Communications Officer, Society for Psychical Research: I run the @spr1882 X account. Active on Bluesky: @tomruffles.bsky.social
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Joined August 2014
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I'm no longer active on X. You can find me on Bluesky:
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Alan Gauld: An appreciation: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
Peter McCue's article in the latest Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research @SPR1882 , issue 14, '"Hauntings" and "Poltergeists": Time for New Terminology (Part 2)', cites my review of Pitmilly House: 'Poltergeist Manor', by Lorn Macintyre: spr.ac.uk/book-review/pitmilโฆ
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Misc. book notes: Heads You Lose, by Christiannaย Brand; The Lake District Murder, by Johnย Bude; The Amber Shadows, by Lucyย Ribchester; Chasing the Dark, by Benย Machell: tomruffles.wordpress.com/202โฆ
The American Society for Psychical Research has a new address: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
D D Home was accused of being a werewolf?! tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
'Orbs and the Near-Death Experience', by Kevin Williams, has a link to my review of 'The Orb Project', by Mรญฤeรกl Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann (in '5. Links to Websites About Orbs'): near-death.com/orbs/
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I've rounded up the letters I've sent to Fortean Times (those I can find anyway): tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
The latest issue of the Society for Psychical Research @SPR1882 magazine has a photograph by me of the library at Vernon Mews on the cover.
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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/2025โฆ
A Spanish-language translation of Guy Lyon Playfair's This House is Haunted by @CienciaPsiquica . 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/1TEHโฆ
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The review by Nemo C. Mรถrck of Ben Machell's Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural, for the @SPR1882 website, mentions my blog post 'Tony Cornell and the Cambridge cinema ghost experiment': spr.ac.uk/ChasingtheDark
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Harry Price and the Senate House Library, short film. It briefly uses a couple of my photographs of the Harry Price Library (6:30): youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5fTP_Lโฆ
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Misc. book notes: The Port of London Murders, by Josephineย Bell; Japonisme, by Erin Niimiย Longhurst; Will Storr vs the Supernatural, by Willย Storr; The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury, by Seanย OโConnor; F**k Plastic, by the Orion Publishingย Group: tomruffles.wordpress.com/202โฆ
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I have a review of Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema, by Chris Alexander, in the latest @forteantimes, FT460, August 2025, p. 56.
I've written about Enid Brockies, who wrote novels as Countess Hรฉlรจne Magriska in the late 1930s/early 40s, and was a relative of mine: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
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How to Capture an Organisation: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
The Buckmaster Bequest and Systems Methodology - How's it Going? tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025โฆ
'The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research', by @stuartvyse , refers to the blog post I wrote with @James_A_Conrad
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'Missing a trick: How Psychology could benefit more from the paranormal', by @richardwiseman and Caroline Watt, cites my blog post on Tony Cornell's ghost impersonation experiments in Cambridge: bps.org.uk/psychologist/missโฆ
