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    Greg Chapman's touring Non-Psychic 'Psychic' Show.

    Saw this advertised on Facebook. Looks juicily Fortean. Techy and I have booked for the Chester event! As spotted by @Floyd1, the venue we're going to is part of a tour. I'd only been shown the one stop. Here are the dates kindly provided by @Floyd1 - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/gregchapman...
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    Rhubarb

    Here in the UK we are blessed with year-round rhubarb provision, much of it generated in the famous Rhubarb Triangle; where conditions are so perfect for the crop's production that one can hear it growing.
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    Public Health Efforts (Education; Sanitation; Etc.)

    I've often wondered how rural areas in America manage their fresh water supply, rubbish disposal and sewage output. Here in the UK we had the Public Health Act of 1875 which obliged local authorities to organise these matters to put an end to problems such as repeated outbreaks of cholera. No...
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    Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer

    This looks great - Aerial Archaeology Mapping Explorer It's not like Google Earth as you have to click through a bit but it's the effort.
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    Numinous New Mexico

    Y'know, what Brits know about Albuquerque comes from watching Breaking Bad.
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    Woman Raped In Lay-By After Stopping For Child Seat

    If we have a thread for this type of attack, Mods can shunt it. I'm sure I've read on'ere about folklore around child car seats dumped in lay-bys but I can't find it now. Can remember mentioning that I'd seen child seats left next to a box that had held a similar item, and inferring that a...
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    Future Fecal Food: Recycling Poo As Food

    Something for the astronauts' toast! o_O Astronauts could one day eat goo made from their poo 'Dungemite' :chuckle:
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    Superstitions Science / Tech Folks Observe

    The lines are often blurred, though it's probably cultural rather than purely about religion. Superstition is present too. For example, on launch days at NASA free doughnuts are served across the site. It's supposed to bring good luck and is somehow connected to the round shape of the wheels...
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    Legend: Byron's Prodigious Penis

    From the Dangerous Minds site - THAT TIME THEY OPENED LORD BYRON’S COFFIN AND FOUND HE HAD A HUMONGOUS SCHLONG Long story short; in 1938 after restoration work at the church housing Byron's grave, the Reverend Barber was worried that the poet's coffin had been damaged. He arranged for workmen...
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    People Who Just Disappear (Go Missing)

    (By reference to an old thread which itself disappeared ... ) This happened, I'm told, to someone in my street, in the late 60s. She was a young mother of two little children and one morning her elder child, who was 3, was run over in the street, having wandered out through an open front door...
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    Sleep: The How-To Thread

    Here's some more sleep weirdness, literally of my own making. Long story short, I accidentally trained myself to chill out at the sight of leopardskin. Light wakes me up so I have trouble sleeping beyond sunrise. I've tried wearing sleep masks, with varying results. They work if they stay on...
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    Dumb & Deadly Gender Reveal Stunts

    There's been a bit of a backlash against the fad for 'gender reveal' parties. This incident might help that along a little; a guest at one has been killed by, one assumes, some kind of gimmicky explosion. Woman killed in explosion at Iowa gender-reveal party
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    Watch Weirdness

    I've noticed that battery-operated watches stop if I don't wear them. If I then reset the time on one it will merrily tick away and stay working as long as it's used. Watches must sulk when I don't pick them.
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    Smoke & Mirrors: The Relationship Between Magic & Psychology. The Wellcome Collection's New Exhibition In London

    Looks good! Smoke and Mirrors The exhibition will cover three themes: The Medium, Mentalism and Misdirection. It's all on the website. As the Wellcome Trust is a health research institute, all their exhibitions are on a health-related theme. Sometimes the criteria are stretched a bit thin...
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    Strange Telephones Of Yesteryear

    Not exactly astonishing, but intriguing; Garfield phones have been washing up on a French beach for decades. The source has now been found. From BBC News - Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years
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    Imitating Motherhood / Parenting

    t'other day I met a young woman on a busy train station. She was pushing a pram with an elaborately-decorated blanket which I admired. She said she'd made it herself and I was impressed. Leaned in to look at her baby, who was fast asleep in her matching fancy little bonnet, and the mother said...
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    Parson's Green Bomb: Staged Incident?

