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You may remember my article on the Fox Sisters at the beginning of my sceptical journey. Just for a quick recap for those who may not have read it (and why haven’t you?), in late March 1848, young girls Maggie and Kate Fox began to communicate with what they believed to be the spirit of…
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This new year I was fortunate enough to visit the famous and ancient Jamaica Inn, sitting high on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I’d visited this Inn once before, many years ago, so when I got the chance to actually go and spend the night at the old smugglers hangout, I couldn’t get there quick enough!…
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We’ve all had that thing haven’t we? Where you see something out of the corner of your eye and spin around to find that there’s nothing there. Frequently, people attribute this to a ghost or a shadow person – something paranormal at least. But what is it really? Shadow people have been around in the…
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Back in 2008, I was shooting a horror film in this derelict mansion house you see in the photo above. We were shooting mostly nights so we didn’t have to black out all of the windows (I made all of my films on a budget of 50p) and had gone in early so I could…
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Hell Hound Paul from Milton Keynes was living in a squat in London in the 90s. It was a big old townhouse in Ladbroke Grove with 10 occupied bedrooms and a huge communal space on the ground floor. They frequently had parties there, inviting friends from all over the capital to come and drink for…
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One Of The Most Haunted Houses In England Now, I absolutely adore an old building, and we’re deeply blessed here in the UK to have thousands of them that are open to the public. I love the history, the architecture, and I’m quite partial to a gargoyle – so the more gothic a building is,…
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Even though Sceptic is still in its infancy, I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking me a lot of questions. I really appreciate every email I get – even the shitty ones – so keep them coming because I do try to answer them all. There are two main things that people have been…
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Let me tell you a story. Chances are you’ve come across aspects of this tale at some point in your life, whether it be for fun, out of curiosity, or from a genuine belief that there are people out there that can actually talk to the dead. Whichever way, this is how it all began.…
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