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Over the years I have lectured, written and broadcast extensively both in the UK and with and international media, including for the BBC, the History Channel and many others.
I am the literary executor for the estates of the paranormal researchers Andrew Green (1927-2004) and Guy Lyon Playfair (1935-2018). Pictured: Guy Playfair investigator of the Enfield Poltergeist.
A selection of conferences, lectures and writing
As chairman of the Ghost Club (founded 1862), a council member of the Society for Psychical Research and legal adviser with the Folklore Society.
2000 – 2002: Research into reports of ghost lights in Colombia and the death of farmer Arcesio Bermudez (1915-1969) case (‘man allegedly killed by a UFO’ at Anolaima, Colombia July 1969)
2003: Co-organiser with the Transylvanian Society of Dracula (Bucharest) ‘Communications with the Beyond Conference’ Sinai, Romania – 18-20th May
2006: ‘The Best Ghost Photograph Ever Taken? Re-assessing the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall’ presented 30th International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research 1-3 September / Liverpool Hope University
2007 – 2008: Editorial consultant Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained and The Encyclopaedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
2010: Fortean times ‘Unconvention’ Conference University of Westminster. Paper ‘Sex and the Poltergeist’ 23-24 October
2011: 35th International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research / Edinburgh University Paper ‘Poltergeists and the Male Gender’
2013: Programme Chair SPR International Conferences at Swansea University
2015: Lecture on Similar Fact Evidence as proof in Parapsychology at the Parapsychology Association/Society for Psychical Research conference, Greenwich University
2015: Lecture on Theories of Poltergeists to the Norwegian Society for Psychical Research, Oslo, Norway
2016: Gwen Tate Memorial Lecturer ‘Letters from the dead – evidence of survival in poltergeist cases’ for the Society for Psychical Research
2017: Lecture ‘Dreams of Aberfan’ Society for Psychical Research Conference Leicester and feature in Fortean Times magazine on premonitions of the Aberfan disaster.
2018 – 2021: Adviser to first BBC Uncanny Series Radio 4 ‘The Battersea Poltergeist’ with Danny Robbins
2021: Lecture to the College of Psychic Studies on Unknown Aspects of the Enfield Poltergeist
2022: Lecture on Spirit Possession Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) Bath University 3-4 September
2023: Poltergeists chapter contributed in the book Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience (2023)(edit. Jack Hunter)
2024: ‘Can a Scientific Approach to Spirit Possession be Possible?’ article in the Christian Parapsychologist New Series Vol. 2 No. 8
2024: Visiting lectures at the Buckingham New University – occult aspects in crime delivered for the School of Human & Social Services
Consultancy
Editor with the Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained 2007-2008
Currently in 2024-25, I am working on a documentary on poltergeists with Figgis-West films and continues to write Ghostwatch, a monthly column for Fortean Times, with plans for re-investigation of some classic anomaly cases in 2025.
I worked with Guy Playfair in the adaptation of his book 'This House is Haunted' for the Sky TV series The Enfield Haunting (2015) and have been heavily involved in the promotion of Guy’s work since.
In 2018-2021, I brought the case of The Battersea Poltergeist (1956-1968), investigated by Andrew Green, back to attention via Danny Robbins. This formed the basis of the first series of the Uncanny series with Danny Robbins broadcast on Radio 4.
Book introductions and forewords by Alan Murdie 2011-2024
Preface to the reissue The Scole Report (2011) Society for Psychical Research
Scared to Death: And Other Ghost Stories from Victorian Sheffield (2013) by David Clarke
Haunted Highgate (2014) by Della Farrant
Haunted Bishops Stortford (2015) by Jenni Kemp
Ghosts of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk (2021) by Paul Lee
Chicksands Priory: England’s Most Haunted House? (2023) by Damien O’Dell