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AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social Writer and researcher of the Weird. Certified Kook and Master of Mystical Flapdoodle. Host of The AP Strange Show.
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Drew Curtis @drewcurtis.bsky.social Founder/CEO Fark.com. Likely time traveler
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com Astronomer, driving The Dish📡 to study pulsars in my PhD. Also, founded SpaceAustralia.com. Also, love a bit of astrophotography. Also, do everything with my little mate, Max. Also, Ultra-Gay. He/Him.
Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social A trilogy of books about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s, from public information films to nuclear war!
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Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Scott Williams @museumguyscott.bsky.social Museum know-it-all. Paleo Lab/Field Guy. Museum Exhibits Director. Former Director of Science & Exhibits @ Burpee Museum. Superhero (Marvel/DC)/Sci-Fi (Star Wars/Star Trek) Guru. Jerk. Opinions are my own, period!
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social get ready for some bad drawings. he/him
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
Theresa @theatrespoonie.bsky.social Theatre maker, mathematician, producer, researcher, Edinburgh Horror Festival Trustee, feminist, perpetual student (she/her)
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social Our 3 million strong audience shows this is the place to read real local news with great photos all day every day. Got a tip?
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Hayley Stevens @theghostgeek.com 🎓 MSc Forensic Psychology student
👩💻 I write an award-winning science blog about spooky things www.theghostgeek.com
Edinburgh Libraries @edinburghlibraries.bsky.social Edinburgh Libraries - news about events, activities and services across our 28 community libraries, Central Library, mobile library service and digital library.
VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social Spooky Miniaturist & Professional Hag
Folklore | Ancient History | Dead Things
On hiatus in Oz
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Pighill @pighill.bsky.social Archaeological illustrator & heritage graphic designer, Peter Lorimer.
Based in Lincolnshire. works everywhere.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social The name says it all really 
Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social Art enthusiast. Passionate about fantasy, fairy tales and folklore. Purveyor of escapism.
Location: Norway
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
Hippy Owl @hippy-owl.bsky.social I like tea. Any pronouns accepted.
Jon from Stated Clearly @statedclearly.bsky.social I teach chemistry and evolutionary biology... on the internet.
@charlespaxton4.bsky.social @charlespaxton4.bsky.social Statistical and aquatic ecologist, and very occasionally an historian of sea monsters. I also teach scientific thinking.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Richard Wiseman @richardwiseman.bsky.social Psychologist, writer and magician. 
@gordonrutter.bsky.social @gordonrutter.bsky.social 
K.E.M Lindblom @eggstronomer.bsky.social Questioning, overworked angry astronomer of many trades, science journalist, writer, visual artist, GM, gamer and nocturnal geek who speaks her mind every time. https://katjalindblom.se/
Ash Pryce @itsashpryce.bsky.social Spooky Nerd
Weird True Crime Podcast @handle.invalid We are the ultimate #podcast for fans of bizarre, lesser-known, and jaw-dropping #truecrime stories. Hosted by Gina Nichols and Amber Paul, these lifelong besties explore strange crimes that will leave you stunned. https://buymeacoffee.com/weirdtruecrime
@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Conpulsion Edinburgh @conpulsion.bsky.social Scotland's oldest gaming convention!
We'll have roleplaying, megagames, LARPs, guests and traders.
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Líam Rudden @liamrudden.bsky.social ⚓️Leither • Director Stageworks East West Ltd • www.mustseetheatre.com • Broadcaster. Actor. Author. Award-winning writer/director • Owner Líam Rudden Media • www.liamrudden.com
Lorna Gibb @drlornagibb.bsky.social Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also a novelist. Once a dancer, medievalist, phonologist..
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
James Hamilton @lixmount.bsky.social Photography and Photographic History.
Now Page: http://jameshamilton.co.uk
Photographs: http://www.lixmount.com
Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling & Witchcraft @museum-mfw.bsky.social Witchcraft Museum, Witch Walking Tours and Tarot readings in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Directed by Ash William Mills
Website: www.museummfw.com
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Alexandra Beaumont - Folklore Fantasy Author @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social 🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders
📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite
🦌 Folk horror obsessed
🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org
🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
Loren Coleman @cryptozooloren.bsky.social Author, Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum, former Professor, Lecturer, Consultant, Father, Book Contributor, Baseball Scholar, SBSC, Architecture, Film, Cryptokubrology, Animals, Polymath.
