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This is as much an appeal for information as it is presenting it, but I was reading a book that mentioned a legend that treasure from Ancient Greece is sunk in a lake underneath the Basilica of St. Sernin in Toulouse, France. I tried googling to explore the story further, but have come up with...

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[Tried a few different searches and couldn't find mention of these folks. I also thought about tacking this on to the old 'Flooded Kingdoms' thread or one about asteroids or megatsunamis or err...:? ] link

Anyone else ever seen this one? I had this pal (well, I still see him and his wife occasionally) back in the early-mid 90's who was absolutely obsessed with this film. I haven't seen it since watching at their house back in the day and it (surprise, surprise!!) doesn't seem to be readily...

Anybody here seen/remember this one? I rented it this past weekend, first time I'd watched sinced it was released, which would be, err... mid-90's, I guess. I don't imagine it's very well-known on either side of the pond, but a really lovely magic-realism tale of a little girl and the "selkies"...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... index.html (Link is dead)

On one hand I truly think anybody who says to themselves "nothing weird ever happens in my town" really aren't looking very hard. OTOH, from the fellow's name to, well, everything in the story, this one is, umm, different. Yep, Lawrence, Kansas: my home...

For all you cat-haters out there, no not THAT kind of sweet. As in sweets. Doesn't fully explain why my Mr. B. has a thing for premium vanilla ice cream , but then, he's weird anyway. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/07 ... index.html

http://www.kirotv.com/education/4712986/detail.html

Though based on the extremely limited information given, perhaps a microburst/downburst rather than a tornado. http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/06/khabtornado.shtml

Could not find a thread on these folks. While it's always somewhat tricky figuring out how much a 'new religious movemen't is being demonized with the 'cult' label, these folks sound like they've repeatedly been at least a little cause for concern to the civil authorities. (OTOH, both these news...

In the Redfern/Roswell thread this statement was offered: I'm not starting this to have a go a Gadaffi_Duck or anyone else, it's certainly a statement I've heard before and in this case was put better (and more politely) than a lot of other times such a proposition has been put forth, but is...

http://homepage.mac.com/chapmandave/apt ... /hogg.html

This will probably fit under an existing thread at some point, but ATM the article, to coin a phrase, seems to raise more questions than it answers as to how (if) the different pieces might be related. http://www.news10.net/storyfull1.asp?id=11456

We definitely have a contender here for 'most disgusting (not to mention horrific) strange fall of the year'. Makes the lavatory-waste-from-an-airplane stories absolutely charming by comparison. :cross eye http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=8723742

Certainly could be merged with the missing persons thread if you like, but this one seems really inexplicable.

"So, what are you doing for your Christian, Alternative Spring Break? Helping build houses in Mexico? Work at a homeless shelter/rescue mission in Detroit? Tutor on an Indian reservation?" "Nah, we're going to go surfing in Bali!" "Ah, I see. But doesn't it cost a lot of money to go to Bali?"...

Photos At the Link. Note how the evolution debate, which is at the center of this state's politics right now, goes unmentioned, even as a backdrop. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/may/2 ... he_spirit/

Plastics: Cause of Our Female Future salon.com/news/feature/2005/ ... _and_boys/ Link is dead. The MIA article (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20110212181424/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/27/plastics_and_boys/

Couldn't quite find a thread like this. Anybody remember playing or know of good examples of Frortean board games? Both 'board game' and 'fortean' are not exactly well-defined things, but I don't mean RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons or whatever and Ouija boards have their own thread. But surely...

In case it insn't self-evident, I am NOT endorsing this or suggesting that anyone send this fellow $7.95/month, OK? :D But in case you hadn't heard... http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb243327.htm

Couldn't find a thread on these folks (?)...first a reasonably positive article by the uber-establishment Time magazine about their recent conference, then an excerpt from the page for the conference. I like how Time thinks that what sounds for all the world like the attitude FT/this MB take, is...

Mods: If you want to move and/or re-title, go-ahead. Reading this leaves me at a loss. On a number of levels. This seems like more than enough to give you-all the general idea, but there's pages and pages of stuff there. :o http://jahtruth.net/index.htm

None of the various 'fortean news' threads (ridiculous accidents, endurance, bad parents, etc.) quite seemed to fit. Picture at the link. http://www.wndu.com/news/052005/news_42319.php

aka Mix 'n' Match Traditions for Fun & Profit http://press.namct.com/content/view/932/2/

There used to be a thread devoted to this little girl... She was found decapitated in a vacant lot in Kansas City, Missouri in the spring of 2001. What was more distressing, on some level, even than the brutal, horrible way she was killed and then abandoned, was that despite huge amounts of...

