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CASTLE OF FEAR- A tour around The UK's most disreputable old ruin(according to Wikipedia),a place so steeped in wickedness and suffering,no sane mind can truly comprehend...

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LIGHT AND SHADE-An old street lamp in the ancient Polish town of Wroclaw. Currently not doing its job

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ROOT CAUSES-Not many people know that carrots aren't really orange-their native cognate is in fact black. The carrot you're currently holding in your hand was genetically modified in the 1880s.The wild black carrot in England is native to Rutland & Suffolk where they grow rampant

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FOLK HORROR GATES- A gate without a context is the very quintessence of contextual Folk Horror

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TREE TREAT- A highly expressive German tree spotted in the Black Forest in 1997

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IT'S IN THE TREES- Early Polish daguerreotype

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MEDIEVAL-Stone corbel depiction of a hound and hare inside the church of St.Mary & St.David in Kilpeck, looking for all the world like the two bestest pals in the world

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PETRIFIED- For everyone who's been begging me for a complete survey of the Paleolithic Petroglyphs of Kazakhstan,the long wait is finally over!

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FUN GUY-Today news came through that scientists have discovered a new strain of fungus at Chenobyl that LITERALLY leaches soil clean of radiation at one lick.A member of the ultra-rare radiotropic family of mushrooms,it can deradiate an area the size of a football pitch in days

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SANCTUARY-A Thracian temple to the Goddess Aphrodite carved deep into the rock of a sacred mountain in 10,000bc and perceived as a portal into a multi verse of worlds beyond

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THE FABRIC OF TIME-Found near Norwich by an urban explorer who stumbled on an old abandoned dressmaker's shop just mere days before it was due to be demolished

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SCRATCH,SCRATCH,SCRATCH ON THE WINDOW PANE-This rare meteorological phenomena is known in Uzbekistan as an 'ice talon'. It's produced when ice melts under a blast of southerly wind that suddenly gives way to a north westerly while the melt water is running off a roof

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LEGGY- Norway's oldest house in Norland. Still standing tall

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SWINGING SIXTIES-I found this graven image cut out of a newspaper,folded,& used as a bookmark in a copy of Martin Chuzzlewit which I recently acquired from a pop up charity shop. It's dated 1964 and shows a pagan rite being performed near Leigh-on-Sea involving Herne the Hunter

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NEW YEAR GREETINGS-I'm pleased to be able to pass on to you a message passed onto me by Charlie the Goat,aka Black Phillip the goat,who,I'm pleased to say,is alive & well and living in semi-retirement in N.Carolina.He humbly wishes all his patrons good health & wealth in 2024 🥳

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OFF THE BOOKSHELF-An occasional series of tweets recommending books I've come across over the years in jumbles and car boots that may well be of interest to patrons of this humble endeavour. 'Ephemeral Folk Figures' is a fascinating study of the West's vestigial totems & fetish

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2053-A sleepy country graveyard in Ireland is the unlikely home of one of the country's most notorious vampires who was killed 470 yrs ago almost to the day. His corpse was confined to the grave for 500 years by a priest who ordered he 'cause no stir'. The 500 yrs is up in 2053

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GLUM-The Faroe Island of Litla Dimun is the only known island,eyot,isle or islet to have it's own permanent cloud cover. It never lifts,never gets blown off its hilltop platform,doesn't disappear when the sun beats down,nor join up with other clouds when barometric pressure falls

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ROSES ARE RED-...actually,technically,they're not. The ancient progenitor of the modern rose was 'green'. They survived for millions of years but died out around 1734. But good news! Mysteriously,they're starting to pop up in the wild again are enjoying a self propelled revival

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BRONZE AGE TOURISM-I hesitate to call this the creepiest Stonehenge tourist snap I've ever seen as I've haven't seen more than a handful;but of the five or six that I HAVE seen,well,this must rank quite near the top of that hypothetical league table for undefinable unease

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THE BLACK RABBIT OF INTENSE GLOOM- 4 curious etchings from the early 1800s showing a fixation with anatomically unwieldy rabbits posed in front of fog shrouded castle ruin

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PAKISTAN-The annual 'Crufts for goats' has just ended and the prize for the longest most elastic ears has just been awarded-third year running!- to Sami the Kurdistan Piebald. As usual,he remains nonplussed by the whole affair.He doesn't allow it to go his head

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DEVILS TREE- Even I had to double check that this hadn't been Photoshopped;and no,it's exactly as seen: a convincing case of Folk Horror inspired pariedolic trompe l'oeil(pardon my French). Demon clutching a tree trunk in the wilds of Oregon

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ARMAGH-Fused together in a snowy embrace,the trees of County Armagh were captured during the recent cold snap forming long tunnels of groaning ice

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AMERICA-The United States is facing yet another existential threat,this time from hyper intelligent wild hogs. From Canada.The CIA have never seen anything like it before and are ready to repel the threat with everything they've got. Everything.Literally everything

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🇫🇮wEIRD FINLAND🇫🇮-I'm no means a predictor of such things,no Futorologist me,but I've got a feeling this is going to be my most popular feature EVER. We start with the Parrikala Theme Park and the 500 yoga posed statues by Veijo Rönkkönen made using real donated human teeth

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THE OWL IN DAYLIGHT-The yellow eyes of the Stygian Owl appear blood red in daylight and this has resulted in it being unfairly called 'Satan's Imp'

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NORFOLK WATCH- An early Daguerreotype of a Norfolk bean farmer posing with his pet octopus.

