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Alan Gauld: An appreciation Recently I was asked to provide an appreciation of Alan Gauld for the Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition , which has now been pub...

Alan Gauld: An appreciation: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/11/alan...

Peter McCue's article in the latest Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research @spr1882.bsky.social, issue 14, '"Hauntings" and "Poltergeists": Time for New Terminology (Part 2)', cites my review of Pitmilly House: 'Poltergeist Manor', by Lorn Macintyre: www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/...

Chasing the Dark, by Ben Machell Ben Machell’s Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural (2025) is a dip into the life of psychical researcher Anthony Donald (always known as Tony) Cornell (1923-2010), with dollops of the…

Misc. book notes: Heads You Lose, by Christianna Brand; The Lake District Murder, by John Bude; The Amber Shadows, by Lucy Ribchester; Chasing the Dark, by Ben Machell: tomruffles.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...

The American Society for Psychical Research has a new address Last July I received some news about the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), an organisation the shortcomings of which James A. ...

The American Society for Psychical Research has a new address: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

D D Home was accused of being a werewolf?! In a section dealing with nineteenth-century Spiritualism in Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural (2025), Ben Machell makes t...

D D Home was accused of being a werewolf?! tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/10/d-d-...

Orbs and the Near-Death Experience - Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife profiles Orbs and the Near-Death Experience . Did you enjoy reading this post, we have more!

'Orbs and the Near-Death Experience', by Kevin Williams, has a link to my review of 'The Orb Project', by Míċeál Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann (in '5. Links to Websites About Orbs'): near-death.com/orbs/

Letters to Fortean Times Over the years I have written a number of letters to Fortean Times , not all of which have been published, and some of those which have were...

I've rounded up the letters I've sent to Fortean Times (those I can find anyway): tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/09/lett...

Cover of the Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research

The latest issue of the Society for Psychical Research @spr1882.bsky.social magazine has a photograph by me of the library at Vernon Mews on the cover.

A note on Carl Jung’s refusal to commit a fashionable stupidity For many years, the banner of the Society for Psychical Research’s website displayed a quotation by Carl Jung: “I shall not commit the fashi...

Why you won't find Jung's "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" in the Society for Psychical Research's publications: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-no...

This is a Spanish-language translation of Guy Lyon Playfair's This House is Haunted. It includes translations of a couple of my blog posts on the Warrens and Enfield - Ed and Lorraine Warren and the Enfield 'Demon' and A Demon in Enfield? drive.google.com/file/d/1TEHL...

The review by @nemomorck.bsky.social of Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural (unfortunate title), by Ben Machell for the @spr1882.bsky.social website, mentions my blog post 'Tony Cornell and the Cambridge cinema ghost experiment': www.spr.ac.uk/ChasingtheDark

YouTube video by Gāst Harry Price and the Senate House Library

Harry Price and the Senate House Library, short film. It briefly uses a couple of my photographs of the Harry Price Library (6:30): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5f...

I have a review of Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema, by Chris Alexander, in the latest issue of Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social, FT460, August 2025, p. 56.

Enid Brockies - Countess Hélène Magriska Sunderland Echo, 4 December 1933 Enid Florence Brockies (1911-1943) was a well-known author in her time, under the flamboyant pen name Count...

I've written about Enid Brockies, who wrote novels as Countess Hélène Magriska in the late 1930s/early 40s, and was a relative of mine: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/07/enid...

How to Capture an Organisation I had not intended to revisit the evolving difficulties within the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), as t...

How to Capture an Organisation: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-...

The Buckmaster Bequest and Systems Methodology - How's it Going? I last wrote in August 2022 about the saga of Dr David Rousseau’s lacklustre effort (ongoing since March 2014) to complete a £78,000 contrac...

The Buckmaster Bequest and Systems Methodology - How's it Going? tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research | Skeptical Inquirer After my emails went unanswered, I decided to look a bit deeper into what is going on at the American Society for Psychical Research. What I found was shock ...

'The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research', by @stuartvyse.bsky.social , refers to the blog post I wrote with James A. Conrad:
skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...

Missing a trick: How Psychology could benefit more from the paranormal | BPS Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve.

'Missing a trick: How Psychology could benefit more from the paranormal', by @richardwiseman.bsky.social and Caroline Watt, cites my blog post on Tony Cornell's ghost impersonation experiments in Cambridge: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The Annual Report of the Society for Psychical Research
@SPR1882 for 2023-24, with my report as chair of the SPR Library Committee, is on the website. I'm always happy to hear suggestions for library acquisitions: www.spr.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

What’s next for the American Society for Psychical Research? by Tom Ruffles and James A. Conrad   There have been significant developments in the four years since Tom Ruffles last wrote about the g...

What’s next for the American Society for Psychical Research? tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/02/what...