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In my Amazon marketplace thingie if anyone's interested - £9.96 + postage. http://www.amazon.co.uk/shops/pjmella

I've got some recent FTs for sale for fairly cheap on eBay if anyone needs any gaps in their collection plugging... http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/mister_ ... omZQQ_ipgZ

I've been reading FT for 13 years, but have recently been toying with the idea of cancelling my subscription, due to the fact I've started reading fewer articles in every issue I get, and I have the nagging doubt whether or not I'd bother going to WH Smith to buy a copy every month if I wasn't a...

I've got some cheap FT back issues for sale on eBay, mainly from 1997 and 2007, with starting bids of 65p. You can find them here http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZmister_hooty

I've got Fortean Studies 1 on eBay if anyone's interested... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=290220364152&Category=274&_trksid=p3907.m29

Sorry if I'm opening any worm cans that have already been opened (I've done a search and can't find any) but are the "Immortality Rings" ads in FT actually legal? That is, we can all put on our Fortean hats of open mindedness, but deep down we all have to admit that the adverts are a thinly...

I have practically every issue since 1995 which I'm looking to sell, with nearly all in very good condition. I will sell them for £2 each including postage, with discounts negotiable if someone buys a lot at once. I take PayPal for payment, for speed and ease for both parties. Please PM me...

Anyone interested in buying Fortean Studies 1 or 3 off me? Good condition, £15 each plus postage. Will ship to UK or Europe, and accept PayPal or cheque (PayPal for preference). PM me if you're interested.

I'm skint and having a clear out, and am considering selling my FT collection, which is every issue from around issue 77 to present (there may be one or two misplaced, I haven't check yet). If anyone would like to make me an offer, and is prepared to collect from Sheffield, then let me know...

Ok funny question, but does anyone here from the UK, US or elsewhere know or have known anyone that has kept a big cat as a pet? Obviously if you live somewhere where such things are illegal or they were kept after laws came to pass then obviously don't name names!

Bobcats are occuring with increasing frequency in Central New York: http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/do ... l-new-york

Just looking at Practical Fishkeeping's review of the year, and there's a wealth of fishy Forteana in there, including: Live minnows found in duck egg French men hallucinating for days after eating poisonous fish Man impaled by Marlin and dragged out to sea Swimmer choked to death by a...

The Saola, or Vu Quang Ox, became a cryptozoological poster beast when it was discovered in 1992. It is now, sadly, almost extinct less than 15 years later. Some scientists are thinking about cloning it to save it... http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/st ... 48,00.html

Very sad. :( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00304.html

I have just put three "pins" in Google Earth. Pin 1 is an internationally famous location. Pin 2 is a location that means something to me. Pin 3 is a completely random location with no significance whatsoever. Any remote viewers out there want a go?

Does anyone know if any decisions were made if these camels http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1156212.stm were a distinct species or not?

Anyone read it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Beckjord Have a look on the history for some quite amusing editing by a number of people, including the man himself...

No, not Sea Monkeys, those weird little crustaceans you can buy in the shops, but actual monkeys or apes that live in the sea... http://www.weirdart.com/pages/seaape.pdf http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-ne ... rs-sea-ape What's everyone think?

Two piggy questions for people. How true is it that Scots and some Irish people abstain from eating pork? And is there some kind of folklore relating to pigs in Derby? I remember reading it somewhere and I'm damned if I can find it.

I'm collecting current "loony left" stories, you know the ones the Daily Mail and Express love of "political correctness gone mad". My theory is that nearly all of them are a load of old bobbins, used to titilate a borderline-racist readership and discredit the left. If anyone finds any...

A felid was caught in Greensboro, North Carolina. Someone claiming to be the owner says it's a serval. http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051012/NEWSREC0101/51012004/1005/NEWSREC02010301[/url]Source[/url] Looks like a caracal/serval cross to me. Doesn't look sleek...

I had the misfortune to watch X-factor last night, and on it was one entrant who claimed to have recorded a duet with John Lennon using one of his inventions. He mimed along while a tape recorder played one of his own songs that supposedly had John Lennon singing the choruses. Needless to say...

Okay, may not be that Fortean yet, but possibly one to watch... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 165074.stm Jazz singer Peyroux 'disappears' A record label has hired a private detective to trace jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux, whose album has been steadily climbing the UK...

Anyone got any ideas on this? This medieval painting was in San Marco church in Milan, Italy and shows Knight Visconti killing the dragon that terrorized Milan people in the middle age. It is interesting because differs from all others medieval versions of the dragon. The dinosaur-like shape of...

...this month I've been collecting FT for a whole decade! And I still have every issue (although Aug 2000 seems to have vanished... it'll show up though, they always do...)

