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Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 21-05-2013 17:36 Post subject: UK Fortean Top 20 |
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Can we compile a Top 20 places Fortean Places of Interest, I wonder. I wasn't thinking anything too outlandish but a little like you get at the front of a City Guide.
Imagine a Fortean Noob, arriving on the UK's green and pleasant shores and flipping to the front of his "Fortean Times travel guide to the UK".
Top 20 Places of Fortean Interest. I don't know who will be the guide or who decides what makes the cut but I can offer a few to begin with:
Rendelsham Forest must be in there somewhere
Borley Rectory maybe
Bodmin?
I think it's quite hard to narrow down. Any takers? |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-05-2013 18:35 Post subject: |
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| Borley Rectory was knocked down, I think. |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 21-05-2013 18:47 Post subject: |
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| It was. Nothing to see except some more modern built bungalows. |
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| Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-05-2013 22:16 Post subject: |
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Well then that one isn't going to cut the mustard.
What about Loch Ness?
Come on guys, what do you reckon should be in the Top 20 Fortean places in the UK? |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 21-05-2013 23:31 Post subject: |
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| The most Fortean place is 30 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| Posted: 22-05-2013 18:14 Post subject: |
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| You could always search Glamis Castle for anyone secreted away in a hidden room. |
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| Fanari_Lloyd Yeti Joined: 07 May 2012 Total posts: 61 Gender: Unknown |
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| Isn't Ilkley Moor supposed to be pretty Fortean? |
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| CarlosTheDJ Dazed and confused for so long its not true
Great Old One Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Total posts: 1927 Location: Sussex Age: 37 Gender: Male |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 22-05-2013 21:15 Post subject: |
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Wilmington, Cerne Abbas, Uffington for hill figures.
Stonehenge, Rollright, Stenness/Brodgar for stone circles.
Warminster, Bonnybridge, Broad Haven for UFOs.
Chislehurst Caves, Highgate Cemetery, York for ghosts*
Glastonbury, Pendle, Edinburgh for general Fortean weirdness
*just ghosts, no other supernatural entities, no sir-ee. |
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 865 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
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Loch Morar
Cashen's Gap Isle of Man
Loch Ness
Ilkley Moor
Warminster
Marsden Bay, South Shields
Mawnan Smith
Falmouth Bay
Dartmoor
Bodmin Moor
Canock Chase
Lake Bala
Ben McDuhi |
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| Ringo_ Sanitised for your protection
Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
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| lordmongrove wrote: | Loch Morar
Cashen's Gap Isle of Man
Loch Ness
Ilkley Moor
Warminster
Marsden Bay, South Shields
Mawnan Smith
Falmouth Bay
Dartmoor
Bodmin Moor
Canock Chase
Lake Bala
Ben McDuhi |
Nice list but why Marsden Bay in South Shields??? Apart from a a limestone rock covered in birdsh*t? The grotto is hardly Top 20 Fortean Places in the UK - or am I missing something? |
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| Timble2 Imaginary person Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total posts: 7114 Location: Practically in Narnia Age: 58 Gender: Female |
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Loch Ness
Glastonbury Tor
Avebury
Rosslyn Chapel
Orkney: Ring of Brodgar, Stones of Steness, Maeshowe (lots more)
Highgate Cemetery |
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| bunnymousekitt rabbity mousey cat-like thing
Great Old One Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Total posts: 218 Location: hiding under the kitchen sink Age: 36 Gender: Female |
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It sounds like a dream list so far! Is there perhaps a way of marking them on a map with estimated mileage/best travel routes and so forth? Speaking as someone on another continent who hopes to visit the UK at least once before I die, it would be nice to know how many one could reasonably visit in a few days.
When my brother went, he sadly couldn't make it to Stonehenge due to confusion about bus schedules.
ETA - I'd like to visit Wistman's Wood. I've heard it's a mysterious place. |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 865 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-06-2013 01:33 Post subject: |
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| Ringo_ wrote: | | lordmongrove wrote: | Loch Morar
Cashen's Gap Isle of Man
Loch Ness
Ilkley Moor
Warminster
Marsden Bay, South Shields
Mawnan Smith
Falmouth Bay
Dartmoor
Bodmin Moor
Canock Chase
Lake Bala
Ben McDuhi |
Nice list but why Marsden Bay in South Shields??? Apart from a a limestone rock covered in birdsh*t? The grotto is hardly Top 20 Fortean Places in the UK - or am I missing something? |
Sightings of a sea serpent called the Shoney by locals. Apprently during the Danelore Vikings sacrificed victims to a sea dragon there. The cult supposedly lasted far beyond the time of the Vikings The last of the killings alledgedly made in 1928. |
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