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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 5h

Post number four for my 31 days of ghost documentaries, one a day until #Halloween, and it's another long video, seeing as it's the weekend. Collected episodes from season one of a series that aired back in 2011, this boasts some interesting first hand accounts of the spooky, #ParanormalSky.

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Great British Ghosts | 2011 | Season 1 Complete

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Third post for my 31 days of ghost documentaries, one a day until #Halloween to celebrate the arrival of pumpkin spice and snuggling under warm blankets. This one is longer than my last two, but seeing as we're at the weekend now and likely need some background noise, #GhostSky, that's all good.

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Paranormal Files Marathon: Mind Boggling Sightings and Abductions | Season 1 | Retold

YouTube video by Documentary Vault

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Second post for my 31 days of ghost documentaries, one a day until #Halloween to celebrate #SpookySeason finally arriving. This one is so unbelievably twee and quintessentially British, #ParanormalSky. And really unintentionally funny in places too. Still worth a watch though.

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Meet The Ghost Hunters 1975

1975 BBC Documentary where Hugh Burnett meets some of the people who look for ghosts - and some of the people who have seen them.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OK Gravehounds, here's my first of 31 days of classic ghost documentaries, one a day all the way up to #Halloween. A tradition that I keep every October, in the hopes of spreading a little of the spooky around #ForteanSky and #ParanormalSky as the nights close in. This one is a personal favourite.

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Ghosts On The Underground

YouTube video by António Marques

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah... October. About damn time. My favourite month of the year, and a rare excuse to revel in the spooky alongside the usually disinterested parts of permaculture. As usual I will be sharing a classic ghost documentary a day from now until the 31st on here, from both YouTube and Internet Archive.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sneak update about something going live in January over at my author portfolio which should be of interest to my longer term, more magickal followers. I realised about a week ago that my more esoteric output has recently become rather complex, at least to outsiders. But I've always been an ...

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Further exploring the non-corvid wildlife in my garden this autumn. Haven't got a decent shot of the squirrels or hedgehogs yet but the spiders seem happy enough to pose. I'm no photographer and my tools are limited to what's on my phone, but this is more to honour their presence than to display.

A photo of a pretty brown garden spider on a web in relief against a blurred wall and drainpipe backdrop. It appears to be feeding on a tiny black fly.

A black and tan spider hides beneath a plant stem, gripping with it's impressively hairy legs while webs streak here and there in the background.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, author updates then. First, my work with the hypersigil around the Barghest Wyrd godform is going well, as can be seen by both the visitor numbers over at my portfolio blog as well as feedback on here too. I am planning on sharing some more ritualistic content on there soon as well, and ...

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not the best quality as shot through my kitchen window on a high zoom, #PaganSky, but got back from that trip around Cardiff to see the local crow population enjoying the nuts and suet I popped up the end of the garden for them before I left. Not pictured: the squirrels and magpies eating it too.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rare treat on my #Dérive around North Cardiff this morning, #WitchSky. A perfect illustration of the nature current adapting to the urban sprawl. Doubly resonant as it's a mobile mast that those birds decided to claim as the gathering point for their own shrill conversations too. It's good to talk.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Overcast morning in Cardiff. Chill returning to the air after a strangely warm equinox week. Started locking down the garden for winter yesterday, leaving summer frivolities behind under black tarp and tin roof. Out today. Baggy jumper and bobble hat as armour. Warm drink as fuel. Autumn, then.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So what is my Wyrd Fictions hypersigil project? Well if gives me a chance to use world building and short form narrative to explore the role my immanent Keelian Godform has always played in the Fortean world, even before it existed. Latest entry is up now, and should be worth a read. Enjoy.

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Wyrd Fictions 004 – 006

A selection of cuttings, correspondence and research notes designed as hypersigilised world building for my Keelian godform project. Truth or otherwise is subjective, though perhaps when it comes t…

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Busy little garden spider, child of the web, knows not the incoming catch, but walks the strands still. #WitchSky, #PaganSky.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the Wyrd Fictions hypersigil project at my author portfolio has proven to be rather popular so far, and that's only with the first three entries up. Short form pseudohistory in the vein of both Calgary and Glasgow's Gideon Keys cycle, as well as Portals of London, the next three go live Saturday.

