Preserving the Foundations: A Catalogue of ASSAP Paranormal Webinars, 2020–2024

The ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) weekly social gatherings online, featruing a regular guest speaker as we knew a Conference event wasn't going to occur during the global lockdown period and quickly became an important online gathering place for people interested in the curious, anomalous, and paranormal. They combined social connection with serious discussion of research, case studies, folklore, psychical research, UFOs/UAP, cryptozoology, and related topics.  

The series features a wide range of excellent guests who generously shared their time, knowledge, and research. Many sessions remain available as recordings on the ASSAP Paranormal Webinars YouTube channel and related platforms.  

Preserving this history without prejudice is valuable: past presentations can serve as reference points, “needles in the haystack,” or foundations for later researchers. What follows is a chronological catalogue drawn from contemporary records of the talks from June 2020 through the end of October 2024.

### 2020
18 June – CJ Romer: “Theory of Ghosts” (hosted by Mark Davey)  
25 June – Robert Moore: “Adamski and the British UFO Movement”  
2 July – Dr. Peter McCue: “Communication with the Dead?” (hosted by Mark Davey)  
9 July – Richard Freeman: “On Track of Unknown Animals”  
16 July – Dr. Jack Hunter: “Greening the Paranormal”  
23 July – Richard Freeman: “In Search of the Almasty: the Russian Yeti”  
30 July – Dylan Jones: “Paranormal Media” (hosted by Mark Davey)  
7 August – Beth Darlington: “Demonology & Exorcism”  
13 August – Dr Ann Winsper: “Some Timeslip cases”  
20 August – CJ Romer: “Haunted Houses”  
27 August – No webinar (Conference weekend)  
30 August – ASSAP online conference “Seriously Strange” (multiple speakers + socialising)  
3 September – Keith Linder: “The Bothell Hell House”  
10 September – Richard Freeman: “In Search of the Mongolian Death Worm”  
17 September – Dr. Peter McCue: “The Alleged Haunting of Sandwood Bay”  
24 September – Alan Murdie: “Powers of Evil: negative aspects of psi revisited”  
1 October – Steve Parsons: “Infrasound”  
8 October – Andy Wilson & Nick Howe: “ASSAP and NRPI and how we apply a scientific approach in our investigations”  
15 October – Dr. Ciaran O’Keefe: “ParaEthics”  
22 October – Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe: “Haunted Objects”  
29 October – Keith Linder: “The Bothell Hell House – Part 2”  
5 November – Dr. Amethyst Gray: “Wilhelm Reich”  
12 November – Kristian Lander: “The Thunderbolt Incident”  
19 November – Paula Dempsey: “The Psychosocial Hypothesis”  
26 November – Marq English: “Ghost hunting – do we have it all wrong?”  
3 December – Alan Murdie: “Ouija Boards”  
10 December – Prof. Chris French: “Twenty years of weird science at Goldsmiths: Some reflections”  
17 December – Dr. Peter McCue: “Dodgy Phantom Army Cases”

