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Edinburgh Fortean Society 2022

gordonrutter said:
The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society will be Wednesday the 13th of July at 7.30pm

This will be held in the Comedy Attic of The Beehive Inn, Grassmarket.

John Tantalon will be talking on:-

Beyond North Edinburgh Nightmares

John Tantalon, author of North Edinburgh Nightmares, will treat us to some spooky tales from North Edinburgh, including new material from his latest book and some from his next book covering Hampshire aad Surrey.

There will also be an appearance from one of the witnesses to some spooky happenings from Brunstane Farm, Portobello as well as a recounting of some incidents during a recording of an episode of North Edinburgh Nightmares at The Sheep Heid Pub.

£1 entry.
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John's YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwcujOw8crc9oykgjiLvqhA

And his webpage

https://northedinburghnightmares.wordpress.com/
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
I don't know any Forteans, which is why I come here -
no one seems to talk about UFOs, or ghosts, or strange experiences.
Luckily youtube is always available, and this site!
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Get a bit of publicity going and hopefully people will turn up. When I started EdFort 23 years ago at first it was just me and a few friends, but a few posters and perseverance and here we are...
 
gordonrutter said:
The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society will be Wednesday the 13th of July at 7.30pm

This will be held in the Comedy Attic of The Beehive Inn, Grassmarket.

John Tantalon will be talking on:-

Beyond North Edinburgh Nightmares

John Tantalon, author of North Edinburgh Nightmares, will treat us to some spooky tales from North Edinburgh, including new material from his latest book and some from his next book covering Hampshire aad Surrey.

There will also be an appearance from one of the witnesses to some spooky happenings from Brunstane Farm, Portobello as well as a recounting of some incidents during a recording of an episode of North Edinburgh Nightmares at The Sheep Heid Pub.

£1 entry.
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Will this one go up on YouTube, Gordon?

I'm still working my way through the back catalogue and it is brilliant viewing. Well, mostly.
 
gordonrutter said:
The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society is Wednesday the 8th of June at 7.30pm

This will be held in the Comedy Room of the Beehive Bar in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh

Stuart Robbins will be speaking on

TALES OF TREES BEWITCHED Weird wanderings among Scottish trees​

"To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”
Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
Our forests are haunted - places of ritual, imagination and the supernatural. Stuart Robins will take us on a highly visual journey around Scotland in search of remarkable and mysterious individual trees. Exploring their folktales, history and fortean themes including ghosts, witches, fairies and death.
Originally intended as an lockdown on-line Edinburgh Fortean event, Stuart will introduce his presentation. There’ll be a follow up Q&A session, and an opportunity to contribute with any weird tree tales you have to tell.

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This talk is now available on youtube

 
For those able to make Edinburgh on September the 2nd we are having a guided walk

Nightmares of the New Town
Join John Tantalon and North Edinburgh Nightmares on a terrifying trip to Edinburgh New Town. Nightmares of the New Town features various locations, each with a frightening tale.
Hear the chilling tale of a murderous sea captain who continues to manifest from beyond the grave.
Witness the location of a cursed Egyptian object and the paranormal chaos that ensued.
Journey to Stockbridge and hear the story of the infamous Baby Farmers and their horrifying murderous legacy.
Does a vampire still haunt an Inverleith location? The one-time site of the chilling William Brien House Hotel.
These stories and many more await you. Join John and the Edinburgh Fortean Society at 7.30 pm on Friday 2nd September. The walk lasts 90 minutes and is two miles long.
For any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with John at [email protected]
The Nightmares of the New Town await you.
To book on the walk and to get the start location details please send a PM to Gordon Rutter or confirm on this thread that you will be there.
 
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The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society is Wednesday the 14th of September at 7.30, upstairs in the Beehive pub, Grassmarket. £1 entry

‘Some Ghost Stories Which Trouble Me’

By Alan Murdie, chairman of the Ghost Club

There is no doubt that people see ghosts and apparitions, but the question is what are people
actually experiencing?
Broadly speaking, parapsychological theories concerning ghosts and hauntings have fallen into
two classes – those viewing ghosts as enduring mental images generated by once living people
detectable by sensitive individuals and those which consider them as evidence of a spirit or the
survival of some aspect of a once-living personality.
A case can be made for both viewpoints; again parapsychologists and psychical researchers
tend to favour the idea that ghosts and apparitions are just images, whereas popular ghost
hunters and amateur groups tend to embrace the idea of unquiet spirits.
In this talk Alan Murdie looks at some cases that are hard to classify under either hypothesis,
giving rise to: ‘Some ghost stories that trouble me!’.

Alan Murdie, LL.B, Barrister is active in psychical research in the UK and abroad. He has conducted research into ghosts and hauntings in UK, Romania and Colombia .

He has written and broadcast extensively on paranormal topics for local, national, and international
media. He is a council member of the Society for Psychical Research, the author of Haunted Edinburgh and writes the monthly column ‘Ghostwatch’ for Fortean Times covering ghosts, poltergeists and survival after death. He is a chairman of the UK’s Ghost Club originally founded in 1862.
 
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The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society is Wednesday the 12th of October at 7.30, upstairs in the Beehive pub, Grassmarket. £1 entry
James Kerr will be talking on

(Ghost) trains and boats and planes - from the Flying Dutchman to phantom truckers, Mexico's red cars and Russia's black volgas, there is no shortage of intagible inanimate objects haunting the traffic network worldwide. But what are these apparitions? Are they ghosts at all?
 
The next meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society is Wednesday the 9th of November at 7.30, upstairs in the Beehive pub, Grassmarket. £1 entry.

The first meeting of the Edinburgh Fortean Society Film Club!

During lockdown we had book recommendations so moving on from there we are going to have Fortean film recommendations!
Those who have volunteered will give us the reasons why they love a particular film so much then we will watch the trailer.
If anyone on the night feels moved to add extra recommendations then the more the merrier and if anyone woudl like to recommend a film but they can't be there get in touch and we'll see if we can record an intro from you, so you can be there, in spirit at least!

Whatever next, a Forten TV night? Hmmm...
 
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