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WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS- Likewise,for everyone who's been subtly-and not so subtly-pleading with me for a definitive once-and-for-all survey of the prehistorical 'wheel' petroglyphs found on every continent on the planet,here it is! The ultimate universal symbol

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EXMOUTH-One of the rarest solar phenomena in the world has to be Devon's Horned Sun mirage,seen here in a photo taken from the patio of a caravan at Devon Cliffs Holiday Park on the eve of Beltane 2021 by my nan.

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📚BOOK NOOK📚-I've laid off featuring this weighty tome until I had a physical copy in my own hands. And as chance will have it I now do. My own superstition paid off: if you visit enough charity shops,you too,in time,will find one sitting in a window A legend in its own right

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IDIOT'S GUIDE- How to build a dolmen-The EASY WAY There are many ways of doing it,but the Korean way is generally accepted as being the most idiot proof

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KNOCKER- The best knocker currently on the market-courtesy of Walmart

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HIGHLANDS-A goat I encountered in the Highlands of Scotland about 10 years ago. It appears I aroused their curiosity Oh dear

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GRAVE MATTER-Britain's loneliest grave is on the Isle of Hoy and belongs to a tragic maiden of but 19 summers named Betty Corrigan who was 'done wrong' by a sailor and who subsequently committed suicide-a double sin. This is the most remote non-consecrated spot they could find

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BRITISH LIBRARY 1-Four Folk Horroresque titles from their new series of anthologies

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MAPPA FRIDAY-Lovely map by Bunty May Marshall of all the UK's Folk Horror film locations. Clever idea,charmingly executed

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HIGH FLYING TENANTS-The world's grandest bird house is one of the must see sights of Lahore,Pakistan.Put up by the local council to keep the street birds warm and cosy at night,it easily accommodates around 5000 of Lahore's bird population,with space spare for friends & relatives

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HITTITE-The Great Stone of Hattusa has been a mystery for centuries and experts are no closer to solving its secrets now than they were in 1657 when the first archaeologists began probing its purpose and significance within the wider Hittite socio-religious culture

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MAPPA TUESDAY 1- Illustrated map showing the main mythical wee beasties associated with each county of the British Isles. Art-tastic

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POSTER- "Come to Summerisle. One visit and you'll never want to leave"

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GRUMP STUMP-A particularly malcontented tree trunk in the Odenwald National Park,Deustche

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CORBELS- A partly complete set of stone corbels from the church of St.Mary and St.David,Kilpeck,circa 1140ish

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FOLK HORROR ORNITHOLOGY-Finally,and at long last,on to bird 2: Yellowhammer. Said to always keep a drop of human blood beneath their tongue,they're commonly believed to be the Devil's favourite Bunting. Poet John Clare wrote 2 odes to them which were very well received by all

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HELL IN A HAND CART- Long before celebrity TV chefs invented and refined the portable abattoir on wheels,the secret Pagan worshipping folk of England mounted giant Wicker Mannequins on giant carts and took them from village to village,as and when an urgent need arose

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MYSTERY- Mystery deepens on the North Yorkshire Moors with the discovery of an abandoned Asda delivery van full of undelivered food cargo in a padlocked field with a half eaten uncooked pasty still on the dashboard. The driver has been officially listed as missing in action

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SHED-The leading avant garde artist Doris Salcedo's latest installation entitled '804 Dead Trees' is currently taking the art world by storm. Its theme is a timely one: man's uncertain relationship with the deterministic universe. A Folk Horror masterpiece

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HAUNTED WATERS-From my 2021 travels: Priest Hill in the Borders was once a ford where an old country turnpike road crossed the burn. The spot was said to be haunted by fairies and the spirits of the dead from Castleton churchyard & a sign still reads “no road this way after dark"

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COUNTRY MANNERS- Sage advice

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SAY CHEESE- Pomegranate partly eaten by a Grey Back Shrike. Dorset

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TOUPEE OR NOT TOUPEE-A charmingly hirsuite gargoyle recently spotted upon the ramparts of Arundel castle. Who said Punk was dead??

