Fortean London: Mark Pilkington, Geraldine Beskin & John Rimmer

Thursday, 26 January 2012 7.30-10(ish)pm

Upstairs at The Bell pub, 50 Middlesex Street , London, E1 7EX
£3 / £2 concessions
7.30pm – Fortmanteaux: 8pm – talks: 9pm break: 9.30pm - Q&A: 10(ish)pm - End

Join the London Fortean Society and for three short talks and a discussion on Fortean London. Each talk will be around 15 minutes and will be a followed by a discussion of the paranormal places in north, west and south London.

John Rimmer watches the sky for the Brentford Griffin. John was the editor of Magonia magazine and now runs the Magonia blog.

Mark Pilkington trudges through the undergrowth of fortean Hampstead and Highgate. Mark runs Strange Attractor press and is the author of Mirage Men.

Geraldine Beskin reveals the ghosts of Peckham. Geraldine is proprietor of the world’s oldest occult bookshop: Atlantis Bookshop in Blooomsbury.

We will begin 2012 with our traditional round up of the month’s strange stories with our Fortmanteaux.

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