This is cool.. I was recently mentioned in a Forbes article on ghost hunting science and pseudoscience: There’s no shortage of retailers to provide for your spooky-seeking needs. Products marketed as “Deluxe Ghost Hunting Kit” and “Ghost Hunting Spirit Box” can be...
Ghosts
The Original Fearless Female Ghostbuster
For those who didn't see it, I recently wrote a piece about a fascinating 1880s-era scientist/educator/feminist/ghostbuster named Eleanor Sidgwick... The long-awaited "Ghostbusters" remake is out... While vampire slaying has often been portrayed as a female-dominated...
Victim’s Ghost Seen in Photo? Unlikely…
My new article on a viral ghost photo claimed to show an accident victim's soul leaving his body is now out: A photo taken at the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in Kentucky has gone viral, with many claiming they can see the accident victim's spirit leaving his...
A Skeptical Look at “The Conjuring 2”
The new horror film The Conjuring 2 is, like its predecessor, supposedly based on the "true case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren," a real-life married pair of self-styled demonologists involved (however peripherally) in several high-profile haunted house reports,...
Solving a Ghost Photo Mystery- Queen Isabella, Is that You?
For those who didn't see it last month, I'm quoted in a news article explaining a new viral "ghost photo," supposedly of Queen Isabella in a castle... You can read it HERE. Ghost hunters at a 12th-century English castle snapped a photo of a milky white image of...
Abandoned Hospital Mystery Light Solved
The mystery of a Christmas tree in a vacant New Orleans building window has been solved--and provides lessons to skeptics on psychological priming, eyewitness expectations, and why people see things that aren't there. You can read the story HERE. You can find more on...
High Schooler’s Query on Rose Hall
Haven't got any hate mail or death threats so far this year, so here's a nice one recently: "Hi! I am doing a semester project on the Rose Hall Plantation. I have looked at a total of eleven (11) sites to try and unmask the mystery surrounding Annie Palmer. I read...
Quoted in a HuffPo Story on a White House Ghost Photo
I was interviewed for a HuffPo piece on ghost hunter Joshua Warren's claim that he discovered an amazing photo of Abraham Lincoln in the White House: "Radford is surprised that anyone would consider what Warren calls “the world’s most credible and amazing ghost photo”...
Debunking a Photo of Buxom Ghost
I was recently asked by the Huffington Post to look into the case of a big-breasted ghost apparently caught on film, and perhaps even moving artifacts in a museum. The article, with my commentary and analysis, is HERE. You can find more on me and my work with a search...
Ghost Hunter Self-Expertise…
In reviewing my shelf of ghost hunting books for a book chapter I'm writing I noted that the author of two 2011 books on ghosts and ghost hunting writes that she "is new to the paranormal community, having entered field investigation in 2008." Doing a bit of math and...