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Prof Caroline Watt
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(Usually) parapsychology-related news from Emeritus Prof of Parapsychology Caroline Watt, of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit (also loves sea swimming, walking & gardening).
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Followed by 2025 PA conference replay, incl opportunity to chat w/ delegates and speakers
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Tomorrow, free online event celebrating IGPP's 75th anniversary www.airmeet.com/e/320fc120-a...
www.airmeet.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Jürgen Kornmeier is head of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany, with research interests in perception, altered states and consciousness: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/j%C...
Jürgen Kornmeier | Psi Encyclopedia
Head of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany, with research interests in perception, altered states and consciousness.
psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A new Psi Encyclopedia entry on Jim Kennedy, who established the KPU Study Registry with me way back in 2012!
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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If you’re in Edinburgh come and join me for an exploration of the Dance of Death. Tomorrow night!
edinburghforteansociety.org.uk Edinburgh Fortean Society @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk · Oct 25
Next EdFortSoc: 12th Nov 2025, 7.30pm

@anatomicalcat.bsky.social will be speaking on:

Will You Join The Dance? A brief history of the Danse Macabre

Plus!
Grand auction of books, etc.!
The Royal Oak
1 Infirmary Street
Edinburgh
7.30pm, £1
Will You Join The Dance? A brief history of the Danse Macabre The Dance of Death was an artistic trope that began in the fifteenth century to show death as the great leveller: everyone will die, from the lowliest peasant to the king and the pope. Death is depicted as a skeleton, leading people from all walks of life to join his dance. This talk will look at the origins of this image, and the way it evolved, and tied in with other memento mori images, as well as reflecting shifts in anatomical understanding. Cat’s Bio: Cat Irving has been the Human Remains Conservator for Surgeons’ Hall since 2015 and has been caring for anatomical and pathological museum collections for over twenty years. After a degree in Anatomical Science she began removing brains and sewing up bodies at the Edinburgh City Mortuary. Following training in the care of wet tissue collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England she worked with the preparations of William Hunter at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University, where she is now Consultant Human Remains Conservator. Cat is a licensed anatomist, and gives regular talks on anatomy and medical history. She recently carried out conservation work on the skeleton of serial killer William Burke. Auction There will also be an auction of donated books etc. So please bring any Fortean related books or other things you would like to donate, and also some cash. The auction proceedings will be split between group funds and a charity to be decided on the night. Wednesday 12th of November The Royal Oak 1 Infirmary Street Edinburgh 7.30pm, £1 The Dance of Death as depicted in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal", with the knight and his five companions, now dead from the plague, dancing in a chain behind the Grim Reaper.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Check out my lovely colleague Prof Peter Lamont's Substack The Faculty of Wonder, here: peterlamont.substack.com
The Faculty of Wonder | Substack
Professor Peter Lamont takes a curious look at things of wonder. Warning: some of them aren't true. Click to read The Faculty of Wonder, a Substack publication.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The Mild Mannered Englishman Who Was the World’s Most Prolific Ghost Hunter (Tony again, though he was far from mild): lithub.com/the-mild-man...
The Mild Mannered Englishman Who Was the World’s Most Prolific Ghost Hunter
A middle-aged couple park their car outside a modest suburban house. The husband turns off the engine then returns his hands to the wheel, eyes forward and jaw set. His wife looks out of the passeng…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The latest issue of the Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research (issue 14) has been uploaded to the SPR website. SPR members need to log in to access the full issue. Editorial: www.spr.ac.uk/magazine-soc...
The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research | spr.ac.uk
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September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Book review: "The original ghostbuster - An entrancing biography of Tony Cornell, who displayed a scientist’s commitment to impartiality as he investigated the paranormal" (Taipei Times): www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Book review: The original ghostbuster - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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September 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Vol. 89 No. 3 (2025): Journal of the Society for Psychical Research: jspr.spr.ac.uk/index.php/js...
Vol. 89 No. 3 (2025): Journal of the Society for Psychical Research | Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
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August 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Oh look, the FH podcast is now also on Youtube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Forbidden Histories - YouTube
Deep-dive conversations about the hidden history of science & magic, curated by Dr. Andreas Sommer. Episodes in English and German. Dialoge über die verborge...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The SPR's Psi Open Data Project (an open repository for parapsychological and psychical research data) has been moved to Zenodo, which is operated by CERN. The links remain unchanged: www.spr.ac.uk/publications...
Psi Open Data | spr.ac.uk
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July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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4 episodes (each in English & German) already available. Would be keen to hear what you lovely people think! 🥹
forbiddenhistories.bsky.social Forbidden Histories @forbiddenhistories.bsky.social · Jul 29
The latest addition to the FH multimedia universe: The podcast, where contents are discussed in an entertaining dialogue format.

