Tom Ruffles, PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

I'm no longer active on X. You can find me on Bluesky: @ tomruffles.bsky.social

Alan Gauld: An appreciation: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/11/alan-g…

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/pi…

Misc. book notes: Heads You Lose, by Christianna Brand; The Lake District Murder, by John Bude; The Amber Shadows, by Lucy Ribchester; Chasing the Dark, by Ben Machell: tomruffles.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/cha…

The American Society for Psychical Research has a new address: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-am…

D D Home was accused of being a werewolf?! tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/10/d-d-ho…

'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/

I've rounded up the letters I've sent to Fortean Times (those I can find anyway): tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/09/letter…

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.

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-note…

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/1TEHLF-…

The review by Nemo C. Mörck 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

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…

Misc. book notes: The Port of London Murders, by Josephine Bell; Japonisme, by Erin Niimi Longhurst; Will Storr vs the Supernatural, by Will Storr; The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury, by Sean O’Connor; F**k Plastic, by the Orion Publishing Group: tomruffles.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/fk-…

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 Hélène Magriska in the late 1930s/early 40s, and was a relative of mine: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/07/enid-b…

How to Capture an Organisation: tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-to…

The Buckmaster Bequest and Systems Methodology - How's it Going? tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-bu…

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'The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research', by @stuartvyse , refers to the blog post I wrote with @James_A_Conrad skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-…