### 2021
7 January – Ashley Thorpe: “Borley Rectory”  
14 January – William Eyre: “Strange North-east Derbyshire”  
21 January – Jackie Tonks: “Is Dogman a type of Bigfoot?”  
28 January – Dr John G Sabol: “The Vulnerable Ghost”  
4 February – Paula Dempsey: “Strange London”  
11 February – Dr. Jack Hunter: “The Ecological Self”  
18 February – Lindsay Siviter: “Paranormal Activity at the Ten Bells, Spitalfields”  
25 February – Alan Murdie: “Andrew Green: Sixty Years a Ghost Hunter”  
4 March – Beth Darlington: “Demonic Possession; alternative explanations”  
11 March – Dr John G Sabol: “The ‘Excavation’ of Relational, Context-Specific Hauntings: An Alternative to ‘Ghost Hunting’”  
18 March – Steve Parsons: “Who ate all the bloody KitKats? In Search of the Loch Ness monster”  
25 March – Alyson Dunlop Shanes: “What An Excellent Day for An Exorcism?”  
1 April – Prof. Rob Gandy: “The Ruskington Horror”  
8 April – CJ Romer: “The Strange Case of Morven Alexander”  
15 April – Ann Winsper: “Teresa Higginson – the Maid of the Mersey who sleeps by the Dee (aka the devil woman of Bootle)”  
22 April – Matt Arnold: “Holy Ghostly” (hosted by Sarah Spellman)  
29 April – Richard Freeman: “The Giant Anaconda and Other Mega-serpents”  
6 May – Claire Davy: “Tropical Terror: the strange case of the moving coffins of Barbados”  
13 May – CJ Romer: “The Cheltenham Ghost”  
20 May – Robert Moore: “The A39 Haunting: Thomas Pocock, ghostly highwayman!”  
27 May – CJ Romer: “The Invention of the Paranormal”  
3 June – Karin Beasant: “The Haunting of Whitchurch Airfield”  
10 June – Randy Liebeck: “Psychical Research in America”  
17 June – Dr. Christopher Laursen: “Poltergeist Cases in ASSAP’S first decade”  
24 June – Dr. David Sivier: “Archaeology and Magic”  
1 July – Dr. Peter McCue: “The Black Eyed Kids”  
8 July – Paula Dempsey: “The Folklore of London’s East End”  
15 July – Alex Matsuo: “Processing Trauma & Expression of Self Through Paranormal Exploration”  
22 July – Alan Murdie: “Reflections on Ghosthunting”  
29 July – Steve Parsons: “What is Ghostology?”  
5 August – CJ Romer: “The Witchfinder General: History & Heresy”  
12 August – Dr. Hannah Gilbert: “Victims and Villains in the Afterlife”  
19 August – Dr. Rachael Ironside: “Talking of bodies in strange places”  
26 August – Anna Goodridge: “Trevor Hall and the Leeds Library Ghost”  
2 September – Claire Davy: “The Banshee, the Boggart and the Bountiful Ghosts of the Emerald Isle: Irish spooks!”  
9 September – Robin Pyatt Bellamy: “Mothman: Truth, Legend and Speculation”  
16 September – Neil Nixon: “UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth”  
23 September – Prof. Rob Gandy: “Football Curses and Weird Sports”  
30 September – Dr. Cal Cooper: “Dead Ringers? Phone calls from the Dead?”  
7 October – Lucya Szachnowski: “Poppets and Magical Dolls”  
14 October – Bill Eyres: “Experiences in Mediumship”  
15 October – Dr. Jack Hunter: “The Fairy Folklore of the Tanat Valley”  
22 October – Tony Hayes: “Joe Meek: Musical Genius, Occultist and Paranormal”  
29 October – Nicole Strickland: “Ghosts of the RMS Queen Mary”  
4 November – CJ Romer: “The 23rd letter: talking about Psi”  
11 November – Dr. Brian Hoggard: “Within Walls: The Archaeology of Magical House Protection”  
18 November – CJ Romer: “Ghost Country: Borley, the Belchamps and Count Magnus”  
25 November – Dr. Kate Cherell: “Small Mediums: How Spiritualist Reality became Gothic Fiction”  
2 December – Ed Woods: “The Phantom Hitchiker of the A38 & other Road Ghosts”  
9 December – Susan Demeter: “Ghost Lights”  
16 December – (unspecified)  
23 December – CJ Romer: “Some ghost stories for Christmas”  
30 December – ASSAP “Ask ASSAP”: Christmas panel, quiz and social

