to those with memberships to those organisations.
- Future and Cosmos: When Apparitions Serve as Announcements https://futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2020/05/when-apparitions-serve-as-announcements.html
- More People Under Quarantine or Lockdown Are Seeing Ghosts | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/05/more-people-under-quarantine-or-lockdown-are-seeing-ghosts/
- Paranormal Review 93 https://ruickbie.com/2020/05/11/paranormal-review-93/
- LLIFS – Melbourne’s famous UFO sighting – Westall 1966 | livinglifeinfullspectrum.com.au https://llifs.com.au/blog/melbournes-famous-ufo-sighting-westall-1966/
- LLIFS – Experiments in telepathy | livinglifeinfullspectrum.com.au https://llifs.com.au/blog/experiments-in-telepathy/
- Equinox Paranormal — Water, Water Everywhere… from Nowhere – Strange… https://equinoxparanormal.tumblr.com/post/54214726852/water-water-everywhere-from-nowhere-strange
- LLIFS – Water and the Paranormal | livinglifeinfullspectrum.com.au https://llifs.com.au/blog/water-and-the-paranormal/
- MAGONIA REVIEW: PHYSICS AND PSYCHICS http://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/05/physics-and-psychics.html
- LLIFS – The many interacting worlds theory | livinglifeinfullspectrum.com.au https://llifs.com.au/blog/many-worlds/
- LLIFS – Does the paranormal field help salvage our history? | livinglifeinfullspectrum.com.au https://llifs.com.au/blog/does-the-paranormal-field-help-salvage-our-history/
- LLIFS – Smell and the Singapore Theory | livinglifeinfullspectrum.com.au https://llifs.com.au/blog/smell-and-the-singapore-theory/
- New Books and Media | spr.ac.uk https://www.spr.ac.uk/news-and-blogs/new-books
- (PDF) Punk Ethos and the Investigation of Haunted Sites | John Sabol – Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/43061826/Punk_Ethos_and_the_Investigation_of_Haunted_Sites?email_work_card=title
- Psychology: The truth about the paranormal – BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20141030-the-truth-about-the-paranormal
- ESP in EEG? Study Finds That People’s Brains Show a Neural Spike When a Friend’s Brain is Stimulated – The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2016/08/esp-in-eeg-study-finds-that-peoples-brains-show-a-neural-spike-when-a-friends-brain-is-stimulated/
- (PDF) Anomalous psychedelic experiences: At the neurochemical juncture of the humanistic and parapsychological | David Luke – Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/43036940/Anomalous_psychedelic_experiences_At_the_neurochemical_juncture_of_the_humanistic_and_parapsychological?email_work_card=title
- The Faces In the Window – The Fortean https://thefortean.com/2020/05/15/the-faces-in-the-window/
- (PDF) Siddhis and Psi Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis. With Comments by Edward F. Kelly, and Response to Kelly. | Sonali Bhatt Marwaha – Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/33715242/Siddhis_and_Psi_Research_An_Interdisciplinary_Analysis._With_Comments_by_Edward_F._Kelly_and_Response_to_Kelly
- ‘The Theory of Everything’ by Wolfram Gets Criticized by Physicists https://interestingengineering.com/the-theory-of-everything-by-wolfram-gets-criticized-by-physicists
- Most haunted places in Merseyside and how they earned their spooky reputation – Liverpool Echo https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/most-haunted-places-merseyside-how-18211297
- Ghosts at the museum | 1843 https://www.1843magazine.com/features/ghosts-at-the-museum
- (PDF) Mary Rose Barrington – IN MEMORIAM | Peter Mulacz – Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/43011414/Mary_Rose_Barrington_-_IN_MEMORIAM
- Hideyuki Kokubo | Psi Encyclopedia https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/hideyuki-kokubo
- The Evidence For Non-Local Consciousness: Beyond the Brain http://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/non-local-consciousness-and-the-brain/
- Walter von Lucadou | Psi Encyclopedia https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/walter-von-lucadou
Although generally the idea of this post was to share some of what catches my eye in the paranormal field week to week. I thought it would be good to capture some of this stuff in one place. Makes it easier to find right?
However, there’s always going to be stuff I miss, so please feel free to send me items and I may include them too. It’s a good way to share a lot of what’s happening out there in the paranormal world.
Ashley Knibb 