Upcoming Events

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[Also note that as of early 2020, upcoming events posted here are also being added to our Psience News pages and to our calendar --Laird]

John Fraser will give a lecture at the SPR's headquarters in London at 7 p.m. on 13th February 2020, entitled "Are Poltergeists Rare? Or are all cases 'Intermediate' with a strange mix of phenomena?":
https://www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info...6reset%3D1

John Fraser will give a lecture at the SPR's headquarters in London at 7 p.m. on 13th February 2020, entitled "Are Poltergeists Rare? Or are all cases 'Intermediate' with a strange mix of phenomena?":
https://www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info...6reset%3D1

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Sam Treasure has a post on his blog "Zombies in PJs," about the talk, the questions afterwards and the following discussion in the pub, with comments about some of his own experiences:
https://www.zombiesinpjs.com/post/the-po...enaissance

[Laird]

Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural

By Scott Wood for the London Fortean Society on July 20, 2025.

Ben Machell uncovers the archives of psychic researcher Tony Cornell and his investigations into ghosts, poltergeists and psychic powers. Between 1950 and 2010, he became perhaps the world's most prolific investigator of psychic phenomena and paranormal events. Ben will be in conversation with artist and researcher Sarah Sparkes.

25 September 2025

7 pm (Doors 6.30 pm)

£10 standard / £6 Living Support / £7 Students /  £7 Online / Advance Booking

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Tube: Holborn

[Laird]

How to Build A Haunted House

By Scott Wood for the London Fortean Society on July 20, 2025.

Whether a sceptic or paranormal enthusiast, we all know a haunted house when we see one. From Medieval Scotland to Enlightenment-era London, Victorian suburbs to pre-Civil War Louisiana, Caitlin Blackwell-Baines will explore the particular features, contexts and histories that lend a building the dreaded identity of a haunted house.

9th October 2025 

7 pm (Doors 6.30 pm)

£10 standard / £6 Living Support / £7 Students /  £7 Online / Advance Booking

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Tube: Holborn

[Laird]

The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore

By Scott Wood for the London Fortean Society on July 20, 2025.

Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do to lift this curse? 

Join us for a legendary trip through the seventh Haunted Landscape, our day of expert talks on British ghosts, magic, and folklore.

22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm

In advance: Standard £25 / Living Support £17 / Student £21 (inc. £2 venue levy) Advance Tickets

Online: £12   (inc. £2 venue levy) Advance Tickets

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Tube: Holborn

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Age Recommendation: All ages. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

E. Jay Gilbert – Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives

Mark Norman – The Folklore of Churches and Churchyards

Jeremy Harte – The Devil in Church

Rachel Poulton – Unseen: In Search of the Sublime and Spirit of Place in the Haunted Landscape

Roger Luckhurst – The Lost Landscape of London’s Inner-City Dead

Icy Sedgwick – Northern Ghosts: The Bargest and Gytrash

Tabitha Stanmore – Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

Owen Davies & Ceri Houlbrook – Legend-Tripping in the British Landscape

All speaker books will be available to buy and signed at The Word Bookshop’s stall.

See the link for descriptions of each talk.