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If someone is tased, will the effect travel to people who are holding the original person? Asking for a friend :twothumbs:

so...... is it? :dunno: (Mod Edit: Formatting and including additional information in case the link gets broken later) Sick of boring, preachy movies that drag on for hours? Film critic BRIAN VINER reviews seven Hollywood masterpieces released in this month 50 years ago By Brian Viner, Film...

Will be visiting for a weekish at some point. I've got lots of ecclesiastical sites we want to go to, but what else? We may do a Merrily Watkins trail of sorts for my MiL which won't be a hardship :)

As we don't seem to have one of these... voila!

Have I got the name right? Whatever it is, it's the one where users seem to freeze, often standing or crouching, head hanging down. So why do they do this? What is the experience that means this happens? Or is it a tabloid thing?

I understand the hows, whys and wherefores. But... is it just the way they collapsed, or are they continuing to play the trombone on the ground? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12185713/King-join-birthday-parade-horseback-weekend.html :dunno:

The title says it all really :) Help! Help! Help!

It was given away free at Texaco petrol stations. I don't know if it was distributed more widely. Does anyone have a copy? 20 quid plus p & p etc if you do. Frides

Back in the day (1960s, 1970s) there were always some Christmas cards which had stagecoaches on them. I can't remember the last time we received one! Is this a Thing or a happenstance or a recognisable result of our circle of friends? There seem to be fewer robins about too.... :(

There was a golden age for paper newsletters, notes and journals on earth mysteries and other fortean interests. Things have started to look up again recently which is exciting. :willy: From memory (and very quickly) this is a search I've saved on ebay ("northern earth",, "ley hunter",, "3rd...

Got this as one of my presents this Christmas! woot!!!!!!! https://learnforpleasure.com/subjects/introduction-british-folklore/

Playing Skyrim with a mod that introduces shells and fossils for one to find and pack-rat over. The distribution matches my own perception (and is therefore totally correct, FACT!) that shells are found in oceans rather than by rivers. Some in rivers, for example water snails, but still... But...

I'm interested in how much people can or should divorce the creator from creator. My particular fortean interests mean that I sometimes want to possess a physical think, or support a concert or whatever, and the creator is someone I really don't want to endorse. I've recently gone back to...

When is it? What is it? How far back does it go?

I'm sure there must be one out there. A list of cryptid and mainstream examples which could be categorised roughly as wodewose-like. If there isn't such a list, what are currently recommended books that could start to assemble one? Bigfoot is a definite, the Yeti less so (no trees!) but I'd...

Just been sent a picture of this unusual grave marker. It seems to be an early 1700s three sided pillar, with three carved heads carved around the top. Looking for a photo of each face (I can find watermarked stock images) and any further info. Does anyone live close enough to go and look?

Heading here tomorrow... checking on possible green man sightings! Older gable example and possibly modern art too. Anybody know anything else about the place?

Especially the witchhunts. Covers local and national differences, the influence of class and politics (small and large P!), the Fair Folk, possible pagan survival... Very engaging talking heads who know their subject and enjoy it with zest :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07tqzcq...

I want to settle in for a listening binge... is there a way to get them to chain play, one after another? http://www.loremenpodcast.com/series/series-1

I keep running bibliographies on various subjects, some of them Fortean. I've been using Reference Manager for years and now the version is unsupported and showing its age. That and the queries I'm fielding are getting more complex :rollingw: Having looked around I'm interested in Zotero, not...

Does anyone have any of the books in this series? A quick search suggests they are numerous. Hurrah! scholarly? illustrated? bibliography? comments?

I am listening to The Warder of the Door Meade LT, Eustace R 1897 It describes a wedge-shaped coffin studded with iron nails. I'm having trouble picturing this (the wedge not the nails). It holds the remains of a C14 Abbot. What does it make you think of? Is it the name for a specific style of...

Back in about 2008 Hachette did a partwork on Beasts and Beings. Apparently #36 had something about the green man. The model would be nice but what I really want is the article(s). Is anyone selling? Or would be willing for me to pay their costs to make a copy for me under the private study...

the original plate depiction is shameful.

I'm sure this came up in a thread fairly recently. Just finished listening to this documentary on Folk Horror from the BBC; looks like a special for Halloween this year. I /think/ the narrator/producer Simon Hollis is playing straight. Maybe. Towards the end he mentions that "the place he was...

Not attached to the title of this, better suggestions welcome! I've seen this on telly and in print several times but I can't remember the name. A small wooded area with natural rocks lying about, on which a zealous person has carved - neatly and carefully - various scriptures and possibly...

Just bought this! I think it's lovely! Dragon type head, bird type body. Is it a representation of a particular muthological thing, or pure fantasy from the designer. And what is the script? what does it say?

