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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The Psi Encyclopedia vs Wikipedia' - the latest editors' blog post in the @spr1882.bsky.social's Psi Encyclopedia, by Nemo C Mörck @nemomorck.bsky.social - mentions my 2016 post 'Wikipedia and its prejudices: a recent example': psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/2026/09/28/t...

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The Psi Encyclopedia vs Wikipedia – Psi Encyclopedia

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Colour, at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2026/09/jacq... The SPR’s 48th International Annual Conference, 2025: The Online Experience: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Colour, at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) is mostly known for his black-and-white photographs. These have an ability to make the past look enviable...

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have a review of 'Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos', by Robert Guffey, in the latest issue of Fortean Times, FT475, October 2026, p. 57.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Issue 17 of the Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research has my contribution to the report on the 2025 SPR conference, describing the online experience. Also, Prof Caroline Watt's presidential column, 'Eleanor Sidgwick: My Hero', cites my 2010 blog post 'Eleanor Sidgwick and Her Doctorates'.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

According to Academia.edu Vincent Masse had cited me, but one has to pay to learn where. It turns out it was in his article 'Proto-zombies et néo-danses macabres : Motifs dévoyés, des XVe-XVIe siècles au cinéma d’Abel Gance (1919, 1938, 1956)': journals.openedition.org/belphegor/4394

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Proto-zombies et néo-danses macabres : Motifs dévoyés, des XVe-XVIe...

L’importance d’Abel Gance pour le développement du cinéma français est bien connue, bien documentée, mais qu’en est-il de son importance pour l’invention des films de zombies ? Sur cette question, ...

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

'The creature wrote letters to a 15-year-old girl. Her family claimed he haunted her for 12 years' (1956 Battersea Poltergeist) - cites my 2013 review of The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist: zdrowepasje.pl/ezoteryka/du...

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Byt pisał listy do 15-latki. Rodzina twierdziła, że nawiedzał ją przez 12 lat

Zaczęło się od tajemniczego klucza znalezionego na łóżku. Później w domu rozlegały się potężne uderzenia, przedmioty przemieszczały się bez dotykania, a niewidzialny byt zaczął odpowiadać na pytania. ...

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

'A Tale of Two Paranormal Societies: The Cost of Standing Still', by Lisette Voytko @lisettereports.bsky.social , comparing the SPR @spr1882.bsky.social with the American SPR, includes a reference to the Feb 2025 ASPR article I produced with James A. Conrad: ghostsnoted.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

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A Tale of Two Paranormal Societies: The Cost of Standing Still

In this series exploring who holds power in ghost belief, the world’s oldest research organizations in parapsychology are a case study in institutional evolution.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have a review of The Mal-Observation Report, by Richard Hodgson and S J Davy, republished from the Proceedings of the @spr1882.bsky.social by Curious Publications, in the latest issue of Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social FT473, August 2025, p. 58.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

John Fraser's updated article in the SPR's online Psi Encyclopedia on 'Lay Paranormal Research in the UK' now includes a reference to my 1991 Psi Researcher (then the title of the SPR's magazine) lecture report 'A life in the day of Cerdic the Saxon'.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Misc. book notes: Saving Graces, by David Robinson; Summer Before the Dark, by Volker Weidermann; The Female Hypnotist, by Donald K. Hartman (ed.); Printed in North Korea, by Nicholas Bonner; One Big Box of ‘Paranormal Tricks’? By John Fraser: tomruffles.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/o...

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One Big Box of ‘Paranormal Tricks’? By John Fraser

With a title that feels almost as long as its modest word count, John Fraser’s Paranormal Perspectives: One Big Box of ‘Paranormal Tricks’? From Ghosts to Poltergeists to the Theory of Just One Par…

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accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social @accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tom Ruffles (an author and researcher known for his work in psychical research, film history, and photography; the Communications Officer, a Council member, and a trustee at Society for Psychical Research) leaves X (877 followers) Bluesky: @tomruffles.bsky.social

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A New Editor of the Society for Psychical Research’s Psi Encyclopedia: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne...

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Annual Report of the Society for Psychical Research @spr1882.bsky.social for 2024-25, with my report as chair of the SPR Library Committee, is on the SPR website. I'm always happy to hear suggestions for library acquisitions: www.spr.ac.uk/node/19834

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ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 2024-2025 (includes Agenda for 2026 AGM) | spr.ac.uk

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I've updated my Alan Gauld appreciation after his library was sold at auction: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/11/alan... and I've added the text of my latest letter to Fortean Times to my round-up: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/09/lett... (Scroll down for both.)

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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...

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have a letter in the April 2026 issue of Fortean Times (469:65), comparing a hoaxed poltergiest case reported by Peter Underwood, which Alan Murdie referred to in a previous Ghostwatch column, with a very similar one included by Tony Cornell in his book Investigating the Paranormal.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

My 2021 post 'The $1.8 million Bigelow Competition' is cited in the @spr1882.bsky.social Psi Encyclopedia article 'Robert Bigelow and the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies': psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/rob...

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Robert Bigelow and the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies – Psi Encyclopedia

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Includes my ancient article 'Romancing the Stone – The lure of alchemy continues':

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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/...

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Pitmilly House: 'Poltergeist Manor', by Lorn Macintyre | spr.ac.uk

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

'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/

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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!

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

Cover of the Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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...

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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...

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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...

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Esta casa está encantada - Playfair.pdf

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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

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Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural, by Ben Machell | spr.ac.uk

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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...

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Harry Price and the Senate House Library

YouTube video by Gāst

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

'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...

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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.

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Tom Ruffles PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍏 @tomruffles.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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...

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