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Ran into a NASA sub-conspiracy that footage sent from the ISS is filmed on earth via green screen. Gravity fails, etc... Some of it is pretty convincing, some of it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Sorry, you'll need TikTok... Video claims to show the harness visible on the astronaut's trousers as...

New series running on Netflix, more of a true crime angle than paranormal, but very interesting so far. Unsolved murders, missing persons and I think there will be something paranormal upcoming. The DuPont-Ligonnes murders/disappearance is one of the early cases. Lots to discuss if...

Report that the Loch Ness Monster has been seen in the Thames. I will take a moment to just rant at the utter idiocy of what passes as 'journalists' these days, if it is in the Thames it is clearly not the fucking Loch Ness Monster...

"Iconoclasm is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons." Given recent events in Bristol and Virginia, what is the mood with regards to the removal of statue's of people deemed by some to no...

https://metro.co.uk/2014/05/26/buddhist-monk-makes-footprints-in-wooden-floorboards-through-20-years-of-prayer-4740267/ I call bullshit on this. Wear and tear on wood might create an indentation over time but it is not creating perfect footprints like that. A clean print like that would come...

Read something today about an Episode of Sesame Street from 1976 that guest featured Margaret Hamilton (Wizard of Oz) as the Wicked Witch. She seemingly menaced the lead characters, threatening to use her powers to shape shift their forms. The idea was to reposition her character and make...

Okay, This is a "Literally just happened to me... ", so much so I am still having shivers and trying to figure it out. So, I have been working in Japan for the past month and landed home yesterday. My wife came over near the end of my stay and we travelled briefly to a few cities around the...

Seemingly every local council and security force has today started Tweeting out messages urging people to pack a #GrabBag so you are ready to flee at a minutes notice in an emergency. No details of what the emergency could be, or where you are meant to flee to... Ramping up Project Fear for...

Anyone live near Fort Knox in Kentucky? I was down a Google rabbit hole on this recently and discovered a huge area of land to the East of Fort Knox (about the size of Louisville) that seems to be completely devoid of any Google Maps activity or detail and has a very odd facility above ground...

Interesting with the 2020 election race upon us. Presidents elected in a year divisible by 20 do not tend to have a happy ending... 1840 William Henry Harrison (died in office) 1860 Abraham Lincoln (assassinated) 1880 James A. Garfield (assassinated) 1900 William McKinley (assassinated) 1920...

Maybe this should move to urban legends and folklore... A new internet game scaring the kids. Seemingly a WhatsApp number that you call leading to a response from a distorted faced girl who encouragea you to kill yourself. Allegedly several kids around the world have done so and many more have...

Not often you come across a new Fortean story that you've never heard of, but I did today with the story of the Casket Girls and their introduction of vampires to New Orleans. So the story goes that in the 18th century there was evidently not an abundance of eligible women in New Orleans for...

Two videos show people on the pitch suddenly disappearing behind the pundits during the coverage of Sunderland v Everton last night. Obviously must be a camera glitch, but even then it seems difficult to explain how. I assumed the video wall would just be showing a live camera shot of the empty...

Quick version… Super Slo-mo... I would suspect more likely a high-speed drone used to blow up the smoking rocket. From my understanding there had been a malfunction and the launch site cleared. Some kind of device to trigger the inevitable explosion would not shock me, the speed that it moves...

Saw this this afternoon, was good, unlike most modern horrors. A lot more psychological and grounded in reality. Probably won't go down well with modern audiences, but if you like more 1970s vibe films it is worth a watch. Not sure I liked the ending but I'll say no more on that. Some great...

Feel free to move, couldn't think where to stick it. Slightly creepy and slightly sad. SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) While remodeling a home in San Francisco's Richmond District, about three-feet under the garage, construction workers felt something with their shovels. It was a small coffin, made of...

Not really Fortean, but does anybody know why the thread title soundclip is used in so many films? You can hear the clip here... ...and I bet if you take the time to familiarise yourself with it then it will be no time at all before you hear it in the background on a film or TV show. I...

Suitably Halloween themed for the coming month... I only heard about this tale very recently and it is pretty intriguing. Not exactly that Fortean, and a logical explanation is obvious - but would also be quite a remarkable if taken at face value. The basic story is this, on, or around...

I missed an issue over the summer months and was just looking to order it from the back issues service but I cannot find the tab for that on the http://subscribe.forteantimes.com webpage. Are back issues still available to be purchased online somewhere or am I better off just hunting eBay?

Startling, and potentially quite horrendous, development. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher It has always struck me as peculiar how little focus this has had in comparison with Hillsborough or Heysel. The silence I presumed was...

There might already be a similar thread but the 'Search' function is either playing up or is not as good as the old one. It always interests me to read the reviews of each edition of the magazine to see what articles people enjoyed and which they didn't - and it often raises a surprise as...

Just been to see this movie, its an independent low-budget horror movie with a nice 80s/John Carpenter vibe. Can't really explain too much as the plot is pretty straightforward so to give too much synopsis would maybe spoil the adventure of going in with no idea what is going to happen - I'll...

Just read FT306 and the Cannock Chase piece, one line in it sparked something in my mind. "Why do so many seemingly reasonable people have unusual experiences there? The answer may lie with he area's underlying geology and the lay of the land, or within the human psyche." Given that we...

Don't panic! I don't have any inside news or bad rumours to spread. However, in the past fortnight I have learned that two magazines I have been buying for over 20 years have either closed down or will be closing down after the next edition. The magazine I worked for in my previous job was...

