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Monthly Archives: January 2011
>Jason Karl on an aspect of domestic magic
>Popular writer and broadcaster Jason Karl has contributed the latest article on Uncanny UK. He discusses the odd, but not uncommon, practice of hiding shoes in walls and attics to help preserve the household from evil influences. You can read … Continue reading
Posted in domestic magic, Jason Karl, warding, witchcraft in Britain
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>On the track in old journals
>Over the years I’ve found a great deal of interesting stuff in the letters pages and historical columns of old newspapers and journals. Jon Downes has unearthed a couple of interesting oddities in a long defunct Stockport newspaper: http://networkedblogs.com/dEbmk
Posted in Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes
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>Modern fairy sightings
>The latest post on http://www.uncannyuk.com is about a chap who suddenly encountered a glowering goblin while out walking his dog back in the 1960s. It’s a yarn I collected myself while giving a talk on Welsh fairylore some years ago. … Continue reading
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>Nick Redfern on Uncanny UK
> Renowned mysteries author Nick Redfern, originally from the West Midlands but now resident in Texas, recalls a couple of ‘time slip’ cases from rural England in the latest http://www.uncannyuk.com ‘More Uncanny’ article. In one of the cases, a motorist … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Redfern, time slips, Uncategorized
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>Young ghosts
>Fortean Times reader recounts sighting of ghostly Edwardian schoolchildren. Somewhere in Britain but unfortunately doesn’t state where. Read the account at http://is.gd/ksDFHC
Posted in British ghosts, ghost children, haunted Britain
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>Hair-raising film in salon
>The ThisisDerbyshire website reports that a ghost has been caught on camera in a salon in Derby. Staff viewed CCTV footage after a member’s mobile phone went missing but were startled to see a ladder apparently moving on its own … Continue reading
>Beware the Black Fox!
> After the recent news about a ‘giant’ fox shot in Maidstone, Kent – it was about twice the size of a normal fox, that is to say the same size as a coyote (see picture) – I have found … Continue reading
>Joanna Lumley and the Demons of the Nile
>I recorded the four ‘Joanna Lumley’s Nile’ programmes over the Christmas break and have just got round to watching them. I was intrigued by the conversation Lumley had (through an interpreter) with a felucca owner on the Nile near Aswan, … Continue reading
Posted in djinn, Egypt, Nile, Nile demons
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>Welcome to a new year, with John Stoker
> Spooks of the Christmas season are well-known but in the latest post of http://www.uncannyuk.com guest author John Stoker provides an interesting selection of ghosts from the post-Christmas, New Year period. A house that seems to travel in time and … Continue reading
