Hayley Stevens

*owl

There are so many ladybugs that I can hear them landing on the glass every few seconds. 🤢

So this morning I had an own looking in my window and now my windows are covered COVERED in ladybugs. What is happening?????

Oddly, I've just started my Masters this week

I'm 38, I think it's a little late to be heading to school now :(

then I become a coward

"but you're a skeptic hayley"

yeah, right up until the moment an owl is watching me through an open window.

imagine the thing looking in my window from the porch roof outside not being an owl. haha. god...

to make it worse, my window is wide open. It was real nice being here and meeting you all.

nobody freak out but there is an owl right outside my bedroom window and it is looking inside and this feels cursed

Oh, in 2016 I sat on a panel w. Susan Blackmore & Caroline Watt on the science of the supernatural (huge fan-girl moment). I got to host a folklore panel once with Dr David Clarke. I was on Loreman pod!

Your average paranormal nerd doesn't get to do these things! I have been very, very fortunate.

I think I was on the first ever panel at QED 2011 with Chris French & Trystan Swale. Hosted by Andy Wilson, we talked ghost hunting.

A year later, I met Joe Nickell at QED 2012 and when the con. finished, we went monster hunting in Scotland together.

It's been... life affirming. And good.

I am genuinely feeling very sad that the last ever QEDcon is fast approaching. Talk about an end of an era.

When the mothership comes in CEIII, after the scene with the tones, I always get a little bit misty eyed.

of course it's a good thing - how cool!

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To say I gasped is an understatement.

yeah exactly

Started my MSc studies today and found out that most people who study for a BSc with the Open Uni skip all of the online tasks each week.

I- someone who did every single one in painstaking detail -could have slept so much more 🥲

I'm so pleased to see that Allison Jornlin is going to be running the Centre for Fortean Zoology in the USA. Allison is good people 😊

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]

Dancing Queen by ABBA.

Oh you like ghosts? But you only talk about it in October? Amateur.

it is now but hasn't been for most of the day

I find it a little disappointing to come on this platform after what's happened in he UK today and my trending topics are about some stuff happening in the US that has no bearing here.

Hey friends, after the terrorist attack today, remember that you cannot be over cautious when your gut tells you something doesn’t feel right. Just get to safety and let someone know - nothing better than a false alarm if it keeps each other safe.

I've had a tune stuck in my head for ages and ages, I couldn't work it out and it was annoying the hell out of me.

It was, and I am not making this up, 'I know a song that'll get on your nerves' by Joe Pasquale.

Damn you, Joe. Touché!

Wow, I did not know that Goodall believed in Bigfoot. I love that.

Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live The campaigner, a

Oh this is so sad. What a legacy, though.

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Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

Also, bears shit in the woods.

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Me of 3 hours ago was stupid and optimistic. I just told the cat to be quiet because people are asleep and that little shit looked me dead in the eye and made an even bigger noise.

I have not obtained cat powers. He is, in fact, playing mind games with me.