Society for Psychical Research
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Founded in 1882, the SPR aims to advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. Posts are not endorsements.
Our website address is spr.ac.uk.
Our website address is spr.ac.uk.
Conversations with the Dead, a forthcoming film based on 'Friedel's Conversations with the Dead: The Fascinating Story of Friedrich Jürgenson, Pioneer of EVP,' by Anabela Cardoso and Anders Leopold:
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Conversations with the Dead, a forthcoming film based on 'Friedel's Conversations with the Dead: The Fascinating Story of Friedrich Jürgenson, Pioneer of EVP,' by Anabela Cardoso and Anders Leopold:
Médiums: Introducción a la diversidad de la experiencia espiritual, by Alejandro Parra, reviewed on the SPR website by Roberto R. Narváez: www.spr.ac.uk/M%C3%A9diums...
Médiums: Introducción a la diversidad de la experiencia espiritual, by Alejandro Parra | spr.ac.uk
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November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Médiums: Introducción a la diversidad de la experiencia espiritual, by Alejandro Parra, reviewed on the SPR website by Roberto R. Narváez: www.spr.ac.uk/M%C3%A9diums...
Dr Marina Weiler et al. are running a survey about entity encounters during out-of-body experiences: virginiahsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Qualtrics Survey | OBE Entity Encounter
This survey is part of a research project exploring encounters with entities or non-physical beings during Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs). We are seeking to understand how individuals perceive, interp...
virginiahsd.co1.qualtrics.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dr Marina Weiler et al. are running a survey about entity encounters during out-of-body experiences: virginiahsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online SPR talk, 24 November, 8-10pm GMT. Investigation of possession, entity attachment and corresponding healing modalities: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - TyLean Tuijl: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...
Monday 24th November 2025 ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (BST): - Investigation of possession, entity attachment and corresponding healing modalities: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - TyLean T...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Online SPR talk, 24 November, 8-10pm GMT. Investigation of possession, entity attachment and corresponding healing modalities: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - TyLean Tuijl: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...
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Have you ever experienced that strange feeling that you’ve encountered this moment or event before?
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Have you ever experienced that strange feeling that you’ve encountered this moment or event before?
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From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
Boo! How Artists Have Envisioned Ghosts Throughout the Centuries - From spirit photography to spectral sculptures, an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel explores 250 years of spooky imagery in art: news.artnet.com/art-world/ho...
Boo! How Artists Have Envisioned Ghosts Throughout the Centuries | Artnet News
Kunstmuseum Basel’s “Ghosts" traces how artists have rendered the invisible—from 19th-century seance drawings to contemporary apparitions.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Boo! How Artists Have Envisioned Ghosts Throughout the Centuries - From spirit photography to spectral sculptures, an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel explores 250 years of spooky imagery in art: news.artnet.com/art-world/ho...
Telepathy our Lost Sense: Neuroscience sheds Light on ESP, by Dianne Cartwright, reviewed on the SPR website by Gregory M. Westlake: www.spr.ac.uk/Telepathyour...
Telepathy our Lost Sense: Neuroscience sheds Light on ESP, by Dianne Cartwright | spr.ac.uk
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November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Telepathy our Lost Sense: Neuroscience sheds Light on ESP, by Dianne Cartwright, reviewed on the SPR website by Gregory M. Westlake: www.spr.ac.uk/Telepathyour...
Illusions of Presence: Lost Christmas Ghost Stories, edited by Johnny Mains, reviewed on the SPR website by Tim Prasil: www.spr.ac.uk/IllusionsofP...
Illusions of Presence: Lost Christmas Ghost Stories, edited by Johnny Mains | spr.ac.uk
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November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Illusions of Presence: Lost Christmas Ghost Stories, edited by Johnny Mains, reviewed on the SPR website by Tim Prasil: www.spr.ac.uk/IllusionsofP...
The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular: www.wired.com/story/the-ci...
The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular
The Monroe Institute claims its meditations, which have also been used by the US military, help people access different planes of consciousness. Its virtual and in-person retreats are now selling out.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular: www.wired.com/story/the-ci...
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, by Andrew Pickering, reviewed on the SPR website by Johan Theorin: www.spr.ac.uk/EnglishPolte...
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, by Andrew Pickering | spr.ac.uk
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November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, by Andrew Pickering, reviewed on the SPR website by Johan Theorin: www.spr.ac.uk/EnglishPolte...
When Apparitions, Dreams or Visions Seem to Help or Save People: futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2025/10/when...
When Apparitions, Dreams or Visions Seem to Help or Save People
Cosmology,philosophy of biology,philosophy of mind, paranormal,futurology,anthropic,mind-body,neuroscience,intelligent design,memory,parapsychology
futureandcosmos.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
When Apparitions, Dreams or Visions Seem to Help or Save People: futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2025/10/when...
C J Romer - Bath, Taps, and the Poverty of Theory: notes after last night’s Uncanny Episode s5 e1: jerome23.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/b...
