Peter Underwood Radio Interview (1986)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- The Ghost Hunter's Guide: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GVLSWMN
www.peterunderwood.org
0:00 (Introducing Peter Underwood)
0:26 'What is a ghost?'
0:57 'If they're not evidence of an afterlife, what are they?' ('A natural phenomenon we don't yet understand')
1:18 Different types of ghosts 'What are the most common?' ('Historical' ghosts and poltergeists)
1:55 The story of 'The Green Man'
3:04 Ghosts and violent deaths (atmospheric impressions)
3:37 'Spirits' and 'ghosts' (Spiritualism; 'the spirit of Anne Boleyn)
4:24 Subjective experience (the majority of ghost sightings have 'no objective reality')
4:46 Ghost sightings and the 'mentally disturbed'
5:13 Are ghosts evil? (Exorcisms; 'good' and 'evil')
6:01 Underwood's first musical choice
6:38 1st musical choice: 'Honeysuckle Rose', played by Fats Waller, who composed the song in 1929.
9:29 'When did your fascination start with the paranormal?' (Childhood; Rose Hall, Sarratt)
10:12 The Rosehall ghost story
10:45 Underwood telling strangers the Rose Hall story
11:16 (Why Underwood's interest in ghosts carried on into adulthood)
11:44 (How Underwood pursued his interest in ghosts)
12:15 The Ghost Club (est. 1862), 'the cult of Spiritualism', and the exposing of frauds
13:07 'How have public attitudes changed towards the existence of ghosts?' (More sceptical than before)
14:02 Public attitudes shaped by fiction? (E.g. M. R. James) A hindrance?
14:25 The ghost of fact and the ghost of fiction (real ghosts are 'absolutely normal')
14:55 How do you realise when you've seen a ghost? ('Sixth sense')
15:14 What are the conditions for seeing a ghost? Are there other manifestations? (A room going cold is always associated with a ghost)
15:44 Coldness and death and Spiritualism and the 'seance' room
16:26 Do we retain 'some kind of energy' after death?
16:40 'We don't understand the circumstances under which these figures appear' (they vary)
17:05 The 'vast majority' of sightings have a natural mundane explanation
17:36 'Isn't it frustrating' when the vast majority of cases turn out 'not to be real'? (It is worth just being able to fine 'one' legitimate case)
17:56 The lack of a 'repeatable experiment' (future technology and future discovery of all the conditions of possibility for the sighting of a ghost)
18:13 The scientific community's 'natural reluctance' (to discover a 'repeatable experiment')
18:38 The changing role of the Ghost Club (the Society for Psychical Research has taken over the Ghost Club's original aim)
19:25 What kind of people are members of the Ghost Club?
19:59 'Can you be religious ... and believe in ghosts?'
20:11 Underwood's second musical choice
20:43 2nd musical choice: 'Love Is Here To Stay', played by Stéphane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin
24:52 The purpose of Underwood's book 'The Ghost Hunter's Guide' (1986)
25:35 Other books by Underwood (biographies of Boris Karloff and Danny La Rue)
27:04 'Have you ever written fiction?'
27:28 How does one go about hunting ghosts? (Ghost calendar - 'cyclic' ghosts)
28:34 What is the 'basic minimum equipment you need?'
29:05 Photographs of ghosts (Do ghosts that are apparent to the eye always appear in photos? 'There is nothing dependable in this subject')
29:20 Photos often capture things unseen by the human eye (The 'Brown Lady of Raynham Hall' ghost photograph)
30:04 If ghosts appear solid and real, why don't they appear so in photos? (The 'Tulip Staircase' ghost at the Queen's House in Greenwich)
30:32 Do you need 'scientific knowledge' to hunt ghosts? 'Does it help to have an open mind'?
31:31 Underwood's third musical choice
31:53 'Lara's Theme' (or 'Somewhere, My Love') from Doctor Zhivago, as played by the Geoff Love orchestra.
35:04 The tedium of the life of the ghost hunter (nights in haunted houses; things happening when you least expect them)
35:45 Story of Newark Park in the Cotswolds (staircases and stairways as 'the most haunted' parts of houses; 'footsteps' the most commonest reported thing)
37:04 Newark Park audio recording (voices)
37:58 Haunted Farnham
39:04 Haunted London
39:24 Hauntings in other parts of the world; North America, Canada
39:54 The Amityville case (never substantiated)
40:34 We want to believe in ghosts? (Secularisation)
41:00 Ghost photographs & faked photography
43:06 What do you investigate first when investigating a report of a sighting? What do you look for? Truth telling and delusion
43:53 Will the existence of ghosts be verified and accepted in the future?
44:24 Are there ghosts associated with Christmas?
