The Ghost Hunter's Guide: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GVLSWMN
www.peterunderwood.org
0:00 (Introducing Peter Underwood)
0:26 'What is a ghost?'
0:57 'If they're not evidence of an afterlife, what are they?' ('A natural phenomenon we don't yet understand')
1:18 Different types of ghosts 'What are the most common?' ('Historical' ghosts and poltergeists)
1:55 The story of 'The Green Man'
3:04 Ghosts and violent deaths (atmospheric impressions)
3:37 'Spirits' and 'ghosts' (Spiritualism; 'the spirit of Anne Boleyn)
4:24 Subjective experience (the majority of ghost sightings have 'no objective reality')
4:46 Ghost sightings and the 'mentally disturbed'
5:13 Are ghosts evil? (Exorcisms; 'good' and 'evil')
6:01 Underwood's first musical choice
6:38 1st musical choice: 'Honeysuckle Rose', played by Fats Waller, who composed the song in 1929.
9:29 'When did your fascination start with the paranormal?' (Childhood; Rose Hall, Sarratt)
10:12 The Rosehall ghost story
10:45 Underwood telling strangers the Rose Hall story
11:16 (Why Underwood's interest in ghosts carried on into adulthood)
11:44 (How Underwood pursued his interest in ghosts)
12:15 The Ghost Club (est. 1862), 'the cult of Spiritualism', and the exposing of frauds
13:07 'How have public attitudes changed towards the existence of ghosts?' (More sceptical than before)
14:02 Public attitudes shaped by fiction? (E.g. M. R. James) A hindrance?
14:25 The ghost of fact and the ghost of fiction (real ghosts are 'absolutely normal')
14:55 How do you realise when you've seen a ghost? ('Sixth sense')
15:14 What are the conditions for seeing a ghost? Are there other manifestations? (A room going cold is always associated with a ghost)
15:44 Coldness and death and Spiritualism and the 'seance' room
16:26 Do we retain 'some kind of energy' after death?
16:40 'We don't understand the circumstances under which these figures appear' (they vary)
17:05 The 'vast majority' of sightings have a natural mundane explanation
17:36 'Isn't it frustrating' when the vast majority of cases turn out 'not to be real'? (It is worth just being able to fine 'one' legitimate case)
17:56 The lack of a 'repeatable experiment' (future technology and future discovery of all the conditions of possibility for the sighting of a ghost)
18:13 The scientific community's 'natural reluctance' (to discover a 'repeatable experiment')
18:38 The changing role of the Ghost Club (the Society for Psychical Research has taken over the Ghost Club's original aim)
19:25 What kind of people are members of the Ghost Club?
19:59 'Can you be religious ... and believe in ghosts?'
20:11 Underwood's second musical choice
20:43 2nd musical choice: 'Love Is Here To Stay', played by Stéphane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin
24:52 The purpose of Underwood's book 'The Ghost Hunter's Guide' (1986)
25:35 Other books by Underwood (biographies of Boris Karloff and Danny La Rue)
27:04 'Have you ever written fiction?'
27:28 How does one go about hunting ghosts? (Ghost calendar - 'cyclic' ghosts)
28:34 What is the 'basic minimum equipment you need?'
29:05 Photographs of ghosts (Do ghosts that are apparent to the eye always appear in photos? 'There is nothing dependable in this subject')
29:20 Photos often capture things unseen by the human eye (The 'Brown Lady of Raynham Hall' ghost photograph)
30:04 If ghosts appear solid and real, why don't they appear so in photos? (The 'Tulip Staircase' ghost at the Queen's House in Greenwich)
30:32 Do you need 'scientific knowledge' to hunt ghosts? 'Does it help to have an open mind'?
31:31 Underwood's third musical choice
31:53 'Lara's Theme' (or 'Somewhere, My Love') from Doctor Zhivago, as played by the Geoff Love orchestra.
35:04 The tedium of the life of the ghost hunter (nights in haunted houses; things happening when you least expect them)
35:45 Story of Newark Park in the Cotswolds (staircases and stairways as 'the most haunted' parts of houses; 'footsteps' the most commonest reported thing)
37:04 Newark Park audio recording (voices)
37:58 Haunted Farnham
39:04 Haunted London
39:24 Hauntings in other parts of the world; North America, Canada
39:54 The Amityville case (never substantiated)
40:34 We want to believe in ghosts? (Secularisation)
41:00 Ghost photographs & faked photography
43:06 What do you investigate first when investigating a report of a sighting? What do you look for? Truth telling and delusion
43:53 Will the existence of ghosts be verified and accepted in the future?
44:24 Are there ghosts associated with Christmas?
44:37 Ghost tales
45:38 Underwood's fourth musical choice
45:55 3rd musical choice: 'Overture' from Act 2 of the 1976 musical The Phantom of the Opera, by Ken Hill.
23 июл 2024
