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Dr Ben Horner
@theaudiosphere.bsky.social
Audiodoc maker, hauntology explorer, music & media lecturer, landscape drifter and general arty type. I make imaginary maps of real places. https://theaudiosphere.com
Everyone having a good sing song. What are they chatting about?
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Bramble roots vs cast steel: who will win?
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Listening with joy to the new @backlisted.bsky.social podcast with @jasonhazeley.bsky.social discussing All The Devils Are Here. It's a brilliant read, and never before have I finished a book which has affected me profoundly but at the same time I've not really been able to describe what it's about
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
And on the east side there's Folkestone Harbour station, which is still there, beautifully restored, and hub of the very excellent Harbour Arm arts-based regeneration project. It won't be seeing a train anytime soon, tho.

#folkestone #art #tubemap #underground #mapmaking
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
As usual my favourite bits are the closed real-life railway stations - Cheriton Halt here used to serve the Elham Valley line up to Canterbury South, which is now where Kent & Canterbury hospital is
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Breakfast time is for proofing my new imaginary tubemap in time for Christmas markets. Just a quick home inkjet print is enough to check for spelling, design, weird stuff errors. Not bad tho, quite pleased with it.

#folkestone #psychogeography #schizocartography #underground #tube #map #kent
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
And also this, which is brilliant, and is an excellent overview of hauntings from a nostalgic, political, capitalist and literature point of view, drawing all the threads together. It makes the point that hauntings and Freudian psychoanalysis are closely entwined.
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Can I thoroughly recommend this? It's the book that really illuminated the subject for me, making the observation that ghosts are coloured by sociocultural influences, folklore, and expectation, suggesting their tangibility is unlikely. And yet we still see them. @skionar.bsky.social is the author.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Very proud to finally be able to say that a new podcast project is up and ready for listening! This has been a labour of love for the last two or three years on and off and represents a lot of work both for me and the charity who have researched and funded it. Here's a trailer:
#deal #kent #folklore
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Working in the very, very old hamlet of Woodnesborough in the Kentish backlands. It is a thin place. The Ringlemere cup was found just a stone's throw away. Not sure if someone wants it back.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Went hunting for northern lights last night but didn't find any (I'm based right down in the south of England). I did however find a haunted windmill tho
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Listening to the new Discomfort Blanket about the Prisoner and this has just appeared from absolutely nowhere. Should I run?

@willmac23.bsky.social
@gralefrit.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Working in gardens today and found a cheeky jack-o'. What's that thing to next to him?
Makeshift spirit detector
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Went walking today north of Broadstairs beach at very low tide and came across these stairs cut through a tunnel in the chalk cliffs.

Where do they go?

Quick thread...
November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM