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Discovering Scarfolk

Broomhead, LaConner, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger
Broomhead, LaConner, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Discovering Scarfolk

Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. “Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay.” For more information please reread.

Wyrd Britain

Stone Pile, Lummi Island, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger
Stone Pile, Lummi Island, WA. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Wyrd Britain

Welcome to Wyrd Britain, a blog concerned with stories in, of, from and about the stranger places of Britain.
Stories that explore a Britain other than the one we think we know. A Britain where the ghosts are unquiet, where the woods are alive and where distinctions between the present, the future and the past are permeable.