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Paranormal Database
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The Paranormal Database is a ongoing project to quantitatively document as many locations with paranormal associations as possible in the UK and beyond...
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · 17d
Updates to the #paranormal database include cryptids, road #ghosts, and a handful of nineteenth century spooks… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/
Paranormal Database Updates
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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 3d
I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror
A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read: "Spiders Terrible hotel stay Narrator makes fun of golf Latin passages Eerie disembodied voices Confirmed bachelor main character Vengeful spirit Evil magician Working-class character as comic relief Bleak East Anglian coast Visit to an archive Narrator in guidebook mode FREE SPACE Unholy doings in a church Frogs or toads Queen Anne style house Cursed artifact Don't buy that rare book! Something hairy and horrible Someone gets too curious Tentacles Story told via old manuscript Research trip gone horribly wrong Beds are scary Tactile horror
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · 3d
'The trailblazing Queen of #Ghost Stories who was 'well ahead' of her time'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Charlotte Riddell: Queen of Ghost Stories honoured with blue plaque in Carrickfergus
Her more than 50 stories explored moral ambiguity and an obsession with the supernatural in the Victorian age.
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Making It Wyrd @makingitwyrd.bsky.social · 11d
We are very excited to hear @icysedgwick.bsky.social and @stonelands.bsky.social speaking about folklore on Friday in Lincoln! We couldn't track down Richard's bluesky but we are very excited to hear from him too!
Programme listing for 'Fantastic Folklore'.
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Waterstones Ipswich @waterstonesipswich.bsky.social · 10d
Join us at Waterstones Ipswich, Fri 7th Nov, 7-8.30pm, for An Evening of British Folklore, and step into a year of stories, traditions, and celebrations with #folklore expert Mark Norman (of @folklorepod.bsky.social) as your guide!

Booking essential: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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A picture of Mark's book Britain's Folklore Year, with text: From wassailing customs to May Day, Straw Bears to Beating the Buns, join us for a journey through the seasons of British folklore, customs, and rituals, with folklore expert and author Mark Norman as our guide!
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · 12d
'Patricia Crowther, known as UK’s oldest #witch, dies aged 97'... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Patricia Crowther, known as UK’s oldest witch, dies aged 97
Wiccan high priestess’s 1970s BBC radio series is credited with helping to popularise modern witchcraft
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · 14d
'Kindred spirits: the #exhibition exploring our endless fascination with #ghosts'... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Kindred spirits: the exhibition exploring our endless fascination with ghosts
Visualising the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel charts how spooks and ghouls in artworks reflect shifting anxieties about everything from technology to sex
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · 17d
Updates to the #paranormal database include cryptids, road #ghosts, and a handful of nineteenth century spooks… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · 22d
Haha! Not wrong. Took an age, especially as I had some border issues with Lancashire (insert joke here) and Cumbria… Hopefully all sorted now.
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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · Aug 23
The move into our new premises is going really well. But can you help us open sooner?

We need 6 very specific units to complete the first phase. They cost £25 each.

Can you sponsor one on the link below? We will put your name on the unit as sponsor

www.gofundme.com/f/secure-the...

Thank you
Bookcases in a room with a flower rug on the floor Bookcases and rug again Table and chairs and a bookcase Table and chairs
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Aug 25
Updates to the #paranormal database include an overhaul to #Yorkshire (splitting North, South, East, and West), and the regular strange and #fortean additions found here: www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Aug 21
#Pareidolia or phantom tree - the choice is yours... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sycamore Gap tree image found under Northallerton patio
Howard Dawson says the marking has a
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Malcolm Schofield @malcschofield.bsky.social · Aug 13
Nice review by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social of Ben Machell's book on Tony Cornell @spr1882.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell review – the original ghostbuster
An entrancing biography of Tony Cornell, who displayed a scientist’s commitment to impartiality as he investigated the paranormal
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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · Aug 7
25 'Big Cat' sightings including lions, tigers, and pumas reported in London over 5 years

(I'm clearly out of the cryptozoological loop.)

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · Jul 30
This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
Morris dancers at Rochester Sweeps Festival, May 2025, photo by Jeremy Harte
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Aug 4
In Japan, August is ghost season so I plan to share lots of ghostly Japanese art. This print by Katsushika Hokusai (1831) is titled 'The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji' and is from the series 'One Hundred Ghost Stories.'
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #ghosts
A ghostly skeletal figure peers over a curtain.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Aug 2
The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels.

Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/6RFALyJ By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu
From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis
Who bears responsibility when false information leads to real harm?
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Jul 28
If you're in need of a Fiji mermaid... 'Out of the Ordinary' auction - www.sworder.co.uk/auction/deta...
Out of the Ordinary
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Jul 28
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Jul 27
Updates to the #paranormal database include Scottish #mermaids, New Forest #ghosts, and a couple of Grindylow hangouts… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Jul 26
'West #Japan town's 'kappa' #folklore creature to be replaced after years of scaring tourists'... mainichi.jp/english/arti...
West Japan town's 'kappa' folklore creature to be replaced after years of scaring tourists - The Mainichi
FUKUSAKI, Hyogo -- A popular statue of a
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Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social · Jul 24
'Legend of town #witch retold in community opera'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #folklore
Legend of Burslem 'witch' retold in opera by community group
The story of Molly Leigh is shrouded in rumour, now an opera exploring it is taking place.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Jul 21
Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future
Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future
It is generally accepted that the standard deck of playing cards we use for everything from three-card monte to high-stakes Vegas poker evolved from the Tarot. “Like our modern cards,” writes Sallie N...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Jul 21
The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right
The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right
Frank Zappa called them the “Mothers of Prevention,” the group of wives married to members of Congress who decided in the mid-80s to go to war against rock lyrics and whip up some good ol’ conservativ...
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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · Jul 17
A ghost hunter died while touring with the “haunted” Annabelle doll. Within hours, people were calling it proof of the curse.

I wrote about how myth is always hungry and people get eaten by ghost stories:

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Turning Tragedy Into Lore: The Annabelle Effect - Hayley is a Ghost
When news broke yesterday (July 15th, ’25) that Dan Rivera, one of the caretakers touring the infamous “Annabelle” doll, had died unexpectedly, it didn’t take long for the usual whispers to start. Was...
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Hayley Stevens @hayleyisaghost.bsky.social · Jul 4
So anyway, what do you get when you put Bigfoot, King Charles III, and the Loch Ness Monster in a canoe?

An article about how generative AI shows us why we need to rethink how we demand evidence from paranormal eye-witnesses: hayleyisaghost.co.uk/can-we-still...
Can We Still Trust Paranormal Evidence in the Age of AI? - Hayley is a Ghost
When someone says they’ve seen a ghost or encountered Bigfoot, the response from most people is almost automatic: “Pics or it didn’t happen.” In an age where nearly everyone has a camera in their pock...
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