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Oldest Fortean Society in Scotland.

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forteantimes.bsky.social
Our Christmas issue is now on sale! South Shields Poltergeist at 20; SAS vs Gnomes; Enys Tregarthen's Cornish tales; Europe's Yuletide spectres; Warminster Thing; Fortean TV 1988 Christmas Special; illustrious eunuchs; phantom twanger; Masonic Super Mario + much more
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November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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ianrankin1.bsky.social
Dunbar’s Close Garden - a haven off the Canongate. Worth a detour…
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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chrisdipiazza.bsky.social
Annual turkey day cartoon reminding everyone that birds are theropod dinosaurs. 🦃🦖
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
edinburghforteansociety.org.uk
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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megalithic.bsky.social
New Video: An Irreverent take on the history of Fortean Times magazine with Ian Simmons, their News Editor. @iansimmons1960.bsky.social
This is an extract, watch the full 50 minute live video here:
youtu.be/hQ8dhObF21E
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
I designed a very tall mural for www.bdcolomiers.com/
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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paranormaldatabase.bsky.social
This is why we can't have nice things. 'Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones in puddle'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones
Ardvrek Castle in Assynt is a 500-year-old former clan seat, and reputed to be haunted.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
This makes us unbelievably happy 😊

#DoctorWhoDay #StandingStoneSunday

www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2564341...
Tardis arrives at Stonehenge to mark Doctor Who Day and entertain crowds
Fans of the long-running BBC sci-fi drama will be able to see the Doctor’s police box-shaped spaceship at the Unesco World Heritage Site in…
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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sharonahill.bsky.social
US readers: I really need to move my used books. Please have a look. If you want to haggle on price, send me your list and I'll be glad to give you a discount!

pangobooks.com/bookstore/sp...
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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folklorepod.bsky.social
Will I be seeing any of you lovely followers at Conway Hall this Saturday for The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore?

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore - Conway Hall
Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do to lift this curse? Join us for a legendary trip through th...
www.conwayhall.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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caltonhill.bsky.social
ASTRONOMY on CALTON HILL: Saturday 6 December starting at the Portuguese Cannon at 12.45.

Please join the Trust and Prof. Andy Lawrence as he tells the history of the Astronomical Institution, Royal Observatory, Henderson & Piazzi Smyth, time ball & time gun, Maria Short, and City Observatory. 1/
Memorial to the astronomer Thomas Henderson (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844), City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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anatomicalcat.bsky.social
I haven’t given one of my talks on the medical history behind Frankenstein for ages - if anyone is interested please get in touch! (While del Toro’s film is set in my city of Edinburgh, this photo was taken in Ingolstadt, where Mary Shelley based her novel)
A photo of a woman with bright red curly hair in an ankle length green dress sitting next to a statue of the traditional image of Frankenstein’s monster who has his arm around her. They sit on a marble bench in a leafy bower.
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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mattthr.bsky.social
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
Made the news!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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astroroyalscot.bsky.social
Want to make a wish on a shooting star? #DoLookUp! The #Leonids meteor shower is peaking, courtesy of the Earth ploughing through the debris left by Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. 🔭🧪

1 Get away from streetlights
2 Take blanket ☕
3 Lie back - 10 mins 👁️ dark adapt
4 🌠Wow
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/me...
Look Up to See the Leonids Light Up the Night Skies
Check out our meteor shower animation to find out how, where, and when to see these shooting stars.
www.timeanddate.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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weird-wiltshire.bsky.social
I’m on How Haunted again with my pal Rob and this time we covered Berry Pomeroy castle. It’s super haunted. 👻

Have a listen! Or you can read about it and see the ghost photos captured there in my blog: weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/11/30/b...
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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richardlittler.bsky.social
So, the witches in Macbeth may be a later reworking by playwright Thomas Middleton. Someone who attended the play in 1611 described 3 'beautiful' "feiries or Nimiphes," not “filthy hags”. Holinshed's Chronicles, Shakespeare's source, also describes 3 "creatures of the elderwood.. nymphs or fairies"
Woodcut of Macbeth and the 3 sisters in Holinshed's Chronicles
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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catvincent.bsky.social
Happy Exploding Whale Of Oregon Day to all those who celebrate.
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16d
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
Still from news coverage of the exploding whale, showing an enormous explosion on a beach
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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dailygrail.com
Unpack your towel and your Electronic Thumb, we won't be hitching a ride on this one.

