Updates to the #paranormal database include cryptids, road #ghosts, and a handful of nineteenth century spooks… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/

The move into our new premises is going really well. But can you help us open sooner? We need 6 very specific units to complete the first phase. They cost £25 each. Can you sponsor one on the link below? We will put your name on the unit as sponsor www.gofundme.com/f/secure-the... Thank you

Updates to the #paranormal database include an overhaul to #Yorkshire (splitting North, South, East, and West), and the regular strange and #fortean additions found here: www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/

#Pareidolia or phantom tree - the choice is yours... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice review by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social of Ben Machell's book on Tony Cornell @spr1882.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

25 'Big Cat' sightings including lions, tigers, and pumas reported in London over 5 years (I'm clearly out of the cryptozoological loop.) www.mylondon.news/news/uk-worl...

This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

In Japan, August is ghost season so I plan to share lots of ghostly Japanese art. This print by Katsushika Hokusai (1831) is titled 'The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji' and is from the series 'One Hundred Ghost Stories.' #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #ghosts

The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels. Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/6RFALyJ By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu

If you're in need of a Fiji mermaid... 'Out of the Ordinary' auction - www.sworder.co.uk/auction/deta...

Updates to the #paranormal database include Scottish #mermaids, New Forest #ghosts, and a couple of Grindylow hangouts… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/

'West #Japan town's 'kappa' #folklore creature to be replaced after years of scaring tourists'... mainichi.jp/english/arti...

'Legend of town #witch retold in community opera'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #folklore

Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future

The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right

A ghost hunter died while touring with the “haunted” Annabelle doll. Within hours, people were calling it proof of the curse. I wrote about how myth is always hungry and people get eaten by ghost stories: 👉 hayleyisaghost.co.uk/turning-trag... #GhostStories #Skepticism #Folklore #Annabelle

So anyway, what do you get when you put Bigfoot, King Charles III, and the Loch Ness Monster in a canoe? An article about how generative AI shows us why we need to rethink how we demand evidence from paranormal eye-witnesses: hayleyisaghost.co.uk/can-we-still...

'Mystery of All Colours Sam, the #Sandown Clown: Amateur detectives investigate folklore at Boojum&Snark'... onthewight.com/mystery-of-a... #fortean

'Mark Snow, ‘X-Files,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ Composer, Dies at 78'... variety.com/2025/artisan...

'Nessie's famous humps rarely seen by spotters, experts say'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #cryptozoology #fortean

Updates to the #paranormal database include a splatting of Scottish spooks, County Tyrone #hauntings, and some other general weirdness... www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/index...

'Croydon #haunting was #ghost-hunter Fodor’s biggest ever case'... insidecroydon.com/2025/06/28/c...

'Americans are seeing #ghosts - The #paranormal industry is booming'... unherd.com/2025/06/amer...

Numinous Geometries: Reflections on UFOs and Apparitions from Cymru (Wales U.K.) / Jack Hunter / 2025

I’m very excited to say that OA and Linoleum Department will be bringing The Filing Cabinet of Fear to the brilliant Black Shuck Festival in Bungay this August! Tickets are available now from fishertheatre.org/FisherTheatr... #blackshuck #suffolk

'This seaside village's mermaids myth is still growing'... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #folklore

'From The Archives: Stories of #ghosts haunting the county jail'... www.peoplesdefender.com/2025/06/20/f...

'90s Folk Rock Legend Reveals How She Ended Up With a #Haunted Piano That Inspires Her Music'... parade.com/news/blackmo...

I'm talking to @willowwinsham.bsky.social about how witches appear in history, why there is such an ongoing fascinating with the witch, and Helen Duncan, the last woman tried under the 1735 Witchcraft Act! youtu.be/3rv3kGAxh_A

Tonight! 6.30pm! In Hartlepool! I'm doing an evening of Haunted Generation stories - tall tales of childhood oddness and urban folklore from the 1970s and '80s. Bagpuss, nuclear war, etc. Part of @crossingthetees.bsky.social, tickets here or just come down... www.crossingthetees.org/.../the-haun...

Well dressers fighting to keep village traditions alive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm doing an online talk on 28 July at 6 pm BST with Creswell Crags about Star Lore and Legends: Myths of the Constellations www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/star-lore-...

Well, perhaps not, but 'Loch Ness monster hunters make 'significant step' in solving Scots mystery'... news.stv.tv/highlands-is... #cryptozoology

Here's the piece I wrote on Astrology for anyone who missed it.

' #Bigfoot sighting in Monroe woods deemed credible by tracking group'... eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

'Don’t mess with the faeries!'... www.irishnews.com/entertainmen... #folklore #fairy

Updates to the #Paranormal Database include some Scottish crisis manifestations, #poltergeist cases from the 1970s, and some more recent encounters… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/

After 100 years of looking, we still will collectively never conclude there is no monster there, it's too beloved of an idea to give up. What happens if someone finds the Loch Ness Monster? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘ #Samhain: Fire, #Folklore and Feasting in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands’... www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2025/05/23/s...

'For sale: #Rotherham's #haunted Slade Hooton Hall'... www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/heritage-and...

'The only lake in #Kilkenny has incredible #folklore lurking beneath its depths'... www.ireland-live.ie/news/kilkenn...

Can you help me? The charity that I founded, THE FOLKLORE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE is growing rapidly and tomorrow we receive a massive bequest of items. We share a lot of our news on this platform. Can you follow and share @folklorelibrary.bsky.social and help me to spread the word about the charity?

'The three musical #ghosts of a #Torquay church'... www.torbayweekly.co.uk/news/home/17...

'Shock in Kiminini as man digs up wife's grave over '#haunting''... www.standardmedia.co.ke/western/arti...

Ask Professor #Paranormal is back again tomorrow May 11 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT. youtube.com/@askprofessorparanormal Live Q&A - #Parapsychology #ESP #RemoteViewing #ghosts #poltergeists #ghosthunting #psychic stuff and more!

Interested in spiritualism or seances on film? I'm doing an online talk about Seances and the Female Medium in British Cinema on 28 May at 8 pm BST! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seances-an...

Unfortunately a little out of my way, but at Woodside, California, 'Filoli introducing gigantic #trolls for environmental exhibition'... blooloop.com/museum/news/... #folklore

#Ghosts as advertising - 'A seven bedroom Buckinghamshire rectory that might be a little #haunted'... www.countrylife.co.uk/property/hou...

'Researcher found he was #ghost's 'distant cousin''... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #folklore

'Physics of #folklore: Seeking answers to the 'milky seas' #mystery'... oceanographicmagazine.com/news/physics...