Some old school Forteana here, came across this entry in the excellent 'UK Paranormal database': Anti-Gravity Hill Location: Shanklin (Isle of Wight) - Nansen Hill, between Shanklin and Bonchurch Type: Other Date / Time: Still present? Further Comments: A newspaper from 1961 featured Nansen...

The Pacific Pole of Inaccessibility A long time prior to this posting, I had noticed the coincidence of HP Lovecraft locating the resting place of Cthulhu so close to the point.

A thread in "Ghosts" touched on where and when, as kids, often at slumber parties, we learned True Facts that we later learned were time honored urban legends. I think it would be interesting to see which locales were firmly fixed in our minds as kids before we learned just how universal the...

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?

Let's say you had a windfall of a nine figure sum and decided you wanted to buy a country. Or just a large piece of land to live on. Or even just the plot that your house now inhabits. What is preventing you from declaring your land, which you bought, as an independent country? Do we truly own...