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Richard Wiseman

Person 5 stories, 1908 to 2003

A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases. In 2000 he led 1,027 volunteers through parts of Hampton Court Palace. More unusual experiences were reported in the areas said to be haunted, and his team tracked magnetic field and lighting variations. His 2001 study of Edinburgh's South Bridge Vaults found reports clustered where people had been told a place was haunted, and sceptics later cited it against the Mackenzie Poltergeist. August 1996. For the BBC programme Out of This World, he interviewed Webster about the Dodleston Messages and gave a sceptical assessment.