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Student gets stuck in giant stone vagina in Germany What was meant to be a funny dare turned into an utter embarrassment for an American exchange student, who found himself trapped in a giant stone vagina in Germany. Firefighters had to be called in to deliver the man, head-first, to safety...

From "The Conversation", a longish article on Aboriginal Australia dream time ghosts, monsters and vampires. http://theconversation.com/dreamings-an ... ings-25606

The ten metre high fibreglass "bloody big mango" has been stolen for no apprent reason. From http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensl ... 33c3d.html The 10-metre high Big Mango has gone missing in northern Queensland after an apparent heist overnight. Staff at the Bowen Tourist...

I was looking through www.librarything.com and came across a listing of comedian Jackie Gleason's library at the time of his death. I knew he had interests in UFOlogy but aside from the odd book on entertainment his library consisted of book son "witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception...

I too welcome our new giant sea serpent overlords. From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-12/w ... ky/5255808 A strange S-shaped formation which appeared on weather bureau radar off the West Australian coast was not caused by cloud, the bureau says. The shape was spotted on the weather...

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nationa ... 30ggg.html CSIRO is the "Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation", the Australian Government's agency for Science research. The CSIRO has promised to step up its dragon research program, after a seven-year-old girl wrote...

I wonder if nude hide and seek will ever become an Olympic sport? http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/naked ... 30f96.html The Victorian man who became stuck in a washing machine while naked has put his own spin on the tale, saying his rescue felt similar to being born. Emergency...

Oh, dear god. Man nails testicles to Red Square to protest Russian crackdown on rights http://www.theage.com.au/world/man-nail ... 2xah2.html Moscow: A Russian performance artist has been hospitalised after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in...

I've also seen a headline relating to this story reading "Saint Jones fined for Mad Monday dwarf fire" but I can't seem to find that one on line. http://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl/news/art ... f-on-fire/ St Kilda player Clinton Jones has apologised and will pay a $3000 fine for setting a...

I couldn't find the "Dumb Criminals" thread ... From http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/0 ... tnews.html Dumb and dumber deliver themselves to cops NT NEWS | August 30th, 2013 TWO 'dopes' have been arrested after driving on to a private property being used for training by an...

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-11/w ... lt/4623106 A woman from Broken Hill in far west New South Wales has been found guilty of assaulting police with a quiche. Police told the Local Court they approached Franklin Jane Bugmy, 41, in the main street of Broken Hill on August 7 to...

From http://www.indaily.com.au/?iid=75959&sr=0#folio=1 Maggie’s a rarity – and she could be expecting (see article for photo of Magpie Fiddler Ray) THE simplest hook, rod and reel has caught what may be a critically endangered and rare species of fiddler ray not seen for 60 years in the...

From the legendary NT News http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/0 ... tnews.html CHARGES against a man who allegedly had sex with a pig named Michael Jackson have been dropped on mental health grounds. The man, 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also charged with aggravated...

From http://www.theage.com.au/national/space ... 2d389.html TWO men who walked away from a car crash near Brisbane's Wivenhoe Dam claimed to be chasing an alien spacecraft when found by police. Police and the driver's insurance company received several sketchy phone calls from the men...

Director, Warwick Thornton and producer, Kath Shelper are in pre-production for a new project for ABC Television based around Indigenous ghost stories and encounters with the after-life. Stories that are poignant and relevant to Indigenous issues is what they're after – and the blacker the...

In my job as a journalist I was recently in the Torres Strait of Australia (a remote area located between mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea) and interviewed the Bishop of the Torres Strait. I’m not religious so this may not be out of the ordinary but the Bishop made the statement that...

From the Central Telegraph (Australia) http://www.centraltelegraph.com.au/stor ... k-deeming/ Did Jack the Ripper live in Rocky? Adam Wratten | 21st February 2011 Sue Smith’s journey through The Morning Bulletin’s archives of the past 150 years has unearthed some fascinating...

In his book "Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines", David Unaipon (an Aboriginal man of the Ngarrindjeri nation) wrote that Aboriginal traditions state that Aboriginals were forced to migrate to Australia from Lemuria to avoid harrassment from the Praid arna Prodda, a plague of huge and...

While researching something completely different, I cam across the following: From The Brisbane Courier, 8 February 1896, p. 5 Like all great Fortean stories, it leaves more questions than answers. I don't suppose anyone has heard this Walter Johnson and whether he ever came out of this...

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 ... 369236.htm New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees says rumours that a leopard inhabits bushland on Sydney's outskirts cannot be dismissed, because the safety of children could be at risk. Talk of panthers or leopards in the Blue Mountains and...

From http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 90,00.html STUDENTS at the Numbulwar Community Education Centre on the remote east Arnhem Land coast were removed yesterday after a traditional owner cursed the school, the medical centre, the council offices, the credit union and the shop...

