Gee, What a busy time for RiPA.
We have just finished the first part in an ongoing study with Milton Keynes Discovery Center and before we know it there is another study on its way!

This is at Bolebroke Castle.
Thats right, we are returning to Henry VIII's hunting lodge which was also the location where parts of the movie 'The Other Boleyn Girl' was filmed.

RiPA's last visit to Bolebroke sparked some interesting results. It is the only place in RiPA's history where some things had happened that ...

Ok, so here we are again. After recent events, it seems that the time has come again to reiterate what RiPA is about and also to let you know about some of the changes that we have implemented within the RiPA brand.

RiPA - Research into Paranormal Anomalistics is fundamentally an educational research team. We take the showbiz out of the paranormal and bring it back down to Earth. To find out more about Anomalistics and the way RiPA works, check out our more detailed discription here ----> (Abo...

So, you mave have seen an image similar to this one on the left dotted about the place recently. What does it mean and does the fact that RiPA have it on the website mean that RiPA is 'coming out'?

Ok from the top, The 'Scarlett Letter A', in recent times, is the symbol for Richard Dawkins 'Out Campaign' for Atheism.

Obviously, this “A” refers to atheism but in the past, the same symbol, known as “the scarlet letter”, as a way to 'out' and shame adulterers. It would be placed on the fro...

Phew.... busy times at RiPA Rectory due to charity events, theatre productions, documentry projects oh, and paranormal researching!  So where to begin with this update? Lets go back to basics and take this time to talk a bit more about RiPA's ethics and website.
 

RiPA is probably different from most 'ghost hunting' groups out there. For one, we dont do 'ghost hunting', we do paranormal research. Whats the different I hear you ask?

Well let me tell you in an abridged way, 'Most Haunted' are 'gho...

Thats right. it seems that our space dwelling cousins 
have tired of visting the remote farm places and trailer park in the good old US of A and have decided to up their standards..... well, according to the taker of this picture anyhow.

The picture of the flying shape was clicked hovering over the house at Hatfield, or Hatfield House even, near Welwyn Garden City.

It was Chris Middleton, of Welwyn, who snapped the mystery object during a a visit to the Jacobean house and garden, the home of t...

Session 2 of RiPA's Ganzfeld experiments has been and gone.This time around the RiPA's that took part done reasonably well as the 'reciever' selected the correct picture even though most of the associations were incorrect.

Those of you who dont know, RiPA is much more than just 'Ghost Investigations'. RiPA is currently undertaking a project in collaboration with Smiths University of London into the tried and tested Ganzfeld experiments.

The premise is that a subject lies down in a selected ...