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As we mentioned in the last issue, December’s Haunted Magazine will be our final issue, marking the end of this chapter as we turn our attention to new projects & ideas for 2027 & beyond. The issue is guest-edited by @danny_robins. Pre-order: hauntedmagazineprintshop.com…
HAUNTED MAGAZINE: AN UNCANNY ENDING Saying goodbye to something you love is never easy. Which probably explains why we’ve stretched our final issue across three parts. Even our farewell has felt like we had unfinished business. As we mentioned in the last issue, December’s Haunted Magazine will be our last, bringing us to the final chapter as we turn our attention to new projects and ideas for 2027 and beyond. With the magazine selling more copies than ever and reaching more people, choosing to finish now is either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Time will tell. But there’s something special about finishing while you’re at the top of your game, with so much to be proud of and so many people to thank. We’re immensely proud of Haunted and deeply grateful to everyone who has helped it grow. This hasn’t been an easy decision; it’s probably been in the making for 18 months or so, but we have other ideas, projects, and plans we want to bring to life. If we never give them a go, we’ll always wonder what might have been. For our final chapter, we’re delighted to welcome @danny_robins as guest editor of Issue 50 Part Three. We couldn’t ask for better company as we bring together the strange stories, curiosity, humour and heartfelt moments that have always been part of Haunted. When we started, we hoped fellow paranormal fans might enjoy a glossy magazine celebrating all things spooky, supernatural and prone to going bump in the night, complete with cheeky—and occasionally shamelessly cheesy—taglines. We wanted our brilliant writers’ personalities to shine through, with stories that welcomed you in, sparked your curiosity and let you make up your own mind, without feeling you’d opened an academic paper or a rulebook on how to enjoy the paranormal. What we couldn’t have imagined was how much the people reading it and writing for it would come to mean to us. Behind every issue are contributors who trusted us with their words, witnesses who shared deeply personal experiences, and readers who kept coming back. Some of you have been here from the beginning. Others have only recently found us. Terrible timing, admittedly, but we’re very glad you’re here. Thank you for making room for Haunted in your lives. For reading us, recommending us, arguing over the stories and joining in with the nonsense. For being curious enough to consider another possibility, even when we couldn’t give you a tidy answer. We’ve spent years asking, “Is anybody there?” You were. And you made it all possible. This last issue of Haunted celebrates everything we’ve shared. Danny and a wonderful cast of contributors are helping us give Haunted the send-off it deserves. Expect ghosts, spirited debate, a bit of cheek and a few moments that might leave us unusually quiet. Issue 50 Part Three: AN UNCANNY ENDING is officially out on 1 December. You can pre-order your copy here; it may well sell out. hauntedmagazineprintshop.com… One last issue. With all our thanks, and the same wonderfully strange spirit. Paul & Andy #TeamHaunted #DontBeNormal - BE PARANORMAL!! #uncannycommunity Please feel free to repost, like, comment, etc.
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HAUNTED MAGAZINE: AN UNCANNY ENDING Saying goodbye to something you love is never easy. Which probably explains why we’ve stretched our final issue across three parts. Even our farewell has felt like we had unfinished business. As we mentioned in the last issue, December’s Haunted Magazine will be our last, bringing us to the final chapter as we turn our attention to new projects and ideas for 2027 and beyond. With the magazine selling more copies than ever and reaching more people, choosing to finish now is either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Time will tell. But there’s something special about finishing while you’re at the top of your game, with so much to be proud of and so many people to thank. We’re immensely proud of Haunted and deeply grateful to everyone who has helped it grow. This hasn’t been an easy decision; it’s probably been in the making for 18 months or so, but we have other ideas, projects, and plans we want to bring to life. If we never give them a go, we’ll always wonder what might have been. For our final chapter, we’re delighted to welcome @danny_robins as guest editor of Issue 50 Part Three. We couldn’t ask for better company as we bring together the strange stories, curiosity, humour and heartfelt moments that have always been part of Haunted. When we started, we hoped fellow paranormal fans might enjoy a glossy magazine celebrating all things spooky, supernatural and prone to going bump in the night, complete with cheeky—and occasionally shamelessly cheesy—taglines. We wanted our brilliant writers’ personalities to shine through, with stories that welcomed you in, sparked your curiosity and let you make up your own mind, without feeling you’d opened an academic paper or a rulebook on how to enjoy the paranormal. What