Dark Dorset 👹

Est. 2000 | #Dorset's premier website devoted to local #Folklore, #Customs, #Mysteries & the #Unexplained | #DorsetFolklore #Legends #Ghosts #History #Heritage

[Create Studios @create_studios]

🌸 Celebrate May Day magic! 🎥 Join the Wessex Morris Men atop Cerne Abbas, welcoming spring with dance & music. Part of @WessexMuseums' Un/Common People.

Watch: https://t.co/T5QcC0sMzy #MayDay

#CerneAbbas #FolkTradition #filmmaking

[Wessex Museums @WessexMuseums]

TOURING EXHIBITION COMING SOON!
Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex
In November 2024, @WessexMuseums will launch a major touring exhibition celebrating folk art & seasonal customs of Wessex, past & present. 🌿
https://t.co/I0YRZukCN9

[Peter Ross @PeterAlanRoss]

The Dorset Ooser bringing in the May, Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas

[Lally MacBeth @LallyMacBeth]

Get ya folk diaries whilst they’re hot:

https://t.co/GFQmhYnbbg

[Doc Rowe Archive @docrowe_archive]

We only went and did it.

Check out our great big post-campaign update - and THANK YOU 🙏

https://t.co/ALA4k5p03X

[GREEN LUNG @greenlungband]

The rumours are true… we have an Ooser. Proud to welcome this guy to the stage, built by Jamie Blackthorn with hair and makeup by Leon Clements Beall. Meet him tonight at Corporation in Sheffield! 👹 🔥

[Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick @BucklandMuseum]

Fell in love with the Dorset Ooser Mask. We had to have a replica created

[Rachel @DorsetRachel]

#GoodNewsSaturday: a #Dorset Ooser enjoying a lovely day out at #Bridport Hat Festival

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

I met the DORSET OOSER!

[Dark Dorset 👹 @darkdorset]

Dorset Echo | Dorset is the most haunted holiday destination in the UK https://t.co/J64oFqtzwN #Ghosts #Halloween #History #Dorset

[Dark Dorset 👹 @darkdorset]

Dorset Echo | Halloween 2023: Most haunted pubs in Dorset revealed https://t.co/A1jVNQmVSl #Halloween #Ghosts #History #Dorset.

[Dark Dorset 👹 @darkdorset]

Dorset Echo | Dorset's darkest roads: ghost stories from history
https://t.co/osIDFd9V8t #Halloween #Ghosts #History #Dorset

[Bournemouth Echo @Bournemouthecho]

Woman shocked after 'big cat' sighted in Wareham Forest https://t.co/8jFbh3OtyE

[Sasha Constable @SashaConstable]

The procession coming into Cerne Abbas village yesterday after sunrise on Giant Hill. Always a thrill to see the Ooser. #dorset #MayDay

[Sasha Constable @SashaConstable]

Beltane Blessings to you all Cerne Abbas styley.

Another fabulous May Day up Giant hill. Got to love Dorset xx

[Farm Gate - Europe's food security podcast @Farmgatepodcast]

#MayDay. So we greeted the dawn with #MorrisDancers on top of Cerne Abbas Giant. Ancient fertility and the coming of summer.

[Emma H @ME_Mum]

3:45 am alarm for this!
Sunrise at the Cerne Abbas Giant with the Wessex Morris Men and the Dorset Ooser.

[Nuit Moore @NuitMoore]

This Ooser was neither loser nor tosser.

#festivaloflegends

[Jenwrenarm  @JenwrenArm]

My Dorset Ooser is freshly baked and ready for mischief!
A little bit of artistic licence in adding the Dorset Buttons too, just to fully embrace the traditions of the area! The original lives in @DorsetMuseums #dorsetooser #dorsetbuttons #Folklore

[Jenwrenarm  @JenwrenArm]

Just two little #britishfolklore figures from the mud, minding their own business in the drying room. 😁
#Folklore #traditions
#folkfigures #dorsetooser #hoodenhorse