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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.

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@dannyrobins.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:31 PMReposted by @spr1882.bsky.social

CASE UPDATE COMING 🚨

I’ve recorded a CASE UPDATE on all the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown cases so far this October, featuring theories sent in by YOU, #UncannyCommunity!

To hear it, listen to tomorrow’s Countdown case in the Uncanny podcast feed on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. 👻

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:19 PM

Scientists Studied Decades of Magic Tricks—and Revealed Something Strange About How the Brain Sees Reality: thedebrief.org/scientists-s...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:11 PM

The Dorothy Problem - MJ Wayland: www.mjwayland.com/haunt-field/...

@theghostmonk.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:41 PMReposted by @spr1882.bsky.social

In my thread on haunted staircases, I'd forgotten this one. In June 1884, Kathleen Leigh Hunt was staying with her cousin in a house in Hyde Park Place, #London. She told the @spr1882.bsky.social : 'One morning I seemed to see, about two stairs in front of me, a figure...' [Cont:
#SpookySunday

An illustration from an article by Beckles Wilson in The Strand Magazine in 1908 of a woman in Victorian dress climbing a domestic flight of stairs. In front of her is walking a ghostly woman dressed as a housemaid.
@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:15 PM

psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/did...

psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/tho...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:14 PM

'He Paints with a Phantom Hand' - there are two articles on this case in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia: 'Did Robert Swain Gifford Survive Death?', by Stephen Braude, and 'The Thompson-Gifford Case', by Michael Tymn. Links in the first comments: multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/h...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:09 PM

What Science Says About Telepathy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qXI...

@susandemeter.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:21 AMReposted by @spr1882.bsky.social

A small boy and his friend encounter something sinister overlooking a Scottish loch and its esoteric aftermath Join me in pondering the cosmic mysteries with these true human interactions with the otherworld 🖤 #ufo #ghost #Goddess #paranormal #Scotland

susandemeter.substack.com/p/the-dark-l...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:09 AM

Tina Resch (there is an article in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia - 'Tina Resch (Columbus Poltergeist))': psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/tin...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:44 PM

Recent Research on Precognitive Lucid Dreaming (IONS): noetic.org/blog/precogn...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 11:35 AM

Bucharest Emerges as the World’s Leading City for Ghostly Adventures: www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:31 PM

Koestler Psychologies PhD Scholarship: ppls.ed.ac.uk/psychology/p...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:29 PM

The Society for Psychical Research Tested the Impossible. Then It Exposed Its Own President: www.monkeyandelf.com/society-for-...

@anforsorrow.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:06 PMReposted by @spr1882.bsky.social

The archives of the Society for Psychical Research have photos that are supposedly of Gef. The do look more like a stuffed toy, or a cat, or a pile of furs or plants; than a weasel or mongoose. Even on her death bed the daughter still claimed to have been terrorized by this creature.

One of the supposed photos of Gef.Another one of the photos that supposedly show Gef.Another photo of Gef.
@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:14 PM

Jamaica Inn: The History, Hauntings and Folklore, by Karin Beasant and Lisa Holman, reviewed on the SPR website by Peter A. McCue: www.spr.ac.uk/JamaicaInn

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:32 PM

Monday 9th November - ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (GMT), a talk by Stephan Schwartz: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:20 PM

Augustus De Morgan, a British mathematician, logician and polymath, became deeply interested in mesmerism and spiritualism. Personal experiments and séances convinced him that some reported phenomena were genuine, but he remained agnostic about their cause. psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/aug...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:01 PM

Nina Kulagina: The Woman Who Moved Objects With a Glance: anomyst.com/nina-kulagin...

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:39 AM

A new issue of the Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition: journals.lub.lu.se/jaex

@spr1882.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:39 AM

United States of Ghosts: A History of America’s Hauntings, by Richard Estep, reviewed on the SPR website by Karen Stollznow: www.spr.ac.uk/UnitedStates...

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