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I am course leader and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where I teach media law and investigation skills. Prior to teaching journalism skills I worked as a news reporter for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. My Ph.D is in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. My interest in folklore and the supernatural goes back to my childhood and I've been researching and writing about strange phenomena for as long as I can remember. Since 2008 I have been working with The National Archives (TNA) as their consultant for the ongoing release of the UFO files created by Britain's Ministry of Defence. My book, The UFO Files, was published by TNA in September 2009.
Magonia Blog- LABOURING UNDER A DELUSION? June 18, 2013
- INVENTING UFOLOGY June 17, 2013
- CERTIFIABLY SERPO June 16, 2013
- NO COMMENT June 13, 2013
- THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY June 11, 2013
- Mark Pilkington & John Lundberg – Folklore & Deception in the UFO Age
- Untitled May 11, 2013
- Coming soon October 3, 2012
- Area 51 Viewers Guide August 4, 2012
- From the vaults August 4, 2012
- Ebe’s Paranoia July 20, 2012
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- Guerilla Skepticism - Now We Have Klass' Wikipedia Back June 9, 2013
- That "Citizens Hearing" on UFO Disclosure Got the Respect it Deserved - (Very Little) May 13, 2013
- Greer's "Sirius" Documentary - no "Bombshell," just Nonstop UFO Claims April 23, 2013
- That "Citizen Hearing" on UFO "Disclosure" April 16, 2013
- Greer Documentary "Sirius" Promises Free Energy and a Dead Alien April 4, 2013
- The Skeptic magazine
- SitP Hackney - Robin Ince: Robin Ince comes to Hackney Skeptics! June 19, 2013
- One Life: BHA Event this Friday June 18, 2013
- My latest Guardian Science column June 18, 2013
- Volume 24 Issue 3: Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou June 17, 2013
- Alasdair Hopwood & Kim Wade on False Memories, Warwick Arts Centre, 1 pm, 13/6/13 June 11, 2013
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Agatha Christie’s Séances June 16, 2013
- Not Even Wrong June 9, 2013
- Precog Fiction June 2, 2013
- Spooky Action at a Distance May 26, 2013
- Paranormal Shakespeare May 19, 2013
Tag Archives: Sheffield Star
Yorkshire ‘Ghost Plane’ puzzle solved
The mystery surrounding the identity of a hedge-hopping ‘ghost plane‘ that puzzled motorists in the Yorkshire Dales has been solved. Photographer Anita Skinner captured two dramatic images of a ‘large matte grey plane’ as it swooped dangerously low over Wharfedale … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Skinner, B, Buckden Pike, C130 J Hercules, Dark Peak aircraft wrecks, ghost fliers, ghost flyer, ghost planes, Journalism and Folklore, Ladybower, Malham Dale, phantom plane, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Lyneham, Sheffield Star, supernatural peak district, Yorkshire Dales
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Scared to Death
The Fortean Times Unconvention 2011 – billed as the world’s weirdest weekend – returns to London in November. I’m on the bill for both days (12 and 13 November): on the Saturday I will be speaking about my research into … Continue reading
