David Stton (ed.) – Fortean Times #256 (Dec. 2009) Yep, something of a mini-Wheatley special! Even the editorial by David Sutton et al is mainly devoted to “Britain’s Occult Uncle”’s scary A Letter To Posterity. Best of all, lead feature, Dennis And All His Works is by Phil Baker himself and serves as an intriguing taster for the biography as the five pages of text ...

The strange history of a Mississippi town – an old legend of disappearance, a UFO abduction tale, and a case of hair fetishism that terrified factory workers during World War II. The fortean claims to fame of the Mississippi town of Pascagoula rest on two things. There is the legend of the Pascagoula River, or Singing River, so named due to a peculiar sound that rises up out of its waters ...

The Centre for Fortean Zoology 2010 Yearbook is in production now. It will be published on New Year's Day and the contents include: Jon Downes: Killarney lake monster 2009Dale Drinnon: Revised checklist of cryptozoological creaturesRichard Muirhead: Freshwater seahorse of Lake TiticacaNeil Arnold: Monsters of Scooby dooDave Francazio: Steller’s sea apeAdam Davies: The abominable snowman ...

... , in my opinion) than classic flying saucer reports. Fortean Times surveyed these accounts of "aeronauts from the future ... VZ-1 Pawnee was built in 1954, but the first report referenced the Fortean Times article is from 1916 (and published decades later as a ... -to-the-editor in the Daily Mirror.) Details after the jump. From Fortean Times: Mr AE Whiteland described the unusual sight witnessed by ...

... of the existence of something of the kind. I am glad to hear from you. I think that you suspect a great deal that I suspect. I don't know that either of us will ever be very clear about it. Source Footnotes (from the Fortean Times version): 9 Founded in Paris by F Ch Barlet in 1901. In 1904 Max Théon, founder of the Cosmic Movement, and member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, ...

(C) Joe Nolan On this episode of the Invizible Web, I interviewed Fortean Times contributor, Disinformation World News senior correspondent, and freelance MMA blogger, Joe Nolan. We compare life in the Motor City and Music City. We discuss how Joe started writing with Fortean Times, hooked up with the Disinfo Crew, and

This year saw the passing of the iconic fortean writer and adventurer John Keel. As a tribute to his friend, Doug Skinner, writer, musician, SAJ contributor and all-round renaissance ... mountains of memories and Keeliana that he rescued from John’s apartment, such as this great business card. Every fortean should carry one. I visited Keel’s apartment only once, in the late ’90s, ...

Skylaire Alfvegren, writer, Fortean and the creatress of L.O.W.F.I. (League of Western Fortean Intermediatists gets exposure in What Should L.A. Say to the Space Aliens?, by Jeremy Rosenberg for Think Tank L.A. (Lesley Gunter and myself are state reps for New Mexico and Oregon, respectively, for L.O.W.F.I.) Other contributors include Adam Gorightly and Andrew Colvin, among others. Visit The ...

The latest issue of Fortean Times carries the news that an American tourist saw "a largish, dark creature moving slowly up the mound" of Silbury Hill back in July. The magazine also has pictures showing "the usual ambiguous black blob against the famous prehistoric hill". As we revealed a couple of years ago, Silbury Hill - a man-made earthwork - belongs to the Liberal ...

Andrew Gable - the Center for Fortean Zoology's representative for the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Maryland - has a new post that, as you'll see, contains a number of intriguing U.S.-based parallels with the "Man-Monkey" of Bridge 39 on England's Shropshire Union Canal. Here's the link to Andrew's post...

... sexual — but the comparisons and connections, all those glittering threads that reveal themselves when going tumbling down the rabbit hole of esoterica — are natural ones to follow for Fortean junkies like myself. All that aside, bird and winged – being imagery is strong in UFO accounts, and that includes Mothman accounts. Image: Leda and the Swan, painting by artist from the ...

... and maternal Guyanese Arawak descent, a registered observer at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), member of the Indigenous Caucus at the Organization of American States (OAS), and member of the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) of the United Kingdom - who's Zoological Director Richard Freeman describes Damon as a "real-life Professor Challenger".

... of Christ in Erie, Pennsylvania. His blog, "The Paranormal Pastor" has a growing readership and has been featured on paranormal websites such as Coast to Coast Am, The Anomalist, Cryptomundo, Fortean Times and About.com. To learn more about Pastor Swope, visit his website To order his book The Excorcist's Field Guide: The Amazon Description: "A layman's guide to ...

... -butt faces. Whilst crawling along the outer edges of the internet (it's a Mondo world out there in cyberspace, after all), BoingBoing ran across this story from the Fortean Times about "Aeronauts of the Future," strange sightings of flying dudes that seem... familiar. Brad Pitt, I mean, Will would be ...

... enough to require a trip to hospital, but the incident was not deemed serious enough to stop the service. Bits flying off tube trains are rare and mysterious but why did this happen, and why at Mile End? Could there be a Fortean / conspiracy / bad science link to the big hole in the roof of Mile End station, which seems to have sprouted a set of stairs and various bits of scaffolding? This hole ...