Next EdFortSoc meeting : Tuesday 14th of May

Ann Jones will be talking on
Pembrokeshire, West Wales, 1977. 15 school kids spot a space ship and run to tell Sir. A family flees in blind panic from a fiery rugby football. Housewives and hoteliers are menaced by faceless silver suited fiends. The Broad Haven Triangle. Fact, fantasy or fake news? Come along, hear the evidence and decide for yourselves.
 
Tuesday 14th of May, 7.30pm in the Attic Comedy Room, The Beehive Inn, Grassmarket
 
£1 entry
Broad Haven Primary School Children show their drawings of UFOs, February 1977 (credit: Wales Online)

The Edinburgh Fortean Society One-Day Conference!

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.

UPDATE : Tickets are now available for purchase online!

Next EdFortSoc Event : Partytime!

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.

♫ Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to us ♪

Tuesday 12th March, 7.30 pm :
Gordon Rutter will talk on
20 years of the Edinburgh Fortean Society
Founded in April 1999 the Edinburgh Fortean Society is celebrating its 20th birthday this year.  The first birthday event is a look back at 20 years of talks, walks and other events.  Come along and see what we’ve been up to and what we’re planning next.
Upstairs in the Attic Comedy Room in The Beehive Inn, Grassmarket
£1 entry

Next EdFortSoc meeting : Tuesday 12th of February

Adele David will be talking on
The Mandela Effect
Have you ever been convinced that something is a particular way, only to discover you’ve remembered it all wrong? You’re not alone! The “Mandela Effect” was coined in 2013, when countless people across the globe expressed their surprise after Nelson Mandela’s death, believing that he had died in prison in the 1980s. The term has since been used to describe collective misremembering of historical events, popular culture, geographical facts and widely held beliefs. Is the Mandela Effect evidence of parallel universes? Time travel? Or simply flawed memories? Come and find out!

Next EdFort talk : Tuesday 8th January

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?

Christmas Meal!

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

 

Next talk : 13th November 2018

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