Sacred Landscape 2024 Sat 14 Sept 2024 What makes a place sacred? Why do we feel special connections to nature or the divine in these places? What is it about these places that draws us? Join Alistair Hindmarsh, Steve Mitchell and friends as they take you on a journey through the sacred...

The B4069 near Lyneham, Wilts has been severely damaged by as-yet unexplained forces. The section of the road has been so badly damaged that the tarmac is completely snapped or lying a 45-degree angle in some places. Wiltshire Council say the road has been closed since February 17th, but some...

I've been watching some Youtube videos about Cannock Chase - a mostly wooded area in Staffordshire, UK. When I was in infant school in the mid 1960s we lived in the adjacent village of Little Haywood. I have no recollection of weird stories from so long ago about The Chase. Maybe there weren't...

There seems to be no thread devoted to earthlights (or "earth lights") of the terrestrial kind, popularized by Paul Devereux in FT. I contacted Paul and the last he wrote anything about the topic was 2010. There are some various mentions on here about will o' the wisp, UFO-related lights, some...

We've had fascinating threads on railway ghosts, sea-faring ghosts, aviation ghosts, underground/tunnel ghosts and last night, because I'm reading a novel featuring deaths on Mont Blanc, I got thinking about mountaineers who surely must have had many spooky experiences. Sure enough, there is...

1.Shifting / vanished river; Gyeongju City outskirts On my first trip to Korea last century, I literally stumbled upon an archeological site over 500 years old called Poseokjeong. It features a carved stone trough which originally decanted water from a neighbouring river just next to it...

Sudbury and Vredfort are mentioned in the article, I also know about Chicxulub in the Yucatan Peninsula. What other impact craters are out there?

Now that Mount Etna is erupting again (brilliant satellite photos on the link) it seems a good time to ask whether there are any good Fortean stories about volcanoes. Or have we become so used to the scientific descriptions of them that they no longer have an other worldly aura? Certainly in...

Do people anywhere still take the idea of ley-lines seriously? It seems to have been quite popular at some point if my 80s "weird" books are to believed, but it seems to have disappeared... did anyone ever take the idea seriously? info? anyone?

[Emp edit: A general purpose earthquake thread. Threads dealing with more specific topics: Bam: Link is obsolete. The current link is: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/bam.12536/ Afghanistan: Link is obsolete. The current link is...

Reading the thread on humans buried in concrete reminded me of a story I heard when I was a kid. I lived on a crossroads and I was told by several people that in the early years of the 20th century a house and cart had just turned one of the corners when the ground just opened up beneath them...