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They go for significantly more now! I'm going to be sad to see them leave but a new puppy necessitates me getting rid of a lot of stuff.

Yes, I would be happy to send you them Frideswide. Just bear in mind I will need to hunt down a big enough box first!

Would anyone be interested in a full set of Man, Myth & Magic magazines? They're all bound, but a few of the pages have come loose over the years. Despite that, they're all present and correct. I know they sometimes sell for a fortune, but I'd be happy to send to a good home for the cost of...

Yeah, barely a week goes by people here aren't on social media frothing about men in vans trying to pick up children, despite there never being any actual missing children. We also regularly get people warning about dog thieves marking gates, but not once have I actually seen a marked gate and...

I I have not, but that will soon be remedied! Cheers.

It's so sad eccentrics like this will be lost to time, it's already near impossible to find anything about her, but it seems she was pretty well known back in the 70s for being a constant presence in wrestling audiences.

I think she's including "family members" from her many reincarnations in the mix!

Wow, I'd say that's definitely her, thanks! A new piece to the puzzle. We toyed with starting a Podcast trying to find out more about her but we'd be on a hiding to nothing, I fear!

It's wonderful isn't it? We're desperate to know more about Pandora but there's basically nothing to be found. My friend put out the call on Twitter a while ago and one woman remembers seeing her entering a nobbly knees contest in a rather short skirt and stocking, solving the attention, way...

Just Googling to see if any more info had turned up on her, and it seems the Scarred for Life guys have done an amusing Twitter thread on the same very video here. Sadly, nothing else other than the one brief mention of her stalking exploits.

Please move if this is in the wrong place, didn't know where best to post it. A couple of years ago, some friends and I got obsessed with a woman on this old Paranormal discussion show, and I can't find any mention of her, so I'm posting this because everyone needs to know about Duchess Pandora...

There's at least one story so far where a guy was caught pretending to be an official so he could take pictures of poor immigrant children, which he then doctored to make CSA images to sell. The case was instrumental in bringing in new child pornography laws in the US, so I don't think it's...

I'd really recommend listening to the podcast above. I haven't finished the book yet, despite being up half the night reading it, but when I am, I'll try to do some kind of write-up.

Yes, this seems to be the main theory proposed in the book I just recommended too, although there are a number of outliers where that wouldn't quite fit either. For anyone not inclined to read the book, the author did a pretty comprehensive podcast interview here: Who Are The Phantom Social...

When looking for satanic panic stuff, I came across this book on phantom social workers in the USA and it's actually pretty interesting. Most of the cases aren't exactly what I'd call paranormal but there's something quite creepy, quite off about them, that makes them distinctly fortean, I...

Thanks both, they sound exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for.

Has anyone read any good books about the satanic panic phenomenon that they could recommend? American is fine, but I'd really like to read more about the stuff that happened in the North of England back in the day if such a book exists. Thanks! :)

There's an old Channel Four documentary on YouTube about people living in murder houses that I came across recently in case anyone is interested.

I've just read the latest Slemen, and yeah. He's getting more ridiculous with every new book, but he's doing well out of me, at least, I buy them for the laughs these days.

Just came to post that mumsnet thread (here if anyone else is interested: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4775473-aphantasia?reply=125079590). I didn't know about the link with autism so that's interesting.

It's really hard to describe how I dream because I feel like they do have visuals but they're also thought-based a lot too like I'll know I'm going something but not necessarily be experiencing it in the way I would in waking life. I have also had the thing of hearing your name called before you...

That would be more in the realm of anauralia maybe.

Hmm I’m not sure about that. It’s definitely possible to suffer from delusions when you have aphantasia. Just because you can’t visualise something doesn’t mean you can’t believe it’s happening to you. Your thoughts can be psychotic in nature I guess is what I’m saying if that makes any sense? I...

I have aphantasia and bipolar disorder. It’s not like I don’t have an internal life, it’s just that my internal life has no pictures.

and me.

So many of the old fellows I talk to when out dog walking have dropped dead recently that I'm starting to get a complex about it!

Not true for me either I'm afraid.

Taking a break from reading this thread, I took the dog for a walk and immediately ran into a beautiful big heron on the green opposite my house. The heron in mythology is often thought of as a messenger of the gods. Thought that was a pretty cool coincidence.

No problem... I have wondered myself how he collects his stories when he isn't easily contactable online.

You can send longer private messages too, but I know what I'll do, I'll ask him if he has an email address you can contact him at and see what he says.

He is on Twitter. If you aren't on there yourself I can put any questions to him on your behalf if you like.

It was about a decade ago now, so my memory is hazy, but I don't think the dogs were affected - they were just running along exploring as normal I think. I do remember being really worried about what would have happened to them when I snapped out of it though. That's interesting. I'll take a look.

I once almost inexplicably jumped into the sea. Where I live there's a lovely coastal walk over the cliffs that's popular with dog walkers. There's an official coastal path and a much more dangerous 'unofficial' one that you're strongly warned against walking along (it's technically fenced off...

Thanks, going to try and get as many of these as I can.

Great, they sound just what I was looking for.

Thank you all. Have read the IHTM books already but will check the others out.

I have a memory of being able to float down the stairs as a kid. I also "remember" that I somehow knew I wasn't allowed to tell anyone that I could do it kind of like there was a voice in my head telling me it was supposed to be secret. It's weird because I don't have many clear memories of my...

Oh, I've lost so many teaspoons over the years, they're like socks in the washing machine!

Yes, I've had this happen quite a few times always accompanied with a lightheaded feeling that can be sorted out by eating something, so I assume it's a blood sugar issue although I'm not diabetic. I also get the occasional ocular migraine and they produce similar effects too.

No wrapping as it just came in a big gift box with other bath stuff. It's not in there and it's not in the bin. I did have pockets, but they were very shallow and this was a big soap about the size of an actual pear, so wouldn't have really fit. I'm sure it'll turn up I just don't know how or where.

Well, I asked for its return and it's still missing. Just one of those things I suppose.

I have some time off work coming up and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any books that are similar to The Fortean Time It Happened to Me Books. Looking for books with shortish accounts that cross the spectrum - the kind of things you read across this message board. I particularly love...

I'm an INFP-T apparently.

No, I definitely did it and it's no longer in the gift box. I will try asking!

Maybe, I've literally looked everywhere though, even took the panel off the bath just in case. It hadn't been used so wasn't wet and slippy either!

Last night I decided to take a long relaxing bath. I also decided to use a fancy pear-shaped soap I'd been given for Christmas. I placed the soap on the edge of the running bath while I brushed my teeth only to find that it had disappeared when I turned back around a couple of minutes later...

I feel like I've read this one before, perhaps in one of those Haunted Liverpool books that are a (very) guilty pleasure of mine, too.

Article on aphantasia in The Guardian today https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/24/experience-i-cant-picture-things-in-my-mind

Wimps like me!

Yes, I suppose that is possible although I felt sure I saw it vanish right in front of my eyes.