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October 2025 lilbrary presentations return for another season of lively multi-media presentatioins on "ghost hunting" with from a skeptical viewpoint, including high-tech pseudoscience, skeptical inquiry, critical and thinking pitfalls like cognitive biases. Free admission and open to the pubic. Note: Portions of this presentation may not be suitable for very young audiences.

When and where?

Oct. 21, 6-8pm

Kensington Branch Library

4121 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA 92116

Oct. 28, 5:30-7:30pm

Paradise Hills Branch Library

5922 Rancho Hills Dr, San Diego, CA 92139

honoring the heroes of

skeptical inquiry

Frank’s Spirit Box: A device created by Frank Sumption that generates white noise manipulated to coincided randomly with the voltage tuning of an AM radio receiver. This generates a moment of sound in the AM broadcast range of 535 - 1605 kHz, which is then acoustically enhanced. Sumption believed spirits could communicate via the modulated radio waves. The spirit box is largely dismissed as quackery, along with other random sound generating instruments such as digital dowsing rods and the Ovilus.

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Big, Scary Mess

In "Big, Scary Mess: Clutter and Its Connection To Paranormal Phenomena," we take a nonjudgmental look at the role of clutter in the claims of the paranormal, addressing the really messy business of sorting out a haunted psyche from a haunted house. It's a delicate problem, and not always just a simple matter of impugning someone's housekeeping skills.

PPI Podcast #7: Halloween Night (2010)

We join members of Pacific Paranormal Investigations during a fireside chat on Halloween Night. Karl Sherlock, Brian Miller, Tim Mountain, Lillie Chase, Gary Eidsmoe, Debra Page, Larry Page and Alexis Miller discuss all things paranormal in a casual and spontaneous manner.

Recorded October 31, 2010

Length: 00:49:03