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POSTER PRINT- Evocative 'Alt' poster for The Wicker Man(obvs) Charming Art: Jessica Seaman

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SLIP ON THE GOWN,CHARLIE BROWN-Fan art by user: 4542-3287 on Deviant Art showing Snoopy & Co entranced by the prospect of an abundant harvest of apples next season

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THE LAY OF THE LEY-Informative map of all the ley lines in this Spectred Isle. For obvious national security reasons,I can't reveal my whereabouts,however,I can say one of those lines goes straight down the road I live on & you definitely have a sense of 'something' underfoot

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FOLDEROL-News story from the Macclesfield Gazette dated dec 19th 2022 highlighting the rarest wintery phenomena known in the UK,vernacularly known as ''Jack Frost's wallpaper",which involves a 0.78mm layer of ice sliding down a sharp incline at 38° in a temp range of -3 to -7

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THE LAST BLOW -The life and times of the Femina Agabbadòra ended in 1897,when the church and the judiciary conspired to put an end to the folk practice. This is a rare photo of the last practitioner,in flagrante delicto

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ROMANIA-Starting out as pebbles & growing at 2 inches per millennium,Romania's folk horror Trovant stones are the only mineral structures that mimic both plant & mammal life in that they grow in the same way as plant tissue and they give 'birth' to new stones-just like an animal

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SIGNS FROM BEYOND- 'No Exit From The Burial Ground' I would have thought that that was self evident 🤔

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ZOMBIE-There's a fungus out there in the natural world,a close relative of the Cep mushroom we buy off the shelves,that cruelly attacks spiders,taking over their nervous system & effectively killing them. The zombified spider is then 100% under the control of the fungus alone🕷

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PLAGUE-The history of scarecrows in England only dates to 1412 & they were only introduced on account of the demise of nearly every child in the country from the ravages of the Black Death.They had formerly been used as 'Hay Rattlers'-employed to run through fields screaming

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THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT- I recently heard about a light that never goes out. I thought it was a joke. Oh no. Eternal Flame Falls at Shale Creek,NY,is a waterfall behind which is a fairy grotto which emits natural gas. The flame it feeds has been burning since 4000BCE

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MOON TREE-The most famous long dead tree in the whole of Lima,Peru,whose upper right hand branches curiously seem to be exactly proportioned for the convincing optical illusion of capturing the moon in its 'void of course' phase. It sadly died during the great drought of 1976

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LITTLE MERMAID-More news from Reuters,this time from their Everglades correspondent who reports the birth of another baby crocodile with a congenital fish tail mutation.That brings the total in the last year to just over 22. A yearly record. Locals call them their 'lil' mermins'

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SEA GHOSTS-If you ever chance to find yourself stranded at low tide on Anglesey,don't be too alarmed by the sight of these so-called 'sea ghouls' guarding an old RNLI lifeboat shed on Newry Beach.Nature has only stacked a heap of harmless seaweed to play with your inner fears!

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WICKER PIC OF THE DAY-Summerisle: the only place in Scotland where masks are still mandatory

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PAGAN DANCE OF THE WEEK-We kick off this mini-series of photographic essays with a group of Edwardian ladies from the Compton Fenny Secretarial College coquettishly beckoning in the spring with a dance of ecstatic rapture,tastefully draped,steps choreographed by the local vicar

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OCTOPED-Don't want to sound alarmist-I will never be accused of that-but news is breaking of 2 octopi seen walking on two tentacles on a Welsh beach seemingly without a care in the world.'Bold as you like',said one eyewitness.This could be beginning of the end for humanity...

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LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE-Iceland is keen to press ahead in the next 5 years with replacing existing conventional pylon designs with these anthropomorphic giants & have commissioned leading Chinese architects to come up with this concept in order to humanize their barren wastes

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JELLY-Recently washed up on a beach in Lincolnshire,this heaving groaning and pulsating blob of jelly matter caused quite a stir among a population not normally exposed to quivering biolumescent lumps of jellyfish. Many thought it was a sign from God that the End Tines were nigh

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RUGGED-The tasselled wobblegong is the world's strangest shark.Found off the Australian coast,its global range is slowly widening as the oceans warm up. Jaws would certainly have been a different film if it had featured a wobblegong instead of a great white...

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RABBIT FAYRE-Do you remember the Rabbit Fair? Of course you don't, you're not 130! The last one was held in 1927 in Aston-by-Stone in Staffs.There was dancing,singing,tug-o-war & a beauty contest Rabbit skinning & Rabbit stew making demonstrations always drew the largest crowds

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And before any clever clogs points it out,these are Asian native carrots. I'm not culturally appropriating them as British natives,only that in certain parts of the country they grow in mighty profusion,probably on account of the loam...

