London Fortean Society

7.45pm Wednesday 27 November 2019 £5 / £2 Concessions  Advanced tickets are not off sale - we will still have tickets on the door The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook Page Get on board the fortean buses (and tubes, trains and barges). Join writer and tour guide Chris Roberts for an exploration of strange tales from London transport featuring both new and more established stories of ghosts, odd phenomena, folklore and urban legends associated with different means of getting about, or to, the city. Everything from the Peckham Terminator via headless commuters to feral albino swine. “Transport for(tean) London,” you might say. Chris Roberts’ latest book Bus Travel in South London – stories from the city over the water will be available. 7.45pm Wednesday 27 November 2019 £5 / £2 Concessions  Advanced tickets are not off sale - we will still have tickets on the door The Bell , 50 Middle

Live streaming / video:  We are live streaming The Haunted Landscape (I didn't know we were going to do this!) https://youtu.be/lwzg-D0x6A0 The year  grows darker. The London Fortean Society and friends return to the Haunted Landscape, our one-day symposium on the folklore, magic and monsters of the British Isles and beyond. Authors and researchers discuss the undead, fairies, witchcraft, witches and their familiars and the magic of the common folk. £22 / £16 concessions plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Saturday 23 November 2019 10am - 5pm Conway Hall , 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn Directions and access Facebook event page Just added: Blanc Sceol - Roar 9 am onwards Registration (we're pretty sure there will be coffee on sale. If not at Conway Hall then in Red Lion Square and surrounds.) 10.10 am-10.50 am The Rites of Autumn - Doc Rowe 10.50 am-11 pm Break 11.00 am-11.30 am Hollow Places: The Dragon S

7.45 Tuesday 19 November 2019 £5 / £2 Concessions  Pre-booked tickets are now closed - please get tickets on the door tonight. Thank you. The Miller , 96 Snowsfields, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS Tube and Rail: London Bridge Facebook Page Speak to any British fortean, ghost hunter or folklorist of a certain age about the Usborne World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts children’s book and you will get a teary eye, vivid reminiscences and a very specific sense of nostalgia for this illustrated work. The London Fortean Society are excited, tiny spooky twelve-year-olds again to have author Christopher Maynard and publisher Anna Howorth, plus, hopefully, a guest of two, First published in 1977, this cult classic has been reissued for a new generation of ghost-hunters. This book is for anyone who has shivered at shadowy figures in the dark, heard strange sounds in the night, or felt the presence of a mysterious ‘something’ from the unknown. Ghost stories are as old as recorded

7.45pm Wednesday 30 October 2019 £4 / £2 Concessions  Advanced tickets are not closed but tickets are available on the door.   The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook Page In just two years, an elusive figure, posting cryptic messages, has gone from obscurity to being the most talked-about conspiracy theorist in the USA. Who and what is Q, or QAnon? A government insider telling truth to power? A figment of the fake news industry? A deluded alt-right apologist for Donald Trump? A clever hoax? Fortean Times Conspirasphere writer Noel Rooney takes us down the rabbit hole to try to get at the truth of this bizarre viral phenomenon. 7.45pm Wednesday 30 October 2019 £4 / £2 Concessions  Advanced tickets are not closed but tickets are available on the door. The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook Page