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  1. gordonrutter

    Postbox Cosies

    Apparently 161 Edward viii post boxes were made of which 150 are still extant.
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    Postbox Cosies

    We have an Edward viii in Edinburgh along with three Victoria's that I know of.
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    Postbox Cosies

    And you won't see one I'm afraid. The decision was taken just to put the Royal Crown logo on and no longer add the details of the monarch.
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    Large Snakes

    Just shot and left there. Gits.
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    Oh, The Irony

    It was all a publicity stunt.
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    Alien Big Cats ('ABCs')

    To a degree this work has been carried out by Charles Paxton, interviewed in the current issue of FT. He measured specimens in the National Museum of Scotland and asked people to estimate the sizes of the taxidermied animals. He has also carried out another experiment where a pole of known...
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    The Loch Ness Monster

    The photos have been put together into the video, if you look closely you can see the outline of each individual image. It's like the stabilisation of the Patterson Gimlin photo where the Bigfoot stays steady but the background moves around.
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    Phantom Heat

    I tried ones of those log fire youtube videos on my TV once and I genuinely felt the heat coming from it. Or at least that's what my brain was telling me.
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    Canal Ghosts & Water-Wights By Nick Ford (2023)

    Contact through his publishers, Spiral Books.
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    Jack The Ripper (Compendium Thread)

    Its the Cross Bones Graveyard which was originally an unconsecrated graveyard where prostitutes were buried. Its a memorial to them not just the Jack the Ripper victims. Presumably the scarf is in memory of a more recent death.
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    Fortean Headlines

    Not just painful but the mouth of a Komodo Dragon is full of some quite nasty bacteria and a non fatal bite can still lead to death in the wild from infection. Hopefully any potential infection can be dealt with by antibiotics in this instance.
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    FT443

    Basically if in doubt ask. You cansend a message to one or all of the mods for clarification if something is ok for the Forum.
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    Bonnybridge

    At a conference they were passed around.
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    Bonnybridge

    I have been in their presence and handled them!
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    Harry Potter

    Glaswegians. Definitely.
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    Harry Potter

    It makes them happy and they are not harming anyone so best of luck to them. Some people support football and that is seen as normal. Some take their love of football / books into their everyday lives. One thing I will say, I've never heard of the police having to break up a fight between...
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    Harry Potter

    I know a graveyard near to me and when you look there are Potters, Thomas Riddle, Scrymgour, Moodie, McGonagle and a few others. But then JK did have a flat overlooking this area when she started out.
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    Are All Psychics & Fortune Tellers Fakes?

    Please if you get any feelings like this in the future would you post them here? Or if you prefer not to do so could you send them as a private message to someone for subsequent verification?
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    Are All Psychics & Fortune Tellers Fakes?

    Has this ever been useful to you in any way?
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    Suspiciously Common Russian 'Falling' Deaths

    Can I remind people this is not a thread about what is happening in Russia or Putin or anything like that. It is specifically about suspicious Russian falling deaths. Thank you
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    Fortean Podcasts

    I've produced a couple of podcasts which I really enjoyed doing but they are so time consuming. Perhaps I'll go back to doing them when I retire and I'll come back and check the advice / wants here!
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    The 'Obesity Epidemic'

    Erm a slight misreading of the chart there. Someone 5'5" would have to have a mass of 68.2kg to be considered overweight. They would have a BMI of 25. A BMI of 30 which is obese would equate to a mass of 81.8kg.
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    Fortean Headlines

    Oh dear. Please, nevermore.
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    Into The Uncanny Book By Danny Robins [Spoilers]

    Can we try and keep the discussion here specifically about the Danny Robins book please. Thank you.
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    Threadfinder General: Lost Threads Located

    https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/lets-get-to-know-and-see-our-fellow-forteans.60665/
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    Ageing & Growing Old

    I'm 21. Cough, cough.
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    Suggestions About Re-Organisation: Move & Merge Requests

    Not a problem, as it was a new thread it was easy to spot. The search engine does not include the main stream news so if it had been an older thread it might have been harder to find.
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    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    Stop it. STOP IT. STOP IT. if i have night terrors tonight it's your fault.
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    Owzabout That Then? The Jimmy Savile Revelations & Aftermath

    Looking back at this thread I removed a lot of off topic posts. I would rather not have to do that again.
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    Suggestions About Re-Organisation: Move & Merge Requests

    Fixed. Thanks. In future situations like this it's no problem to fix but a link to the relevant page would be very helpful.
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    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    I can say with great confidence i have never dreamt of Groundskeeper Willie.
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    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    Yeah but you don't know what I'm dreaming of!
  33. gordonrutter

    Magic Money / Cash Apports: The Opposite Of Disappearing Coins

    Just been doing the hoovering. Finished the living room, went to do part of the stairs. Came back into the living room and there was a 10p coin in the middle of the floor. If it had fallen out of the vacuum cleaner I would have seen it as I was walking behind it looking at the floor to ensure...
  34. gordonrutter

    North East's Most Haunted Building—Never Heard Of It!

    Not heard of it either and I did quite a bit of research into ghosts of Newcastle when I wrote Paranormal Newcastle.
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    Uncanny (BBC Programme / Podcast)

    For those of you in the Society for Psychical Research the latest issue of The Magazine carries an exclusive interview with Danny Robins which does at one point cover this sort of thing.
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    Fortean Studies

    Fortean Studies volume 1 and 2 in a local second hand bookshop, I don't know the price but I can check if anyone is interested.
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    Minor Strangeness (IHTM)

    Peace in our times!
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    De-Extinction

    Sorry, I was talking general not the specific company Lord Mongrove mentioned in his original post, my bad.
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    De-Extinction

    Whilst Crispr technology is one, and probably the most likely to work, it is not the only technique bring tried. That of somatic cell nuclear transfer (ie the technique used to create Dolly the sheep) is being looked at by Japanese (eg Iritani and Goto) and South Korean teams.
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    De-Extinction

    One of the techniques mooted for de extinction is similar to the technique used to create Dolly the sheep. The nucleus of a cell is inserted into an egg and brought to term in a surrogate. In the case of a mammoth the nucleus would be removed from a frozen mammoth and inserted into the egg of...
  41. gordonrutter

    The World's Oldest People (Documented; Verified)

    Someone I know is celebrating their 108th birthday tomorrow.
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    Edinburgh Fortean Society 2024

    The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society Wednesday the 13th of March 7.30 pm The Beehive Pub, Grassmarket, Edinburgh, £1 entry Paranormal Entertainment - An Inside View by Paul Hobday Paul Hobday is a paranormal investigator/researcher and television show contributor, best known for...
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    NDEs Near-Death-Experiences (General)

    In the UK there is a new advert for the British Heart Foundation and the whole thing is basically a past life recall NDE. It can be viewed on this page...
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    Fortean Films

    As Mythopekia said, not available in this country, so its a country issue.
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    "The Unexplained" Magazine

    The Unexplained did indeed get tv promotion and also free gifts. It was published a couple of times and the free gifts varied, a flexi disc of Raudive evp and a set of Zenner cards were part of them.
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    Fortean Podcasts

    I've done some podcasts and unless you're going for a recording of a conversation type they are pretty time consuming to produce. So time would rule me out. Although I did enjoy making the ones I did.
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    Latest Reports Of UFO Sightings

    In the Metro article linked to by Sid she states she did not see anything at the time it was not untill she reviewed the video 30 minutes later she saw the object. Also Sid suggests it could have been taken from the cockpit, no, it is from the back of the plane looking forward, see the shape...
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    Holocaust Denial

    Holocaust denier David Irving has died aged 85.
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