Telephone Calls from the Dead with Cal Cooper - April 19, 2014
Where Did the Road Go?
Seriah Azkath
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Born in Nottinghamshire, Cal Cooper spent much of his early life reading up on the paranormal at his local school library whenever he could. Years later he developed an interest in human behavior and the many questions we always want to ask about the mind and its capabilities.
Cal received much media interest for his research into phone calls from the dead after he received the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship from the Parapsychology Foundation in 2009. He holds a BSc (Hons) in psychology from the University of Northampton and a MRes in psychology from Sheffield Hallam University. He is the recipient of the Alex Tanous Scholarship Award from the Alex Tanous Foundation for Scientific Research, several times over. Currently, Cal is based at the University of Northampton pursuing doctoral research in psychology and parapsychology. He is also a lecturer at the university on subjects such as: parapsychology, thanatology, and ancient mysticism.
Cal has many areas of interest in psychology including; research methods, beliefs, motivation and emotion, and the psychology of death. However, parapsychology is what Cal is most recognized for with his research into survival of death, psychic abilities, poltergeists, apparitions and hauntings.
We talk about his book, Telephone Calls from the Dead, as well as the paranormal in general, some of his investigations, and much more.
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| 0:29.2 | And now welcome to this week's edition of Where Did the Road Go? |
| 0:35.1 | So I am your host, Saraya, and tonight on Where at the road go, we have Cal Cooper all the way from the UK. |
| 0:41.9 | And where in the UK are you, Cal? |
| 0:44.2 | Right at the moment, I'm in Nottinghamshire, which is my hometown. |
| 0:49.0 | But the rest of my time I spend in Northampton where the University of Northampton is based. |
| 0:55.1 | Ah, okay. And you are working on a PhD in parapsychology, correct? |
| 1:00.3 | Yep, that's correct. It's more or less parapsychology. As I say, there are elements of looking at positive psychology in there and death dying and bereavement. |
| 1:09.6 | The PhD itself is exploring post-death experiences. death dying in bereavement. The PhD itself is exploring |
| 1:11.8 | post-death experiences. So during the bereavement stage, how many people report having unusual |
| 1:18.5 | experiences and what do they report these experiences to be and how do they affect them? So this |
| 1:24.0 | could be anything from just after losing someone, you wake at night to see an apparition at the end of your bed, |
| 1:29.8 | or you start to experience poltergeist activity, or you have an unusual telephone call, |
| 1:34.4 | or you sense the presence of the dead, their touch, maybe their smell, maybe hear their voice, bangs, wraps, |
| 1:40.4 | or maybe even dream of the dead. So there's such a wide variety of things that people during the bereavement stage experience |
| 1:47.0 | that since the 1970s, mainstream science has been taking very seriously since a publication |
| 1:52.8 | by a guy called Dr. Dewey Reeves from his medical doctorate thesis called The Hallucinations |
| 1:58.0 | of Widowhood. |
| 1:59.4 | And so since then, parapsychology in the last 10 years, |
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