    I've just seen this on a Facebook (yeah I know!) page called The Crisis Actor. Can we check all this? I must say, when I saw TV footage of passengers looking in through a window at the 'bomb' and pointing it out to each other, seemingly unalarmed, I was intrigued. How very British! A few...
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    Congleton Bear (Town Bible Money Spent On Bear)

    ( Copied / Spun off from the Hartlepool(?) 'Monkey Hanging' thread.) OK, some silly people somewhere hung a monkey. For a REAL Elizabethan scandal, how about when people of Congleton sold the town's Bible to buy a dancing bear?
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    Explaining The Hidden Meaning Of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam

    What a genius Michalangelo was. As if we need reminding! ;) The Hidden Meaning Of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam The link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed at the Wayback Machine...
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    Conrad Gesner's 'Historiae Animalium' ('Accounts of Animals')

    I'm sure everyone here who's interested in early zoology knows all about Conrad Gesner. We've grown up with his meticulous if fantastical illustrations. In the week I popped to Oxford with Escet for dinner at High Table with the College President and others, including a Professor who's doing...
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    Things Falling From The Sky Over Brum!

    Escette has been texting me just now about brightly-shining objects falling from the sky over the south-west Black Country area. She says they looked like planes at first but were falling instead of travelling forwards. This was around 07:10-30 today, 5th October. I remember reading recently...
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    When You Send Off For Something Dodgy And The Police Turn Up Instead

    Yesterday my daughter told me this story: In her lunch break she was browsing Wish or something and showed a colleague some 'credit card knives'. These are very sharp blades enclosed in flat plastic, credit card-sized, which fold out and clip into place to make a little knife, like a...
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    Things Coming In Threes

    Some things're supposed to come in threes, usually bad ones, often deaths, ooer! When I worked in hospitals and care homes and a patient or resident died, staff would wonder aloud about who'd be next: if a second person died, they'd be almost holding their breath waiting for the last. I've...
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    How I Would Like My Own Funeral

    We had a thread on this but I can't find it. Or if it's still around, how about bumping it? Anyway, I'm not having a funeral. No need. I'll be dead. Instead, I wish to be cremated with no ceremony whatsoever and then my ashes are to be scattered along a beach with those of another beloved...
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    Funny And/Or Weird Happenings Whilst Drunk (Stoned; Tripping; Etc.)

    After my work's drunken fiasco of a xmas party on Saturday there have been delighted discussions today about the pee-ridden aftermath. Just about everyone* wet their pants, bed, taxi seat or neighbour's lawn. :D *Except me. I was driving. :(
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    FT320

    Mine's here. :D I'm not unwrapping until I can see the whites of the eyes of the cross-trainer. :lol:
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    FT319

    Mine's here! Not opening it yet though as I'd like to get something done today before work. :cry: OK then, a little look… Ooh! Ooh! Haunted murder houses! :D
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    'Cultural Tour' Offer

    An 8-day cultural tour of Turkey for £149. That's cheaper than staying at home! :D
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    FT311

    Mine just rolled up. :D Won't get much done today.
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    Conspiracy To Detune Us From Natural 432Hz Harmonics?

