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{{PersonInfobox
|name=Robin Furman
|occupation=Psychologist, hypnotherapist, parapsychology lecturer
|known_for=Founder and leader of the Grimsby Ghostbusters; author of ''Ghostbusters UK'' (1991)
|status=Unknown}}

'''Robin Furman''' was a British psychologist and hypnotherapist, and one of the country's few academic lecturers in parapsychology, best known as the founder and leader of the "[[Grimsby Ghostbusters]]" — a Lincolnshire-based team of psychic investigators active from the mid-1980s.<ref name="retroculturati">{{cite web |title=The Grimsby Ghostbusters |url=https://retroculturati.com/2025/03/09/the-grimsby-ghostbusters/ |website=Retroculturati}}</ref>

== Background ==
Furman was based in Grimsby, on the Lincolnshire coast, where he combined his academic background in psychology with a long-standing interest in the scientific study of paranormal phenomena.<ref name="goodreads-furman">{{cite web |title=Robin Furman (Author of Ghostbusters UK) |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17695470.Robin_Furman |website=Goodreads}}</ref> He reportedly lived in a house locally said to be haunted by the ghost of a nun, a detail frequently mentioned in profiles of him as part of his own personal connection to the subject.<ref name="retroculturati" />

== The Grimsby Ghostbusters ==
Furman formed the Grimsby Ghostbusters around 1984, the same year the film ''Ghostbusters'' was released, assembling a team that deliberately combined scientific and technical expertise with paranormal investigation — including a microbiologist, a computer consultant, and an electronics engineer alongside Furman's own psychological background.<ref name="abebooks">{{cite web |title=Ghostbusters Uk |url=https://www.abebooks.com/9780709044338/Ghostbusters-Uk-Furman-Robin-Martingale-070904433X/plp |website=AbeBooks}}</ref> The team investigated hauntings and reported paranormal activity across Lincolnshire and further afield in the UK, and Furman argued publicly that evidence for such phenomena deserved to be assessed with the same rigour applied to any other scientific claim.<ref name="retroculturati" />

The team gained a degree of national media attention, including a BBC Radio feature in 1992 that followed them on an overnight investigation.<ref name="retroculturati" /> Locally, the group was well regarded; contemporary accounts describe Furman as well liked in Grimsby, with the town's community supportive of a group that had brought it a measure of national attention.<ref name="retroculturati" />

=== Notable cases ===
Cases associated with the Grimsby Ghostbusters, as later documented in Furman's own book, included the haunting of Grange Farm — marked by a series of sudden deaths and unexplained accidents — a churchyard where witnesses reported mist rising from tombstones alongside sightings of cloaked figures, a "ghost train" featuring an unusually realistic apparent corpse, and a case involving a woman reportedly describing possession by an entity she identified as Pazuzu.<ref name="retroculturati" />

== ''Ghostbusters UK'' (1991) ==
Furman documented the team's investigations in ''Ghostbusters UK'', published in 1991 and co-written with journalist Moira Martingale.<ref name="tripod">{{cite web |title=Grimsby Ghostbusters |url=https://ed5015.tripod.com/SupernatGhostbusters25.html |website=ed5015.tripod.com}}</ref> The book was illustrated by [[Uri Geller]].<ref name="retroculturati" />

{{VaultWorkBrief
|type=Casebook / paranormal non-fiction
|importance=Moderate
|subject=[[Grimsby Ghostbusters]]
|significance=A detailed, book-length case record of a working regional UK psychic investigation team from the late 1980s, distinguished by its explicitly stated aim of combining scientific method with paranormal investigation.
|assessment=Of specific regional and historical interest as a documented example of 1980s British amateur/semi-academic ghost investigation, rather than a widely known or critically reviewed work in its own right.
}}

{{VaultProfileBrief
|category=Parapsychology Lecturer / Paranormal Investigator
|relevance=Moderate
|connection=Founding and leading the Grimsby Ghostbusters investigation team, and authorship of ''Ghostbusters UK''
|assessment=Robin Furman represents a distinctive strand of 1980s British paranormal investigation — academically credentialed, deliberately assembled around technical and scientific expertise, and explicitly framed as an attempt to bridge scepticism and belief rather than commit fully to either. His work is of particular regional significance given the Grimsby/North East Lincolnshire connection shared with other groups and locations documented elsewhere in the Vault.
}}

== See also ==
* [[Grimsby Ghostbusters]]
* [[Spirit Searchers]]
* [[Uri Geller]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38464531-ghostbusters-uk Goodreads — ''Ghostbusters UK'']
* [https://retroculturati.com/2025/03/09/the-grimsby-ghostbusters/ Retroculturati — The Grimsby Ghostbusters]

[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Researchers]]
[[Category:Lincolnshire]]
[[Category:Grimsby]]

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