Hauntings (Ghosts, Haunts and the Occult)

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Protection, 2023, by Paula Turmina will be on show as part of the Surrealism and Witchcraft exhibition at Lamb Gallery, London. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist

The game uses a diction based voice recognition system to allow the player to interact with the AI via several different pieces of equipment. The entity will be listening at all times and will respond to predetermined phrases as well. At game launch, English will be the only supported language for voice recognition. However, there will be an in-game action wheel to access the spoken phrases. As someone who feels deeply connected to spirit and earth, it’s important for me to view my artwork as craft and ritual,” says tan jones. “For me, every choice has meaning, every material is an ingredient in the cauldron that is the artwork.” Artist bones tan jones was one of the artists featured in the Somerset House exhibition and also had an installation at the Serpentine Gallery in 2022. They have just been announced as artist-in-residence at The Sustainable Institution in Europe. Their work has strong connections to paganism and spiritualism. We did a two-hour investigation at a bingo hall before a charity event,” Kymmi said. “When we took Pebble, she saw a two-year-old sat next to her and said she saw a little girl with red hair.Writers featured include Arthur Machen, Olivia Howard Dunbar and Lord Dunsany. Adam Scovell’s Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange (2017) is a key text, focussing primarily on film but with literary relevance, while collections published by Tartarus Press and Swan River Press provide both reprints and new literary voices. A pious man who dabbled in the occult, he is believed to have summoned the devil while staying at Chetham’s School (then Christ’s College), leaving a ‘Satan’s hoof’ burn on the table. The macabre mark can still be seen today… Ordsall Hall… just who is the White Lady? …but what about the science? You may have heard about the man who got turned away from McDonald’s for riding his horse through a drive-thru. But what about a hearse? A vaporous outline of a man – said to be a miller who was murdered in the early 19 century - has been seen in the vicinity of Bidston Hill windmill many times over the years.

The foundation collection of the Library’s holdings on The Paranormal, the Occult and the Magical was built by author, psychical researcher and book collector Harry Price over many years before he gave it to the University of London in the late 1930s for the purpose of encouraging research and investigation into the unexplained. A Satanist and murderer, is said to be buried close to the windmill and legend has it that his ghastly-looking zombie-like form has been seen to slowly emerge from its grave on some moonlit nights." Netta was a student of the occult and a member of the ‘Alpha et Omega’ Temple. This was the name given to the branch of the Golden Dawn that remained loyal to Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers after it was closed in 1906. She was a close friend of fellow member Dion Fortune who referred to Netta as “Mac”. According to popular belief she did not especially get along with father who was a medical practitioner and Italian national. Her mother was English. The archive collections include accounts of séances, investigations and case studies of mediums and phenomena, photographs and letters, including Harry Price’s correspondence with many key figures in early 20th century psychical research and spiritualism including Arthur Conan Doyle. Perhaps that’s why so many young people are turning to paganism. New Age faiths are rapidly growing in numbers year on year. Maybe the pandemic prompted the shift, with more folk seeking solace in nature. Paganism quite literally deifies the natural world, after all.Iona is a small island, roughly 3.5 miles long and one mile wide which lies off the west of Mull. In 563AD St Columba (grandson of the Irish King Niall) and 12 followers built their first Celtic Church on the island and monastic community. Iona became famous as St Columba started converting Scottish and English pagans into Christians. Iona also became the resting place of Kings and according to a survey in 1549 it boasted 48 Scottish Kings, 8 Norwegian and 4 Irish. Amongst the Scottish kings buried on Iona are King Kenneth I, Donald II, Malcolm I, Duncan I, Macbeth and Donald III. The MyWirral newsletter will bring you news from across the borough in a way you’ve never had before.

The Archives contain several collections on psychical research and spiritualism including the research and correspondence of Eric John Dingwall and manuscripts related to séances and spiritualist circles. The Modern Collections and e-book collections include recent and current scholarship on parapsychology, the paranormal, the occult, magic and witchcraft. New works, antiquarian books and archival material continue to be added to the collections. Locating and accessing material Harry Price’s library began with one of the most famous and popular books on magic of the 19th century: Professor Hofman’s Modern Magic, first published in 1871. Price continued to collect books, pamphlets and periodicals on all forms of performance magic and allied arts. The collection is a rich source for researchers in the history of magic and popular culture covering many aspects of performance, stagecraft, biography and the visual culture of magic. Several ghosts are said to haunt this hill and its famous windmill – which was built in 1800. Read More Related Articles

After developing a love for the supernatural, they like to spend their spare-time hunting for ghosts and attempting to speak with spirits earning them the label of ‘the real life Addams Family’. As a faculty of scientific thinkers and engineering minds, we should perhaps talk about how sleep paralysis and hallucinations can cause us to see things that aren’t really there, or how inattentional blindness can cause us to completely miss things that are actually there. There have been times, in this strangest of years, that Manchester has felt like a ghost town. The streets deserted, the shops closed – and campus, usually so vibrant, eerily quiet.

Some of the buildings on Watergate Street have medieval undercrofts that are still accessible. These are basically large cellars, that were used for storage. The largest and best preserved undercroft is Watergates Crypt, which today houses a wine bar and restaurant. The Crypt is said to be haunted by a long deceased sailor, who has often been witnessed crossing the floor of the cellar, emerging from south wall and then disappearing as he reaches the other side of the room. The spectre is quite a passive and un-intrusive ghost. There are no known examples of the apparition interacting with living humans or the modern surroundings in anyway, leading many paranormal experts to believe that this ghost is more like an echo than a conscious entity.

Since the arrival of The Harry Price Library, the Library has continued to acquire archive collections on related subjects. Among these are the papers of psychical investigator and anthropologist Eric Dingwall. The papers include his extensive and wide-ranging scrapbooks, records of the Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures, prints and slides of psychic and anthropological photographs and Dingwall’s kit of essentials for investigations.