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The World of Strange Phenomena
London and Whitstable, UK
Joined March 2009
Christmas issue now on sale! South Shields Poltergeist at 20; SAS vs Gnomes; Enys Tregarthen's Cornish tales; Europe's Yuletide spectres; Warminster Thing; Fortean TV Christmas Special; illustrious eunuchs; phantom twanger; Masonic Super Mario + much more https://t.co/R9600cGu5q
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NORTH EAST PEOPLE! Iโm doing a book signing at the Metro Centre, HMV, Gateshead, on Saturday Dec 13th. Anyone fancy coming along to say hi? Buying a book is NOT essential. lol. Shares appreciated.
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And you can hear our own Ian Simmons on it too!
Weโve had a really huge response to this weekโs #Uncanny episode on Road Ghosts - so many people sharing their own experiences๐ป๐ฑ๐ If you havenโt heard it yet, listen as I investigate 2 brand new cases plus the famous Bluebell Hill case, with Ian Simmons, writer and journalist
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Here's my latest @hauntedgen column from @forteantimes, so a cheery hello to @pneumatictubes, @DavidLBoulter, @ClayPipeMusic, @swansither, Me Lost Me, Adam S Leslie and more... https://t.co/ewB1Tye6WG
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
โIn the 1960s and โ70s, running was a slightly hippy-ish subculture in America,โ explains Jesse Chandler. โI have a book from that period, and it actually talks about what runners should do when thโฆ
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If you're looking for a Hallowe'en gift for the witch, warlock or furry familiar in your life, we can wholeheartedly recommend our latest Fortean Times special collection... Available in shops or order online from: https://t.co/XtVWVJJBPL
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Buy it now! I'm in it and so are Tunnock's Tea Cakes. The film review section this month is just me: three - count 'em! - three reviews. I write about THE SEVERED SUN, MEANWHILE ON EARTH, and OSIRIS.
New issue on sale ! Colonel Fawcett's mystery beasts; lucid dreaming; Greek dream oracles; police vs panthers; Colin Wilson; Indian drone panic; haunted furniture; Etsy witches; flat-pack aliens; extreme fart horror; Nosher remembered and much more! https://t.co/n61KxY4Hp9
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New issue on sale ! Colonel Fawcett's mystery beasts; lucid dreaming; Greek dream oracles; police vs panthers; Colin Wilson; Indian drone panic; haunted furniture; Etsy witches; flat-pack aliens; extreme fart horror; Nosher remembered and much more! https://t.co/n61KxY4Hp9
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Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.ukย and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page! https://t.co/AYNXCCuwzn
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On sale now! Witches and Witchcraft: Stories of Sorcery, Spells and Superstition A new collection from the archives of Fortean Times, with an introduction and commentary by historian of witchcraft Malcolm Gaskill. In shops now, or order direct from: https://t.co/XtVWVJK9Fj
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New issue on sale! Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk; Ghost Witches of Essex; Black Sabbath vs the Devil; Sam the Sandown Clown; Bernard Manning From Beyond the Grave; Midsomer Murders; Scotlandโs โLost Tribeโ; Welsh weirdness + more! https://t.co/HC3TzjAQRW
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Our intrepid news editor encountered @brianblessed in his natural habitat at last weekend's Strange Days Festival. We hear that Bigfoot was also spotted at the event and even caught on camera...
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"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my article on possibly the oldest cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes. (FT 462. October 2025).
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If you're in Wiltshire this weekend, get along to the Strange Days Festival of Forteana, with talks and bands galore, including FT stalwarts Ian Simmons, Hunt Emerson, Peter Laws, Steve Marshall, Stu Neville & Ruth Norris.
strangedaysfestival.co.uk
BEHOLD! A wildly weird Weekend of Music, Mystery and all associated phenomena A uniquely different festival: Explore the World that lies beyond the veil - 3 extraordinary days and nights in the heart...
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New issue on sale now! Uri Geller: shaman or showman?; angelic UFO encounters; aristocrats on acid; sea serpent scrapbook; Father Lionel Fanthorpe; top crop circles; Cthulhu's rabbits; cockroach shoots man; robot rebellion; rogue dentists; vibrator myths. https://t.co/n61KxY4Hp9
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Just read the great article on the ghosts of Pluckley in the latest @forteantimes (Pluckley will ALWAYS be the most haunted village in England to us generation Xers)! I have this original itinerary from the 1973 ghost hunt mentioned in it in my collection!
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Thanks to the @forteantimes and Rob Gandy for this nice feature in issue 461 about Hidden Charms 5 which took place at St Fagan's Museum, Cardiff back in April. The next one will be in Edinburgh in April 2027... :-) https://t.co/Q8OB7DkLb5
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New issue on sale! Pluckley uncovered; world's weirdest riots; Edwardian automaton; stone ghost girl; Wallasey catman; curlews vs posties; Satanic gangs; hot dog homicide; Joe Nickell remembered; terrorist numerology; Macron's penis-stealing plot + more! https://t.co/6OP4E7y5Zr
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What is the truth about the Calvine UFO photo? To mark the 35th anniversary of the incident, FT regular David Clarke will be giving a public talk at Blair Atholl Village Hall on Saturday 2 August from 4-6 PM. Get your free tickets at: https://t.co/Pyk8RX37mu
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The new @forteantimes has me chatting with the charming Joel Morris and Will Maclean about their ace 'Broken Veil' podcast. Essex witch trails, the "backrooms" meme, the Mandela Effect, floating two-dimensional bowler hat shapes in fields... it's all covered. Out now!
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