I have a review of The Mal-Observation Report, by Richard Hodgson and S J Davy, republished from the Proceedings of the @spr1882.bsky.social by Curious Publications, in the latest issue of Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social FT473, August 2025, p. 58.

John Fraser's updated article in the SPR's online Psi Encyclopedia on 'Lay Paranormal Research in the UK' now includes a reference to my 1991 Psi Researcher (then the title of the SPR's magazine) lecture report 'A life in the day of Cerdic the Saxon'.

Another of my ancient articles (1993) which appeared in The Skeptic - "From the archives: Skepticism, 1895 Style – A medium tries to convert the skeptics": www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/06/from...

Misc. book notes: Saving Graces, by David Robinson; Summer Before the Dark, by Volker Weidermann; The Female Hypnotist, by Donald K. Hartman (ed.); Printed in North Korea, by Nicholas Bonner; One Big Box of ‘Paranormal Tricks’? By John Fraser: tomruffles.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/o...

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...