Glasgow’s Sunday Herald did a full-page feature on Haunted St Andrews in their 8th July edition. I tried to look windswept and interesting for the photo shoot in the Cathedral ruins, and gabbled on in my usual windbag fashion. The full piece can be read here, courtesy of the Sunday Herald and journalist Cate Devine. I’ll be doing a book signing at J & G Innes on Market Street in St Andrews on Saturday 21st July.
Read the full article by clicking here, or the image to the left!
My new book, Haunted St Andrews, is published today (29 June). The list of contents should give you an idea what to expect:
Chapter 1 – The White Lady and The Haunted Tower
Chapter 2 – A Haunted Cluster – the Ghosts of The Pends, St Leonard’s School and Queen Mary’s House
Chapter 3 – Ghosts of Castle and Cloister
Chapter 4 – Ghosts of Town and Gown
Chapter 5 – Pitmilly House – Poltergeist Manor!
Chapter 6 – A Pair of Poltergeists
Chapter 7 – Death Warnings, Dead Air and Ghost Villages
I will be doing a book signing at the esteemed bookshop of J & G Innes, St Andrews on Saturday 21 July. Meanwhile, there will be articles on Haunted St Andrews in the Scottish Daily Mail (Saturday 30th June) and the Glasgow Herald (Sunday 8 July). There was going to be a televised interview on BBC’s Reporting Scotland, but they cancelled at the last minute (and there was me having ironed a clean shirt and shaved my manly stubble – honestly, the sacrifices I make for my public…)
Haunted St Andrews is published by The History Press at £9.99, and is available from your local high street bookshop or from Amazon.
On Wednesday 20 June I was interviewed on Dundee radio station Wave 102FM about Haunted St Andrews, which will be published on 29 June. The White Lady and the mummies of the Haunted Tower got an airing, which is nice, along with several other posh ghosts.
More events (book signings and talks) and media appearances (newspaper features) are on their way soon regarding Haunted St Andrews, so keep a weather eye out.
On Saturday 9 June Glasgow’s Daily Record had a two-page spread on my quest for poltergeist witnesses from two Glaswegian cases in 1961 (Partick) and 1978 (Mosspark). The stories had been covered in the city’s newspapers of the time, and I appealed for anyone involved to come forward with what they recalled of the events. The stories will feature in Poltergeist Over Scotland, which will be published in November. I’ve already collected over 120 documented cases for this history of Scottish poltergeists, so it’s shaping up to be a belter.
If anyone does wish to get in touch on the subject of poltergeist experiences or other topics, please use the email contact form here.
This week we officially release the feature length presentation by Geoff Holder on ‘Haunted St. Andrews’. Filmed on in February 2012, in front of a live audience, Geoff covers topics from the philosophy of belief to mummies and apparitions, to poltergeists and timeslips.
If you’d like to see Geoff in action, make sure and keep up to date with the events calendar on the site, and come along to a talk near you. Alternatively if you’d like to book Geoff for an event, or invite him to speak for a group of society in which you are involved, head over to our ‘Get in Touch’ page!
It’s hot, hot, hot, as Caribbean songsters Arrow once sang. And as Britain broils, bakes and burns, your humble author is spending his time… hidden away in libraries. (That’s right, I get to devote large amounts of time to doing things I love. Pity me.)
I’m delving deep into the research for Poltergeist over Scotland, and so librarians and archivists from Perth and Glasgow to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Cambridge have learned to fear my hunger for request slips.
Amazing stuff is being dredged from the archives, including episodes and facts that haven’t seen the light of day for more than a hundred years, if at all. Who would have thought that the history of Scottish poltergeists could be so extensive?
So if you see a pale figure tottering from bookstack to bookstack, his pallid skin untouched by scorching sun, you might just have glimpsed the elusive f=entity known as Ye Poltergeist Hunter of Olde Scotlande…