### 2022
6 January – CJ Romer: “The Enigma of Street Light Interference”  
13 January – Bethan Briggs-Miller: “Death & the Landscape”  
20 January – CJ Romer: “Let me convince you your house is haunted”  
27 January – Malcolm Robinson: “The Derchmont Woods UFO Incident and other Scottish Mysteries”  
3 February – Randy Liebeck: “Begone Satan – the lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren”  
10 February – Dr Christopher Josiffe: “Gef the Talking Mongoose”  
17 February – Dr. Neil Nixon: “The Beatles Myths and Legends”  
24 February – Rachel Hayward: “In Search of Spirits: the Investigation of Lydney Town Hall”  
3 March – TBC  
10 March – Payten Autumn: “Haunted Objects”  
17 March – Dr. Rebecca Smith: “The Case of the Station Hotel, Dudley”  
24 March – Caroline McKendrick: “Somerset Ghosts part 1”  
31 March – Kristian Lander: “The Hollinswells Incident”  
7 April – Dr. Mark Newbrook: “Skeptical Linguistics”  
14 April – Tim Whittard: “The Fortean Film Festival”  
21 April – Mark Norman: “Luffincott Rectory: Devon’s Borley”  
28 April – Darren Hudson: “The Haunting of Ickenham Tube Station”  
5 May – Christopher Laursen: “Premonitions Stopping Clocks: Precognition, Time, and Trauma around the 1966 Aberfan Disaster”  
12 May – Dr Peter McCue: “Malign Influence – Do curses sometimes work?”  
19 May – CJ Romer: “Ley Lines”  
26 May – Claire Davy: “Amongst the Tombstones – Spooky Stories from The Graveyard”  
2 June – Bill Eyre: “The Talking Glass, a Ouija phenomenon?”  
9 June – Dr David Sivier: “The Paranormal and SF Imagery in UFO Encounters”  
16 June – Professor Chris Roe: “A modern collection of spontaneous after-death communication cases: Mapping their phenomenology and impact”  
23 June – Noah Angell: “Ghosts of the British Museum”  
30 June – Tony Hayes: “The Angel of Mons”  
7 July – Jack Hunter: “Qualitative Psychical Research”  
14 July – Dr Robert Radakovic: “Beyond Faith and Reason – Early Paranormal Theories of the Late Nineteenth Century”  
21 July – Matt Arnold: “The Paranormal and the Bible: Stranger Things in the Afterlife”  
28 July – Anthony Peake: “Cheating the Ferryman: The Physics of Immortality?”  
4 August – Colin Bilsland: “The Haunted Flat: a Chester poltergeist”  
11 August – Dr Neil Nixon: “Now That’s What I Call Satanic Sounds!”  
18 August – Brian Hoggard: “Horse Skulls”  
25 August – Prof. Rob Gandy  
1 September – ASSAP Conference Special (discussion of the Bath conference)  
8 September – ASSAP Conference Round Up (high points + footage)  
15 September – Dr. Rebecca Smith: “The Case of the Station Hotel, Dudley”  
22 September – Chris Jensen Romer: “Ghosts: B is for Bones”  
29 September – Chris Jensen Romer: “Ghosts: T is for Timeslips”  
6 October – Glenn Vaudrey: “The Risley Silverman”  
13 October – Caroline McKendrick: “Somerset Ghosts Part 2”  
20 October – Quiz  
27 October – Gary Fellman: “Narrative Research – From Quantitative to Qualitative analysis”  
3 November – CJ Romer: “The Micklegate Mistery, a York haunting”  
10 November – Alan Murdie: “The Man who was killed by a Flying Saucer”  
17 November – Richard Hatem: “Mothman, John Keel and Me: A Personal Journey”  
24 November – Richard Freeman: “A trip to Sumatra – on the trail of the Orang-Pedak”  
1 December – Dr Graham Kidd: “The work of the SPR and the Spontaneous Cases Committee”  
8 December – Karin Besant and Caroline McKendrick: “The changing of paranormal activity over the years. Ghosts of the Jamaica Inn”  
15 December – Helen Bruce: “Black Dogs”  
22 December – CJ Romer: “C is for Christmas”  
29 December – ASSAP Christmas Quiz