Noticed something possibly insignificant on the famous photos of Tina Resch, the poltergeist girl (as reproduced in FT190:40), where the phone's "flying" across her lap. Above Tina is one of those photo frames with loads of spaces for different photos. There's two spaces missing. Of course...

Having just watched the Star Wars trilogy back to back for the first time ever, I noticed something odd, which was Mr Lucas seems obsessed with the removal of limbs and hands. C3PO's limbs are removed after the ambush by the Sand People (SW), Obi Wan severs the arm of the hostile alien in the...

Just saw this on Cryptozoology.com. What does everyone think? Looks like a model to me... a bit too good to be true. http://www.cryptozoology.com/gallery/display_picture.php?id=2051

I was on the bus today reading Richard Dawkins' 'Climbing Mount Improbable'. I got to the bit where he explains how spiders make their webs, specifically how they make the first, verticle line that the web is then made from. As I read that very paragraph, I noticed something out of the corner...

In FT187 (p20) Karl Shuker asks what the mysterious beasts known as Cureloms and Cumoms are in the Book of Mormon. The passage in question states: As Shuker states, one of the few places they're mentioned on the internet is a Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curelom) that states...

Found this Fortean snippet in a article on BBC Online about people with links to the past http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3899961.stm Any ideas? Reminds me of the time the Compt Saint Germain cropped up on a talk show...

The latest issue of FT, with its Orang Pendek feature, got me thinking [FT182]. In it Debbie Martyr, the journalist turned environmentalist who's stalking the mysterious man-ape Orang Pendek, described her sightings of the beast. (my italics) and later... Now isn't this a really common...

Bear with me on this one.... Elephants are the only animals on earth with four knees. For child-like simplicity, we'll call animals' forelegs "arms", and their hind legs "legs". So are elephants' front legs "arms", with modified elbows that have become knees, or do they actually have four...

Why do we do it? I came up with a playful halfarsed theory the other day that it's a race memory from some kind of watery communication we did (kinda like whalesong) while we were in our aquatic ape stage. Ok maybe not... but does anyone else have any novel ideas?

FT 175 Hey it's a goodun is it not? I usually don't like "themed" issues, but I love all that Nazi stuff! And I get a clippings credit. Which is nice!

Hallo everyone, I'm back again! JRR Tolkein was a very fastidious fella, some may say unkindly a little bit sad, and had a complex etymology of every name of a person or place in the Middle Earth sagas. Every name means something in some language or another, much like in the real world...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2970358.stm Man held over 1984 murder Hilda Murrell's stabbed body was found in woodland in 1984 A man has been arrested in connection with the murder 19 years ago of a peace campaigner whose nephew ordered the sinking of the Belgrano during the...

From the newsletter of Popbitch, the scurrilous gossip-mongering email list: An email was hastily sent out by Popbitch a couple of days later to let everyone know the story has no truth in it whatsoever. I'm wondering how far into folklore it passed in the meantime, however.

OK, the Kirk Brandon thread made me think of this one... Are there any truly Nazi-sympathising rock/pop stars out there that made it to the mainstream? Obviously the Ace of Base story's a UL, and those dodgy Oi! bands never made it into the mainstream. I was thinking of Lemmy, who collects...

Heard the tail end of a radio news story on the way home. Men in protective suits and masks have been called in to a school in at a school in Hoyland, Barnsley (S.Yorks) after pupils and staff started smelling a "strange smell" which "made them ill". May of course be wrong cos didn't hear...

From the Guardian... BUT! Surely if his first three weeks were spend writing all those words a typical entry would be "got up, wrote loads of words, went to bed"?

From FT 53:5: WOW! Giant insects at Sellafield (formerly Winscale)!!!!!!!! Anyone got more info?

In FT165 (p20) there's a painting by an artist named Canzanella of two strange badger-like mammals, which Karl Shuker cannot identify. Anyone got any ideas what they could be? I've scanned the pic in for those unfortunate souls who don't get FT. I've googled for artists called Canzanella, and...

...arrived today! Not had chance to look at it fully yet, but there's a proper IHTM in the letters (from one of us I notice...), and the articles look pretty cool. Good one on the Chronovisor!

Saw an advert on TV for it today! :) :) :)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_700109.html?menu=news.weirdworld.animaltales :D

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_699534.html

Reading about Frozen Dead Guy Day in this month's FT, and thinking back to other bizarre local celebrations such as Mike the Headless Chicken Day, I was wondering if any of you lot know of any more days for the Fortean calendar?

I remember hearing years ago (can't remember the source unfortunately) that a certain Mr A Hilter had been reincarnated as a boy (somewhere in America I think), who could speak German without being taught, and at a young age could identify members of Hitler's war cabinet from old photographs...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2323897.stm First gays and feminists, then Tinky Winky, now Mohammed.