Edinburgh Fortean Society
@edinburghforteansociety.org.uk
Oldest Fortean Society in Scotland.
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In the pub last night, accosted by a chugger (Brit: charity mugger) in a tabard saying their company is raising money for a charity and will we pledge for the disabled kiddies.
My friend S: Are you a registered charity?
Him: We’re raising money for a charity.
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My friend S: Are you a registered charity?
Him: We’re raising money for a charity.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
In the pub last night, accosted by a chugger (Brit: charity mugger) in a tabard saying their company is raising money for a charity and will we pledge for the disabled kiddies.
My friend S: Are you a registered charity?
Him: We’re raising money for a charity.
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My friend S: Are you a registered charity?
Him: We’re raising money for a charity.
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I'm afraid I've got some bad news about Santa's Elves... ;)
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I'm afraid I've got some bad news about Santa's Elves... ;)
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
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Largest UK astronomy instrument leaves Edinburgh bound for Chile
MOONS, a cutting-edge spectrograph built in Edinburgh, has set off on a transatlantic journey to unlock the secrets of the universe. After more than a decade of innovation and collaboration, MOONS (the Multi-Object Optical and…
MOONS, a cutting-edge spectrograph built in Edinburgh, has set off on a transatlantic journey to unlock the secrets of the universe. After more than a decade of innovation and collaboration, MOONS (the Multi-Object Optical and…
Largest UK astronomy instrument leaves Edinburgh bound for Chile
MOONS, a cutting-edge spectrograph built in Edinburgh, has set off on a transatlantic journey to unlock the secrets of the universe. After more than a decade of innovation and collaboration, MOONS (the Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph) left from the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh. This marks the start of a 7,000 mile journey to the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal site in Chile.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Largest UK astronomy instrument leaves Edinburgh bound for Chile
MOONS, a cutting-edge spectrograph built in Edinburgh, has set off on a transatlantic journey to unlock the secrets of the universe. After more than a decade of innovation and collaboration, MOONS (the Multi-Object Optical and…
MOONS, a cutting-edge spectrograph built in Edinburgh, has set off on a transatlantic journey to unlock the secrets of the universe. After more than a decade of innovation and collaboration, MOONS (the Multi-Object Optical and…
Current Gävle Goat status : intact.
www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
Gävles strålande julsymbol
Detta är Gävlebockens egna sida. Här hittar du allt från filmerna om Gävlebocken till hela invigningsprogrammet.
www.visitgavle.se
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Current Gävle Goat status : intact.
www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
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Loveland Frog: what is your deal, and who are you really? tetzoo.com/blog/2020/1/... A Tetrapod Zoology article from 2020.
Lore of the Loveland Frog — Tetrapod Zoology
At least some of you reading this will know my 2013 book The Cryptozoologicon , produced in collaboration with John Conway and C. M. Kösemen ( Conway et al . 2013 ).
tetzoo.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Loveland Frog: what is your deal, and who are you really? tetzoo.com/blog/2020/1/... A Tetrapod Zoology article from 2020.
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Mari Lwyd Charity Auction Info
Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative
Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative
Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Mari Lwyd Charity Auction Info
Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative
Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative
Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
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Shit. You know what this means?
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
On this day in Horror History, THE WICKER MAN was released in 1973.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Shit. You know what this means?
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
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EXCLUSIVE AUCTION ALERT
Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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December 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
EXCLUSIVE AUCTION ALERT
Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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Hope you’ve all been well behaved…
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hope you’ve all been well behaved…
Tyrannosaurus Rex caught fly-tipping on camera in Southend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrD...
T-Rex dinosaur caught fly-tipping on camera in Southend
YouTube video by Your Southend
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Tyrannosaurus Rex caught fly-tipping on camera in Southend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrD...
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Grüße from Salzburg on this grey Krampusnacht morning. Here's some Krampus Bread (or Parklji) that I spotted in a bakery window yesterday 🔥...
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Grüße from Salzburg on this grey Krampusnacht morning. Here's some Krampus Bread (or Parklji) that I spotted in a bakery window yesterday 🔥...
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Identified as parts from a "seven-arm octopus" Haliphron atlanticus, an unexpected discovery.
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach in Aberdeenshire.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach in Aberdeenshire.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach
Arms from the rarely-seen species were discovered at an Aberdeenshire national nature reserve.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Identified as parts from a "seven-arm octopus" Haliphron atlanticus, an unexpected discovery.
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach in Aberdeenshire.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach in Aberdeenshire.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Win a £25 voucher to spend in our massive sale!
I have over prepared, 42 boxes of clothes is like two entire shops full of clothes.
Anyway!
Tag a pal in the comments= 1 entry.
Repost= 1 entry
Make sure you're following us so I can DM the winner 🤘
You can enter as many times as ya like!
I have over prepared, 42 boxes of clothes is like two entire shops full of clothes.
Anyway!
Tag a pal in the comments= 1 entry.
