Guy Lyon Playfair is probably best known for the investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist, as he recorded in This House is Haunted in 1980.
Guy Lyon Playfair is probably best known for the investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist, as he recorded in This House is Haunted in 1980.
Prior to the Enfield case, he spent more than two years gathering accounts of incredible paranormal phenomena in Brazil. He recounted this bewildering investigation in his 1975 work, The Flying Cow. Playfair recounted four nights spent in a house captured by poltergeists. He underwent psychic surgery. He witnessed automatic writing, reincarnation, and communications from the dead. The book was later retitled The Unknown Power.
With the psychic Uri Geller, he co-authored The Geller Effect, an up close look at the hows and whys of telekinesis and much else besides.
Other works by Playfair include The Cycles of Heaven, written in 1977.
Playfair has worked with any number of paranormal experts during his decades of research. His co-workers include Dr. John Beloff, Dr. Eric Dingwall, Renee Haynes, and Maurice Grosse. He has also written about the remarkable Matthew Manning.
B.A.Young, Punch's book editor and later editor, was one of the customers of the Old Chelsea Wine Stores in King's Road where I had my first job age 17 delivering bottles on a bicycle for £3 a week. He was a very good-natured fellow who gave me my first paid assignment - those (Punch magazine) jazz reviews, so I'll always remember him very fondly. - 20 November 2008