Good news for Troy McClure.

Great article about Wotjek the Bear, who served with the Polish Army in World War 2 . " A bear, famed for his love of beer, cigarettes and boxing and who was by the side of Allied troops in World War Two, has been made the subject of a play. Wojtek was adopted by the 2nd Polish Corps in 1943...

Apparently everything has to now be viewed through the prism of TikTok and Netflix: Woman films shark in River Thames – everyone's saying Netflix horror 'warned us' A shark has been filmed swimming in London's River Thames this week and one particular haunting film keeps getting mentioned by...

@Fabio Picasso This is the thread for us. And everyone else of course :twothumbs: This includes the Green Man phenomenon but that already has its own thread: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-green-man.435/ This topic includes but is not limited to * Adam's Pips (!) *...

Great story made better by the intervention of mobile phone autocorrection. Mystery as doctor finds live goldfish in garden 2 June 2024 By Pamela Bilalova & PA Media, BBC North East & Cumbria A junior doctor has ended up with a new pet after a goldfish mysteriously appeared in his garden. Dr...

The Time 122 Mule Deer Fell to Their Deaths in the Sierra Nevada A little more than five years ago, a herd of 122 mule deer fell to their deaths in the mountains of Central California. The pictures from that day are gruesome: dozens of dead deer strewn across a steep boulder field at the bottom...

Has anyone else seen a ghost of their pet or had spooky experiences after the death of an animal? I have had a couple of experiences like this. The first was after my Dad had taken one of my dogs to be put to sleep. I was about 20 and I was laying on the grass in our back garden. I was looking...

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Anew species of scorpion, aargh!

The Grauniad Tortoise realdolls!

I was in a taxi tonight coming through East London on my way home from work. It was 23:50. I noticed out of my corner of my eye a large flock of birds which looked like seagulls swooping around. I cricked my neck and reckon there were scores of them I spent he first 24 years of my life on the...

Goose photographed flying upside down telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildli ... -down.html Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20090523084442/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5353933/Goose-photographed-flying-upside-down.html...

I was going to add this to the Bees thread, but thought better of it. It's along similar lines, though: where are the wasps? I haven't seen any this year and we usually get quite a few, so what happened to them? Granted, they are the scariest animal in Britain and I don't really miss them...

Well if Alexius had said Sufi's ha mystic crocs I'd probably have signed up on the spot!!!! Source

This has to be one of the most bizarre UL/superstitions I've heard, it was told to me by my 78 year old neighbour this afternoon, who heard it from a friend at his social club. He claimed that spiders are allergic to conkers, and if you place conkers or chestnuts around the house, you won't...

yes another spider thread :D ive been thinking about this for some time:- why spiders build webs around or near outdoor electric lights sources have they (spiders) learned to associate lights with food? and when did this behaviour begin?

People always refer to it as being some kind of strange phenomena but was it that widespread and has it really gone? I do remember there being quite a lot of it being around in the eigthies but why would it disappear? Some thoughts: 1. Some change in dog food? Unlikely. 2. Pavement...

Okay - well I found this very good post (by cthulhu) on the excellent memepool.com site - 27th Feb 2003. Slight edit. memepool.com is well worth a daily visit.

Although not Fortean, I found this site and was amused. fortunately there are no pictures. Update: Link dead; host domain indicates site / webpage is extinct. - EnolaGaia, August 2018

yesterday night i went to see a film. walking, on the way back, the ground was damp, but there weren't many snails. and then i came to a pavement which was literally covered in snails... a section of it *bad at estimating* some 2 and a half metres long with snails no further than 6 inches apart...

... which would be a fortean subject by itself :) Does anyone remember the name of the book about dodo-like birds found alive and well on a small South Pacific island? I think it was written by the man who set up Jersey zoo (whose name escapes me now...). Stop me if I begin to make sense...

There's a fascinating programme on Radio 4 at the moment, dealing with the fringes of medicine. This week it concerns animals. So far we've had dogs being able to smell cancer in growths (even picking the most dangerous one from a number of melanomas on one person) and dogs being able to detect...