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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2h

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3h

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EDINBURGH frequently offers up stories of characters who possessed the curious habit of leading double lives, but the dark tale of Major Thomas Weir - sometimes known as the Wizard of the Bow - is str...

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3h

Weir's (haunted) house stood in the West Bow of Edinburgh. It was long thought to have been demolished to make way for Victoria Terrace, but research by Jan Bondeson suggests part of the lower story and foundations were incorporated into the Friend's Meeting House that now occupies number 7. 4/4

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3h

Thomas was actually accused of secular crimes (mainly sexual), to which he freely admitted. It's likely that both Weirs were mentally ill or suffering from some form of dementia. 3/4

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3h

Warlock literally means "a breaker of oaths". Weir is infamous for spectacularly breaking his oaths in the 17th century. Contrary to popular myth, he was never accused of witchcraft, though his unfortunate sister, Janet, was. 2/4

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3h

#Scotstober word o the day. I'm no a poet; I write short stories - mainly folk horror and gothic. One of my central characters is a warlock: The Reverend Hugh MacDhu, a renegade meenister who has "defected to the other team." He's modelled on Major Thomas Weir. 1/4

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · 4h

Its day fifteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warlock

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow

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Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · 4h

Its day fifteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warlock

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 4h

Underpass, Chester Road, Stretford, 15/10/17.

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

I remember reading about this at the time - the group responsible called themselves The Perforating Mexicans.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 1d

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 5d

🎯 Nearly there...

Please help us raise the remaining funds for Govan Old and the Viking-Age Govan Stones!

tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 1d

My Sight & Sound review of Good Boy (2025) is online
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Good Boy review: Chasing Styx

Director Ben Leonberg adopts a dog’s POV for a crafty little haunted house horror that makes the most of its endearing canine star.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Why are you standing on your head?” asked Frog.

“I hope that if I stand on my head, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.

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ReelStreets @reelstreets.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Lee prepares to board the 'Horror Express' at the Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid, formerly the Delicias railway terminus on Paseo de las Delicias in Madrid. www.reelstreets.com/...

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2d

I covet the lobster tie - and his spectator shoes.

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2d

It's Monday morning, so the #Scotstober word of the day is: Dwam - a stupor, trance, daydream, reverie, a wee world o yer ain. "When Ah was at school, every day Ah'd look oot the windae at the world ootside and shin be in a dwam."

a close up of a cartoon character 's face with hypnotic eyes

Alt: Mowgli is gone man, solid gone...

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 2d

Jean Jacques Perrey - La Panthère Cosmique [France, Space-Age/Synth-Pop] (1971) composed with his daughter Pat Prilly
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https://youtu.be/VZk6mKbfsag

Jean Jacques Perrey - La Panthère Cosmique [France, Space-Age/Synth-Pop] (1971) composed with his daughter Pat Prilly

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3d

First woman (she's in there near the front.)

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3d

First male runners.

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3d

A misty morning for the Manchester Half-Marathon. Good turnout as usual.

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3d

I can almost hear Gracie Fields, "Sing as we go...!"

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d

Who She Wanted and What She Got, South Bank, Middlesbrough, 1982, photo by Graham Smith.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d

Female welders, Sunderland shipyards, 1943.

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday #Scotstober word: Nyaff - a small, irritating, loathsome, conceited, impudent, loudmouthed, deceitful man. In the movies, often portrayed by Peter Lorre. For a real world equivalent, see Nigel Farage.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 4d

Cover by Jack Davis.

Tales from the Crypt #37 (1953). The cover shows a gravedigger working at night who has not yet noticed the decaying zombie emerging from the grave behind him. The zombie is also holding a shovel.

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