Bath, Taps, and the Poverty of Theory: notes after last night’s Uncanny Episode s5 e1
Did you listen to last night’s new Uncanny episode? It is well worth a listen! Several resident couples, a steep Georgian terrace in Bath, taps that like to run themselves, and a few phenomena scat…
jerome23.wordpress.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
C J Romer - Bath, Taps, and the Poverty of Theory: notes after last night’s Uncanny Episode s5 e1: jerome23.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/b...
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The Poltergeist Archive: poltergeistarchive.co.uk
The Poltergeist Archive Poltergeist Archive
Collected poltergeist cases from across the world - contemporary accounts from the last 200+ years.
poltergeistarchive.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The Poltergeist Archive: poltergeistarchive.co.uk
Photography and the Invisible - Shannon Taggart: walkerart.org/magazine/ser...
walkerart.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Photography and the Invisible - Shannon Taggart: walkerart.org/magazine/ser...
Resource Directory Hightlight: Parapsychology: A century of enquiry by D. Scott Rogo: www.llifs.com.au/blog/resourc...
LLIFS - Resource Directory Hightlight: Parapsychology: A century of enquiry by D. Scott Rogo | llifs.com.au
The highlight of the LLIFS resource directory this week is a must-read entry by D Scott Rogo (One of my favourite paranormal authors). There is also a link for you to read the book free via public do...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Resource Directory Hightlight: Parapsychology: A century of enquiry by D. Scott Rogo: www.llifs.com.au/blog/resourc...
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Much has been said about The Cage at St Osyth. Our latest research traces its real history and reveals why the popular tale doesn’t hold up to evidence.
Read here: paranormalreason.com/true-locatio...
Read here: paranormalreason.com/true-locatio...
From Folklore to Fact: Establishing the True Site of St Osyth’s Lock-Up, "The Cage" - Paranormal Reason
New research reveals the true site of St Osyth’s infamous lock-up, ‘The Cage’. Using maps, documents, and archaeology, this article separates fact from folklore to uncover where the real prison once s...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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During the feast of All Hallows’ Eve, supernatural tales were a way of promoting prayer for the salvation of suffering souls, says Dr Michael Carter, an English Heritage curator. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Halloween is no ungodly American import – just ask the medieval monks and nuns who marketed it | Michael Carter
During the feast of All Hallows’ Eve, supernatural tales were a way of promoting prayer for the salvation of suffering souls, says Dr Michael Carter, an English Heritage curator
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October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
During the feast of All Hallows’ Eve, supernatural tales were a way of promoting prayer for the salvation of suffering souls, says Dr Michael Carter, an English Heritage curator. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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JUST ONE HOUR TO GO until the #UNCANNY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!👻⏰🚨😱‼️
Let me know in the comments #UncannyCommunity:
WHERE will you be listening to
Case 1: The Haunted Street?
TUNE IN on BBC Sounds or BBC Radio 4 or your podcast feed - are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic...
Let me know in the comments #UncannyCommunity:
WHERE will you be listening to
Case 1: The Haunted Street?
TUNE IN on BBC Sounds or BBC Radio 4 or your podcast feed - are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic...
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
JUST ONE HOUR TO GO until the #UNCANNY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!👻⏰🚨😱‼️
Let me know in the comments #UncannyCommunity:
WHERE will you be listening to
Case 1: The Haunted Street?
TUNE IN on BBC Sounds or BBC Radio 4 or your podcast feed - are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic...
Let me know in the comments #UncannyCommunity:
WHERE will you be listening to
Case 1: The Haunted Street?
TUNE IN on BBC Sounds or BBC Radio 4 or your podcast feed - are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic...
Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell: Haunting that baffled the original ghostbuster: www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
The haunting that baffled the original ghostbuster
Sceptic and parapsychologist
Tony Cornell spent his life
disproving the existence
of spirits at 'haunted' sites
across Britain. But one old
mansion in Cambridge
proved the exception...
www.dailymail.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell: Haunting that baffled the original ghostbuster: www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
What is parapsychology - the real-life study of paranormal phenomena: www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/science...
What is parapsychology - the real-life study of paranormal phenomena
Real research is being done to find out the truth behind psychic phenomena and strange experiences 🔍
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
What is parapsychology - the real-life study of paranormal phenomena: www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/science...
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"16% of respondents reported they had had a supernatural experience, but almost one in five said they had never discussed it with anyone, even family and friends"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A third of people in England believe in ghosts, survey finds
National Folklore Survey, the first in over 60 years, found people aged 25-34 most likely to believe in the paranormal
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"16% of respondents reported they had had a supernatural experience, but almost one in five said they had never discussed it with anyone, even family and friends"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Things those TV ghost shows never tell you
#1 People who really have experienced or seen a ghost usually don't want to talk about it 👻
#1 People who really have experienced or seen a ghost usually don't want to talk about it 👻
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Things those TV ghost shows never tell you
#1 People who really have experienced or seen a ghost usually don't want to talk about it 👻
#1 People who really have experienced or seen a ghost usually don't want to talk about it 👻