### 2023
5 January – Paula Dempsey: “Animal Ghosts”  
12 January – Richard Felix: “What is a Ghost?”  
19 January – Robert Moore: “1947-1959 The era of the flying discs”  
26 January – Kate Cherell: “Scratching Fanny The Cock Lane Ghost”  
2 February – Kristian Lander: “The Gnomes of Wollaton Hall”  
9 February – CJ Romer: “Is the poltergeist a thing?”  
16 February – Stu Neville: “A History of Fortean TV”  
23 February – Steve Parsons: “Training at ASSAP”  
2 March – Keith Linder: “Looking back at the Bothell Hell House – 6 years on”  
9 March – Neil Nixon: “ITN News vs Galactic Command”  
16 March – CJ Romer: “C is for Census”  
23 March – Amethyst Gray: “Nostradamus”  
30 March – Kristian Lander: “A Mothers Haunting”  
6 April – Delyth Badder: “The appearance of ghosts in Welsh folklore”  
13 April – Dr. Cal Cooper: “After-Death Communication (ADC)”  
20 April – Rick Hale: “The Ghost of Mrs McNett”  
27 April – Julia Boyd: “Gef the Mongoose”  
4 May – Stu Neville: “The Force, Flying Saucers and Folklore Revamped”  
11 May – Neil Nixon: “Rantings, Writings and Rabidity: The Rock Stars of 17th Century Evangelism”  
18 May – Rich Hatem: “The Ghost of 29 Megacycles: Technology, Mediumship and The Need To Believe”  
25 May – Ed Woods: “A Canadian Ghost Story”  
1 June – Randy Leibeck: “The Haunted Neighborhood”  
8 June – Amy Boucher: “Shropshires Forgotten Women”  
15 June – Byron Hadley: “The Supernatural life of Dom Robert PetitPierre, Monk, Exorcist and Author”  
22 June – Dr. David Sivier: “Albert von Keller: Portraitist of the Paranormal”  
29 June – CJ Romer: “Ghosts – P is for people (Who you gonna call)”  
6 July – Dr. Peter McCue: “Paranormal contagion: A potential hazard for case investigators”  
13 July – CJ Romer: “H is for Haunting”  
20 July – Amethyst Grey: “1859 Carrington Event”  
27 July – Paul Gledhill: “The Wallpaper Ghosts”  
3 August – Jayne Mortimer: “Wheely Haunted – Disability, accessibility and inclusivity awareness within the paranormal field”  
10 August – Dale Kaczmarek: “50 Years of Experiences in the Paranormal Field”  
17 August – Shannon Taggart: “Seance: Spiritualism, Photography and the Search for Ectoplasm”  
24 August – John G Sabol Jnr: “Staging Afterlife Project: The Analysis of ‘Sociotemporal Order’ in Haunting Phenomena at a Contemporary, Luxury Hotel and Spa”  
31 August – Craig Weiler: “A tour of Parapsychology”  
7 September – Conference Round Up  
14 September – CJ Romer: “U is for Ultraterrestrial”  
21 September – Mark Fox: “Scent From Beyond: Olfaction and After-Death Communication”  
28 September – Peter McCue: “Decoding the Paranormal: Random Incidents or Purposeful Orchestrations?”  
5 October – Ruth Roper Wylde (tbc)  
12 October – Stu Neville: “The great Alien Autopsy hoax”  
19 October – Chris Jensen Romer: “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out: Psychedelic Drugs, Mystical Experience and the Paranormal”  
26 October – Steve Parsons: “The Most Haunted House in England?”  
2 November – Paula Dempsey: “Royal Ghosts”  
9 November – Dave Sivier: “Animals, the Paranormal and the Evolution of Religion”  
16 November – Dr Cal Cooper  
23 November – Dr Ian Rubenstein: “Medicine, Mediumship and Messages from Beyond. A doctor's experience with practical mediumship”  
30 November – Neil Nixon: “Roswell – Ufology’s Greatest Hit?”  
7 December – Stephen Day Freestone: “Did I see Hairy Jack and other strange tales from Lincolnshire”  
14 December – Simon Grace: “The Trip to Jerusalem and Haunted Nottingham”  
21 December – Christmas Ghost Stories  
28 December – ASSAP Social online