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Wyrd Fictions 001 – 003

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Genuinely off-putting and strange entry for #WeirdWednesday this week. And yes, yet another find over at the BBC Archive channel. Some good old fashioned British passive-aggressiveness aimed, somewhat bizarrely, at a post WW2 austerity middle class who had finally regained their purchasing power.

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1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy #Mabon for those who do, and #AutumnEquinox for those who don't. Time for comfy sweaters, pumpkin spice hot chocolate and kicking piles of leaves over in the park, #WitchSky. This is always a doubly special time for me as it's also the anniversary of the release of my book in 2024 too!

My altar in stark relief with copies of my book book to the right and a cloth grey snake and skull banner behind. The wooden Lilith Disk that sits at it's centre is more towards the left from this angle, and a pumpkin stick incense burner with yak bone skulls impaled upon it looks genuinely creepy from this position too. The whole thing sits on black and white ouija board mats.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Strange feeling in the air tonight. Expectant. Heavy. North Cardiff almost seems like it's waiting for something. People unsure of the paving slabs beneath their feet. Maybe it's me. Psychic pressure and all that. Nightmares are worse lately. Third eye feels like it has sand in it. Irritated. Hmmm.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🚨 STOP! 🚨 ALTAR CHECKPOINT! Re-Post with your current altar set up. #WitchSky, #OccultSky, #PaganSky, #ChaoSky.

My autumn equinox altar for next week. Conkers, teeth, bones, crystals, minerals, statues, lanterns, boxes, fossils, skulls, and a Lilith disk from Ukraine framed by a green man necklace and a Cthulhu statue - all on ouija board mats with a starry snake and skull background draped behind.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ah yes, #WitchSky, the eternal struggle we all face from time to time. The push of the new, autumnal candles that smell so damn good at an absolute steal of a price versus the pull of the inadequate storage already stuffed full of their earlier, equally epic brethren. A painful realisation indeed.

An over full box of tealights on a fluffy white and orange duvet cover. A veritable rainbow of colours inside the black box, reds, yellows, blues, all stacked several high. A new packet of Asda Cherry Pumpkin tealights sits to one side, with no hope of fitting in with them.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Final documentary post from my little break away from #SocialMedia then, #WitchSky. More Irish Fae #Folklore, and a nice companion piece to my previous post. Bit more modern, and artsy than that one, but some interesting insights regardless.

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From the Deep Waters

YouTube video by snadhghus

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Second up, more spoils from my weird not quite week away from #BlueSky, and a fascinating Irish documentary about spirits, #Folklore and the Fae Folk. Extra intriguing as the tug of war between the old beliefs and organised Christianity is really evident in minds of the people telling those tails.

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Glenafooka: Glen of the Ghost (Irish Documentary on Spirits, Folklore, Ancient Ireland) October 2000

YouTube video by _LUNSER

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Back from a short social media break and bringing audiovisual gifts for #FolkloreSky, #FolkHorrorSky, #ForteanSky and maybe #WitchSky too. First up, a collection of old BBC archive footage of the weird. The format echoes the Reader's Digest Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain in tone for sure.

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Ancient CUSTOMS and Folk TRADITIONS | BBC Archive presents...

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Out and about this evening in North Cardiff, walking alongside an old river bank. Suddenly surrounded by a group of bats hunting insects in the shifting twilight above me. Managed to get one on film. While I will always be a city boy at heart, #WitchSky, I love Wales for its greener soul.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here we go then, #WitchSky, some autumnal abundance for my altar. Currently stored in front of the mesh rack that holds my incense and candles to the left of the main space, they will later find use in seasonal rituals before being scattered in my garden early spring for the resident squirrels.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here we go then, #OccultBlogShare, #ChaoSky, #OccultSky and #ForteanSky. My latest Barghest Wyrd #LongRead non-fiction article is up and ready at my portfolio now. This one expands upon the idea of Keel's window areas, travelling on to strange territories that may have never been ours as a result.

