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I'm going to grumble slightly about the Pokémon Go article. First of all it is not a Nintendo game. Nintendo own a 1/3 of the rights to the characters and gave permission for them to by used by a third party. They have the sum total of bugger all to do with the development of the game. Lots of...

Similar happened to my parents in a hotel when they were on honeymoon. They were up early and went to the front desk to check out and pay the bill. They couldn't find anyone to pay so in the end they just left!

What I mean is that these are things that are referenced in popular culture as if they were still commonplace or normal. You say that you heard music in lifts and the dial tone when someone puts the phone down years ago, so not recent enough to make it a common experience then. (also you don't...

Really? I've been in lifts all over the world and I'm yet to hear any.

There are so many things like this though. I mean to keep starting a thread about them. Things like music in lifts, putting your occupation on your passport application, pictures of cottages on chocolate boxes and the dial tone when someone puts the phone down on you. You only ever see this in...

I mentioned this is the thread for the current issue of FT but I will repeat it here. My maiden name is uncommon but not unusual. It is uncommon enough for me to notice when it is mentioned in print, on the credits of a film etc. I therefore noticed that it made an appearance early on in the...

Now here is a nice little bit of synchronicity. Early on in the issue my maiden name is mentioned. It's not an unusual but it's uncommon enough for me to notice it. As I saw it I thought to myself, 'well of course to be Fortean my (equally uncommon) married name should be mentioned.' Three...

I thought it was odd. It looked like it could have been her dress rucked up, but it just didn't quite work.

I did do a search and couldn't find a thread. And I wonder why I don't bother posting her much any more............................

Oi - I don't have alien children, or dreamcatchers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36024009 White lines painted around a boulder, thought to have been in place 11,000 years in an attempt to make it safer, have been described as an "eyesore" and "horrific" on social media. The stone in Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, was under...

Got it here at Bin Towers too. I assume we all got three symbols on the lucky ticket?

I thought this issue was rather meh except for Mike Dash's article. Even the had an article in the bit about the deformities that were forced on the children. (which I would have liked to have had a little warning before it as it was very graphic). To be honest the rest that I have read so far...

We were taught about him at school Rynner as he was a local hero. We were also taught about the unfairness of the whole situation. A surprisingly scientific small village. The local school was founded by Robert Boyle - as in Boyle's Law.

The best issue for a long time. Lots of interesting stuff in this one. I was very please to see Benjamin Jesty getting a mention, seeing as how he is a distant relative and I grew up in his home village.

My mother bought me the Weirdstone when I was a child. I couldn't read it as the names or the two children are the same as my parents.

I never have that much change!! But you are right, the designs are interesting. And the question about them being legal tender - I don't think they are, but they are the same size and shape as British coins and you could give and receive them in change without noticing. Any way, here is...

Nothing too odd but I thought I would share a couple of occasions when coins have randomly appeared. About 10 years ago I went to Japan with my husband. We were waiting in the departures of Heathrow when I left him sitting with our bags while I went to the toilet. When I got back my husband...

I found the Virgina Wolfe article dull and tenuous to be honest. The rest of it was interesting enough though.

The picture isn't unusual - I was just pointing out that that is the post where she talk about the unusual find. I really don't understand why so many people are getting funny about them filming. If someone asked me that I wouldn't give it a second thought.

This thread starts out as rather dull - a person wants to come and visit the house where they lived as a child because some bad happened there. However, the OP then goes on to say that this was her parents house and now hers and they have stripped it back to the bare brick and recounts the...

I will confess that I've not seen it. I'm hoping it will be a sleeper hit. Still, even if it tanks, he made a godamn film and got in on general release.

Glad to hear that you liked Maggie, Ramon. It was directed by my cousin FACT! I like the item about the Hobs. A good mix of articles in this issue.

I have the same complaint. I have had not one free gift in the 15 years since I subscribed.

I run in the morning and tend to listen to podcasts as I do. Usually it just starts to play the next one but as this one was the last in the list so there was nothing else to play. As i had about five minutes to go I selected a song. It finished just as I got back and the next song started to...

I'm not complaining. Interesting forgotten history stuff, but doesn't quite fit the remit.

I'm only half way through and I agree, a good solid issue. I found the oscillation article interesting but I'm not sure how it fits in with Forteana though.

I enjoyed it. I like the way that it was all left rather open, it could have been the children. Things like the curtain strangling Janet all took place outside of the sight of adults.

I think the problem Pete is that Forteana is a very broad church. I personally can't be bothered with UFOs but to many that is the cornerstone. In every recent issue there has been at least one article that I have go so far though and then just not bothered finishing. I think I read every...

The one about politicians rubbed me up the wrong way. I liked the stuff about the earlier politicians but talking about current ones pissed me off rather. Firstly the author seemed to be very pro Gove, that makes me take a dislike to someone from the start. Then he was very dismissive of the...

I decided to get rid of them by realising that I have never yet felt the need to refer back to them. Also, I was thinking about getting some proper document storage boxes and putting them in the loft. Thinking about it that seemed a daft thing to do. What is the point in keeping them really?

I'm having a clear out and I've decided to ditch my old FTs. I've got all the issues from September 2001 onwards. If anyone wants them all I'll ask is the cost of postage. (or you can collect if you are in Suffolk). Thanks

Has no one else had theirs yet, or am I the only person sad enough to start a thread? Mine arrived at Bin Towers on Friday. Vampires seems to be the main theme. Is there something going on with the light levels at FT HQ? I ask because so many pictures seem to be printed too dark. I had to...

They do that without asking though Gray. As a rule Mumsnet don't like the Daily Fail. I do like the logic of flying being a memory of being carried, especially being carried downstairs as you are likely to be carried downstairs until an older ages than being carried in general. I only have...

Now now Yith you are confusing Mumsnet with The Daily Mail. They are very different.

Mumsnet to be precise. Interesting read - a lot of people who recall flying down the stairs, which one person suggests might be memories of being carried down the stairs. http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2333787-Do-you-have-any-memories-that-you-arent-sure-are-real Be polite about Mumsnet...

Can I confess that I found this one of the dullest issues in a long time. Other that the one about the farm I can't recall a single article in it. This may say more about me than anything else though.

Same here. I just couldn't read it.

A friend of mine got pregnant without having actual sex, just foreplay.

To me that just looks like lens flare from the light on the bridge.

Am I alone in seeing nothing unusual in the picture of the moon over the bridge.

I agree about the horror comic item. It didn't seem to tell me anything about them really.

I might have a look in WHSmiths tomorrow and see if I've had it. They seemed to be coming every other week a while ago, and not I've not had anything for ages.

I seem to have missed this issue entirely! What was on the front cover? I might be going mad and have forgotten all the articles.

I just see that as proof that not one issue has ever been printed with a mention of Crowley.

I remember a thread on a popular website where someone was saying her French au pair :? was complaining that eating sandwiches for lunch was making her ill. The other posters on the thread agreed saying that if they ate sandwiches for lunch everyday then they would be ill too. Is this...

I agree. I especially dislike when people have a 'intolerance' but say they have an allergy. It makes people with real allergies seem whiney.

I second the above post. A great issue.

I love Mumsnet. It gets a very bad press. (You didn't start the thread did you? I talk to RP on MN quite a lot).

Here too, just started to read it but I felt the need to come here and grumble only a few pages in. There is an item about Bolivia's government flipping the clock on their building over and getting to to run the other way. The article says 'a direction known elsewhere as counterclockwise...