Now, I don't believe in this kind of thing but I have had some experiences over the past week that make me see how those susceptible to believing in such things could be convinced of their existence. Logically, it is all just coincidence, but... So, I've been working on a Brazil-based project...

Before telling this story, it isn't an account of weirdness but an account of a mundane occurrence which for around three or four minutes had me convinced it was absolute weirdness at levels I've never known in my life. I was probably the most freaked out by something I had ever been... So...

Well, opinions on these kind of films are often worthless - what I think is good someone else can think is woeful, cliched crap - but, for what it's worth, I found this to be quite a decent horror. Based loosely on Ed and Lorraine Warren's work as paranormal investigators, it is the standard...

Tall, silent, pale character appearing in Milton Keynes dishing out business cards. Obviously just some publicity stunt for something or other, but must be something fairly local to Milton Keynes as if it was for a major film or TV series you would assume they would do it somewhere more high...

Anyone seen this? It's not really Fortean in any way, although Mother Shipton's Cave does feature. Follow up to the mildly Fortean "Kill List", which I didn't really like, but was a better watch. Didn't really love it but it was an interesting watch and at least left a few questions that I've...

I'm sure we have all come across little mysteries in the course of our interest in big mysteries, small parts of a bigger puzzle that are generally a footnote to the bigger topic and most likely so obscure that they won't ever be adequately explained. I bring this up as one such case cropped...

Just seen a thing on the BBC website about ekranoplans. Wow! :shock: You think you have seen everything, although, granted, I haven't seen a man eat his own head.

Anybody heard of this or seen the documentary? Basic wiki outline here... ...sounds fascinating. Gonna see if I can get hold of it to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWFhplFSEQ http://www.marwencol.com/

Anyone been watching this? Three episodes in, pretty good so far. Suppose I'd describe it as a bit of a cross between Harper's Island and Twin Peaks. Basically a Haunted House story. Not sure how they could drag it over several seasons, would be nice if it was a self-contained single...

Supposedly, according to sources on Wikipedia, SA Foreign Minister Pik Botha, The Four Tops, Sex Pistol John Lydon, tennis pro Mats Wilander and actress Kim Cattrall were all booked on the Lockerbie Pan Am flight. Seeing that reminded me of stories about 9/11. Jackie Chan was supposed to be...

I've always kind of taken as fact the story that Peg Entwistle killed herself by jumping from the Hollywood sign. Having read the 'wiki' facts of the case though it strikes me as very inconclusive. Granted, this is Wikipedia, but still. Some very curious things in there. a) The...

Just thought of the phrase 'to get the monkey off your back' and it reminded me of a legend/folk tale I remember hearing and being quite disturbed by as a kid. Basically the premise is a travelling man sees an old fellow sat by the side of the road, out of breath and in need of assistance...

Not sure if this is the right place, not putting it in Ghosts as I have no doubt this is not what it is. Short version, we have noises at night of a bed creaking, someone coughing/sneezing coming from behind a wall in our apartment in an area that it appears impossible for there to be an...

First off, this is NOT a ghost or a claimed ghost pic. Just didn't really know where else to put it. Been doing some amateur genealogy tonight and came across this old family photo. I believe it is from about 1900-1910, possibly earlier. My family is from Scotland so it is from the...

Taken from Sky.com, their news report this morning was only missing a Brad Fiedel soundtrack.

Okay, here is something you don't expect to happen. All those 'I never saw it when I took the photo and then when I looked later there it was...' things you read about, well it has happened to me. Just got back from two weeks on the US west coast, had an awesome time,Alcatraz, Winchester...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/837951-ufo- ... the-thames Saw this story and was intrigued, got past the sensationalised headline and discovered the true nature of the story and was more intrigued, but a speck on a radar passed off as a UFO!? To be honest I would not even have looked twice at...

Just when you thought torture porn had reached the bottom of the barrel... http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/13/human ... -all-time/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_ ... t_Sequence)

Official: http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/trailer/ Really want to see this, been and gone in the cinemas - if it even got a release - and have been unable to find it while, erm, fishing... seems DVD purchase may be the way to see it. I can't stand all this celebrity crap that drives our...

Just got Heavy Rain on the PS3. Awesome, awesome stuff. MGS4 was like a movie/game but had way way too much emphasis on the movie side with hour long cut scenes etc... This is less of a game, a bit more like the old point and click PC games, or even like a game version of those Choose Your...

Not specifically Fortean, but dealing with post-Apocalyptic scenarios and has a slightly sci-fi/unusual element to it. Aired last year but I've only just got round to watching it. Really interesting stuff. Official: http://www.history.com/content/life_after_people Unofficial...

Not really truly paranormal but quite a creepy looking abandoned island off the coast of Japan: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/toteven/H ... ogspotCom# Desperately hoped to catch sight of someone stood in the background ominously in one of those pics :S

Interesting developments with the news that Peter Tobin had a cache of women's jewellery. Some of it looks quite vintage and with the dates etc... matching up it could be that the infamous Bible John case could be cracked. That has been one that has always intrigued me, would be...

Just doing a bit of research on stories and tales of the paranormal and hauntings connected to football. I've read a fair amount of books, magazines and articles about football but cannot think of too many examples off the top of my head. It seems you cannot go to an old theatre without...

Worth the £7.99? I had a look for it in WHSmiths yesterday but they didn't seem to have it in my branch. I am a sucker for 'special edition' things like this so will probably buy one if I find it anywhere eventually.

Doing a bit of idle browsing last night and came across a few references to the original bath in which Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in 1793 being bought and sold, last owner appeared to be a wax museum in Paris. The same museum - Musee Grevin - apparently owns the knife used by Charlotte...