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Patchwork Lands

While I have little love for the concept of synchro-mysticism or conspiracies surrounding the Illuminati talking to each other through movies and television shows instead of just picking up the pho…

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Säde RavenEyes @saderaveneyes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good to know! I was just waiting for the right moment to begin your book, and it seems it has finally come!

The Accelerated Necromancer, by Gavin Fox (a black book with a decorated skull on the cover). Upon it a bookmark (with a veiled and ornated priestess holding an open book), and a black mechanical pencil. Beside it, a white and green cup of Earl Grey tea

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here we go then, #WitchSky. Evidence that I do actually live the #Witchcraft I write about. First New Moon in the cycle I codified in my book, The Accelerated Necromancer, happens later tonight. The Serf's Moon. Brown candle topped with oats for the unknown dead who were killed in farming accidents.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dentist this morning, maybe an anaesthesia drugged #Dérive around central Cardiff this afternoon if I'm up to it too. Will have to play it by ear of course, but should be an interesting experience if I can pull it off. Trying to get out and about more. Step away from all the screens. Guess ... (1/2)

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OK, so don't often recommend non-horror films on here, but just finished watching 2024's Monkey Man on BBC iPlayer and it is unironically the best film I've seen so far this year. Stylish, meditative and dripping in neon, it is a great little revenge thriller with some kinetic action scenes too.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sunset at 19:52. Cool breeze and clouds scattered like burnt orange leviathans against the blue-green sea of sky. Heleos awaits his rest as seeking aeroplanes leave streaks in the heavens, ultimately failing to catch his chariot. The land cools, holding hope that tomorrow will warm it again. #Pagan.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OK then Gravehounds, looks like the reception for a possible #OccultBlogShare hashtag was positive then. Not going to make this a set day of the week as we're all running to our own timescales. But I'll go first. Here's mine, Chaos Magick, Witchcraft, Paganism and a bit of folk horror flash fiction.

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The Accelerated Chaote

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yep, I'm sitting here making up #HashTags again. Want to try something community focussed, like my #SigilBomb and such. But longer term and more useful to everyone here too. So, I give you... #OccultBlogShare. A lot of us on #PaganSky, #ChaoSky and #WitchSky are writers. We have a pretty ... (1/3)

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Dyn Hysbys @dynhysbys.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

voicemap.me/tour/cardiff... #weirdwednesday & possibly of interest to @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social as Calan Gaeaf draws ever closer 👻 Ffordd y Meirw (Road of the Dead) yn Llandaff, Caerdydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Definitely on my Autumn walks list!

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The Road of the Dead

Please stop here while I tell you more about this lane. If the stone seat built into the wall on your left is dry, please feel free to sit. If you are feeling a little nervous here then you are not t...

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah yes, #WyrdWednesday again, #WitchSky. So fifty something days to Halloween is it? Perfect opportunity to share a great little Mezzotint by J. Dixon from way back in 1773 then. Seeing as it's a surprisingly powerful image of a usually marginalised folkloric archetype.

An old witch in tattered cloth, raising her arm above a flaming cauldron and younger woman in a dark cave, recites a spell standing in an earthen magic circle. Mezzotint by J. Dixon, 1773.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A slightly left field entry for #TechnopaganTuesday this week, but a project that I am actually keeping an eye on for its retro tech aesthetic. Captures the spirit of how some using the early internet saw the digital plane for sure. Warning for potential motion sickness, though.

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A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File

YouTube video by Grow Now! Games

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wet, windy and damp in Cardiff this evening. Trees shedding their summer splendour around me with every haulting gust. Floating leaf ships passing upon rain orphaned puddles. Should also be hitting the sunset before 8pm line by Tuesday here as well. Autumn, #WitchSky, and sooner than you think too.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Right then, breaking into unknown territory a little with this one, but here's my first Wyrd Fiction entry as part of the larger fiction/nonfiction hypersigil for my Barghest Wyrd godform. This now pushes my blog output to two posts a month. One longform at the start, and a shortform at the end.

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Wyrd Fictions 001 – 003

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The assault on literacy and critical thinking that techno-fascists like Bezos and Musk are forcefully undertaking must be fought head on. And while reading itself is a powerful weapon of resistance now, so is writing to share your own insights too. Here's some advice on doing just that.

