"My" ghost moves books and I am not on meds - just tryingt o think of a possible explanation! :-)

You have moving books Wombat?

Any more updates in the field of chairology Ian?

Nothing yet Agricola. I think we should trade mark Chairology .

£50 will buy you the rights to the term Chairology and entitle you to call yourself Ian, holder of the Chair in Chairology.

A bargain!

(laughter)

Chair of Chairology, I like it.

I have, er, rather a lot of books, so it's not unusual for one placed precariously to fall over. On the other hand, when a book firmly on the shelf falls and falls when I am close by... and only when I am close by...

he likes to open doors, too.

How do you rule out sonambulism? If we remove this as a rational possibilty, the next logical thing to contemplate is legitimate PK activity. To this end, let us inquire:

- what is the psychological state of the two individuals involved? Is there any antagonism in their relationship?

- what is the psychophysiological state of the individuals involved? Is there any history of neural disorders or dissociative events?

- have they witnessed any other phenomena of a PK (you might think 'poltergeist')nature?

- what are the magnetic fields in the location (bot geomag and electromag)?

If one or more percipients respond in the affirmative to their personal queries and there are detectable magnetic fields present, investigations in the U.S. have indicated you have a potential PK site and this may be the next most logical explanation.

Yeh a lik to that research would be very helpful PhenomInvestigator. But to answer your questions, as far as I am aware there is no antagonism between the couple involved, and no neural disorders. There have been no other similar reports of poltergeist of PK like activity. As for electromagic fields, I have through interviewing pin pointed an area around which many of the reported instances occur but have not done a survey there yet.

Since the family have been keeping a diary of events the activity has stopped.

The research is being republished. It was originally described in the book "Aliens Above, Ghosts Below" by Dr. Barry E. Taff. Don't be put off by the title; Barry has long had an interest in the implications to consciousness research posed by the problems and issues associated with the UFO metaphenomena. The other articles were published in journals that are unfortunately not available online. I will check to see what the future publication plans are. I do believe an online copy will be available soon.