I'm pleased to note that my newest book Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits was a winner at this year's New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards! You can order the book from your local indie bookstore, or find it on Amazon! ...
Books
Squaring the Strange: Escaping the Rabbit Hole
In the latest in a series highlighting past episodes and archives of Squaring the Strange, here's a look back at a show you might have missed: Escaping the Rabbit Hole. This week Ben and Celestia recount some woo encounters "in the field" that, for a few reasons, they...
I’m Quoted in Oxygen’s New Article on Evil Clowns!
Writer Jon Silman at Oxygen has a new article out on John Wayne Gacy's role in the scary clown phenomenon, and I'm briefly quoted: Before we explore that it’s worth looking into the psychology of why clowns are scary. We spoke to Benjamin Radford, author of the...
Haunting Tales, by Jon Larson of El Defensor Chieftan
Here's nice news article about New Mexican ghost lore, with a few quotes from me about solving the mystery of the KiMo theater haunting... The Chieftain spoke with Benjamin Radford of Corrales, who has been investigating reports of hauntings around the state...
‘Investigating Ghosts’ Finalist for Book Award
My new book, "Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits," is a Finalist for the New Mexico/Arizona book awards! Winners will be announced next month, but if you want to see what everyone's raving about, it's available for under $20 in ebook or paperback...
Review of ‘Investigating Ghosts’
A nice review on Paranormal Bucket of my latest book "Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits": "Radford offers up a critique of ghost investigation techniques in this thought-provoking volume. Rather than simply chronicling why many standard methods...
Quoted in Wikipedia Entry for ‘Paranormal Lockdown’
I'm quoted in the Wikipedia entry on the TV show "Paranormal Lockdown." I call it "typical sensationalized nonsense trying to gloss over half-baked pseudoscientific investigation" and note that "Groff and Weidman are walking around a house with a camera crew,...
Bad Clowns Addendum: Trump
My book "Bad Clowns" was completed before Trump ran for office, but if there's a second edition he'll have a long section devoted to him... You can find more on me and my work with a search for "Benjamin Radford" (not "Ben Radford") on Vimeo, and please...
My Work Referenced in the International Journal of Legal Information
This is cool: My work with Bob Bartholomew is referenced in an article titled "Information Literacy in a Fake/False News World: An Overview of the Characteristics of Fake News and its Historical Development" in the "International Journal of Legal Information." ...
Squaring the Strange Archives: Mystery of the Loretto Staircase Miracle
In the latest in a series highlighting past episodes and archives of Squaring the Strange, here's a look back at a show you might have missed: Ben and Celestia discuss outrage over the hypothetical new product “Lady Doritos.” Then we go over Ben’s investigation of a...