gizmodo.com/radio-signal...
Radio Signal Crushes Alien Theory About Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Sorry to burst your bubble.
gizmodo.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Tonight!
edinburghforteansociety.org.uk Edinburgh Fortean Society @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk · Oct 25
Next EdFortSoc: 12th Nov 2025, 7.30pm

@anatomicalcat.bsky.social will be speaking on:

Will You Join The Dance? A brief history of the Danse Macabre

Plus!
Grand auction of books, etc.!
The Royal Oak
1 Infirmary Street
Edinburgh
7.30pm, £1
Will You Join The Dance? A brief history of the Danse Macabre The Dance of Death was an artistic trope that began in the fifteenth century to show death as the great leveller: everyone will die, from the lowliest peasant to the king and the pope. Death is depicted as a skeleton, leading people from all walks of life to join his dance. This talk will look at the origins of this image, and the way it evolved, and tied in with other memento mori images, as well as reflecting shifts in anatomical understanding. Cat’s Bio: Cat Irving has been the Human Remains Conservator for Surgeons’ Hall since 2015 and has been caring for anatomical and pathological museum collections for over twenty years. After a degree in Anatomical Science she began removing brains and sewing up bodies at the Edinburgh City Mortuary. Following training in the care of wet tissue collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England she worked with the preparations of William Hunter at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University, where she is now Consultant Human Remains Conservator. Cat is a licensed anatomist, and gives regular talks on anatomy and medical history. She recently carried out conservation work on the skeleton of serial killer William Burke. Auction There will also be an auction of donated books etc. So please bring any Fortean related books or other things you would like to donate, and also some cash. The auction proceedings will be split between group funds and a charity to be decided on the night. Wednesday 12th of November The Royal Oak 1 Infirmary Street Edinburgh 7.30pm, £1 The Dance of Death as depicted in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal", with the knight and his five companions, now dead from the plague, dancing in a chain behind the Grim Reaper.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561306...
Researchers baffled by 1,300-year-old Orkney remains: Were the Picts not wiped out?
A new archaeological study from Orkney has challenged long-held assumptions about one of Scotland’s most mysterious races – the Picts.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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anatomicalcat.bsky.social
If you’re in Edinburgh come and join me for an exploration of the Dance of Death. Tomorrow night!
edinburghforteansociety.org.uk Edinburgh Fortean Society @edinburghforteansociety.org.uk · Oct 25
Next EdFortSoc: 12th Nov 2025, 7.30pm

@anatomicalcat.bsky.social will be speaking on:

Will You Join The Dance? A brief history of the Danse Macabre

Plus!
Grand auction of books, etc.!
The Royal Oak
1 Infirmary Street
Edinburgh
7.30pm, £1
Will You Join The Dance? A brief history of the Danse Macabre The Dance of Death was an artistic trope that began in the fifteenth century to show death as the great leveller: everyone will die, from the lowliest peasant to the king and the pope. Death is depicted as a skeleton, leading people from all walks of life to join his dance. This talk will look at the origins of this image, and the way it evolved, and tied in with other memento mori images, as well as reflecting shifts in anatomical understanding. Cat’s Bio: Cat Irving has been the Human Remains Conservator for Surgeons’ Hall since 2015 and has been caring for anatomical and pathological museum collections for over twenty years. After a degree in Anatomical Science she began removing brains and sewing up bodies at the Edinburgh City Mortuary. Following training in the care of wet tissue collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England she worked with the preparations of William Hunter at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University, where she is now Consultant Human Remains Conservator. Cat is a licensed anatomist, and gives regular talks on anatomy and medical history. She recently carried out conservation work on the skeleton of serial killer William Burke. Auction There will also be an auction of donated books etc. So please bring any Fortean related books or other things you would like to donate, and also some cash. The auction proceedings will be split between group funds and a charity to be decided on the night. Wednesday 12th of November The Royal Oak 1 Infirmary Street Edinburgh 7.30pm, £1 The Dance of Death as depicted in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal", with the knight and his five companions, now dead from the plague, dancing in a chain behind the Grim Reaper.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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lilithepunk.bsky.social
And I'm out! Publicationally speaking. So here's a folklore quiz to celebrate!
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz - The Questions!
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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merrimanlyon.bsky.social
Does anyone here have any recommendations for our Berlin December trip? Anything weird, wyrd, spooky, unusual, medieval, pagan etc….
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM