Paranormal Reason

Ulting Church Deep in the Essex countryside sits, just ten feet from the River Chelmer, All Saints Church, a tiny little church, always locked, standing guard, silently, over its river domain, something it has done for almost a thousand years, an idyllic, innocent facade, concealing it’s once significant position in ecclesiastical England.   For it wasn’t always like this. Back in the 15th Century it included a Chapel, adjoining the steeple at the western end, hosting the Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the centre piece being a statue of the Virgin Mary, adorned with precious jewellery and crosses, a fact attested by many medieval wills and other bequests, funded for by the many pilgrims.  It was a Holy shrine, said not only to rival the world famous shrine of ‘Our Lady of Walsingham, in Norfolk, but also the shrine of St Thomas a Becket, in Kent. Indeed, it attracted pilgrims who saw the three shrines at Canterbury, Ulting and Walsingham, who saw visits to the three sh...

Are platform mediums more than just cold readers? The former Spiritualist Church, London As we’ve mentioned in a previous article, when Laura and I first started to work together, in addition to our usual research we also devised a programme where we’d review the work of others involved in the paranormal community who were making a financial gain (not necessarily a profit), such as paranormal event companies, manufactures of devices and software and their like. This came about due to us both feeling it was a little unfair to criticise (or praise) other parties without at first obtaining first-hand experience of them and the services they offered and how they operated. I guess we considered this unethical if you like. An area we explored within our programme was platform mediums, those operating at spiritualist churches and even those present at psychic fairs and events. In this aspect, we were particularly keen to evaluate the alleged mediums and, learn any cold reading techniques they...