To be involved in the search for proof of the existence of life after death, you have to be a certain kind of person. Inquisitive? Certainly! Dogged? Absolutely! Open minded? That’s a given! But I’ve noticed a new characteristic in the modernday ghost enthusiast – a dash of “paranormal pomposity’ – and it is causing a widening rift in a field that already struggles to define itself to the outside world.
While attending a recent meeting of a ‘learned society’ on the matter of modern-day ghost hunters (an excellent talk given in a humorous, informative and authoritative vein), I was aware of (and distracted by) the reactions of some
