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Has anyone watched the Why Files on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhyFiles AJ takes several Fortean staples and wraps them up in a shiny new presentation for the YT generation. I think he does a great job. He has videos on Annunaki, time travelers, pole shifts, and many other weird...

Hi All Apologies, I needed to update my credit card info on our email sender. Done now, and the usual abnormal service should resume...

Hey, look what I found.

Hi all The web server was feeling a bit tired. I gave it a pep talk and a pat on the back and it should be it's usual speedy self.

This sounds like the beginning of the pig butchering scam. https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/ It's very popular these days. Also, surprisingly successful. Tons of people on /r/scams on Reddit have fallen for variations of it.

Thanks for the update!

Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant and May series has passed away. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/03/bryant-may-novelist-christopher-fowler-has-died-aged-69 Aside from the obvious Fortean themes in his novels, he was a longtime fan of Fortean Times. The magazine often popped...

Great loss to Forteana and all his many friends. He’s been around since I first was on the interwebs. I think we first became internet friends on the original primenet Forteana email list. We ran into each in person at various unPissup events in London during the late 90s / early 2000s and have...

Very droll, I'm sure.

As far as digital subs go, I can recommend the digital version via the "Zinio" app. I've used it on several platforms with no issues.

Well, that's him told: https://www.reuters.com/legal/jury-begins-third-day-deliberations-alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-trial-2022-10-12/

Footage of the explosion:

Brilliant! Ncuti Gatwa is a great actor (at least I liked him in Sex Ed) and has quite a following that should bring in some new fans.

I haven't seen anyone claim that. People are just discussing the wisdom of using holocaust deniers and nazis as sources and not being open about their politics. I think that's a reasonable discussion. I'll agree with you on Twitter and FB being the same in terms of viciousness. I often find...

I first saw this discussion on the Twitter thread this morning: I think Hayley Stevens makes a few good points too:

As ever, there is a relevant XKCD for this: https://xkcd.com/1357/

The storage isn't open to the public. The actual museum is. Simply, there isn't enough room to display everything, or they don't think there is sufficient public interest. AFAIK I know researchers can get access though. Plus grad students etc...

Quite right. I am a long-time supporter of the CFI (both CFIs in fact! I believe the Charles Fort Institute had it first though).

Yes they are politically active, edgy atheists as I understand it. They do quite a lot of good in the separation of church and state and that sort of thing.

More from Denver International Airport: EDIT: Reddit-hosted video of an animatronic gargoyle statue. www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/d8q38w (Copy & paste into your browser's address entry box if necessary) (Reason For Editing: Report received complaining about video's unavoidable auto-play.)

Amazing. Almost 20 years!

Possibly, I have a note to self about checking the database to see when the oldest post is.

Exactly. I used the phrase "20 years of user-generated content" quite a bit during the negotiations for the move!

Amazingly this post has been running for 14 years! I don't think there are many places on the internet that can say that.

I just drove past Denver International Airport's infamous Blucifer statue (it's about a half-hour drive from my house in Denver)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mustang

I just came here to post that podcast. I'm only in the first act, but it's very good. I mean it's generally a great show, imo.

My local Rock Night used to play The Wanker Song by Ivor Biggun at kicking out time.

Yes there's an abandoned tunnel under 395 (https://www.arlnow.com/2013/05/30/county-no-plan-to-reopen-abandoned-tunnel-under-i-395/), and they just reopened a pedestrian tunnel at Pentagon City Metro...

Could be. Not my area, and is was 6 years ago!

I found them! These were taken in October 2012 in the non-public part of the Smithsonian. Please assume that anything you can't identify is where they keep the Arks of the Covenant. A mysterious corridor A rhino on a shelf Arks Maybe an Easter Island head? Polar bear on a shelf Big head...

A couple of years ago I was privileged to get a tour of the super secret Smithsonian storage facility in MD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Museum_Support_Center We saw such delights as a ton of samurai armour, a stuffed polar bear and easter island type head on a shelf, and...

Practice?

Does The Handmaid's Tale count? The book is certainly set among an apocalypse, and comes on the heels of another. I really enjoyed the book as an example of dystopian fiction, the 1st series did a great job of retelling the story. I found the 2nd series a bit slow but they did flesh out some...

2 things. Mail might not be flowing because we hit the free limit on our mail gateway. I will upgrade later to the "50, 000 emails per month" plan. The update was nothing to worry about - it was a minor upgrade to address a security flaw. This is a good sign and means that XenForo (the forums...

Here's some interesting context on how the Sentinelese are not as contacted as we might think: Summary by PZ Myers: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/11/23/the-sentinelese-are-not-uncontacted-primitives/ The full, linked article with pictures and video is here...

I thought this was entertaining and informative: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight

Yes the "Home page" is the forums listing at https://forums.forteana.org.

Hi All, rev_dino checking in. Please keep reporting any weird glitches or unexpected behaviour, and let us know if you have any questions. The search function should work now, but let me know if you search for something and don't find what you expect. In case anyone is interested, our new...

I used to live right on top of this and had no idea. Although we all knew about some illegal Victorian chalk mining as part of Blackheath Hill collapsed into a sinkhole a few years ago. http://londonist.com/2016/08/london-s-secret-caves The Secret Caves Of Blackheath Mention the Blackheath...

The Satanists have been having a grand old time lately over here, reminding us all of the law and equal protection under the constitution and wotnot. They recently had some fun with colouring books. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/satanic-coloring-book_n_5846640.html Florida Satanic...

As mentioned before, the Merseyside Skeptics were a big part of this. They cover it in the latest episode of their podcast : http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/20 ... isode-084/ I think a lot of you will be surprised at the sympathetic tone they take. As a longtime Fortean forum and...

As a Goldsmiths grad, I'm probably prejudiced, but I had a few beers with Chris French the last time he was in DC and I thought he was pretty awesome (I almost typed "nice enough", but 10 years in America overrid my natural British understatement). If you've only seen him on TV, bear in mind...

I figure that this might be of interest to some. Salman Rushdie's latest book is a memoir of his many years in hiding. http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Anton-Memo ... 268&sr=1-1 I saw him speak in DC last night, and it sounds like a cracking read.

Thank you for a well reasoned alternative view to my alternative view!

Good rebuttal. I saw it more as applying the laws of physics and the unreliable nature of of eyewitness accounts to this case, more than anything else.

Here's an alternative, and recent, view : http://theness.com/neurologicablog/inde ... light-800/

If you're ever in the DC Metro Area, you can get them here: http://www.eamonnsdublinchipper.com/ Also the best fish and chips I've had since moving to the US.

If you read the whole thing, it's more of an observation than an actual law. It's often invoked in humor or gentle chiding:

You can read more about Hayley Stevens' reasoning behind the complaint here: http://hayleyisaghost.co.uk/ All of the recent posts are about this.