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The Write Magick

Writing for your fellow occultists can be very rewarding. Not only does it give you a chance to make friends and build relationships, but it also allows for the magickian to stake out their territo…

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hmmm... so we don't have a #PsychogeographySky or #PsychogeographicSky hashtag then. #Dérive pulls a few results though though. As a dedicated wanderer among the long storied paving stones, occasionally with a wildly incorrect map in hand, I think we need to rectify that.

The eastern entrance to a railway arch underpass in North Cardiff. The stones are old, carrying many years of graffiti and layers of paint. Greenery can be seen at the other end. A defunct light post stands headless at the left.

The western entrance to a railway arch underpass in North Cardiff. The stones are old, carrying many years of graffiti and layers of paint. The angle prevents seeing the other side. A defunct power cable hangs from the outside wall, and the lights inside do not work.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One for #GraveyardSky, #CemeterySky, #NecroSky, #OccultSky and maybe #WitchSky too. Love how older graves pick up such striking colours. These examples at Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff are just so beautiful, as well as highlighting the way nature claims what we place within her bounds.

A grave marker in Cathays Cemetery. This one has gone burnt brown with a vibrant green swatch of lichen in the centre.

A grave marker in Cathays Cemetery. This one has discoloured to a sandy brown and pale green lichen has grown from the top down.

A grave marker in Cathays Cemetery. This one has stayed roughly the same base colour as it started but has almost completely given way to green lichen in the centre.

A grave marker in Cathays Cemetery. This one shows the standard type of darker discolouration and scattering of grey lichen patches.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cemetery today, looking for supplies. Grave Glass and soil, maybe a nail or two as well if I'm lucky. As for their uses, if you know #WitchSky, you know. We're getting ever closer to #Halloween after all. I can hear the Veil thining day by day now and want to be ready to play.

An old, overgrown grave plot, slightly raised and marble edged all round. It is rectangular, and has a square marble flower vase in the rough centre. The grass atop and around has dried out, but the shimmering green of grave glass chips can be seen on it.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's an interesting observation. Now I've always been into folklore. Growing up in the UK will do that to a man of course. We're drowning in the stuff. What is more arresting is the blind spots that can come up when reading into a topic you think you know, say the folklore of black ... (1/2)

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

House is noticeably darker today. Fresher. Clouds across the sun, breeze through the windows. Recently part re-dedicated my Lilith altar space (just waiting on a couple things) and blowing some incense through my home. Fire/Earth/Air elements in full effect, #WitchSky, Water soon when the rain hits.

Photograph of The Queen of the Night, taken in the British Museum about a decade ago, re-rendered in lustful shades of purple and pink. Yes, claiming this is Lilith is based on potentially faulty scholarship, but I gravitated towards this plaque back when I was just starting to work with that goddess, so will always conflate the two.

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Getting in early for #PhantomsFriday this morning and, I guess, #SpookySunday as well with this. There's nothing like a lecture by an actual first hand witness to (in)famous paranormal events, really cuts through the Chinese whispers we get with retellings and such. Worth a listen, for sure.

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Enfield Poltergeist - Maurice Grosse - Poltergeist Enigma Lecture inc never heard audio from 1981.

YouTube video by Paranormal Investigation UK

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mmmm ... as a bibliophile and also I guess as a published author too, I just adore things like this, #BookSky. So much history in those off white sheets. Written language has always been my comfort blanket, and I know I'm not alone in that. I can just imagine how that room smells too. #Lush.

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I get excited about &.

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A curveball for #WeirdWednesday today. Not going to broach much of an opinion either way on the validity of these claims, but the actual lecture itself has a certain amount of gravitas to it that makes it a surprisingly interesting watch anyway, #UFOSky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvk...

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Controversial deaths of UFO investigators, journalists and authors (?) ~ a lecture by Peter Robbins

YouTube video by Eyes On Cinema

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Darn it, been so caught up with the heatwave that I missed this going live a couple days ago. Interview with yours truly over at Modern Occultist. The full version of the one in the summer solstice issue of the magazine. History, sorcery and a very weird life. Also, face reveal I guess, #WitchSky?

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"The Modern Occultist Interview #15: Gavin Fox"

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