we couldn’t have imagined was how much the people reading it and writing for it would come to mean to us. Behind every issue are contributors who trusted us with their words, witnesses who shared deeply personal experiences, and readers who kept coming back. Some of you have been here from the beginning. Others have only recently found us. Terrible timing, admittedly, but we’re very glad you’re here. Thank you for making room for Haunted in your lives. For reading us, recommending us, arguing over the stories and joining in with the nonsense. For being curious enough to consider another possibility, even when we couldn’t give you a tidy answer. We’ve spent years asking, “Is anybody there?” You were. And you made it all possible. This last issue of Haunted celebrates everything we’ve shared. Danny and a wonderful cast of contributors are helping us give Haunted the send-off it deserves. Expect ghosts, spirited debate, a bit of cheek and a few moments that might leave us unusually quiet. Issue 50 Part Three: AN UNCANNY ENDING is officially out on 1 December. You can pre-order your copy here; it may well sell out. hauntedmagazineprintshop.com… One last issue. With all our thanks, and the same wonderfully strange spirit. Paul & Andy #TeamHaunted #DontBeNormal - BE PARANORMAL!! #uncannycommunity Please feel free to repost, like, comment, etc.
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Insults hurled by Scottish poets at each other in the 15th and 16th centuries during flytings (verbal duels), included ‘ignorant elf’, ‘wanfucked foundling’, ‘shit but wit’ and ‘irregular owl’.
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The weans making Edinburgh proud 😊
Kicking off in Edinburgh - The most abusive young people I've ever encountered!
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My biological dad walked out when I was 2. My first memory. He'd come and visit every so often and, naturally I looked up to him - the male figure in my life who I wanted to play toy cars with etc. Visited his new family where I met my two half-sisters, same age as me...I can
غم هایی که حتی گریه هم از پسشون بر نمیاد:
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My mum remarried and my step dad is ex-military and hated my guts because I wasn't interested in a military career, we get on ok now, but I've grown up feeling like I didn't fit in, isolated and that I was a burden and the cause of my mums divorce. The "funny" part is that my
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mum and sister now properly hate each other, my sister ruined her life at 18 by having kids with someone she didn't love and now has no teeth. So the only kid that's "normal" and still speaks to her is the one she showed the least interest in growing up.
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A common trigger I see in adults who’ve been repeatedly emotionally dismissed, in childhood or adulthood, is the instinct to shut down the moment they don’t feel seen, heard, or understood, even in subtle ways. If they share something vulnerable or they name a need or say how they feel.... 1//6
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This is the beautiful, surprisingly heavy, award I won at the Independent Podcast Awards last night 🏆 @IndPodAwards
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HOW HAUNTED? IS AN AWARD WINNING PODCAST AT THE INDEPENDENT PODCAST AWARDS 🏆
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It was the Independent podcast awards last night. I was a judge so got to enjoy myself without worrying about winning 😄 It was so cool to celebrate fantastic indie podcasts. I got to hang out with some really fabulous podcasters! Congrats to @howhauntedpod for their win!
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Released #onthisday 1991 @thecharlatans • Me In Time
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There are eight times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic.
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With the Halloween episode now done and dusted, its back to the research. Although I'm researching stories for a book on Edinburgh, came across this wee snippet in an archive of the @edinburghpaper
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Its Halloween! 🎃 The perfect day to check out the big sale at the merch store at how-haunted.dashery.com T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and more in loads of designs, colours and sizes. Everything is discounted this weekend. No tricks, just treats. Change currency at bottom of page
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The Halloween special out today is the 150th episode of How Haunted? That's a milestone I never expected to reach, yet just over four years since I first pressed record here we are. There's been 52 Patreon episodes too, so over 200 episodes in total. Thank you for listening ❤️
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Here’s another clip of a woman reading Trump’s words verbatim from a recent rally in Mississippi that puts a giant magnifying glass over how gone he is cognitively and unfit he is for office.
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Genuinely evil woman right here
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