Repost= 1 entry
Make sure you're following us so I can DM the winner 🤘
You can enter as many times as ya like!
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Win a £25 voucher to spend in our massive sale!
I have over prepared, 42 boxes of clothes is like two entire shops full of clothes.
Anyway!
Tag a pal in the comments= 1 entry.
Repost= 1 entry
Make sure you're following us so I can DM the winner 🤘
You can enter as many times as ya like!
I have over prepared, 42 boxes of clothes is like two entire shops full of clothes.
Anyway!
Tag a pal in the comments= 1 entry.
Repost= 1 entry
Make sure you're following us so I can DM the winner 🤘
You can enter as many times as ya like!
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As @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social points out, medicine is no fun anymore
'Tis the season!
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social points out, medicine is no fun anymore
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We’ve launched a Crowdfunder to help us reach our target. This runs to 4th January 2026 and those who donate to the Crowdfunder will be entered into a prize draw with a chance to get hands-on at the giant re-chalking event in 2026: buff.ly/rXcf4Ao
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We’ve launched a Crowdfunder to help us reach our target. This runs to 4th January 2026 and those who donate to the Crowdfunder will be entered into a prize draw with a chance to get hands-on at the giant re-chalking event in 2026: buff.ly/rXcf4Ao
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Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
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Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France.
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Three large coins hoards have been discovered in an ancient Roman residential block in Senon, northeastern France.
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
Photo credit Simon Ritz/Inrap www.inrap.fr/un-quartier-...
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The Last Wolf in England - a piece from me first published in @forteantimes.bsky.social and then republished online for @dailygrail.com
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
The Last Wolf in England
The official wolf hunting season in Britain once ran between late December and late March, but by all accounts the beasts were more-often-than-not killed whenever the opportunity arose. Indeed, wolves...
www.dailygrail.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The Last Wolf in England - a piece from me first published in @forteantimes.bsky.social and then republished online for @dailygrail.com
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
How often do you read an article which contains history, escaped zoo animals, rewilding, and also magical werewolves?
www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/the-...
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I'm working on The Worst Ghosts of 2025. Seen any contenders? Absolutely terrible ghost photos in the papers throughout the last 12 months?
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I'm working on The Worst Ghosts of 2025. Seen any contenders? Absolutely terrible ghost photos in the papers throughout the last 12 months?
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Auctions start 12pm tomorrow!!
Original mari lwyd artwork, Mari lwyd goodies and signed folklore related books!
All raising money to support Domestic Abuse charities to help provide services for survivors
Original mari lwyd artwork, Mari lwyd goodies and signed folklore related books!
All raising money to support Domestic Abuse charities to help provide services for survivors
Mari Lwyd Charity Auction Info
Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative
Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
Artwork, books and goodies raising money for @womensaid.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @galopuk.bsky.social @lovingmeuk.bsky.social and Mankind Initiative
Preview page: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
Auction page: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Auctions start 12pm tomorrow!!
Original mari lwyd artwork, Mari lwyd goodies and signed folklore related books!
All raising money to support Domestic Abuse charities to help provide services for survivors
Original mari lwyd artwork, Mari lwyd goodies and signed folklore related books!
All raising money to support Domestic Abuse charities to help provide services for survivors
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Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Holly is a #symbol of death & rebirth in both Pagan & Christian lore. ❄️ In the #Arthurian legend, Gawain (the Oak King of summer) is challenged by & fights the Green Knight, (Holly King), who is armed with a club of holly to represent winter. #FolkloreSunday #Winter #Christmas
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: ` The origins of Mari’s name are, like the horse herself, are deeply mysterious. One Welsh translation of it, Grey Mare, connects it to the heritage of pale horses in Celtic and British mythology, many of whom can cross over to the underworld (Rhiannon in the Mabinogion
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November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: ` The origins of Mari’s name are, like the horse herself, are deeply mysterious. One Welsh translation of it, Grey Mare, connects it to the heritage of pale horses in Celtic and British mythology, many of whom can cross over to the underworld (Rhiannon in the Mabinogion
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What the hell? Slightly soft, slimy, found on the ground. I found one more, placed all six on a low wall where theyre safe. Remind me of lychee interiors but are categorically not that.
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What the hell? Slightly soft, slimy, found on the ground. I found one more, placed all six on a low wall where theyre safe. Remind me of lychee interiors but are categorically not that.
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Our Christmas issue is now on sale! South Shields Poltergeist at 20; SAS vs Gnomes; Enys Tregarthen's Cornish tales; Europe's Yuletide spectres; Warminster Thing; Fortean TV 1988 Christmas Special; illustrious eunuchs; phantom twanger; Masonic Super Mario + much more
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November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Our Christmas issue is now on sale! South Shields Poltergeist at 20; SAS vs Gnomes; Enys Tregarthen's Cornish tales; Europe's Yuletide spectres; Warminster Thing; Fortean TV 1988 Christmas Special; illustrious eunuchs; phantom twanger; Masonic Super Mario + much more
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