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October 2025 lilbrary presentations return for another season of lively multi-media presentatioins on "ghost hunting" with from a skeptical viewpoint, including high-tech pseudoscience, skeptical inquiry, critical and thinking pitfalls like cognitive biases. Free admission and open to the pubic. Note: Portions of this presentation may not be suitable for very young audiences.

When and where?

Oct. 21, 6-8pm

Kensington Branch Library

4121 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA 92116

Oct. 28, 5:30-7:30pm

Paradise Hills Branch Library

5922 Rancho Hills Dr, San Diego, CA 92139

honoring the heroes of

skeptical inquiry

Evidence: Loosely and inaccurately used to to refer to the unexamined readings, audio, and video obtained from an investigative activity, the term "evidence" has come under criticism for encouraging expectation bias, an a prior assumption that source data is inherently evidentiary, and that, consequently, anything parsed from it is "proof positive." Conscientious paranormal investigators prefer to use general, less biased language such as "data" or "media." When something not yet explainable is identified in the data or media, it should instead be referred to as an "event of interest," or a "finding."

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The Bitter Pill

One of the common problems that any paranormal investigation group eventually encounters is the delicate issue of prescription medications clients take, but which they are often reluctant to discuss with anyone but family.

PPI Podcast #14: Edwin Becker Interview (2012)

We join members of Pacific Paranormal Investigations Jason Sieckman, Karl Sherlock, Debra Page, Tim Mountain and Brian Miller as they interview Edwin Becker, author of TrueHaunting, a first person account of he and his wife Marcia's personal experiences living in a haunted apartment building they bought in Chicago, Illinois in 1970

Recorded: December 9, 2012

Length: 01:06:52