childhood

Thanks Yithian. I now want to write a paper on the social aspects of the Fortean :D

Many years ago when I was a child about 8 years of age, I was definitely a tomboy ! I loved anything to do with Tarzan and swinging from trees was favourite pastime ! At that time I lived near a local woodland in which I used to play "Tarzan" with some of the local lads, we used to tie ropes...

Another thread I just read about the child seeing the old lady in black with the limp triggered a memory of a sad time for my family in the early 1980s when my aunt died suddenly in London and her husband died at the funeral. Our cousins were staying with us in Ireland as the adults travelled...

Honestly, how long have I been here? And I haven't told the tale of the thing that started my interest in the paranormal, tch! We've just sold the family house, so it's safe enough to tell now, I guess. Our family home was a two bed terrace in Exeter, and to go to the loo you had to go up the...

Yith Edit (Flavour text): 23 Parents Describe Their Kids’ Creepy Imaginary Friends (That Are Probably Actually Demons) Chrissy Stockton 1. He Doesn’t Have a Face My son from the age of three always tells me about the “creeper man” who lives in my mom and dads bedroom. He brings it up after he...

Today I heard an item on Radio 4. Not a podcast but an actual radio event where a facebook user was conducting an experiment to contact her friends by telephone. Hmmmmm. Well it was interesting in that she contacted them on their mobile or some of them on a thing called a 'landline' where...

Seems it's not just old farts like me who worry about the nations youth... Time magazine features Britain's violent youth By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Last Updated: 2:56am GMT 28/03/2008 Britain's problems with binge-drinking and youth violence are held up to the world today...

I was wondering, does anyone have any idea where the phrase 'chinny reckon' comes from. I recall it being used in about 1983 and my friend John claimed to have invented it. I called Chinny Reckon on that straight away.

Have got the one regarding LSD laced tattoos. I need to find some ULs that either portray children as evil monsters, or innocent victims, got a project to do about the medias portrayal of children and i thought a good urban legend or two would help get the point across. Thanks for any...

I grew up in a terraced house in Bristol that had it fair share of freaky happenings. I used to play in my mums bedroom quite happily for hours some times, but occasionally Id suddenly get this feeling that someone had entered the room. Id go cold and feel panicky and have to get out and...

I vaguely remember a secret world of rhymes, songs and chants. The stuff we told each other. Many of them were innocently rude. Some were just nonsense. Do the rhymes change much over the years? Does anyone ever remember any of it?

I too avoid mirrors when it's dark. The shadowy look of things causes the light etc. to play tricks on my eyes and it always freaks me out. Playing "Bloody Mary" with my cousins as a kid probably didn't help either... :cross eye

Does anything good ever happen in a trailer park? http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/21/bitten.thumb.ap/index.html Father tells police he bit off his son's thumb April 21, 2002 Posted: 5:42 PM EDT (2142 GMT) PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- A man who told police he bit off his 2-year-old son's thumb...

Does anyone else of a certain age have memories of these from the 70s? I had three slim A4 paperbacks, covering ghosts, UFOs and monsters. At the age of six I read them until they were falling apart, and they really set me off on the whole fortean / unexplained thing (got a lot to answer for...