Hauntings (Ghosts, Haunts and the Occult)

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The collection also includes Dingwall’s correspondence with many major figures of psychical research in the 20th century including Mollie Goldney, Trevor Hall, Guy Lyon Playfair, James Randi, Geroge Zorab and organisations such as the BBC, the Magic Circle and Society for Psychical Research. The correspondence is closed under the terms of Dingwall’s will until 2025 when it will be open to researchers. After developing a love for the supernatural, they like to spend their spare-time hunting for ghosts and attempting to speak with spirits earning them the label of ‘the real life Addams Family’. One petrifying story from the University even went viral, becoming an internet phenomenon and making headlines around the world. We’re talking, of course, about the haunted statue of Manchester Museum… We could, for example, explain how low-frequency sound waves can cause us to feel discomfort or sense another presence in a room… Ed and Lorraine Warren were some of the most legendary paranormal investigators of all time, with the married couple forming their own society -- the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) -- and investigating some of the most terrifying hauntings of all time, including the Amityville hauntings, the Perron family hauntings, and the Enfield poltergeist case. Famously, the case files of the Warrens also helped to inspire The Conjuring movies, bringing Ed and Lorraine’s investigations to the big screen.

The foundation collection of the Library’s holdings on The Paranormal, the Occult and the Magical was built by author, psychical researcher and book collector Harry Price over many years before he gave it to the University of London in the late 1930s for the purpose of encouraging research and investigation into the unexplained.

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Tom added: "Bidston Hill is also classed by many investigators of UFOs as a “window area” – a hot-spot of UFO activity where strange craft and lights in the sky regularly appear. Many of these books are held within the Sterling Library,(Opens in new window) a collection of c.7000 volumes of first editions of English Literature; section I of this collection contains works published prior to 1900. Perhaps, most of all, he represents something within us, that part of ourselves which is unknowable and uncontrollable. There have been times, in this strangest of years, that Manchester has felt like a ghost town. The streets deserted, the shops closed – and campus, usually so vibrant, eerily quiet. These are just two biggies in a firmament of shows, films, and even computer games obsessing on the supernatural. Culture always reflects society’s concerns: our hopes, fears, and dreams.

Manchester’s Albert Hall is a favourite ‘haunt’ * ahem * among our students. But have you heard of the mischievous poltergeist said to stalk the popular music venue? Brighton has as many interesting ghost stories as it has clubs, bars and pretentious media types. In particular, the seaside resort seems to have a number of roaming ghosts, capable of manifesting in a wide geographical area. British Paranormal outlines a few of its favourite wandering Brighton ghosts below:

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New technology and new scientific theories are also seen as contributing to this interwar spook boom. Radio, TV and the telephone changed how our ancestors viewed the world. Einstein opened up the universe to dizzying possibilities, and Freud did the same with our inner world. Science and technology put "reality" into flux. JP said: "Since we've been young, we've always been called weird, but then we met each other and obviously met someone with the same interest and it's gone from there." The Hauntings is a 1-4 player online co-op investigation and exorcism game. Using a wide range of paranormal investigation equipment your group must try and successfully discover the source of the haunting and proceed to remove the threat from the area! Organisations such as the Society of Psychical Research aimed "to approach these varied problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned enquiry which has enabled science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated."