Ciaran Farrell

Ciaran has served as a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, SPR and the SPR’s Spontaneous Cases committee, SCC for many years.
He has had many psychical experiences and adventures when he was a boy. This led him to formulate his own early theories about ghosts, poltergeists and telepathic veridical dreams of the dead gained through direct encounters with ghosts, spirits and poltergeists.
He went on to build and design some of his own ghost-hunting equipment and to improve upon his previous theories about Cold Spots building on his own experience of them and his own ghost adventures.
He formulated the concept of ‘my body as an instrument’ to monitor and evaluate his perception of the atmospheres of rooms and outdoor places and preternatural Cold Spots within them as well as the perception and detection of poltergeists and ghost encounters.
In 1970, Ciaran went with his mother and sister and members of another family to an extremely haunted holiday home in Broadstairs in Kent. There was a great deal of paranormal activity during the holiday, which was cut short as a result of it. However, the real horror was yet to come, as the paranormal activity associated with several poltergeists/ghosts from the holiday followed Ciaran and his family back to their home in London, and Ciaran to his boarding school. The other family was also severely affected. One of the phenomena that Ciaran experienced due to his psychic sensitivity was that of lucid telepathic veridical dreams from at least two murder victims.
This gave him a deep desire to study science and he obtained a joint honours degree in chemistry and physics and then to study the philosophy of science and to start a PhD which was never completed due to funding problems.
He resolved the reason for the existence of a nasty Cold Spot with presences associated with it that was the site of a previous murder within the grounds of his college’s hall of residence. He accurately described the linked subsequent second murder in the case through mediumistic means which led the detective in charge of the case to suggest that he train and register as a Private Investigator. This was so he could investigate the paranormal from the sound footing of being a PI, which he did. He consequently spent many years as a sole paranormal investigator working on solving hauntings as if they were “crimes” in a confidential manner following his boyhood hero, Sherlock Holmes using a combination of modern instrumental methods and mediumistic techniques.