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    Abbey Clancy: I Saw 3 UFOs On The A3

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/abbey-clancy-horrified-shes-stalked-32094562
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    D-Day On Whether To Lift 42-Year Hypnotism Ban In Bolton

    https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/24100317.d-day-whether-lift-42-year-hypnotism-ban-bolton/ Fortean side note: There is a Robert Temple who is the author of "Open to Suggestion: Uses and Abuses of Hypnosis" (1989), as well as "The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence for Alien Contact...
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    BBC News On Edinburgh Fortean Society

    Or perhaps Edinburgh Fortean Society on BBC News, depending on how you feel. Now read on.... Nice one @gordonrutter :cool2:
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    Conspiracy At The Grocery Store

    People in Pennsylvania finding this note: ...inside things they buy at the shops. In a pack of butter (this week) In a box of crackers (9 months ago) In a packet of Pocky (2 years ago) More (3 years ago) The text and layout of the notes varies slightly but is broadly the same message...
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    13 At The Table

    The superstition goes that having thirteen people at the dinner table will mean one will die before the year is out. Lord Kelvin took it upon himself to disprove this claim using statistics. From The Lady's Realm (vol 29, 1910/11, p98):
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    Skinned Bear Mistaken For corpse, Given Christian Burial

    Whitby Gazette, 31 July 1908
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    About Beadles

    I seem to recall reading that the Jeremy Beadle who is named in the subscriber list in Fortean Studies was a different Jeremy Beadle to the telly one. But now I'm not so sure - since the famous Beadle wrote Ripley-style newspaper features in the '80s, which is kind of Fort-like. Does anyone...
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    Looking For Haunted Skies Volumes 4, 5 + 6

    Annoyingly I got as far as having volumes 1, 2, 3 and 7, 8, 9 of Hanson & Holloway's "Haunted Skies" series before they issued the 'updated' editions which now span different periods. Also, I want all the spines to match on my shelf, which, let's face it, is the most important thing. So I am...
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    Haunted Skies series

    Surprised I couldn't find a thread on this series of books already. I've only got two volumes (the original volume 1: 1940-1959, and today got volume 9: 1981-1986) What are people's thoughts? They seem very comprehensive, and the newer vol 9 is presented nicely in full colour. Although having a...
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    Pseudo-Archaeology & The Racism Behind Ancient Aliens

    Interesting long read article that argues that applying 'ancient aliens' theories to non-European civilisations is ultimately racist:
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    Rendlesham Forest

    I visited Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk a couple of weeks ago, and would recommend it as a nice, eerie evening's walk, if you have a car to get there. I found that popping the postcode IP12 3NF into my satnav took me right into the forest, and to a convenient free car park at the edge of RAF...
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    Huge audio archive of UFO witness recordings

    Just stumbled upon Wendy Connors' Faded Discs archive, which used to be on CDs but much of it now seems to be on the Internet Archive. This is the best way I found of finding all the available material: https://archive.org/search.php?query=su ... d+discs%22 Note that many of the...
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    LoveFilm - When the Lights Went Out

    When the Lights Went Out, the story of the Yorkshire polt featured on the cover of FT recently, is now available on LoveFilm Instant: http://www.lovefilm.com/film/?token=%3F ... %26m%3DGET More on this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_ ... Pontefract
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    BUFORA conference - Sept 22-23

    Anyone going to the BUFORA 50th Anniversary conference in September? Looks like it'll be good: Think you'd certainly get your money's worth out of the £40 ticket price if you're into ufology. Also: Lionel Fanthorpe!
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    Concern after spate of glove puppet incidents

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14830927 (via Richard Wiseman's Twitter)
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    Tesco's gonna get ya

    (from comments on a YouTube video) :shock:
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    Tesco's gonna get ya

    (from comments on a YouTube video) :shock:
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    Wikileaks "references to UFOs..."

    Upcoming Wikileaks cables include UFO discussion From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/20 ... -wikileaks
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    Woman finds dead son in graveyard while burying brother

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67J3P520100820
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    Pork, Worms & Coke (Coca Cola): Urban Legend

    A new one on me, introduced to me this morning by my colleague. Apparently, she is "never eating pork again" after seeing a video where coke was poured on raw pork, and worms crawled out. Her: "Apparently all pork contains these worms, but they normally get killed by the heat of cooking."...
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    Have Aliens Invaded Scotland? (Discovery Channel)

    Got given this DVD for Christmas. To summarise: UFOs=aliens; Bonnybridge; people saying "phemonena" in the singular; Nick Pope (cast here as part of the government cover-up), concerned local residents who video stationary 'balls of light' that appear almost every night; HALO; the Roslin...
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    Weekly World News now online

    Weekly World News archives now available to read on Google Books (link). Enjoy! :D (via BoingBoing)
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    MoD shuts UFO investigations unit

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8395473.stm :(
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    Phantom drinkers - Royal Findhorn Yacht Club, Moray

    Tis a good 'un - this was actually quite near the front of the Times's Scottish edition :) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 939873.ece
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    TinyURL - a more reliable alternative

    http://www.301works.org/ A number of link-shortening sites (though not tinyurl, which FT uses) have teamed up with the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) to ensure their links are kept going even after the sites shut down in the future. Perhaps FT should switch to using one of the ones...
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    FT referenced by Peter Serafinowicz

    The excellent Peter Serafinowicz Show, which I missed most of first time round (which will make getting the DVD even better) seems to have a familiar-looking magazine in one sketch: Full thing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wz0KitxtDQ
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    Ufology: The Missing Photos!