44:37 Ghost tales
45:38 Underwood's fourth musical choice
45:55 3rd musical choice: 'Overture' from Act 2 of the 1976 musical The Phantom of the Opera, by Ken Hill. - บันเทิง
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I have many of peter Underwood's books, he was a fascinating man and his theories were well though out. He will be sadly missed by all interested in the real paranormal field.
A marvellous desert island disc interview. A man to trust, not like the paranormal programs today of which too many are are full of sensation, show and nonsense. A serious investigator who strived to understand the facts and the truth of what was happening. Cap off to Mr. Underwood!
Thank you so much for uploading this. I had his ghosthunting handbook as a boy in the 70's and would scare myself silly at night reading the "true stories". I always wondered what he would sound like.
Very pleased to hear from another reader of 'The Ghosthunter's Handbook'; interestingly, the book that this interview was recorded in conjunction with the publication of - the Guidebook - developed as a more serious version of the Handbook.
Glad to know this brought back some memories. Shame
Peter didn't get the opportunity to record his own audiobook - it's quite likely that he would have enjoyed it.
The first book I bought on ghosts was Peter's Haunted London. This was back in the 1970's. Peter helped fuel my interest in ghosts and now I write monthly articles on them for Psychic News magazine.
An excellent interview - so many good bits - a perfect summary of what ghost hunting is all about :) Peter's voice is quite hypnotic
Many thanks! Yes so many bits deserve to be featured by themselves with more illustration - perhaps they will appear in the near future...
Thanks for putting this up. Excellent.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed this
This is a real gem! I hope there are more in the archive.
Glad to hear your liked it Mickey! If and when new material does appear, you can rest assured it will be made available on here.
Thank you fantastic!!!
Glad you enjoyed listening to this recording!
poltergeist activity is the most common in my opinion.
Laras theme beautiful
Yes an 'iconic' musical composition by Maurice Jarre - a musical collaborator with David Lean on all his films..
Do you have any more :-)
recordings/interviews, I adored Peter & his books xxx & what part of Hampshire did Peter live ??
He lived in Bentley (for the exact location of the property, see this map link: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1l2oSivAxg0glU1htRW2sjj611D8&ll=51.17862921067012%2C-0.8447723886285985&z=12).
One thing that has yet to be digitized is the film negative for a 1966 40 minute French documentary that featured Peter and has the title 'Curieuse Angleterre'. The BFI expressed interest in acquiring the item from Peter in 2013, but more recent efforts to continue the existing correspondence - or perhaps sustain the interest in acquring it - have failed. But it's worth looking into once more.
@@PeterUnderwood1923 thank you for letting me know, that's very interesting x
@@PeterUnderwood1923- thank you for the map of Peter's family home, you have really thought of EVERYTHING x
@@grazia1238 You may enjoy one of the many forthcoming audio book editions of his work currently being completed - the first of which is available at Audible - read by Jack Wynters (Ghosts of North-West England: trailer: th-cam.com/video/k5EKs05woY0/w-d-xo.html). Try this code if you are in the US: RXB8S3W4QQCU6. (1. Go to my book's page on Audible.com: www.audible.com/pd/B07MXR1N51 2. Add the audiobook to your cart. 3. If you are prompted to sign in, please create a new Audible.com account or log in. 4. Go to www.audible.com/at/redeem. Enter the promo code and click "Redeem" to receive a credit for the title in your cart. 5. Head back to your cart. Make sure the button that says "1 Credit" is selected and that your subtotal reads $0.00 dollars.)
Entertaining and informative interview.
Always a pleasure to hear kind words from another interested listener.
My pleasure. I write for Psychic News and have mentioned Peter Underwood in a few of my articles. My editor, Roy Stemman, knew Peter and even gets a mention in Peter's book on haunted Farnham.
Oh nice to know! Will have to look through a copy of Haunted Farnham. Just looked through the @psychicnewsmag account - nice to find an old friend to follow.
As I recall, Roy is mentioned on page 55 and 58. Roy has fond memories of working with Peter on that case.
Many thanks for the specific page references. Interested to visit this particular case that Peter and Roy collaborated on.
I did not come here for Fats Waller. I am not disappointed!
Glad to hear you enjoy the 'Desert Island Discs' aspect to the interview!
Hi Adam - you wrote me several years ago and I was wondering if you would be interested in coming on the show to talk about your grandfather. I tried emailing you but the gmail no longer works.
Hi Bob - thanks getting in touch - please get in touch with me via sherlockghosthunter@gmail.com
ive got Ghosts and how to see them good Book
That's kind of you to say.
what about concentration camps where millions died first world war any war disaster hospitals etc etc billions of people have lived and died endless horror and mayhem
Very fair point David. It certainly does give one pause.