Forthcoming Belfast Event Asks: Do Ghosts Exist?
The well known faces behind the hugely successful BBC NI series Northern
Ireland’s Greatest Haunts are bringing together some of the top names in
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Darren Ansell, Tony Armstrong and Cormac Donnelly from Paranormal Study &
Investigation Ireland (PSI) hope that The Great Paranormal Debate will
attempt to answer everything from the existence of ghosts to whether or not
an afterlife exists.
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Hide AdTony Armstrong, from Paranormal Study & Investigation Ireland, said: “As a
research team made up of believers, sceptics and fence sitters, who have
fiercely debated the many cases we have been involved with over the years,
we have discussed the need for an event like this for some time.
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Hide Ad“I am very excited that it is our team at PSI and Red Moon Events who will
finally bring this ground-breaking event, the first of its kind in the UK
and Ireland to Belfast.
TV mentalist David Meade it set to host the exciting afternoon of debate
and discussion on the emotive subject of life after death.
He will introduce a panel of six speakers, a mix of believers and sceptics,
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presentations supporting their own viewpoint.
Darren Ansell from added: “Having been involved in researching claims of
ghostly experiences, hauntings and spirit communication for 18 years, I
have been left with more questions than answers.
“Everyone has a view or a belief and I hope this debate brings to the
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“Being drafted into the debate are filmmakers Don Philips and Steve Mera
from the Phenomena Project and documentary maker Edward White who will be
joined by clairvoyant medium and stage psychic Billy Roberts who will be
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Hide Adpresenting their reasons why an afterlife does exist whilst psychologist Dr
Ciaran O’Keefe who specialises in parapsychology and forensic psychology
and is a senior advisor to The Ghost Club - the oldest paranormal research
organisation will be joined by Northern Ireland author and teacher Dr Bob
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Fraser, who’s on the Council of the Society for Psychical Research and has
also been Vice Chair Investigations’ of the Ghost Club.
“It’s a pretty formidable line-up of people who are passionate about their
research, their findings and their stance, we’re expecting a very lively
day indeed.
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Hide Ad“We’re also going to be asking members of the audience for their opinion
and questions throughout the day.”
Telly star Meade will chair the debate throughout the day as well as
demonstrate a few of his own “tricks”.
Cormac Donnelly of PSI said the team behind the event felt that not only
was the Crumlin Road Gaol the perfect location but now was the time to
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He added: “Born out of arguments and polarising views within the team the
idea was to bring this debate into the public sphere, we hope the
researchers and arguments for and against will cause the audience to debate
and question belief systems within themselves.
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Hide Ad“The Crumlin Road Gaol is the perfect location given the stories and
theories surrounding whether or not it might be haunted.”
Tickets for The Great Paranormal Debate are £45 and available from
www.redmoonevents.org.