Tom Ruffles, PhD 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@thomasruffles
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Communications Officer, Society for Psychical Research: I run @spr1882 and @psiencyclopedia Twitter accounts. Threads: @tomhruffles.
Cambridge
Joined August 2014
The latest issue of the Society for Psychical Research @SPR1882 magazine has a photograph by me of the library at Vernon Mews on the cover.
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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:
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A Spanish-language translation of Guy Lyon Playfair's This House is Haunted by @CienciaPsiquica . 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
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The review by Nemo C. Mörck of Ben Machell's Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural, for the @SPR1882 website, mentions my blog post 'Tony Cornell and the Cambridge cinema ghost experiment':
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Harry Price and the Senate House Library, short film. It briefly uses a couple of my photographs of the Harry Price Library (6:30):
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Misc. book notes: The Port of London Murders, by Josephine Bell; Japonisme, by Erin Niimi Longhurst; Will Storr vs the Supernatural, by Will Storr; The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury, by Sean O’Connor; F**k Plastic, by the Orion Publishing Group:
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F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself From Plastic and Save the World (2018) is a call to action against plastic pollution. It highlights the devastating environmental and personal impact of pla…
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I have a review of Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema, by Chris Alexander, in the latest @forteantimes, FT460, August 2025, p. 56.
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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:
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The Buckmaster Bequest and Systems Methodology - How's it Going?
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'The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research', by @stuartvyse , refers to the blog post I wrote with @James_A_Conrad .
skepticalinquirer.org
After my emails went unanswered, I decided to look a bit deeper into what is going on at the American Society for Psychical Research. What I found was shock ...
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'Missing a trick: How Psychology could benefit more from the paranormal', by @richardwiseman and Caroline Watt, cites my blog post on Tony Cornell's ghost impersonation experiments in Cambridge:
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Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve.
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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:
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'What’s next for the American Society for Psychical Research?' Its future is very uncertain. Co-authored with @James_A_Conrad (long read):
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Misc. book notes. Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographs, by John Betjeman; Gut, by Giulia Enders; William Klein: Yes; The Hypnotic Tales of Rafael Sabatini; The Santa Klaus Murder, by Mavis Doriel Hay; Paranormal Parasites, by Nick Redfern:
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In Paranormal Parasites: The Voracious Appetites of Soul-Sucking Supernatural Entities (2018), Nick Redfern presents a range of what he characterises as parasitic entities that he claims feed off o…
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The Skeptic @TheSkepticMag has republished another article of mine from 1990, 'UFOs Over Russia', in its 'From the archives' section:
skeptic.org.uk
From the archives in 1990, Tom Ruffles asks whether the UFOs seen over Russia were alien visitors taking advantage of glasnost
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The Skeptic @TheSkepticMag has republished an article of mine from 1990, 'Romancing the Stone – The lure of alchemy continues', in its 'From the archives' section:
skeptic.org.uk
From the archives in 1990, Tom Ruffles examines the ongoing allure of alchemy
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In his post 'A Warning About Lee Brickley And His Enfield Book', Jason Engwer quotes from my review of Brickley's 'Leave This House: The Frightening True Story of the Birmingham Poltergeist':
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Dr Melvyn Willin's @SPR1882 review of 'Enfield Poltergeist Revisited: A Fresh Look at the UK's Most Infamous Haunting', by Lee Brickley, links to my review of Brickley's 'Leave This House: The Frightening True Story of the Birmingham Poltergeist':
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My article 'The SPR on Social Media' is in The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research @SPR1882 Issue 10, pp. 16-17.
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