The Ghost Club

Record summary

The Ghost Club was a London association devoted to discussing apparitions, haunted places, and related testimony. Traditionally dated to 1862 and later associated with figures such as William Stainton Moses and Sir William Crookes, it occupied a boundary between club culture, spiritualism, and emerging psychical research. This lead matters for comparing how anomalous reports were collected, socially validated, and circulated in the nineteenth century. The club’s membership history, continuity, and surviving records are uneven, so institutional claims should be verified through archival and contemporary sources.