Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 23, 2009, 1:49 am
We have looked at Galileo's finger before: Now more of his bits have been found: Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th cent...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 22, 2009, 1:18 am
The slippery nature of memories is one that crops up a lot in different areas of research. It is problematic when they are hypnotically recovered but it gets even trickier to pin down in the young. Th...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 21, 2009, 1:29 am
So we have dealt with olfactory "hallucinations" and in that entry I mentioned Greg's article on strange noises from Darklore 1 (free to read) and another piece emerges on a similar topic. EdgeSc...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 20, 2009, 1:58 am
In Darklore 1 Greg looked at the similarity in sounds heard in a wide-range of strange phenomena and I pointed out that Bigfoot shares a number of unexpected parallels with UFOs, including overwhelmin...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 19, 2009, 1:47 am
Shangri-La, the mystical mountain fastness and magnet for some unusual beliefs (including being the target of a Nazi expedition), but has it been found? Climber Renan Ozturk watches a local Tib...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 18, 2009, 1:45 am
The Sonora Aero Club is one of those strange mysteries that still excites people (and not the only odd story emerging from Sonora). Charles Dellschau produced startling works detailing the early airsh...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 17, 2009, 1:43 am
Separating conjoined twins is always tricky and even common configurations can throw up complications. So it is always good news to hear of a successful operation:: Conjoined twins discovered i...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 16, 2009, 1:40 am
... one: Doctors in Peru removed 1.5 pounds of metal from a man's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.   "They call me the hardware store," said Requelm...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 15, 2009, 1:35 am
One of the strange occult and UFO common factors that keeps cropping up, more often than I'd have thought would occur randomly, is the Navy. Why this would be so is tricky to pin down, but could t...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 14, 2009, 1:22 am
A goat with more extra bits than you can shake a... stick at has avoided being ritually sacrificed at a goat festival in Varanasi, India. Call it birth defect or wish of the Almighty, a goat with ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 13, 2009, 12:58 am
The adventures of Robert Bigelow continue. He first popped up on our radar when he set-up the NIDS, which researched cattle mutilations, became the official repository of black triangle reports and bo...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 12, 2009, 1:53 am
A month ago, I discussed the problem that there was no reason for the aliens people report visiting them to have the same basic bauplan as us, something I've touched on before. This topic has rece...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 11, 2009, 1:42 am
Professor Joaquim Fernandes has done extensive research on the Fatima apparitions, resulting in the books of the Fatima Trilogy. His studies underline he importance of going back to the original sourc...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 9, 2009, 2:36 am
The sighting of an "alien" by a councillor in Winchester was a great story with a good Old School feel to it (you just don't get kooky aliens like that as much these days) and luckily it doesn'...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 9, 2009, 1:54 am
We often deal with stories that are pretty depressing and, as the title suggests, this is one of them and it comes from the new centre of human wonder, China: Medics are caring for an abandoned...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 8, 2009, 1:50 am
We have looked at UFOs being sighted in the Cannock Chase area as part of the local oddities and it looks like the blighters haven't gone again: Halloween saw the return of alien spacecraft in...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 7, 2009, 1:23 am
Often witchcraft cases are real eye-openers, but this story is more than enough to surprise even those with the most jaded of palettes: Corporal Rogers reportedly told the Lumley Police that durin...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 6, 2009, 1:31 am
We should be getting used to tales of marine horrors, having seen a boat in danger of being sunk by randy flying fish on David Attenborough's Life this week, coming (if you'll excuse the pun) ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 4, 2009, 10:30 pm
After a long break, the CoC returns with a brief look at some arboreal delights and wonders: Earth's oldest living inhabitant, Methuselah, is a bristlecone pine nearly 3,050m (10,000ft) up in C...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 4, 2009, 1:34 am
As part of the build up to the release of The Men Who Stare at Goats in Blighty The Guardian has published a number of articles including one from Mark Pilkington. He looks at the myths the military h...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 3, 2009, 1:39 am
A strange story emerges from Fiji, where a man has been burning footprints in the grass he walks on (like I do when I step on consecrated ground). However, there is no obvious cause and nothing in the...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 2, 2009, 1:58 am
Well it has been a while since The End is Nigh 3 but here comes TEIN 4, with a lovely cover from Defoe artist Leigh Gallagher: I've got a piece in it on the gathering storm that is global w...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Nov 1, 2009, 1:52 am
Werewolves are one of the most commonly reported phenomena in Britain, of which the Cannock werewolf is the most famous (or is it something weirder?). Now a special Halloween fieldtrip on the Wrexham-...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 31, 2009, 1:00 am
Transubstantiation is one of those core principles of Catholicism - water into wine, that kind of thing. But the Eucharist into heart tissue? Actual heart tissue? It'd certainly put an overly-lite...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 30, 2009, 1:04 am
we have dealt with some weird eating stories but this might take the biscuit, not that this woman would eat it as this is an X-ray of her stomach: A woman obsessed with swallowing spoons and fo...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 29, 2009, 1:39 am
