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FT 246 has just turned up and postie mustn't have liked the look of it this month (the plastic cover was intact for once) but it looks a good 'un to me. Articles: Beyond Darwin - evolutionary theories that got away! Missing Links - tracking Russia's man-ape (the Almasty) also...

It's just arrived! From the cover, main article is 'Suicide Club' - looking into the recent suicides in Bridgend, the anatomy of suicide clusters and 'Gloomy Sunday' Other cover page doings: Personality Transplants - "when donors give much more than just their organs" Mrs Satan for...

Click here - Wakefield Express - to see video footage of what may or may not be the ghost of a Roman soldier. via The Anomalist I'm not particularly sure that my first thoughts would be that it was Roman soldier-like. Anyone fancy speculating as to what may have caused the anomaly?

Here's a link to a scanned FATE article on Charles Fort. I haven't been able to download it but the two scans on the blog post make it look like it might be an interesting read. Via Boing Boing

A chokka issue, I've just read A Stolen Life - Guy Lyon Playfair's piece on Iris Farczady. A teenage Hungarian girl whose personality appeared to have been taken over by a middle-aged Spanish washerwoman. There's also: Discovering Swedenborg Paradise Regained? (Ancient stone-carving and...

Weird World in review, 2006! a news round-up of 2006's weirdest stories. The rest of the mag looks pretty good, I've just scanned through the Fortean Traveller piece about The Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden, Thailand - creepy! There's also: The Ghost Hunters The Curse of the Stones...

It turned up about 20 mins ago! Looks pretty good from just checking out the front cover but I haven't had chance to flick through the inside yet: Tesla - Master of Lightning, Mad Scientist or Misunderstood Genius: The truth about Nikolai Tesla Thirsty Gods - milk drinking miracle grips...

So far it looks a pretty good issue. The woman who believes she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe David Lynch A two-page photo spread of crop circles from 2006 Stone Age soldiers - how Borneo headhunters became the strangest army of WWII Centenarian Update (quite apt) Tin foil hats...

Great issue IMO. I've got to go back and read the main articles fully but I'm impressed with the rest. Great IHTM! and Heirophant. Anyway, what's in the mag this month: - Japanese Fox Spirits - The Man who mistook himself for a cat - When Stoat packs attack - Alien Big Cats in...

This is an odd one, anyone heard anything similar? express & star

This is a pretty cool piece of luck for archaeologists. From ABC News.

Mine has just arrived- through the letterbox no less!* From the cover: The Sceptic and his Spectres (a Peter Brooksmith piece) Denying Global Warming (The Lomborg Conspiracy) Strange New Worlds (The Science of Alien Life) Reptile Threat to 2012 Olympics (Croc Spotted in East London) Close...

No, not the odious radio presenter/talkshow host from the UK but the legendary director of Bride of Frankenstein :wink: Express & Star further info: http://www.jameswhale.com/

The Currant Bun

Another thread in the Fortean Traveller vein... Fullerton Hornet

Okay, so I lied- there is no yard sale, that was to hook you in ;) this announcement is just to let forum members know we will soon be beginning the much anticipated tidy up IHTM! Don't be worried if threads go missing or pop up elsewhere - it is all part of the process and people should feel...

ReligionNewsBlog has a number of stored articles on this sect, the BBC link is worth clicking to see a picture of the said teapot sculpture.

Ooooo! this film appears to be in line for a re-release on July 15th: The Warrior you can watch a trailer here and here's the blurb from Miramax. I shall have to keep my eye out on the local cinemas, going by the trailer and the reviews it looks pretty good.

I thought I'd post this one up for posterity's sake. It's from a free newspaper and there's no linky. If there are any typos then build a bridge and get over it ;) Walsall Observer: Friday, July 1, 2005 (Front Page) (and if you're absolutely dying for more info on Walsall in general...

I'm going to have to go and have a read up on Tsangyang Gyatso.

I was talking to one of my Uncles yesterday. He lives about 1/2 a mile away from me. He was griping about having been disturbed by fireworks being set off in the area during the previous evening. I replied *Oh yes! I heard fireworks too... at about 11pm? Half Term isn't it? little bast*rds...*...

The new film from Katsuhiro Otomo: Trailer from Sony Pictures.com IMDb entry ~ I've seen the trailer and some clips from the film, can't wait to see it at the cinema, it looks fantastic.

Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/h ... 298289.stm Published: 2005/02/25 14:51:09 GMT

Apologies for the uninventive title, I thought this may be of interest on here.The last confirmed sighting of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, was in 1945. The Soviet Union had believed him to be a Nazi spy due to his influence and success in helping Jews escape the regime. He is said to...

or aka The Quest. I've tried explaining this film to friends who haven't seen or heard of this. I initially thought I'd been mistaken in having seen this weird film as a kid, where Elliot out of ET messes around in an Australian lake. Until I finally got around to googling *Donkeygin*. I...

St Dunstan and St Clement may be associated with smiths but how come the devil and pre-christian elements seem to figure so prominently in Blacksmith mythology across centuries and various cultures? I was reading this article earlier and was interested to read some of the theories that George...

I've been reading conflicting tales about the origin of this word. Firstly in my Brewer's Dictionary of Fable and Phrase: * http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/n/notarikon.html (Notarikon is a cabalistic word denoting the Jewish art of using each letter in a word to from another...

Whilst looking at information upon a different subject (Pied Piper of Hamelin) I came across a mention of the Dancing Plagues or Manias of the Middle Ages as a possible theory behind the tale. http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~jonas/piedpiper.html Others include the mass transportation of...

I've just stumbled over a number of news reports about Roopkund Lake, India. http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=37849#compstory http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004063001521900.htm&date=2004/06/30/&prd=bl& I've had a look around for info on the local...

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/10/28/helena/a06102804_01.txt Montana also boasts a House of Mystery!: http://www.roadtripusa.com/us_2/montana.html

This is a strange one. A very strange one I should have said.

I don't think this has been posted already (apologies if it has). A man has apparently filmed an object in the sky over Fort Wayne, that was moving at a fast rate. http://www.local6.com/news/3803204/detail.html You can watch a clip of the film via that link. It has been suggested that...

virtualvermonter.com/specials/benntriangle.htm Link is dead. The MIA article is still accessible via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040831232058/http://www.virtualvermonter.com/specials/benntriangle.htm here's a link to the article quoted: The Bennington Triangle...

Guardian Unlimited http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syriac.htm

The link takes you to a page showing a: Trichobezoar (how many women as young girls were told this would happen to you if you chewed or sucked the ends of your hair? I know I was lectured constantly) :cross eye

taken from here: http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/o/orderofcharbel/ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/03/1091476474594.html?oneclick=true

Bezoar- Wikipedia Cecil Adams over at The Straight Dope has this to say about them: This is a site devoted to Bezoar stones: bezoarstones.com

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5836811&section=news

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5819111&section=news

Sophie Cameron Trust BBCi News 27/07/04

BBCi News 27/07/04

I have had a trawl through Search and haven't come across any references to Cunning Murrell http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/features/halloween/witchdoctor.shtml This is an interesting page on various Cunning folk that also includes a paragraph on Murrell...

"Gregorio XVII" -the real Pope? http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5769912&section=news

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Woman gives birth to frog BBCi News 27/06/04

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