{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/662778f0fd63ca0012579399/66d6d98be6ce13e59fac7612?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ghosts haunt places but poltergeists people","description":"<p>An obscure and possibly much underrated poltergeist case, from 1938, is our springboard into issues concerning how a psychoanalytical approach to paranormal investigation radically recontextualises the notion of “faked” versus “genuine” psychical phenomena.</p><p><br></p><p>The text under discussion is <em>On the Trail of the Poltergeist</em>, by Nandor Fodor (New York, NY: Citadel, 1958).</p><p><br></p><p>For more about Fodor’s life and work, see the short biography provided at: survivalafterdeath.info, <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/mpfrs32k\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://tinyurl.com/mpfrs32k</a>. Accessed September, 2024. For more on the Thornton Heath poltergeist case, see: Kate Summerscale (2020), The housewife, the ghost hunter and the poltergeist, <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/2pceja3c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://tinyurl.com/2pceja3c</a> (theguardian.com). Accessed September, 2024.</p><p><br></p><p>Support the podcast by joining my Patreon at: <a href=\"https://patreon.com/oeith\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://patreon.com/oeith</a>. Buy me a coffee at <a href=\"https://ko-fi.com/oeith\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://ko-fi.com/oeith</a> or <a href=\"https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dbarfordG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dbarfordG</a>. Or you could send me a lovely book from <a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1IQ3BVWY3L5L5?ref_=wl_share\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1IQ3BVWY3L5L5?ref_=wl_share</a>.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Duncan Barford"}