Tell me your tales of the supernatural
I wonder if I could ask Leopard readers to assist me with the research for a forthcoming book on the supernatural and strange. I am particularly interested in hearing readers’ personal encounters or experiences.
The book features: witchcraft, folk magic and historical and contemporary magical practices; unusual weather and extremes or superlatives of nature; hauntings, apparitions and related phenomena; fairies; holy wells, miracles and saintly visions; monsters of all hues; sightings of big cats and other out-of-place animals; flying objects of an apparently unidentified nature; ritual, magical and funerary objects and practices; ‘cursed’ objects or places; psychic phenomena such as precognition, telepathy, telekinesis, clairaudience and premonitory dreams; coincidences and synchronicities; hoaxes, urban legends, modern folklore, fakes and fantasies; and literary or filmic associations (typically, but not exclusively, folklore, horror, science fiction, fantasy or Gothic).
Of course, the boundaries of the bizarre are impossible to set, so anything else odd and strange is also welcome.
Please include as much detail of the event as possible – dates, places, names and so on. As my works are fully referenced my preference is to include correspondents’ real names; however if you, or the people you mention, would prefer to be anonymous in the book, I am happy to respect that wish.
Please let me know. All correspondence will be acknowledged, though I cannot guarantee that a particular anecdote will make it to the book.
Geoff Holder,
Perthshire, geoffholder1@mac.com