### 2024 (through October)
4 January – Rob Gandy: “Aintree Spectres”  
11 January – Rachel Heyward: “Keeping a promise to a Poltergeist”  
18 January – Deborah Hyde: “The Living Dread: Zombies in their natural habitat”  
25 January – Paul Gledhill: “UFOs – The current situation!”  
1 February – R Murray Fehr: “The Baldoon mystery”  
8 February – Richard Freeman: “Death by Cryptid”  
15 February – Alan Murdie: “Life after death?”  
22 February – Dr Kate Cherell: “The Scent of the Seance”  
29 February – Dr. Robert Radakovic: “Portal to Magonia”  
7 March – Steve Parsons: “Hellish Nell, Britain’s Last Witch (Helen Duncan)”  
14 March – William Grave: “The Lady in the bay window”  
21 March – Stu Neville: “56 years of Patty”  
28 March – Brian Hoggard: “Protection marks – Keeping evil at bay”  
4 April – Kristian Lander: “The 800 that never were”  
11 April – Christian Jensen Romer (TBC)  
18 April – Amythest Gray: “Titanic 112”  
25 April – Neil Nixon: “Some of the best ufologists aren’t ufologists”  
2 May – Jean-Michel Abrasssart: “The Psychosocial UFO Model”  
9 May – Ruth Roper Wylde (TBC)  
16 May – CJ Romer: “The Lagenhoe Hauntings”  
23 May – CJ Romer: “The Mystery of Lagenhoe Church”  
30 May – Steve Parsons: “Infrasound”  
6 June – Peter McCue: “‘Hauntings’, ‘Poltergeists’ and ‘Ghosts’: Time for Better Terminology”  
13 June – Owen Staton: “Tales of Y Tylwyth Teg – Folklore and Fable from the Swansea valley and beyond”  
20 June – Amy Boucher: “Shropshire’s Satanic Folklore”  
27 June – Andrew Ross: “Walking with the Ghosts of Durham”  
4 July – No webinar  
11 July – Tony Hayes: “Diary of a Poltergeist!”  
18 July – Alan Murdie: “Phantom Ladies”  
25 July – EGM (No webinar)  
1 August – CJ Romer: “Reevaluating The Yuba City Five case”  
8 August – Prof Rob Gandy: “The Oldman of Halsall Moss”  
15 August – Neil Nixon: “The Paranormal Afterlife of Elvis Presley”  
22 August – CJ Romer: “Maria Marten and the Red Barn”  
29 August – Conference Round Up ’24  
5 September – Anthony Kerrigan: “Spiritual Consent: The intentions and pursuit of contact – ghost hunting outlawed”  
12 September – (unspecified)  
19 September – CJ Romer: “The Bennington Triangle, Connecticut”  
26 September – No webinar (governance)  
3 October – Mike Benbough Jackson: “The Liverpool Leprechauns”  
10 October – Penny G Morgan: “Epping Forest”  
17 October – Tony Hayes: “Diary of a Poltergeist Part 2”  
24 October – Owen Staton: “Tales from the Time within Times – More ghosts of Wales”  
31 October – Kristian Lander and Caroline McKendrick Gibson: “World Enough and Time”

This catalogue records the guests who committed their time and expertise during a formative online period for ASSAP and for the wider community interested in anomalous phenomena. The webinars helped bring people together socially under lockdown conditions and have continued as a platform for presentation, discussion, and the sharing of research.  

ASSAP’s webinar programme continues beyond this period (now with a large archived catalogue of sessions). Live access remains primarily for members; many recordings are publicly available via the ASSAP Paranormal Webinars channels on Youtube and as Seriously Strange on Spotify | Apple Podcasts and all the podcasting platforms. 

Researchers and interested readers are encouraged to consult the original recordings and any accompanying notes where available. Corrections, additional details, or expansions to this historical reference are welcome so that the record of those who laid foundations can be preserved as accurately as possible.