Author: charliewhale96
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Delving into Britains Big Cats
Picture this. You’re walking home from work one evening; it’s dusk, and you can just make out the trees lining the footpath. You’re thinking about what to have for dinner when you see a shape near the trees. The hairs on your neck stand up as you realize you’re looking at a labrador-sized black cat,…
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Strange Days Festival – Exploring Pewsey Vale
Next week begins the much awaited fortean festival Strange Days, hosted at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet near Pewsey, Wiltshire. The festival boasts an impressive lineup of speakers ranging from cryptozoologists to podcast hosts, as well as evening entertainment. The local area for the festival suits the subject of the strange as well, most famously…
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Spirits and Spectres of Romans
Hello! Welcome to Curious Nessie and our first post. Whilst reading a great little book about the beautiful city of Bath I stumbled across a short paragraph, no more then a couple of sentences, about an interesting ghost said to have haunted the area around Bath’s famous Abbey. The legend goes that the spectre is…
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Exploring Cannock Chase: UK’s High Strangeness Destination
There are many so-called areas of high strangeness across the globe, from The Bermuda Triangle to Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The term ‘high strangeness’ was coined by Dr. J. Allen Hynek in 1972 and means ‘a high number of strange events in conjunction with UFO sightings.’ Almost inevitably, the mind thinks of famous cases from…
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