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'Kangaroo-like' animal spotted on roundabout in Eltham “We heard a really weird noise that sounded really close. When we looked over, I saw this animal and at first I thought it was a kangaroo." www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/2494824...

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Tomorrow !

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Goodnight

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See you next Tuesday for: Paracoustics – Sound and the Paranormal Tuesday 25 February 2025 Callum Cooper examines things that go bump in the night and 21st-century electronic voice phenomena (EVP) forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/02/para...

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We will be preserving the recordings from this event in the Folklore Library and Archive for the future

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Shouting out this online symposia Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma 24 & 25 Feb w. Fortean friends Jeremy Harte & @paulcowdell.bsky.social of @folkloresociety.bsky.social www.disabledtales.co.uk/programme.html

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Mr. Beast, NO!

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Our Extraordinary Misfits talk has online tickets a-plenty left so, on Monday, 10 February, why not let them, us, and the brilliant J Draper into your home? forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2024/12/mave... @watkinswisdom.bsky.social

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That hobby you enjoyed but stopped doing as a kid because it was "childish"? Nobody cares! Don't wait for the inevitable midlife crisis before giving it another go.

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#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

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This Tuesday. Just a few tickets left!

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Babe, come over, we can press our screams between the pages of The Usborne Book of Ghosts like tender silvery flowers

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The lure of the vampire is summed up as sex and death. Must we now add: faithful, patient, and kind? Nosferatu? Maybe YESferatu! Find out at our next event: 28 January 2025 from 7.30 pm with Dr Tina Rath Link for details and tickets: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2024/12/vamp...

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⏰The Govt have under 2 weeks to block the bailout of Thames Water. 📑25,000 people have signed the petition to take Thames Water into public ownership. #Thames has failed and shouldn't be rewarded with a £3 billion bailout. Agree? Sign our petition tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

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'This is the moment eerie-looking black shapes appear to slither across the sky over east London leaving a grandmother 'speechless'. 'I saw it with my own eyes and the only thing I can describe it was like a tadpole. It didn't make any noises whatsoever.' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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My latest post on All Old Strange Things looks at the Stone of Destiny and the idea of portable sacrality drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/bearers-of...

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Ghosts in the news: the lady in the red scarf seen "every" Christmas at Ickenham tube station www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

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Sightings of big cats in Suffolk, 2023-summer 2024

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Great lecture on time slips at @forteanlondon.bsky.social last night!

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Let's make this happen. (And find out how much 'slightly' is.)

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Time-Slips with @pharmcatuk.bsky.social 8pm 26 November 2024 at The Bell, E1 Dr. Ann Winsper has been researching people apparently traveling through time for the last 20 years (give or take the odd slip). Details and ticket: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2024/11/time... @forteantimes.bsky.social

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Our next online talk is ‘30 Years in Avalon’ by Prof. Marion Bowman, Tues 26 November, 18:00 GMT. Tickets £6 (£4 for FLS members with the Promo Code). For more @FolkloreSociety events, visit folklore-society.com/events www.eventbrite.com/e/1043939409...

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And if you can't make it to Ann's talk, worry not! She's also writing about the Bold Street time slips (and others) in the next issue of FT.

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Time-Slips with @pharmcatuk.bsky.social 8pm 26 November 2024 at The Bell, E1 Dr. Ann Winsper has been researching people apparently traveling through time for the last 20 years (give or take the odd slip). Details and ticket: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2024/11/time... @forteantimes.bsky.social

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Don't forget to pick up your copy of FT451! Paranormal Rangers; Lord Lucan; Surrey dragon sighting; great golf ball mystery; science of spooks; millennial saint; ASSAP Conference; Fred Archer's ghost; accidental bigfoot hoax; blinking BVM; what ate RFK Jnr's brain? shop.forteantimes.com

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