London Fortean Society

This event is cancelled. John is not coming to the UK at this time. We wish him all the best. Here is a recording of a similar talk John did for us online in the very early days of the first Covid lockdown.  Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable cultural icons. The myths and magic surrounding shapeshifters are brought vividly to life in John B. Kachuba’s compelling and original cultural history. Tuesday 10 September 2024 7 pm doors. 7.30 pm start.  £5 / £3 Concessions Advance Booking The Miller , 96 Snowsfields, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS Tube and Rail: London Bridge Facebook Page  London Fortean Email List There is something about a shapeshifter – a person who can transform into an animal – that captures our imagination; and causes us to want to howl at the moon or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other weird creatures appeal to our animal nature, our dark side, and our desire to break free of the bonds o

  WARNING: Talk contains adult images Tuesday 27 August 2024 8pm (Doors 7.30) £5 / £3 concessions ( Advance tickets ) The Bell ,  50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East) London Fortean Email List Dr Eric Dingwall was a friend, associate, rival, and occasional enemy of the more publicity-hungry Harry Price. Appointed Research Officer for the Society for Psychical Research, Dingwall's specialism was physical mediumship, a mainstay of numerous mediums' performances before, between, during and after the two World Wars. In public, Dingwall could be frustratingly sceptical (much to the chagrin of his SPR colleagues), but private communications tell a different story. Certain mediums had impressed him with their displays of apparently fraud-proof and inexplicable phenomena. At the end of the War he was appointed Honorary Assistant Curator of the British Musuem's Private Case, a secret collection of erotic, pornographic, libellous and blasphemou