Stuff We’ve Done
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Awful 1970s Dinner Party Cuisine Cooking Class
Jellied salads. Spam and lima beans. Mayonnaise-based puddings. Glace cherries and pineapple rings. Why does dinner party cuisine from the 1970s seem quite so appalling by modern standards? We attempted to find out… with a cooking class at New Town Cookery School in Edinburgh on the 19th of September, 2024. During theis event, we put…
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Robot Vacuum Fight Club
On the 15th of August 2024 and the 25th of August 2024, we ran Robot Vacuum Fight Club – an interactive gameshow at the Edinburgh Fringe where teams customised robot vacuum cleaners and then had them face off in the arena in a series of knockout competitions that tested their speed, agility, suction power and…
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Exploring The Ganzfeld Procedure
On the 25th of July 2024 we gathered at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre in Edinburgh to experiment with the Ganzfeld Procedure. The Ganzfeld Procedure is a simple experiment that involves listening to white noise and looking at a uniform field of light. After several minutes, many people who try it report visual and…
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Coffee Shop Exorcism
On Thursday 24th May, 2024, we stopped by Throat Punch Coffee in Edinburgh to perform our first ever exorcism. We included a short talk on the history of exorcism beforehand to maximise its educational value. Clear signs of a poltergeist had been observed within the coffee shop, including a safe falling off a shelf. A…
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Ghost Hunt in a Nuclear Bunker
On Saturday 4th May 2024 we carried out a paranormal investigation inside Barnton Bunker, a disused nuclear bunker in Edinburgh. Once upon a time, Barnton Bunker was the designated Regional Seat of Government for Scotland in the event of nuclear war. Had the worst happened, around 400 civil servants, politicians, firefighters and doctors would have…
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Pint and a Spooky Thing
We organised several spooky walks in Edinburgh that began with a pint (or two) in a historic pub, and ended in one or other of the city’s most haunted graveyards. On our first PaaST we visited Greyfriar’s Cemetery, where we learned about the incredibly touching story of Greyfriar’s Bobby, and risked a knock of the…
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Really Good Merch (One)
While contemplating ways to make money to fund our ongoing ghostly activities, we decided merch would be a good way to go. For our first tranche of IGS merchandise, we settled on two cards, one for Christmas and one for Easter. We’re immensely proud of both designs, although we acknowledge the massive technical limitations we…
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First Birthday Party
On Saturday the 10th of February, 2024, we kicked off the new year by returning to the Outhouse to celebrate one full year of the Ghost Society being a thing that, more-or-less, exists. We were joined by our pair of radio-controlled ghost mascots, which worked flawlessly: We were also able, through a game of “pin…
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What a Sad Little Life, Jane
We did a show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 all about that one episode of Come Dine With Me where a contestant is salty about losing and angrily denounces his fellow diners. Actually, there are multiple episodes of Come Dine With Me where that happens. But it was about this one in particular: Excruciating…
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The Pen Pal Project
In an age of instant, short-form communication the art of letter writing is, perhaps, a neglected one. But it doesn’t have to be so. Exchanging letters with a pen pal can be a way of finding some slow, measured, human connection in an increasingly isolated world. All that to say: friend-of-the-Society Claudia is looking for…