    Dunno if this has been touched on before. I've been reading about if for some time now and am still trying to get my head round it. Conspiracy To Detune Us From Natural 432Hz Harmonics? Lower down the page is a video with explanatory text. (I forgave the poor spelling as English may be...
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    Why Native Americans Didn't Cut Their Hair

    The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long Long story short - expert Native American trackers recruited during the Vietnam war to help locate the enemy in the jungle failed miserably once they had their hair cut. (They might also have been unfamiliar with the South...
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    Early Female Socialist Campaigner's Cheshire Grave

    Does anyone remember this? I remember planning to visit but something a bit major came up and it slipped my mind! :oops: There was a Guardian article about it. You can't 'clip' Guardian stories any more so I can't find it now. I'm free next week so will be able to finally fulfil my...
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    TV Game Show Gives Away Abandoned Babies as Prizes

    Someone posted about this on Facebook. I replied 'Couldn't eat a whole one.' That didn't go down well. :lol:
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    'Smoke billets' - pictures from the Other Side!

    Smoke Billets I've just come across this on Facebook, of all places. You hold a piece of paper, or 'billet', over a candle flame to coat it with smoke and then interpret the images which apparently appear on the paper. The faces of the dead are supposed to appear. I seem to remember...
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    FT293

    It's here! :D I've already read most of it: mainly poltergeists. Very interesting indeed.
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    FT292

    Not had a good look yet, but I'm looking forward to the feature on M.R. James. 8)
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    The Unbelievable Adventures Of T. Lobsang Rampa

    This has been on for a few minutes but I'm hoping it's on Listen Again. Great fun so far! :D The Third Eye and the Private Eye My father, a great collector of Fortean literature, had these books and I read them as a child. :lol:
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    Our Old IHTM Threads

    I sometimes pop back to the old IHTM threads for a little bedtime reading. If you go back to the early days and pick a page at random, say this one, you'll find weirdness galore. Back then when it were all fields, new posters could join quickly and unburden themselves of that personal...
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    Pain and how we deal with it

    Pain reduced by changing what you look at 10 February 2011 Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News Pain, or rather how and why we feel it, is so fascinating. 8)
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    Stargazing Live!

    Stargazing Live! The programme is based at Jodrell Bank. I popped over there this afto with our CERN snailet. We saw the presenters rehearsing and videoed the dish being swivelled around. Great fun!
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    Space beer headed for zero gravity bar

    Wonder if they need volunteers? World's first beer to be certified for space consumption will undergo tests in weightlessness to confirm its drinkability.
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    The 'Bad Psychics' site

    I've been a fan of the Bad Psychics site for a long time, especially this section. Looks like the founder's had enough though. Had this email today -
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    The Ninth Gate

    One of my favourite fillums. :D Not particularly a Depp fan, I just like the constant :shock: ness of it. :wink: A couple of years ago I read a lovely analysis of it online, but don't seem to have bookmarked it. It was all about how actual legends and the invented mythology of the...
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    Time's Top 10 doctored photos

    Here they are. The political photos are obviously more important than the paparazzi ones.
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    Kit Williams and Masquerade

    I've just listened to a R4 programme about Masquerade. The Grand Masquerade There was a huge fuss about his book for a few years as people tried to decipher the clues to find the golden hare. Someone eventually did solve the riddle and claim the prize, but it seems to have been a...
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    Guide to dinosaurs!

    Not really fortean, but I bet the kids'll love this: The Guardian's Guide to Dinosaurs! Well, I'd have been blown away when I was about 10. :D
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    Obama 'Birtherism' & Associated Conspiracy Theories

    Obama re-takes Oath President Obama has taken the Oath of Office a second time, having done it wrong first time. Thought I'd mention it here because on the early reports I heard, there was mention of an idea that if he didn't say the oath correctly then he wasn't properly inaugurated, so he...
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    Codex Gigas

    The Discovery Channel - Mysteries of the Bible - the Codex Gigas. I'd never heard of this before - the Codex Gigas, or Devil's Bible. The devil's portrait, demonic conjurations - wow. What a brilliant book. :shock:
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    The man eager to get to the bottom of the ghost mysteries!

    Just came across this - I bet plenty of posters on here would consider an interview. Meet the man eager to get to the bottom of the ghost mysteries
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    Richard Wiseman

    Do you want to appear on the cover of New Scientist? We need to give it a fortean spin. :wink: I'm up for it. :D
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