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KIT & CABOODLE-A Victorian era vampire hunter's accoutrements recently found in a walled up cupboard inside a verger's cottage in Leicestershire.The contents are in surprisingly good condition given its age and clear signs that it was well used by the verger in the name of mercy

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VISION OF PURGATORY- Blake at his disturbed best

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PEACHY KEEN-This fruiting body from the Rhodotus family is called the Wrinkly Peach-for obvious reasons

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NORFOLK- The Methwold village fete circa 1950. Looks fun #Norfolk

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LEAN TO-Off now to the home of the Walloons in Belgium on our whirlwind architectural tour of planet Earth which is where you'll find this collapsing weather beaten old mansion on the outskirts of Bruges. Formerly the grand home of the 1875 Interior Minister Baron Von Lambermont

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FLY TIPPING- A wood full of Amanita Muscaria Fly Agaric mushrooms,here beneath their favourite tree

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RECORD CORNER-Just arrived in the post. Another generous gift from a follower on here. "Ballads" is a magical reimagining of the legendary Wicker Man soundtrack.Though the record(here seen:the double vinyl edit)exists in an entirely new musical landscape,it still remains faithful

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JAPAN- Tokyo's world famous 'Museum of the Many Faced Rocks'. As you've no doubt already gathered,this museum specialises in one and one thing only: rocks with pareidolic human faces.All natural;no artifice:shaped by nature's own gentle abrasions alone

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IMBOLC- Happy first day of spring to all my loyal patrons and to everyone else doing a sterling job of humouring me in my twilight years Spring is here!

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LIGHT & SHADE 2-The original uncropped version of my original post. Somehow more ominous...

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THE FUTURE-Moldolva's Institute of Futurology & Future Technolgy which opened its doors in 1961 now sits forlorn in the middle of a haunted forest

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SUN HAT-A young Scots pine on a forestry commission plantation in Surrey a few days ago looking decidedly under the weather

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PAREIDOLIC SUNDAY- The last for today. Q. What do you get if you cross a swede with a lettuce...?

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DONT FENCE ME IN-Colorado's tragic bicycle fence was constructed in remembrance of the 'Missing 60'. The Missing 60 were cyclists who unaccountably went missing over a period of 15 years in that stretch of the state. They simply disappeared into thin air without a trace...

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GORMLESS-Anthony Gormley's Turner Prize winning 'A Field' comprised of 40k terracotta figures-reminiscent of Neolithic portable art-& created by the people for the people: OAPs,psychiatric patients & prisoners from HMP Strangeways. Each has it's own unique uncomprehending stare

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GRIM UP NORTH AISLE-It would be remiss of me not to mention in passing the 'highlight' of yesterday's energy depleted coronation,viz. the impromptu 'guest appearance' of the Grim Reaper. Trick of the light,some say; others claim more unearthly powers. Well,time will tell...

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FILM POSTER- I think this needs no introduction...

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SEAFARING FOLK-A rare photo of the what was once the ocean's biggest secret next to the Loch Ness Monster: the Big Fin Squid. A denizen of the lower fathoms of the oceanic playground,these shy and retiring creatures are more commonly spoken of in hushed tones than actually seen

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FOR THE BELLS TOLL FOR THEE-Off now to Norway where the most folk horror of all the churches in the known world are to be found. Known as the Stave(or 'Stafr' in Old Norse)style of architecture,they remain the oldest surviving wooden holy houses,dating back to the early medieval

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GOBLIN- A painting by the Victorian impressionist Landseer Lutyens of Goblin fruit vendors peddling their wares on the old Bath to Hungerford road

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DES REZ-This quaint old mansion is one of Bucharest's most talked about architectural wonders(and the city's got more than their share of them!). The charge de affaire recently hosted a lavish luncheon here for King Charles 3 during his last cultural exchange soiree to the city

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STREET LIFE- Is there a more charmingly named street in the whole of Britannia than this back alley in Hull? Mysterious

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TOOTSIE-xylaria polymorpha,AKA Dead Man's Toes has a growth habit which gives it it's most unsettling aspect in that it thrives at its best in cracks or inbetween ground creepy thick undergrowth which misleads the unwary into thinking that a poor corpse lies beneath their feet 😬

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BATTY- To mark the dawning of yet another #BatAppreciationDay ,I present a bestiary of medieval Chiroptera,some of whom are by way of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II via his seminal work on falconry 'De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus' Thanks Fred!🦇🦇🦇

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NUTWOOD CITY LIMITS-From 1927's Rupert and the Escaped Convict. Rupert wearing his stripes as the first known Hunt Sab in modern literature

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AVEBURY-Recent blizzards have brought much needed frost and snow to the Wiltshire plains which this drone shot taken at Imbolc shows to quite mystical effect

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MACRO-Ever wondered what it would be like if you were inexplicably trapped underneath a Shittake mushroom,your screams and cries for help ignored by every potential rescuer who just walked on past? Wonder no more

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