Guinness Book of Records Listing Paranormal Entries Again

Information received indicates that the Guinness Book of Records will be listing paranormal categories again.

A  long time ago – 1988 in fact  – I helped  the editors update the entry for  ‘Most durable Ghosts’. As a result it was changed  phantom Roman soldiers reported at York to the ghostly Bronze Age horseman c.1800 B.C. seen by archaeologist Dr R.C. Clay at Sixpenny Handley in Dorset in 1927. 

Record performances in ESP tests were also entered, along with  the candidate for ‘most haunted house’ (naturally this was  Borley Rectory site of ‘unrivalled’ activity between its construction in 1863 and  destruction by fire in 1939.) The late Andrew Green claimed 'a letter from a poltergeist'. This was the Battersea Poltergeist 1956-1968. In fact, he received nine letters and a Christmas card but this was only a fraction of the number of letters generated in this perplexing case.

Coming forward to the news entries in the 21st century, one  potentially contested entry may be that of the oldest paranormal research society. The Ghost Club and the Psychical Research are  currently the contenders; both can claim different 19th century roots and points of origin.