London Fortean Society

We are sorry but we have had to cancel this event and we hope to reschedule it for spring 2018. Sorry for the disappointment and please check back with us for this and other events. We do have a British Bigfoot talk in September for some of your bigfoot needs. Monday 27 November 2017 7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions Facebook event page Cryptozoology, or “ the study of hidden animals, ” focuses both on creatures generally considered extinct but believed by some to still exist, as well as creatures of mythology, legend, and folklore that are purported to be based on a biological reality. It is this latter emphasis with which Dr. Floyd’s presentation is concerned in relation to what he terms “Bigfoot types.” Observing some of the ancillary genres of cryptozoology, citing Bigfoot-types in various literary, artistic, architectural, and popular areas, and with particular interest in the European Wild Man and Green Man, the Nativ...

£20 / £16 concessions plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Saturday 18 November 2017 10am - 5pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions Facebook event page Book stall by Newham Bookshop and Strange Attractor . Stalls by Hare and Tabor and Circle of Spears Productions . As the year darken the London Fortean Society once again explores the folklore, ghosts and curses of the British Isles with the one-day symposium The Haunted Landscape 2017. Authors, experts and researchers discuss ghosts, strange beasts and magic. From haunted folk songs to 3000 year old chalk giants, phantom black dogs, Albion’s Goat God and the Queen of the Fairies. Join us at Conway Hall to learn that this green and pleasant land we abide in has dark, strange and uncanny other side.                           9.30am Doors 10am-10.10 Film screenings from Video Strolls 10.10-10.55 Phantom ...

£5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Thursday 9 November 2017  7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions Facebook event page One of the greatest and strangest phenomena of recent times is the rise of Uri Geller and the belief that minds can bend metal. This special presentation, with live demonstrations, tells the whole story from a unique perspective. Ian Rowland , who performs professionally as ‘The Mind Man’, is friends with (and has been hired by) both Uri Geller and arch skeptic James Randi. He is also a member of the Inner Magic Circle, and has given ‘test conditions’ demonstrations of psychic phenomena without claiming any psychic powers at all. So is it fact, fiction or fakery? All will be revealed! £5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Thursday 9 November 2017  7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions Facebook event page

7.45pm Wednesday 25 October 2017 £4 / £2 concessions - pay on door The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook page The Cage in St Osyth, Essex is a haunted medieval prison that has recently hit the headlines. “ Essex's most haunted house: Could you last a night? ” asked Essex Live. “ A retired policeman claims to have captured a picture of a ghost carrying the body of a witch on a stretcher ” spluttered the Mail Online. The Cage was the local holding cell whose prisoners included the ‘Witch’ Ursula Kemp who was held captive there prior to her trial and hanging in Chelmsford. But Ursula may haunt the cage still. This modern-day case particularly involved one woman, Vanessa Mitchell, who felt after several years of phenomena she could neither live there or responsibly let it for residential purposes. She rented it to paranormal groups for investigations. John Fraser has completed a detailed repo...

7.45pm Thursday 28 September 2017 £4 / £2 concessions ( Advance tickets ) The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook page For the past two years Harry Rose has been working on a project exploring evidence the of Bigfoot in the UK; working with experts in the field and hearing of first hand encounters. He will be sharing some of the stories he has come into contact with and the images he has taken in recorded sighting locations. Harry Rose is a photographer and researcher working at the British Journal of Photography. He has a keen interest in folk lore and mythology. "I create work base on what is physical and tangible." 7.45pm Thursday 28 September 2017 £4 / £2 concessions ( Advance tickets ) The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook page