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Hayley Stevens

@hayleyisaghost.bsky.social

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🎓 Open Uni MSc Psychology student. 👨‍💻 I write a science blog about spooky things and solve mysteries for a hobby www.hayleyisaghost.co.uk

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · Sep 6

If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, if there's something weird, and it don't look good, who you gonna call?

Hi! I'm Hayley, a scientific paranormal researcher and I can help you solve your spooky mysteries. Get in touch for help today via my website: hayleyisaghost.co.uk

Hayley is a Ghost

The award-winning science blog about spooky things written by paranormal researcher, Hayley Stevens.

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 17h

*owl

There are so many ladybugs that I can hear them landing on the glass every few seconds. 🤢

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 17h

So this morning I had an own looking in my window and now my windows are covered COVERED in ladybugs. What is happening?????

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 18h

Oddly, I've just started my Masters this week

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 19h

I'm 38, I think it's a little late to be heading to school now :(

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

then I become a coward

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

"but you're a skeptic hayley"

yeah, right up until the moment an owl is watching me through an open window.

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

imagine the thing looking in my window from the porch roof outside not being an owl. haha. god...

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

to make it worse, my window is wide open. It was real nice being here and meeting you all.

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

nobody freak out but there is an owl right outside my bedroom window and it is looking inside and this feels cursed

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, in 2016 I sat on a panel w. Susan Blackmore & Caroline Watt on the science of the supernatural (huge fan-girl moment). I got to host a folklore panel once with Dr David Clarke. I was on Loreman pod!

Your average paranormal nerd doesn't get to do these things! I have been very, very fortunate.

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

I think I was on the first ever panel at QED 2011 with Chris French & Trystan Swale. Hosted by Andy Wilson, we talked ghost hunting.

A year later, I met Joe Nickell at QED 2012 and when the con. finished, we went monster hunting in Scotland together.

It's been... life affirming. And good.

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

I am genuinely feeling very sad that the last ever QEDcon is fast approaching. Talk about an end of an era.

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

When the mothership comes in CEIII, after the scene with the tones, I always get a little bit misty eyed.

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

of course it's a good thing - how cool!

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 1d

To say I gasped is an understatement.

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 2d

yeah exactly

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 2d

Started my MSc studies today and found out that most people who study for a BSc with the Open Uni skip all of the online tasks each week.

I- someone who did every single one in painstaking detail -could have slept so much more 🥲

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so pleased to see that Allison Jornlin is going to be running the Centre for Fortean Zoology in the USA. Allison is good people 😊

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 5d

Dancing Queen by ABBA.

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 5d

question for the timeline

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 5d

Oh you like ghosts? But you only talk about it in October? Amateur.

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 6d

it is now but hasn't been for most of the day

Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 6d

I find it a little disappointing to come on this platform after what's happened in he UK today and my trending topics are about some stuff happening in the US that has no bearing here.

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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · 6d

Hey friends, after the terrorist attack today, remember that you cannot be over cautious when your gut tells you something doesn’t feel right. Just get to safety and let someone know - nothing better than a false alarm if it keeps each other safe.

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