Robert Thurston Hopkins

{{Short description|British writer and ghost hunter}}

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| birth_date = 1884

| birth_place = Bury St Edmunds, England

| death_date = 1958

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| occupation = Writer, ghost hunter

| years_active = 1913–1956

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Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884–1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.

Hopkins was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk in 1884.{{cite web |url=http://www.sussexias.co.uk/mills_historic_features.htm |title=The Decline and Fall of the Windmill |first=Arthur |last=Beckett |publisher=Sussex Mills Group |accessdate=20 November 2019}}

Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. He also wrote books on the English countryside.[http://rogallery.com/Hopkins_Thurston/HopkinsThurston-Bio.html "Robert Thurston Hopkins"] Mention, with dates, in biography of his son Thurston Hopkins at Rogallery.

Hopkins was a ghost hunter known for his books on ghosts. He described his experiences in his book Adventures with Phantoms (1946). He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a hanged man in a woodland near Burwash on two occasions in the 1930s.Adams, Paul. (2013). Extreme Hauntings: Britain's Most Terrifying Ghosts. The History Press. pp. 130-131. {{ISBN|978-0752465357}}

His son was Godfrey Thurston Hopkins (1913–2014), known as Thurston, well-known Picture Post photojournalist.