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<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0c1f0f03.jpg" LINK="#333399" ALINK="#9A2873" VLINK="#660099"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>                           British Paranormal Research Society</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" British Paran"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U>Calendar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission"><U>Mission</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Member list"><U>Member list</U></A>   |   <B>Related Links</B>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links to other Groups"><U>Links to  other Groups</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Members Utilities"><U>Members Utilities</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Equipment"><U>Equipment</U></A></div> <div> Related Links</div> <div> <B>PRESS RELEASES</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This was placed in the sentinel on the 3rd January 2001</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Group relaunches to probe the paranormal </B></div> <bR> <div> By Kathie McInnes </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="06db9910.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="145" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Garry Cartlidge's fascination with the paranormal began when he took a trip up to Hanchurch Woods to scout around for crop circles.</div> <div> Since then, he has investigated a bewildering array of strange phenomena.</div> <div> There have been poltergeists, big cats roaming the countryside, UFO sightings, alien abductions, levitation cases and even a hunt for the Loch Ness Monster.</div> <div> The truth may be out there but the closest Garry has come to finding it has been capturing a bloodcurdling scream on tape and snapping pictures of other worldly images darting across his camera lens.</div> <div> Garry and a band of like-minded friends launched the Potteries Organization for Paranormal Investigation (POPI) in the 1990s.</div> <div> Now, POPI has been disbanded and a new national organization has just sprung up in its place.</div> <div> The British Paranormal Research Society – which has its HQ in the Potteries – holds its first meeting this weekend and is on the lookout for fresh recruits and assignments.</div> <div> Members also plan to give free talks to schools and other local organizations, offering the public an insight into their activities.</div> <div> Garry, director of BPRS, said: "The investigations will mainly delve into ghostly phenomena, although we will cover a whole range of cases.</div> <div> "The society will pick up on a lot of the things we were doing with POPI. The group had looked at everything except spontaneous human combustion – there hasn't been a case of that in Stoke-on-Trent.</div> <div> "We decided to launch the new society because we had a lot of people join POPI from across the Midlands and thought we could look further afield for cases. It will be free to join the group."</div> <div> To become a fully fledged member of BPRS, people will have to sign up for a short introductory course covering the rudiments of the paranormal.</div> <div> "We would take them through the gamut of possible explanations so they would get used to looking for the right things at the right time.</div> <div> "Once we feel they are proficient, they can set up their own ghost hunts and sky watches."</div> <div> Case details will be posted on the society's web site and there will also be an on-line archive for the public to browse through.</div> <div> In time, investigations could even be broadcast live on the net with the use of web cameras.</div> <div> The investigators already have a range of high tech equipment, including laptops, camcorders with built-in infrared, digital cameras and movement sensors.</div> <div> Garry, who lives in Saxonfields, Longton, said: "We have got a phenomenal amount of paranormal activity in Stoke-on-Trent.</div> <div> "One of the biggest sightings of all time occurred in Bentilee in the sixties when a UFO is reported to have landed there."</div> <div> The Potteries has also been a hot spot for ghostly apparitions. Among the properties under investigation is the Moat House at Etruria, where former owner Josiah Wedgwood is said to walk the corridors.</div> <div> Old houses, it is claimed, often act as paranormal batteries, storing up energy and events, with ghosts becoming imprinted in their walls.</div> <div> But many of the local paranormal investigations have been in terraced houses rather than big public buildings.</div> <div> Garry counts the ‘Beast of Barlaston Downs' as one of his favorite POPI cases. The big cat was described by one witness as having "red eyes and fangs".</div> <div> Anyone interested in joining the British Paranormal Research Society can go along to its launch meeting on Saturday at Longton's Crown Hotel at 7pm. There will be a nominal fee to cover room hire.</div> <div> The society can also be contacted by phone on 07751-846521 or by logging on to www.fortunecity.com/marina/mainbrace/2019/ </div> <bR> <div> <B>PICTURED: Garry Cartlidge with the group's ghost catching machine </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>This article below  was taken from one of my Internet Providers 26th April 2001</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Life after death</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0f664640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> Two psychic researchers have spent several years compiling evidence that there really is life after death.</div> <bR> <div> American psychic researchers Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek have spent several years conducting hundreds of experiments under strict laboratory conditions, with the help of a unique assistant - the deceased father of Linda Russek.</div> <bR> <div> The results have caused shock waves in the field of psychic research. In one experiment Schwartz & Russek used five experienced mediums to contact the dead relatives of two women they had never previously met. The results showed that a staggering 80 per cent of questions asked during the experiment were answered correctly. To test whether the results were achieved by chance, a control group was set up and achieved just 36 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Schwartz, a former lecturer at Harvard and Yale, said: "My life is devoted to psychic research. My experience, based on seven years of research in this area, thoroughly convinces me that science can provide a definite answer to the question, "does consciousness survive after death?"</div> <bR> <div> Schwartz and Russek have been working together since 1993 and are currently refining their experimental techniques to satisfy the skeptics in the academic community. He is conducting "multi-centred double blind" tests with mediums and sitters who not only do not know each other, but also communicate silently over the telephone.</div> <bR> <div> Schwarz concedes there could be other explanations for his extraordinary results. </div> <bR> <div> "It may be possible for the mediums to read the mind of the sitters," said Schwartz. He went on to say that they could be tapping into what he refers to as the "universal memory bank."</div> <bR> <div> Schwartz and Russek are co-authors of the book "The Living Energy Universe."</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>