We have looked at two British cases from the early 1940s which would these days be slotted into a flying saucer interpretation but seem much more like visionary experiences. These include one which is...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 28, 2009, 1:29 am
A large crater (27 ft wide and 9ft deep) has appeared in Latvia - which would require a meteor of 3ft slamming into the earth. However, all wasn't what it seemed: A Latvian telecommunications ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 27, 2009, 1:44 am
Mike Dash has written a fascinating piece on BVM appearances on the CFI blog, a subject we have looked at a number of times from her links to strange clouds/UFO (which I touched on in Darklore 2) to s...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 26, 2009, 1:36 am
I caught the first episode of the Discovery Channel's new season of My Shocking Story, which looked at Ganga and Jamuna Mondal, the Spider Sisters: The 39-year-old pair, who have two heads,...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 25, 2009, 1:36 am
The Dark Monarch is an exhibition at the Tate St. Ives that looks at the strange influence of folklore and the occult on British art (the name comes from the novel by Sven Berlin). Brian Dillon review...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 24, 2009, 1:35 am
China is becoming the main source for human wonders, not too surprising really because they not only have such a vast population but there are also a lot of people living in remote, rural areas where ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 23, 2009, 1:25 am
We've recently seen a red/green apple and now a rare Welsh apple has turned up with the Welsh Dragon on it: An Anglesey woman had a shock this week when she discovered an image of a Welsh drago...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 22, 2009, 1:03 am
We have looked at one-fingered press-ups before and some startling claims for single digit displays of strength but some of the videos looked a little iffy. Now a man who claims he can replicate such ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 21, 2009, 1:41 am
With the Heene family balloon hoax in the news (see Chris Knowles' round-up for the stranger aspects of this) attention has turned to previous cases and in particular possibly the earliest one.  ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 20, 2009, 1:12 am
We have seen people whose skin is so sensitive you can write on them (dermatographia), but news from Dagestan suggests a young boy has gone one better with words appearing spontaneously on him: ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 19, 2009, 1:05 am
Tis the season for some more comics. This time round I've managed to sneak into 3 of the FutureQuake Press titles (which you can get from their shop). The Sun & Moon series in Dogbreath carries o...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 18, 2009, 1:59 am
Fortean researcher Jody Forest has related the weirdest case he has come across - the strange events at the St. Medard church between 1927 and 1932: They began in May of 1727 with the burial of Fr...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 17, 2009, 1:40 am
We have seen the BVM, Jesus and even Mother Theresa appear on various food items and now it is the turn for... Tommy Cooper. A chip shop owner got a shock as he was about to tuck into a pie - o...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 16, 2009, 1:17 am
I know some of you are big fans of the vegetable lambs and so you'll be heartened by the following news: The "vegetable lamb" plant once believed to bear fruit that ripened into a living baby ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 15, 2009, 1:51 am
How much is too much? And if it is too much who is to blame? Apparently black magic if this story we missed a few months back from Malaysia is to be believed: Two women have filed for divorce on g...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 14, 2009, 1:09 am
Here we present "Sacred Mushroom" an (in)famous and rarely repeated episode of One Step Beyond which looks at a magic Mexican mushroom that might give extra sensory powers. Hailing from a more innocen...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 13, 2009, 1:56 am
We hear a lot about 2012 and will hear a lot more in the coming years but do the underlying principles stand up? Previously, we looked at a couple of studies which suggested the Mayans might have trac...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 12, 2009, 1:58 am
I am always on the look out for strange clouds and here is a report of a burning ring of clouds from Moscow of a rare formation that has caused awe, so never underestimate the clouds!! In scene...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 11, 2009, 1:57 am
One of the CFZ's representatives in Country Durham had an odd encounter which sounds like something part way between an air kraken and strange clouds: We saw a Thing the other night. Not sure ...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 10, 2009, 1:56 am
The story of Sayyed Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah did the rounds this time last year, but as we missed it back then, so its resurfacing now allows us to catch up, and it is certainly a wild tale of dozens o...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 9, 2009, 1:49 am
It seems a bad time to be a witch and, as there doesn't seem to be much evidence of witchcraft, it really seems it is a bad time to be an elderly woman (as well as an albino or a hunchback, in fac...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 8, 2009, 1:55 am
Another of nature's wonders - the circular rainbow, which is very much like the glory we looked at a couple of years ago. A rare image of a circular rainbow has been taken from the window o...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 7, 2009, 1:58 am
No, not Desmond Tutu. A bona fide alien dressed as a ballerina (well as bona fide as those tutu-wearing ETs get). We have dealt with some odd encounters before and this is up there with them: W...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 6, 2009, 1:09 am
As with the previous editions of Darklore, three of the articles from Darklore 4 have been made available on the Darklore site for free as PDF "Beyond the Apocalypse", by Greg Taylor, you can also rea...
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Q ~. posted an article on Cabinet of Wonders - Oct 5, 2009, 1:32 am
We can't resist BVM miracles and news reaches of a wild one from Ireland involving living, crying statutes and lights in the sky: Visitors to a remote grotto have claimed a statue wept and cro...
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