The following is certainly not a new news story but one I found while researching a different topic. It dates from 29 December 1900 and from a New Zealand newspaper that unbelievably I have not noted down and forgotten. Anyhoo, the article: The White Death - A Frozen Fog of Which Indians are...

Performing some research I stumbled upon the following article in the 6 January edition of the Adelaide Advertiser: "Strange Coincidence in Crash Landing" Arriving by air to visit their newly widowed mother, two brothers named Greeff were pitched out of the aircraft in which they were...

Missing woman's 'demolished' house reappears From The Age December 21, 2007 Cold-case detectives will travel to Bendigo today to investigate fresh leads in the 21-year-old mystery of missing Melbourne woman Marlene McDonald. The Reservoir house Mrs McDonald was living in at the time...

So why did this elderly woman travel 50 kilometres out of her way for no apparent reason, only to be set on fire? Zane From The Melbourne Age link Mystery surrounds murdered woman Mark Russell March 11, 2007 FIVE months on, homicide detectives remain puzzled as to why murdered...

(This thread is, for the moment, just a conglomeration of old ones. Once I've gathered all the stuff from the forum, I'll look to start splitting again and merging between the two thylacine threads. It will take a while, but in the meantime the vast majority of our thylacine stuff will be in one...

From link February 6, 2007 - 2:13PM A 76-year-old woman from southern Thailand has been reunited with her family after taking the wrong bus 25 years ago. Jaeyaena Beuraheng, a Malay-speaking resident of Narathiwat province in Thailand's deep-south, got on a bus which took her to...

From the Korea Times 26-27 August, p.3 "Masseur Jobs to be Exclusive for Blind" Lawmakers are discussing a new law to allow only the visually impaired to work as masseurs, despite the Constitutional Court's ruling in May that denied the constitutionality of such exclusive rights. The...

From http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html UFO "sighted" in western suburbs ANNA MEROLA August 21, 2006 09:30am AN alleged UFO sighting in the western suburbs last night was found to be a far less serious event - a flying kite. An Oxford St, Woodville Park resident...

Hey people I find myself working for an odd organisation in South Korea, connected to Dahn Hak Yoga (which cult watch websites have likened to Scientology). The organisation has a school that teaches English to Korean children and I have been mystified a bit by its curriculum, which involves...

From the Wellington Dominion Post (New Zealand), page 4, 29 June 2004 Waitomo's dancing pig, Don Rash, has gone missing just days before he was due to record a television advertisement. Agricultural showman Billy Black, who recently demonstrated Don Rash's talents, including a Michael...

I read an article (which unfortunately I don't have a link for) which pointed out that while the Statue of Liberty is regularly shown surviving holocausts (The Day after Tomorrow) or human civilisation (Planet of the Apes), the Statue of Liberty is actually structually weak (parts of the statue...

Police follow lead on children missing for nearly forty year Growing up in Adelaide, I was inundated with media stories about the disappearance of the three Beaumont children from suburban Glenelg beach in 1966, which one remians one of Australia's greatest unsolved crimes. The latest lead...

News that the nation of Nauru is facing imminent bankruptcy (see for example http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040418/bs_afp/nauru_economy_040418060056) reminds me that it is surprising that it hasn't as yet featured in the Fortean Traveller section. I visited Nauru nearly ten...

From the Daily Times (Pakistan) http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-4-2004_pg9_5 Thai boy raised by dog dies in welfare centre A Thai boy who was partially raised by a dog was found dead at a welfare centre where he had been taken for protection, police and welfare...

This isn't particularly fortean but it's interesting to think that probably more Basngladeshis are killed each year by tigers than in, say, aeroplane crashes. From the Daily Star (Bangladesh) 22/01/04 Tigers killed 36 in Sundarbans last year Our Correspondent, Satkhira At least 36...

My mother works in landcare in a remote area of outback Australia (western Victoria for those with a handle on Australian geography). Part of her job is pest control, and one of the biggest problems is feral cats. When traveling through outback Oz, one of the things you notice is just how big...

From page A14 of the 13 December edition of the Wellington Dominion Post (New Zealand): A $5 million international Antarctica biodiversity project is likely to lead to the discovery of some unknown marine species. The project, named Ross Sea 2004, aims to increase understanding of the...

From the Sunday Star Times, 9 November 2003 (page A16) "A blood-sucking creature described as the marine equivalent of a giant mosquito has been discovered in New Zealand's coastal waters. The huge-eyed isopod crustaceans can grow up to 7cm long and feed like mosquitos and midges by biting...

Hey people An article in the Wellington (NZ) Dominion Post (entitled "Blanket Man gets four months' jail") mentions that a man in court on charges that he smoked cannabis while naked on the main streets of Wellington. The defendant (known locally as "Blanket Man") argued that he was a...