NZ Skeptics Conference – Strange Occurrences: our approach to paranormal investigation

James Gilberd is 46, has a Bachelor of Design, photography major, Victoria University 1997, and works as a commercial photographer while running Photospace Gallery – one of NZ’s two specialist photographic art galleries.

He founded Strange Occurrences in 2005, initially as a living art installation project with its eye on the Venice Biennale. Failing that goal, operational paranormal investigation work began in 2007.

  1. A brief overview of the work of the paranormal investigation group Strange Occurrences.
  2. Some pseudoscientific assumptions that continue to dog paranormal investigators, and what we are doing about them.
  3. Analysis of some alleged paranormal photographs.

James’ speech can be listened to below:

Part I

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