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Robot Valenstein 🤖⚡️ @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

The London Fortean Society’s The Haunted Landscape event is basically Spooky Christmas and a joy to attend each year. You can go in person at Conway Hall, or watch online, and if you’re into dark histories, strange beasts, urban legend and the downright weird, I urge you to bag a ticket.

London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall.bsky.social and online

A legendary trip through the Haunted Landscape with our day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.

#TheHauntedLandscape

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm

@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

Speakers, and others, books available, plus book signings on the day.

Hosts: @valleyofthe.bsky.social & @deborahhyde.bsky.social

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social : Legend-Tripping in the British Landscape

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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@manchesterup.bsky.social

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@magicnotwitches.bsky.social : Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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@vintagebooks.bsky.social

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@icysedgwick.bsky.social : Northern Ghosts: The Bargest and Gytrash

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
7/10

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@theprofrog.bsky.social : The Lost Landscape of London’s inner-city Dead

Vanished places of the dead.

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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@thamesandhudson.bsky.social

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm

@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@rachelpoultonphoto.bsky.social : Unseen – In search of the Sublime and Spirit of Place in the Haunted Landscape

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
5/10

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

Jeremy Harte: The Devil in Church
'a dragon, a fiend, a black pig or dog'

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
4/10

@reaktionbooks.bsky.social @strangeattractor.bsky.social

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm

@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@folklorepod.bsky.social : The Folklore of Churches and Churchyards

Discover the ways magic seeps into hallowed ground.

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

3/10

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@jaylikesthings.bsky.social - Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives

What ghost stories reveal about us.

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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@manillapress.bsky.social

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall.bsky.social and online

A legendary trip through the Haunted Landscape with our day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.

#TheHauntedLandscape

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 5d

Thoroughly enjoyed this talk by Gothic expert and author of the brilliant How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession.

Special thanks to @forteanlondon.bsky.social

#ghosts #hauntedhouses #gothic

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow! Find out what makes a house haunted at
@conwayhall.bsky.social

London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 8d

This Thursday (9 October) @conwayhall.bsky.social
Caitlin Blackwell Baines asks what makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved?

In-person and online; details and booking:
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 7d

Of course I will miss this by a day, but it sounds great.

London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow! Find out what makes a house haunted at
@conwayhall.bsky.social

London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 8d

This Thursday (9 October) @conwayhall.bsky.social
Caitlin Blackwell Baines asks what makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved?

In-person and online; details and booking:
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow! Find out what makes a house haunted at
@conwayhall.bsky.social

London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 8d

This Thursday (9 October) @conwayhall.bsky.social
Caitlin Blackwell Baines asks what makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved?

In-person and online; details and booking:
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 8d

This Thursday (9 October) @conwayhall.bsky.social
Caitlin Blackwell Baines asks what makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved?

In-person and online; details and booking:
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 15d

Woman 'absolutely surprised' after zooming in on 'fireball falling to Earth' (Croydon).

"Or it could be an asteroid."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 15d

Tomorrow (Tuesday 30 September 8 pm) !
Posthumous Indignities of the Famous

Cemetery supremo Rob Stephenson ells the shameful tale of the posthumous ignominy inflicted on some notable corpses over the last thousand years. (Beyond Gallows Laughs)

Details:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/08/post...

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 15d

Woman 'absolutely surprised' after zooming in on 'fireball falling to Earth' (Croydon).

"Or it could be an asteroid."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n...

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 19d

Great talk with the host Sarah Sparkes and author Ben Maxwell about Tony Cornell's encounter with the supernatural in a book called Chasing the Dark, now available.

Also, many thanks to @forteanlondon.bsky.social for tonight's event.

#thesocietyforpsychicalresearch #supernatural #ghosts

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you for the pics, as ever, Jason.

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · Sep 13

Shit, I'm on the list!

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm pretty sure Aldgate station is haunted, maybe not Aldgate East though.

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Haunted Bench Project @hauntedbench75.bsky.social · Sep 5

'Eek! Ghost spotted on the London Underground '— Metro, 17 Feb. 2025. TFL deny the tube, tram locations, DLR , overground or Elizabethan lines are haunted.

Eek! Ghost spotted on the London Underground
A SPOOKY sighting has fuelled rumours the London Underground is haunted. A 'distressed' 15-year-old boy reported seeing a ghost on the Metropolitan line near King's Cross in December 2023.
The unusual revelation came to light following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request seeking records of any ghostly goings-on across the capital's transport network since January 2022.
In response to being asked to list all reports of 'paranormal activity' on the Tube, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth Line and Tram locations officers searched incident reports for keywords ghost, paranormal, spirit, apparition, ghoul, phantom, poltergeist and banshee.
But they claim most of the 156 results merely referred to someone being in 'good spirits' - meaning they'd had a touch too much alcohol. TfL also found more than 1,000 cases in the customer contact centre database — but said many referred to phantom Oyster card charges.
The were no ghost sightings at the Aldgate East station — the area where Jack the Ripper murdered five women in 1888. TfL also said there were no spooky goings-on on Trams, DLR, the Elizabeth line or London Overground.
— Metro, 17 Feb. 2025

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Conway Hall @conwayhall.bsky.social · Sep 10

This autumn, delve into the uncanny with @forteanlondon.bsky.social.

Sept 25—Ben Machell & Sarah Sparkes on paranormal investigations
Oct 9—Caitlin Blackwell Baines on haunted houses
Nov 22—Expert talks on ghosts, magic & folklore

🎟️👉 https://loom.ly/ynn1cQE

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