Researching the Weird & Wonderful! with Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe - Zoom

1. Unexplained Company: Researching the Weird & Wonderful!

Step inside a rare meeting point between science and the supernatural with Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe, the leading investigator of paranormal experiences.

In this exclusive Last Tuesday Zoom series, Ciarán opens the door to the methods, mysteries, and controversies of parapsychology as only a true expert (and sceptical ghostbuster at heart) can.

If you’ve ever wondered where scepticism ends and the unexplained begins, this is just what you’ve been waiting for. Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe has investigated the paranormal for over 35 years: in the lab and in the field. He takes a scientific, sceptical, perspective on such phenomena but has worked extensively in examining natural explanations for supernatural experiences. Within a haunting domain, he divides such explanations into the “role of the mind” and the “role of the environment” and the, sometimes, complex interplay between the two roles. His series of talks will take you on a scientific journey of discovery through various aspects of Parapsychology, Psychology and Investigative Psychology. Despite all the sceptical scientific research, Ciarán is a “ghostbuster” at heart and whilst his talks will take you on a scientific expedition about why people have haunting, and supernatural, experiences, he will also regale you with wonderful ghostly accounts from his own investigations, with fantastical case studies, and entertain with his own accounts of investigations into some of history’s most fascinating cases and his long nights in some of the world’s spookiest locations.

Speaker Bio

Associate Professor, Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Dean of Education for the College of Health & Society at Buckinghamshire New University (see https://cutt.ly/nmzl3Yi for his Uni bio).

He is an applied psychologist with expertise in Parapsychology and Investigative Psychology (a sub-discipline of Forensic Psychology). His paranormal research has focussed on fieldwork examining haunting experiences. Additional research has included psychic criminology, mediumship and ‘Religious’ parapsychology (i.e. exorcism, possession, miracles & stigmata). His research has been reported widely in the media and he has regularly published his research in scientific journals and popular magazines.

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Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience, Lena's New Book - Mythical Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore is now available on Amazon

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In this exclusive Last Tuesday Zoom series - Unexplained Company, Ciarán opens the door to the methods, mysteries, and controversies of parapsychology as only a true expert (and sceptical ghostbuster at heart) can.

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