    In "Abduction" Jenny Randles says that in the Mince Pie Martians case, ufologists who arrived on the scene took a photo of the oval depression supposedly left in the snow by the craft. Does anyone know if this is available anywhere? (the book isn't illustrated and a search turns up nothing)...
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    Private Eye...

    From issue 1228 of Private Eye: (for non-UK readers, Private Eye is a satirical news magazine, a bit like 10 pages of The Onion sandwiched in between 30 pages of anonymous investigative journalism).
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    Casu Marzu: Sardinian Cheese With Killer Maggots

    on Boing Boing on Wikipedia
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    Hack Your Brain

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/ Read on........
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    For sale .. Issue 163

    edit: only 163 remains! I've got a bunch of duplicate issues up on my ebay page (click) in case anyone is after any of these: 75, 76, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 123, 163
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    UFO Hits Wind Turbine

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2108149.ece More from the local press on this in the Local Press UFO Reports Thread.
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    Icicle Sculpture Created By Passing Cars

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4075631/Icicle-sculpture-created-by-cars.html This spectacular 10ft ice sculpture was discovered on the outskirts of Skelmersdale on the way to the nearby village of Newburgh. Photo: LIVERPOOL DAILY POST & ECHO
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    Police helicopter avoids colliding with UFO, report claims

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... laims.html Haven't been able to find the report on the Airprox website yet.
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    It Happened To Me - Volume 1

    Just saw this in Smiths. Am I right to presume it's a compilation of old IHTMs and not new stuff?
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    Pseudodoxia - Sir Thomas Browne

    Saw a copy of this going on eBay this morning, definitely out of my price range, though, it finished at £255. But fortunately there is also a full transcription on the internet: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/
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    White Lady of Baldoon

    It happened not to me... but to my grandfather! He's staying with us for a few weeks. At dinner last night we were discussing Galloway, as I have just returned from a few days' jaunt down there, and he was stationed there (Wigtown airfield) in the second half of 1941. He said he had been...
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    Dazzle Paint / Camouflage / Ships

    Was there ever an article on dazzle camouflaged ships in FT? If so (long shot) does anyone know which issue?
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    "Sun" reader snaps super soaraway UFO

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 162498.ece
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    The Illusion Of Control: Buttons That Do Nothing

    This article in the New Yorker - about a man stuck in a lift for 41 hours, and other NY lift lore - is generally interesting, but contains this: I wonder how many other things don't actually have any function other than to trick us into a sense of control. I'm thinking pedestrian crossing...
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    Miracle Berry & 'Big Sugar'

    BBC News Magazine - The miracle berry by Adam Fowler
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    Pokémon are Real

    Not sure whether to file this under Cryptozoology, Conspiracy or The Plain Bizarre: Pokéclipse Forum: http://z9.invisionfree.com/Pokeclipse/i ... howforum=1 Uh huh...
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    Famous People Who Read FT

    Phil Jupitus, the comedian reads FT, and said so on Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show today. Um, that's about it. Hi Phil, if you're reading this.
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    ASDA - Keel books (!)

    Asda (our local one at least) is selling some interesting Fortean books at the moment for £2 a go. They have terrible covers though and are all published under the "MOST BIZARRE..." series. These three in particular caught my attention: - "Most Bizarre... Our Haunted Planet" by John A Keel...
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    MoD and UAP Reports

    As I understand it, the MoD stopped investigating reports after Condign - yet they still seem to be publishing spreadsheet summaries of reports received, with seemingly a bit of detail (up to 2006). So are they back to investigating them, or are they being passed to BUFORA?
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    Your Fake Photos!

    (I know there was a thread about this before, but I've searched and can't find it anywhere, sorry!) Here are a couple of shots I took this evening of a strange craft I saw landing in a wood not far from here. The weirdest thing was there was no sound when it was landing. After watching it for...
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    Not very convincing UFOs over Aberdeen

    Here's the photo, since it isn't in the online edition: Looks a pretty lame attempt to me. Aberdeen has lights in the sky all the time from helicopters going to the oil platforms and various events that use big outdoor lights. (On the second look, it actually looks like it could be Venus.)...
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    Need FTs 212 and 213

    Due to my extreme short-sightedness in not taking a new subscription sooner, I'm missing issues 212 and 213. :roll: Looking at 211, there doesn't seem to be a back issues service anymore?? Can someone have a look at issue 213 and see if there is a back issues page please? If not - is...
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    Alaise, Calais, leys...

    I haven't found anything on here about this, but this is a most intriguing item... 8) Found in Francis Hitching's "The World Atlas of Mysteries" (hooray!), available at a charity shop near you: Basically it seems that if you draw lines radiating out from Alaise in France, they end up...
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    The Mysterious World Of Nettles

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