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SoCal Paranormal
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Exploring the unexplained in Southern California since 2009. SCP supports local historical organizations, cultural festivals and the preservation of our treasured heritage sites.

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Pinned
Our tale takes place on December the Fifth,
On a suitably freezing cold night,
With a creature you’ve heard of, from olden day myth,
Eyes aglow with malevolent light.

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Space X having a bad day.
March 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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As Musk was busy blowing up Space X rockets, Europe's new rocket Ariane 6 successfully carried out its first commercial mission, placing a French military satellite into orbit and confirming the continent's independent access to space and further cutting reliance on US systems. #StandWithUkraine
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I don’t want to ride on a Space X plane…
March 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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too much darkness today please enjoy 54 seconds of my horse son enjoying one of his favorite hobbies, Zipper
March 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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#MardiGras
Death Masker, Mardi Gras Day, Caroline Wogan Durieux, 1946

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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
March 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I'm so excited to announce that mine &
@odavies9.bsky.social book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' will be out this September! 'The book's key message is that folklore...is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180384/
March 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Anyone have that sinking feeling happening?
March 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Not my home, but i know my way around.
#TwinPeaks
March 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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My prediction is that they will fuck up the mail soon. I also predict that it will not be a popular move.
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Super rare magenta aurora in the sky over Finland!
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"This #documentary chronicles my research over 13 years within a 13-mile circle in northern Vermont, where I was finally privileged to observe and film a #Sasquatch at close range." - Christopher Noel
How to See a Sasquatch | Documentary
YouTube video by Impossible Visits
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March 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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After all the Red Carpets, the ceremony itself, the after party & the after-after parties, nothing compares to the warm welcome upon my return home. 🐕 🐶 🐾

#Oscars2025
March 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Many Hooklanders call twilight 'the hour of blue teeth'. Their crepuscular stories transform into a spectral commute. Great ghost murmurations twisting, stretching in the bruised day. The time's most common prayer still seems to be: "Let me get home before dark comes'. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1982
March 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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In #JapaneseFolklore nobusuma are bats that live to very old age & then transform into #yokai. They eat nuts and fruit like regular bats but also feed on fire & blood sucked out of humans or animals. They prey on travellers, swooping down from trees, extinguishing fires and...
#FolkloreThursday
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February 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A Native American legend tells of an old woman crying piteously by a stream, grieving for her starving grandchildren. The Sun sent a spirit in the form of a redbird that turned her tears into the bitterroot plant, which grew each year to help her people survive. #FolkloreThursday
February 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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🕯️"If Candlemas be fine
and clear,
There will be two winters
in one year,
But if Candlemas bring
clouds and rain,
Winter is gone and will
not come again."🕯️

📚Cornish Sayings, Superstitions and Remedies
✍️Kathleen Hawke (1973) #FolkloreThursday
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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There is a wonderful traditional castilian word for talking about frost when it re-freezes at night over the previous day's frost that the sun hasn't reached and melted: "Cencellada".
#FolkloreThursday
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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"If the ash should bud before the oak,
Then we're sure to have a soak,
If the oak should bud before the ash,
Then we'll only have a splash."

www.duchas.ie
School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (roll number 5215) Collector: Molly Jordan #FolkloreThursday
February 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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⛈️🐦‍⬛⛈️Rooks perching close together in tall trees and facing into the prevailing wind, is said to be a sign of bad weather on the way. If they fly wildly, with sudden downwards swoops, strong gales or storms are coming.
#FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday
February 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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They say less is more — celebrating my hubby Bradder's 71st birthday last night at Providence restaurant in L.A. with one candle.
February 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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🖼️ A Brazilian capybara eating a banana. Illustrated in Francois Forger’s Relation du Voyage, 1695.
February 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Good Evening Magickal Ones Thursday Blessings to you xo
February 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Maybe I will be in a better frame of mind for dealing with the never-ending dissolution of what passed for democracy in my country

But today is not that day

At least there are cats
February 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM