November 22, 2023

Review

The Polyphony reviews Presence: “Beautifully written and admirably readable”

Review by philosopher Alastair Morgan.

April 4, 2023

Review

The i Paper: Why people sometimes feel a ‘presence’ in an empty room

Review by Stuart Ritchie for iNews.

March 29, 2023

Review

New Scientist: A lively look at why we experience ghostly presences

Review by Jason Arunn Murugesu for New Scientist.

February 1, 2023

Review

Library Journal: “A robust investigation into the phenomenon”

Review by Lydia Olszak for Library Journal.

December 19, 2023

Article

Why we sense somebody who isn’t there

Ben spoke to Phil Jaekl from Nautlis magazine about the topic of felt presence.

May 29, 2023

Article

Felt presence: Why we sometimes feel invisible others

Claudia Hammond writes about Presence for BBC Future.

April 6, 2023

Article

What science can tell us about the experience of unexplainable presence

Article by Ben Alderson-Day published in The Conversation.

April 1, 2023

Article

The New, Strange Science Behind Felt Presences

Article by Ben Alderson-Day published in Time.

March 28, 2023

Article

Third Man factor: What really happened to Ernest Shackleton?

Article by Ben Alderson-Day published in Reader’s Digest.

Februrary 22, 2024

Article

The best books on hallucinations

Ben talks to Sophie McBain of Five Books about how RD Laing, Oliver Sacks and the Book of Form and Emptiness shaped Presence.

April 12, 2023

Article

On ‘PRESENCE: The science and true stories of the unseen other’

Interview with Richard Bright published in Interalia Magazine.

February 2, 2023

Article

“The mind can go so far in creating phantom others”

Interview with Jon Sutton published in The Psychologist.

January 16, 2023

Radio

O1 Interview (Austrian Radio)

Ben spoke to Anna Masoned of O1 Radio in Austria about all things felt presence. 

October 5, 2023

Podcast

Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

Ben talked to Yvette Fielding about the science of felt presence on the Paranormal Activity podcast. OK, it was mostly about ghosts.  

March 24, 2023

Podcast

Presence: Hallucination or Visitation?

Interview with Dr Phil Stieg on This Is Your Brain. 

March 28, 2023

Podcast

Dr Ben Alderson-Day and the Feeling That Someone Is Behind You

Interview with Professor Rory O’Connor and Craig on MQ Open Mind. 

April 25, 2023

Radio

Presence on All in the Mind (BBC R4)

Ben was joined by explorer Luke Robertson for an interview with Claudia Hammond in the first episode of a new series of All in the Mind. 

April 15, 2023

Video

Interview: The Michael Shermer Show #340

Shermer and Alderson-Day discuss the phenomenon of felt presence.

April 5, 2023

Video

Presence: A Message from the Author

A short video message from Ben Alderson-Day.

March 28, 2023

Video

Dr Ben Alderson-Day and the Feeling That Someone Is Behind You

Interview with Professor Rory O’Connor and Craig on MQ Open Mind.