Dr. Ciarán O'Keeffe: The Science of the Supernatural

From Television Times with Steve Otis Gunn Jilted Maggot

Ciarán O’Keeffe was 13 when he phoned Columbia University after seeing Ghostbusters to ask if their parapsychology department was real. They said no. He became a parapsychologist anyway. Welcome to this year’s Halloween special.

Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe is a parapsychologist, psychologist, and author, known for his work on Most Haunted and Uncanny, and as Head of the Department of Psychology at Buckinghamshire New University. He is also the man who invented the name “Kreed Kafer” to test Derek Acorah on live television.

How Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World, Rent-A-Ghost, and Sapphire and Steel quietly shaped a career in parapsychology — and the burnt-down pig farm where he did his first ghost hunt at the age of seven
The bed in the wrong room — the very first Most Haunted investigation, the moment Derek Acorah gave incredibly accurate information about completely the wrong object, and why, for Ciarán, that was the end of any doubt
How he invented “Kreed Kafer” — an anagram of Derek Faker — fed it to Derek Acorah as a spirit name, and watched it come out of Acorah’s mouth live on television
Walking down Bold Street in Liverpool every single day, hoping the famous time slip would happen to him — despite not believing in it

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