Giant Cats of Dunbar 🏴 @giantcatsdunbar.bsky.social We collect and archive citizen pictorial records of the mysterious & awe-inspiring Giant Cats of Dunbar (GCOD) 🏴
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Wulvers Stane @wulversstane.bsky.social Edinburgh based zine of folklore and Forteana.
Sometimes weird, always antifascist.
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sjlyall
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960.bsky.social Curator, Fortean Times news editor, science communicator, author of Haunted London and the forthcoming Little Book of London Lore, cognitive dissident and discontent provider. Also, Grumpy Quaker socialist with cat - all opinions are my own
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh @rcsed.bsky.social Championing the highest standards of surgical and dental practice worldwide since 1505.
SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social Arts, spiritual, folklore, occult...the weird, the wonderful, the web of life
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Mystery Animals of Suffolk @mysteryanimals.bsky.social Big cats, wildmen, other Suffolk mysteries. Book by Matt Salusbury (Leiston Press, 2023), also a place for reporting local big cat encounters. Map showing sightings at https://bigcatsofsuffolk.com/big-cat-sightings-in-and-around-suffolk/
Prof Caroline Watt @kpunews.bsky.social (Usually) parapsychology-related news from Emeritus Prof of Parapsychology Caroline Watt, of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit (also loves sea swimming, walking & gardening).
🧟♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank
Daily Grail @dailygrail.com We go on adventures to the outer limits of science and history.
Cockburn Association @thecockburn.bsky.social The Cockburn Association is a registered Scottish charity (SC011544) which works to protect and enhance the city of Edinburgh. Posts are not endorsements.
Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social Archaeologist, educator, science communication. Also talk a lot about games and media, art, politics, and labor issues
Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social Zoologist, author, natural historian Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Books: DinosaursHTLE - DINOPEDIA - AncientSeaReptiles. PREHISTORIC PLANET lead consultant AppleTV | DINOCON leader | Mesozoic Art II out now
https://linktr.ee/tetzoo
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Birthlink Thrift Shops @birthlinkthrift.bsky.social Sharing tat, treasure and nonsense from two of Scotland's Oldest Charity Shops, based In Edinburgh.
Posts by Neil He/Him
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
@enchantedimsure.bsky.social @enchantedimsure.bsky.social Books, writing, reading, tea, plants, folklore, mythology, illustration, photography, liminal spaces, walks long enough to qualify me as a character in a Jane Austen novel, and Oxford commas.
Michelle @bloodyshellken.bsky.social Three badgers in a red raincoat. #UncannyCommunity ❤️🫶🏻
The Shropshire Witches Podcast 🦇 @shropwitchespod.bsky.social History, witches, folklore, hauntings, and all things superstitious, Shropshire and beyond 🔮
Alix Chidley-Uttley and Amy Boucher. 🐸🐈⬛🦇
Eerie Edinburgh @eerieedinburgh.bsky.social Author of the best selling Hidden Haunts books and Ghostly Tales of the NC500, and creator of the Eerie Edinburgh YouTube channel, where I explore Scotland’s haunted history.
Join me as I uncover the eerie side of Edinburgh and beyond.
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Paranormal Database @paranormaldatabase.bsky.social The Paranormal Database is a ongoing project to quantitatively document as many locations with paranormal associations as possible in the UK and beyond...
The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena @assap.bsky.social ASSAP is a charity and learned society founded in 1981 to investigate, research and educate on a wide range of anomalous phenomena, from hauntings to UFOs, mediumship to monsters. 
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Piglets, first novel Pagans, available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social Strange Claims Adjuster | Spooky Geologist
Weird news, strange animals, natural anomalies, pop cryptids
Author: Scientifical Americans
Writing at https://SharonAHill.com
Lives at https://mstdn.social/@idoubtit
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
Stu Neville @stuneville.bsky.social Flaneur and retired rake. Supplier of TV reviews and other ephemera to the Fortean Times. 
Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.