Features
The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists Part I: An Initial Model
In the first of a two-part article, Rense Lange and James Houran summarise their work concerning hauntings and poltergeists and argue that ghostly outbreaks can tell us more about the living than the dead.
In Search of Monsters?
Charles Paxton writes in defence of cryptozoology
Secrets of Area 51
David Hambling explores how secret balloon projects may have contributed to the flying saucer myth
Humour
Sprite, by Donald Rooum, the ongoing saga of an ethereal being who has the misfortune to fall for a confirmed skeptic.
Cartoons by Tim Pearce and The Parking Lot is Full
Pictures from Hilary Evans’ Paranormal Picture Gallery
Book reviews
Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by James Houran and Rense Lange (Editors)
The Great Skeptic CD: 1981–2000 by The Australian Skeptics
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner
Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software by Steven Johnson
News and comment
Editorial
Kate Holden and Chris French
Skeptical Stats
A column based on the observation that sometimes statistics don’t lie – they’re just plain crazy…
Hits and Misses
The curse of…
Delayed payment
Seeing ghosts
The search for signs of intelligent life in the UK
New forms of identity theft
Stephen Jay Gould, RIP
Skeptic at large: The tea towel conspiracy
Wendy M Grossman
Philosopher’s Corner
Julian Baggini
Rhyme and Reason: Science and Society
Steven Donnelly
From Michael Heap
Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry
Letters from our readers
Diana-Obsessed Ditherings?
The Cause of the Confusion?
A Reply from Hilary Evans
The Shape of Bags to Come
Water Works
A Response to Dr Chris French
A reply to Montague Keen
Religion and Superstition