And probably other titles too. I have known this song for over fifty years. It was the last thing sung as my grandparents Sunday night music and a medicinal dram evenings drew to a close. Its only melancholy was that the evening had finished. Recently I've been hearing it referred to as a...

I was told, in a very authoritative manner at primary school, late 1960s, that british soldiers wore red because they were so brave they fought on having been wounded and it meant the blood didn't show. I was reminded of this by our all too brief appreciation for the film Barry Lyndon recently...

Does anyone have good sources on the legal/customary framework for disposing of corpses? It'll vary through time and also in the different UK legislatures. I'm interested in the common and usual because that is how the uncommon and unusual is known - criminals, the unbaptised, non-christians...

Can anyone see this well enough to work out where in Exodus this is from? I can't get a better picture unfortunately.

I seem to be finding representations of fortean themes. Having said that I will find no more, of course. We have a thread on films, this is intended to be for more static visual representations.

@DrPaulLee has found out that this classic book(s), a fond memory for many of us, are to become available again! https://www.theguardian.com/books/b...ns-classic-to-be-resurrected?CMP=share_btn_fb See Here For More...

This thread is intended for conspiracy aspects of these dreadful events. It has, for example, been suggested that there were warnings that something was planned but that no action was taken. :( The more general thread is currently in Mainstream News.

I am considering spending £3.85 on Blood Lust: Conversations With Real Vampires (Carol Page 1991) The Amazon Review is not encouraging - "Poorly written, factually inaccurate, and not worth reading. Don't waste your money buying this book." Does anyone have any further thoughts? Something...

I know that is found in Stephen King's It. Is it found elsewhere? in that form or in others? What about the idea that "magic" conspires to get itself used in general? any other phenomena it's used for?

Thanks to @Comfortably Numb :) 2019 centenary of the finding of the bones of martyr St Magnus ( 1080-1115) in his cathedral in Orkney. The BBC article describes the finding and attribution of the bones, concealed in a wooden box behind a loose stone in a pillar. The relevant section of the...

Gordon Seton sounds a fascinating chap! Very brief biography over at wikipedia. He wrote lots of books, and possibly more articles, letters, public speeches and so on. Does anyone know which of his books are folklore rather than being natural history, photography or whatever? This is the...

From The Conversation, good summary and thoughtful analysis, of the latest developments in bioarchaeology from Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London/Durham University): The Roman Dead. Further to this discussion is another The Conversation piece, this time by John-Mark Philo (UEA and Leverhulme)...

While going through Awful Library Books for some light relief from having realised that the cats have destroyed most of our carefully saved Christmas wrapping paper, I found the following picture... in MacKay D and Jennings K 2010 Alchemy Arts - Recycling is Chic The relevant bit being...

I cut my fortean teeth on The Unexplained and Man Myth and Magic. I hunted down single issues in charity shops and at humble sales for years - until they became a rare rather than a familiar sight. As recently as 10 years ago I donated my still very incomplete stacks to the church summer...

This blog post from an archaeologist who specialises in data issues says a lot of things I've been thinking about during a decluttering drive. Where does the effort go? what is there? parallels with tons of roof tile or with, for example, the Gundestrup cauldron...

I'm going to be in Stafford (and also the bike show/auction) around April 20 this year. It's over 30 years :freak: since I was there. I have St Chads's and the Ancient High House on my list. I'll mostly be on foot, walking with a stick*, hoping to take in tea shops and...

Have found articles on "The Green Man" in the following series or journals. Am still looking for particular issues of the following and will pay whatever we can negotiate :) In particular I'm looking for some issues of the Earth Mysteries magazines. I know that some national daily newspapers are...

books! books! I just bought books! :fhtagn: throw some shapes Dancing Cthulu! a FB friend is selling her library so she can move and go to uni. I got the Ghastlings 1,2,3,4,5, Book of English magic, Spirits Fairies Leprechauns Encyclopaedia, Demonology Encyclopaedia, Giants Monsters...

at 14.00 here in a Lovecraft/Dearth story!

Reading the crop circles thread in Earth Mysteries, and the excellent posts (especially from Skinny), has prompted me to ask..... is anyone looking to divest themselves of back issues of the journals below? I'm only looking for specific issues to fill gaps or am chasing a particular article. But...

Found this when I was looking for knitting patterns :) a happy serendipity. Someone's scrapbook!

This diversion in Minor Strangenessesesesessses http://tiny.cc/nsstjx The question is what is the artefact on the album cover of the Violent Femmes 1984 Hallowed Ground ? I can find many sites to tell me about the album, but they don't seem to address the sleeve art.

Not me, not on a commission, not associated in anyway. www.weiserantiquarian.com I get the e-catalogues and they are always fun to read - recently there was lots of Crowleyana (?). Have bought a couple of gifts for people from them and the transactions were fine but YMMV of course. Have...