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Monday, 30 March 2026

NOVEL OF FANTASY BY YE EDITOR


This work of fiction is entitled
The Ghastly Principal, dealing with a band of children who seek to protect their school from it ghastly principal who is a woman of sorcerous bent with evil allies.


The Ghastly Principal


If you have difficulty finding it, try Amazon.

  

FORGOTTEN WEREWOLF INCIDENT

A terrifying encounter.

SCOTTISH MERMAIDS

Allegedly real life tales.





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HOPKINVILLE GOBLINS

The famous Kelly Hopkinsville encounter.  





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LAVELLAN

Scottish cryptid creature.





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CAT SAVES FAAMILY FROM DANGER

He raised the alarm!





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DNA SHED BY EVERY LIVING CREATURE ON THE PLANET

It could tell us about earth changes.


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Monday, 23 March 2026

YACURUNA SIGHTING

Race of people living underneath the water.  Alleged discovery 1912.

SNARLY YOW

Did it ever really exist?


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"GOBLIN" ENCOUNTER IN NOVA SCOTIA

Taking place in the dark.





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GLIMMER MAN ENCOUNTERS

What do you make of these mysterious beings?





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BLACK MANTA RAY

Glides through hospital corridor.





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BIZARRE EVENTS IN OHIO

From Bigfoot to meteors.





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A MATTER OF HARES

The Hare (Lepus timidus) has always attracted a certain mystic aura because, perhaps, of its strange leaping activity in the springtime; but I recently came on two accounts of strange leporine behavior.  Both are taken from the book Irish Fairy Forts (2025).

The first involved a veterinarian.  He stopped his car on a hill and was looking down at a fairy mound below.  Then he saw the hares, a throng of them.  They were all sitting there, absolutely immobile, staring at the rising sun.  The whole spectacle had a sort of mystic, perhaps somewhat scary, effect on the on looker.

The authors of the book had a similar experience.  They were standing looking at a rath, an early enclosure.  This one had a mound within it associated with the fairies and they intended to photograph it.  Then the hares arrived running from different directions.  They stayed there until the sun came up.  Then they went on their separate ways.

The whole episode seemed to be an otherworldly mystic experience.

Hares in the USA are usually miscalled rabbits.  Funnily enough, the American Eastern Hare is in fact a rabbit!


Hare