30-year study shows the classic ghost is fading into shadow: www.mjwayland.com/30-year-stud...

30 Year Ghost Study Shows The Classic Ghost is Changing

Author and ghost researcher MJ Wayland compared 1,000 ghost encounters from the early internet (1994 to 2012) with 1,000 posted online between 2024 and 2026.

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A wee blogpost from me with further info on the new Koestler studentship: koestlerunit.wordpress.com/2026/10/13/a...

About the Koestler Psychologies PhD Scholarship

I’ve had lots of people ask about the new Koestler Studentship and thought that I would share the situation as I understand it.  First round: The studentship was ’soft-launched’ by the University a…

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Just announced by University of Edinburgh: the Koestler Psychologies PhD Scholarship ppls.ed.ac.uk/psychology/p...

Koestler Psychologies PhD Scholarship | Psychology | School of Philosophy, Psychology and language sciences

To support rigorous psychological research into underexplored, exceptional, or not-yet-fully-understood aspects of human cognition, experience, communication, and behaviour.

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I have just written about investigating spirits and the paranormal here substack.com/home/post/p-...

Investigating the spirits!

Preparations for our immersive Halloween exhibition of ghostly, paranormal art are going well.

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Now available: the latest issue of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research jspr.spr.ac.uk/index.php/js...

How to create a false tradition of a monster in the 21st century. On Looking for Leviathans m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJO...

Registration is now open for the @SPR1882 49th Annual Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, November: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

Yay! KPU Fellow Jim Kennedy has new paper in Psychological Methods "Planning falsifiable confirmatory research": doi.org/10.1037/met0...

Reminder of the next SPR talk - Monday 20th July, ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (BST): Seeing Psi with a New Lens - Dean Radin: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

Coming up 20th July @spr1882.bsky.social Zoom lecture from the inspirational Dean Radin on seeing psi through a new lens: www.spr.ac.uk/events/upcom...

In ESP experiments, the stacking effect occurs when several participants respond to the same target, making trials statistically dependent. The latest in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia discusses the issues: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/dea...

SPR Psi Encyclopedia - Researcher fraud is difficult to estimate, detect and prove, especially in parapsychology, where data anomalies may be interpreted as psi effects. This article argues that preventive research practices offer the strongest protection: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/pre...

I have just written a bit on why science needs to take the paranormal seriously richardwiseman.substack.com/p/why-scienc...

Why science needs the strange

I have just returned from Buffalo, where I attended a conference hosted by the brilliant Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). In one session I interviewed science writer Mary Roach about her wonderf...

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Fantastic guidelines book, it's a must-read!

Richard Wiseman@richardwiseman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you are into paranormal stuff, we have just made our book about testing for Extra-Sensory Perception free! Details here. substack.com/@richardwise...

The SPR's Psi Encclopedia - editor's blog post on the use of AI: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/2026/06/15/o...

When the Spirit Moves You: The Strange History of the Poltergeist (Online), Deborah Hyde: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-the-s...

When the Spirit Moves You: The Strange History of the Poltergeist (Online)

Deborah Hyde, regular on Danny Robbins' UNCANNY and former editor of The Skeptic Magazine discusses poltergeists in this online talk

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www.strangedaysfestival.co.uk

Strange Days Festival of Forteana 2026

Explore the World that lies beyond the veil, 3 days and nights of high strangeness in the heart of Weird Wiltshire at the Legendary Barge Inn.

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A surprising fact via @severincarrell.bsky.social: “…despite the rain that drenches western and northern Scotland, Edinburgh is one of the drier cities in the UK – Rome gets more rain annually.”

Severin Carrell@severincarrell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Scotland's national library draws on two literary heroes – Minnie the Minx and Robert Burns - in a new celebration of rain! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇⛈️☔ ttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/17/rain-exhibition-national-library-scotland?CMP=share_btn_url

We have just published a new paper on preregistration in parapsychology. Free to read here peerj.com/articles/213... @kpunews.bsky.social thanks to @lakens.bsky.social for comments.

The new Zak! 'Reece Shearsmith writes a memoir of the macabre': www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/05...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

Tonight! (And note, there's an auction. Bring lots of cash) bsky.app/profile/edin...

Edinburgh Fortean Society@edinburghforteansociety.org.uk · 6mo ago

Next EdFortSoc: Wednesday 13th of May Fort Shorts! Fort Shorts are mini-talks – either works in progress or small items that wouldn’t fill a whole slot – anyone who would like to offer a short talk please contact Gordon. The Royal Oak 1 Infirmary Street Edinburgh 7.30pm, £1

Robert McLuhan, who has helped shape one of the field’s main public resources. Through blogging, publishing and editorial work, he became a prominent interpreter of parapsychology for general readers and the principal architect of the Psi Encyclopedia: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/rob...

Reminder - tomorrow, Monday 11th May, ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (BST): Implicit Psi - Deborah Patton. Registrations close two hours before the start: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

Here's my short video about the exhibition: youtu.be/Xy6Uv4o4KyM. Enjoy!

Ghosts: A Haunting Exhibition

YouTube video by Forbidden Histories

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Forbidden Histories@forbiddenhistories.bsky.social · last yr.

Nice: a major exhibition on #ghosts & #spirits in western #art is coming to the #KunstmuseumBasel in my current home town. It’s supposed to kick off on 20 September, so expect to see a brief report & pics.

Tickets to the European Skeptics Congress 2026 are now on sale. Europe’s leading gathering for science, skepticism and critical thinking returns to the UK for the first time for over a decade. Visit escliverpool.org/tickets to secure yours now.

The Psi Encyclopedia (PE) presents entries that cover the full scope of scientific parapsychology. Founded in 2014, PE offers more than 750 entries written by more than 80 authors. We welcome suggestions for topics not included. Write us at pe@spr.ac.uk.

Robert McLuhan founded and grew PE from 2014 to April 2026. James G Matlock has followed McLuhan as the General Editor, with a team of Associate Editors (Nemo Mörck, KM Wehrstein, Melvyn Willin and Nan Zingrone), software engineer Hugh Matlock. Start with the home page: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk

KPU's Jim Kennedy, @RichardWiseman and I have a Comment on the limitations of retrospective meta-analysis just out in Nature - read it here rdcu.be/fgqIE

Coming up on zoom 23rd Feb, @spr1882.bsky.social event. Details: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...