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

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

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

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.)

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.

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...

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

I've updated my blog post on 'Lexscien: An Opportunity Lost' (scroll to bottom): tomruffles.blogspot.com/2015/12/lexs...

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

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/...

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/c...

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

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

'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/lett...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

'The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research', by @stuartvyse.bsky.social , refers to the blog post I wrote with James A. Conrad: skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...

'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...

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...

What’s next for the American Society for Psychical Research? tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/02/what...