Yet again an ILx thread seems to be doing what we planned to do here. Namely the “Local myths & Legends – tell us yours” thread from Matt DC which has no end of spooky happenings to keep the acolytes of Charles Fort busy.[…]

While we wait for the 23 most unexplained things to happen, Ananova can always provide us with tales of superstition. It really is not unexplained how a homing pigeon ended up in Nigeria – anyone can mistake Telford for Nigeria (similar balmy c[…]

Welsh authorities say tradition of Melltith has gone “Beyond a joke”. Said tradition involved townsfolk barring the way to the church for a bridegroom in order to prove his worth. And perhaps cutting down telegraph poles to do this IS goi[…]

Mysterious goat defies so-called gender. Note the forthright advice from a vet.[…]

i have an excellent coffee-table paperback from the late 70s called STRANGE PHENOMENA which has a cover decorated with falling fishes and tells many excellent tales eg of the French coalminers who dug a strange leathery bird out of a seam of living r[…]

This month, Blog 7 is the BLOG OF THE STRANGE. We will present the Top 23 Strange Phenomena (to be decided on Friday), discourse upon HAUNTED PUBS and relate the myriad of ODD THINGS which have happened to us, or to people we know. Also Pete will mak[…]

or: the beast of hackney revisited
at the weekend i got an exciting couple of emails from a Mr GEOFF C. in ref. my “three skinned bears” blog7-post of august last year. With his permission, I reproduce an extract (my emphases):
“H[…]

Actually she did six months sweeping the floor in a salon when she turned sixteen. As soon as it looked like she might have to be taken on as an apprentice rather than just be paid a thrupenny bob bit a week (her words) she was sent packing. Neverthe[…]

Blog 7 has been a little bit quiet this month, as we have found it difficult perhaps to unload about our childhoods. What do we mention, what are we willing to admit to? And then I came across an ILx thread which pretty much renders the whole of Blog[…]

Or can you? Starting this week was a new series of Roobarb.
The original series was in 1975. Very few programmes have waited 30 years to get a new one. This is not a new idea of course, bringing back a favourite of yesteryear chimes nicely for nostal[…]