Each episode can be streamed & downloaded in English & German. Here is the introduction (in English): forbiddenhistories.podbean.com/e/introducti...

Enjoy!
Introduction: From Magic to Science? | Forbidden Histories
Introduction to Forbidden Histories - evidence-based history of science & magic that will boggle your mind. :) Also make sure to visit the Forbidden Histories Website.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural. Ben Machell uncovers the archives of psychical researcher Tony Cornell and his investigations into ghosts, poltergeists and psychic powers. Conway Hall, London, 25 September: conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
Ticketbooth
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July 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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King's College London study examining voice hearing in the general population: www.spr.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
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July 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Reminder, SPR talk via Zoom TONIGHT. Monday 21st July at 8pm (BST): Embodied Liminality: Sensory isolation in floatation tanks as a method of promoting psi phenomena - Kirsty Allan. NB Registration closes 2 hours before talk is due to start: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...
Zoom Web Event Monday 21st July 2025 at 8pm (BST): Embodied Liminality: Sensory isolation in floatation tanks as a method of promoting psi phenomena - Kirsty Allan | spr.ac.uk
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July 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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A Brief Analysis of Norway's Most Documented Poltergeist Investigation, by Lucas Cardholm: www.linkedin.com/pulse/prank-...
Prank or Poltergeist?
A Brief Analysis of Norway's Most Documented Poltergeist Investigation As researchers, we encounter cases that not only challenge our scientific methodologies, but also illuminate the complex interpla...
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July 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Next EdFortSoc : Wed 9th July
Gavin Ritchie: The Unavoidable Subject
An apple falls in gravity irrespective of the hand that drops it, so why are outcomes in parapsychology so dependent on the individuals involved? This presentation explores subjectivity within experiences of psi and the paranormal.
Next EdFortSoc : Wednesday 9th of July The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society will be Gavin Ritchie talking on: The Unavoidable Subject An apple falls in gravity irrespective of the hand that drops it, so why are outcomes in parapsychology so dependent on the individuals involved? This presentation explores subjectivity within experiences of psi and the paranormal. If our individuality truly is a decisive factor in these experiences, what might that tell us about the reality of reported phenomena, or even, about reality itself? Wednesday 9th of July The Royal Oak 1 Infirmary Street Edinburgh 7.30pm, £1
July 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Many congratulations to Dr Abby Pooley, my final PhD student, who graduates tomorrow! @schoolofppls.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The 2025 SPR conference will be held at Milton Hill House, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxford, 18/19 October. CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE is 31st August. Details: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...
CALL FOR PAPERS - SPR ANNUAL CONFERENCE DEADLINE 31st August | spr.ac.uk
www.spr.ac.uk
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The John Björkhem Memorial foundation has announced that grants for parapsychological research are available. Deadline: 10 Nov, 2025. www.spr.ac.uk/node/19642
Research Grants from the John Björkhem Memorial foundation | spr.ac.uk
www.spr.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A New Approach to Psi: Re-Envisioning Paranormal Experience as Meaningful Coincidence, by Lance Storm, reviewed on the SPR website by Nemo C. Mörck: www.spr.ac.uk/ANewApproach...
A New Approach to Psi: Re-Envisioning Paranormal Experience as Meaningful Coincidence, by Lance Storm | spr.ac.uk
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July 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The latest Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration: journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/js...
Vol. 39 No. 2 (2025): JSE 39:2 Summer 2025 | Journal of Scientific Exploration
journalofscientificexploration.org
July 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM