It Happened to Us…
To celebrate our 200th talk an opportunity to tell your own Fortean experiences, or to say what got you into Forteana in the first place. And there may be one or two short talks that people are currently working on for good measure!
Tickets for the event on Saturday the 13th of July will be available for £12.50
7.30pm
The Comedy Attic, The Beehive, Grassmarket
£1
As part of our ongoing celebrations we are holding a one day conference!
Venue : St John’s Church at the junction of Princes Street and Lothian Road.
When? : Saturday the 13th of July from 1130 to 1800 and then reconvening in a private vault in the Banshee Labyrinth from 1900 on.
The speakers are:-
Jan Bondeson – Talking Dogs of Germany
Richard Freeman – Death by Cryptid
Alison Rutter – Earth Hounds
Innes Smith – Paranormal Investigating – what’s the F****** point!?!? (F is for Fortean)
Caroline Watt – Investigating the Impossible: The work of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit
Richard Wiseman – Explaining the Unexplained: Magic, Mystery and Mayhem
Tickets are £12.50 for the whole day and are available at EdFort or directly from Gordon.
On Tuesday the 9th of April 2019 the Edinburgh Fortean Society turns 20! And we’re having a party! There will be cake, a quiz and a charity auction (charity to benefit will be decided on the night, donated items for the auction are welcome!).
From 7.30pm in The Comedy Attic in the Beehive, Grassmarket.
Scott Lyall : “We want you to believe in us, but not too much: UFOs and Folklore”
Since 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted a formation of unidentified objects in the air over Mount Rainier in Washington State, the idea of humanoid aliens coming to Earth in space ships has been a cultural staple in Western societies, but as long as humans have been telling each other stories, there have been tales of “others”- ghosts, fairies, goblins, nature spirits, dwarves – beings that are like us, but not us, that exist somewhere just beyond perception – underground, underwater, in other realms. Are UFOs and their apparent occupants here to study us or are they a modern manifestation of something much older?
It’s nearly time for the Edinburgh Fortean Society Christmas meal! Tuesday the 11th of December at 7pm (note earlier than normal start time).
Venue : The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, Edinburgh
Alison Rutter will be talking on Fortean Finland
Bigfoots in the sauna! Coffins in the floorboards! A look at some of the creatures, legends and folklore of Finland.
Tuesday 13th of November
Upstairs at the Beehive, Grassmarket
7.30pm £1 entry
