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I'm digging up some old, sadly neglected, posts from earlier in the year. I've always liked this straightforward attitude to the #Fortean from maverick archaeologist T C Lethbridge. I particularly like his choice of the simple word 'odd'.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b2hyz7hdcoiglhniwkwykt3f/post/3lmk7xzop2c2v

New Video: An Irreverent take on the history of Fortean Times magazine with Ian Simmons, their News Editor. Watch the full 50 minute live video here:
https://youtu.be/hQ8dhObF21E
#fortean #video #unexplained #mysteries

I am jealous of those who get to attend this. #fortean

The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-haunted-landscape-ghosts-magic-and-lore/

Missed this one at Halloween time.
Good stuff. Alan Murdie writes a great column for #Fortean Times. #paranormal #ghosts

https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/life/31102025-the-ghost-club-the-worlds-oldest-paranormal-society

Mawnan Church and Woods in #Cornwall, scene of the mysterious 'Owlman' sightings in the 1970s: a #Fortean and #cryptozoology favourite. In 1993 I found it an atmospheric location with its ancient granite church. The wood wasn't as spooky as expected but it will have grown a lot thicker in 30 years!

A modest medieval, gothic church built of grey granite blocks.

In among the deciduous tress of a wood growing on a steep slope covered in a carpet of autumn leaves.

An Irish lion? Nope. A dog. Mystery of ‘lion’ spotted in Co Clare solved #cryptid #Fortean

https://sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/mystery-of-lion-spotted-in-co-clare-solved/a2092117012.html

Updates to the #paranormal database include a dental #poltergeist and respectful birds, as well as the normal #fortean experiences and ghostly encounters... https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/

Guest hosting this week’s episode. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/1011 #spooky #Fortean #folklore

What do you think the percentage is of scary paranormal/cryptid stories that are crossovers from creepypasta and/or people just "playing" at telling scary stories as if they are real?

My guess is that this is now a viable percentage that must be considered. #Fortean #cryptid #paranormal

Uncertain if the publication in two UFO newsletters is meant to imply an extraterrestrial angle to the Exploding Piano Mystery, or if both of those periodicals had broader, more Fortean, themes.
#piano #explosion #UFO #Fortean

Faded mimeograph periodical, the QUEST-UFO REPORT, about the Exploding Piano Mystery of May, 1970, reprinted from the Merseyside UFO Bulletin.

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon as foretold in a Fritz Lang movie:
https://lthanlon.com/2024/04/22/movies-connection-to-mad-gassers-is-examined/
#gas #Mattoon #Fortean

OTD in 1944 the police chief of Matton Illinois pronounced "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon", a supposed nocturnal prowler spraying paralytic gas, to be the result of mass hysteria https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

The panic over "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

The Commissioner of Public Health, addressing the panic over "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" announced that "The whole town is sick with hysteria" https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 4 people in 3 separate locations reporting being sprayed by paralytic gas https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 5 people in separate locations reporting being sprayed by paralytic gas https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

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