We're certainly all familiar with Trekkies, etc. Those folks who go somewhat beyond merely having a tape/DVD of every episode, collecting memorobilla, attending conventions and into full-blown existence of seemingly trying to insert the entirety of their own lives into a fictional universe. I'm...

http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/storypr/203358 Just to add, though I think I've mentioned it before, if anyone is driving through Kansas, The Garden of Eden in Lucas, KS is, well, there is no other description,truly one of a kind: http://www.garden-of-eden-lucas-kansas. ... ction.html

Damn. The Holy Grail of modern US orinthology/birding!!!! :spinning :yeay: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04 ... index.html

A nice, odd story. Unless it's revealed Putin had personally ordered the 'Chessboard Hit'. :o http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/m ... index.html

I'm not posting this in Conspiracy ;) but I thought thought is was worth taking note of. I've seen a satellite image of my neighborhood on the net before, so this isn't new, just more an observation how widely and easily available some kinds of information have become in such a short amount of...

I think that's what I'm asking. In the editorial of FT 194, it states that EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) "seems to... [be in]... the same scientfically disreputable---and, some might argue, feminised---realm as other forms of spirit communication such as mediumship, automatic writing and...

To be honest, I don't think this is such a great essay. The writing and editing could've been a bit tighter, IMO. In addition, I'm not sure I really buy all of the author's *reading* of the cultural moment. (To be fair, I've not seen most of the recent crop of films he cites, either.) But in any...

I was sort-of watching an X-Files rerun last night (the source of of too many of my *facts* about fortean phenomena? :oops: ) and Mulder stared talking about 'psychomantiums', rooms in Victorian-era homes that were mirrored to faciltate spirit communication. A google turns up references to the...

Makes sense. Y'all ever try to get your dishes clean after letting the rice dry? ;-) http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03 ... index.html

I'm almost tempted to put this UL/Folklore, but who knows? Have people heard it said that psychic abilities are sometimes enhanced after suffering a head injury? Paul Sieveking (I think, it has a PS notation at the bottom) says that this "has been repeatedly noted" in his obituary for one...

This is a not-infrequently-told-tale in this part of the US. As we're coming up on the 55th anniversary I did a search here and couldn't find it mentioned. Anyone outside of the states ever read this one in a "strange but true" kind of book? Know of similar occurances...

(i'm not sure if this belongs in IHTM or not...stories about people and their departed loved ones are not exactly singular events...but here goes) 2003 was a difficult year for me as I lost the two most important men in my life within an eight month period, both from cancer. I've mentioned a...

One of those things one stumbles across on the net. It's longer than I want to reproduce here, though it's not obessively long. It's different. The text is at the link, but here's the headers for each section: http://eapi.admu.edu.ph/eapr95/aloysius.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/02 ... index.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Primet ... ?id=468496 Now Peter Jennings is a fairly highly respected journalist/newsreader in this country. This is the first time in ages I can remember a major television network (this is the ABC broadcast network, not cable's Sci-Fi Channel) devoting two...

. A new musical. Seriously. I just finished reading a lenghy, gushing, fanletter of an article about it in the new New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?cri ... at_atlarge Based on the Holy Grail film, of course. It opens in Chicago tomorrow and then moves to broadway. The book and...

Hey folks. Before my trip fades too far into the past, I remember a few people (Cider? Fallen Angel? Others????) taking a bunch of snaps at the various get-togethers during Uncon. I had a camera but really didn't end up taking any. Could anyone who has pictures please PM me for my e-mail...

Contrarians that we all are, I guess it's inevitable someone's gonna disagree, but, IMO, the discovery/revelation/publication of the existence of Homo Floresensis ( http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... p?t=18498& ) is clearly the #1 weird or fortean news story of the year. Assuming...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/08/us.spy.program.ap/index.html[/u]

While the author makes some very valid points, I'm not sure I buy (cough) it completely. Yes, gold would sem to have no little intrinstic value compared to other commodities, but have there been many cultures with access to it who did not prize it? (I honestly don't know. Maybe there are many...

A number of weird animal news stories threads around, but I couldn't see one where this fit. ---lopaka http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/15/beaver.bucks.ap/index.html Beavers weave stolen cash into dam Monday, November 15, 2004 Posted: 1:59 PM EST (1859 GMT) GREENSBURG, Louisiana...

Next weekend (20-21 November) in San Antonio, Texas the American Academy of Religion ( http://www.aarweb.org/default.asp ) (the unmbrella group for academics in North America who teach and study religion) is holding its annual meeting. Like most such gatherings there is a plethora of papers...

It's been a long while since I've read anything quite this long, strange & paranoid (not to mention obsessively footnoted). ---lopaka http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/InfiltratingTheUSMilitaryGenBoykinsWarriors.html Infiltrating the U.S. Military Gen. Boykin’s “Kingdom...

There's something slightly 'off' here to my eye. I don't know genetics, but if they're even fraternal twins couldn't that be determined to greater certainty than "DNA testing confirmed with 98% accuracy that the toddlers share at least one parent, most likely their mother."? In any case... I...