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Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p>What happened to the Fortean Times? Is that still going?</p><p>I never used to read it.</p><p>I miss not reading the Fortean Times.</p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a></p>
Michael Cox<p>New Fortean Times is out, including an article by me about the 'Tarves Beastie', an obscure Aberdeenshire haunting with surprising similarities to the Gef the Talking Mongoose case. Recommended for fans of poltergeists &amp; talking animals.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/forteana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forteana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ghosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ghosts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/hauntings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hauntings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poltergeists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poltergeists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TarvesBeastie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TarvesBeastie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GefTheTalkingMongoose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GefTheTalkingMongoose</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/aberdeenshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aberdeenshire</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>#578 Bob Rickard and Paul Sieveking (eds) - Fortean Times: The Journal of Strange Phenomena, No 127. John Brown Publishing Ltd, London, October 1999. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BobRickard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BobRickard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulSieveking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaulSieveking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedMercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedMercury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookOfTheDay</span></a></p>
Sharon of the Strange Times<p>William Corliss, who published "Sourcebooks" of anomalies, following the path of Charles Fort, writes in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> 7 that he was inspired by George McCredy Price's book on Catastrophism as an "outlaw science". This bummed me out because Price was an anti-evolution Creationist and I really dislike that underlying tone in Fortean stuff. It undermines the credibility of investigating anomalies if you have a religious agenda.</p>
Sharon of the Strange Times<p>In <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> issue 7, Janet Bord (famous Fortean and supernaturalist) insists that people are locating leylines incorrectly. And, asks - just how wide are leys on the ground versus drawn on a map? How close do the features need to be? Just touching the line or running through it? Age-old questions that never really needed an answer, it turned out.</p>
Sharon of the Strange Times<p>I've looked into the concept of leys (leylines) from their origin thanks to Alfred Watkins. But Paul Screeton in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> 5 insists that Watkins was a closet psychic who really knew these were not just alignments but "paths of subtle current" whose power and utility would soon be revealed to all. That was 1974. Still waiting. <a href="https://spookygeology.com/leylines-from-the-old-straight-track-to-the-ghostbusters-vortex/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spookygeology.com/leylines-fro</span><span class="invisible">m-the-old-straight-track-to-the-ghostbusters-vortex/</span></a></p>
Sharon of the Strange Times<p>Following through with the Berwyn Hills/Mountain incident, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> piece references The Ley Hunter of March 1974. Thanks to the incredible work of Issac Koi, you can also read THIS online. <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Ley%20Hunter,%20The/Ley%20Hunter%20-%201974%20no%2053.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazin</span><span class="invisible">es/United%20Kingdom/Ley%20Hunter,%20The/Ley%20Hunter%20-%201974%20no%2053.pdf</span></a></p>
Sharon of the Strange Times<p>The Llandrillo (Berwyn Mountain UFO) incident (Jan 1974) was covered well in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> No 5. There was green fireball, an explosion, and seismic activity recorded. It's still a very interesting case. The news first appeared in FT 3 (March 1974) and reports continued for several issues. It's a fascinating and still mysterious event. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Mountain_UFO_incident" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_M</span><span class="invisible">ountain_UFO_incident</span></a> It's interesting to read these contemporary accounts.</p>
Sharon of the Strange Times<p>For those of you interested in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fortean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortean</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weird</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a>: I’m reading through the bound editions of early Fortean Times. The text is tough to read with this old type print and bound close to the edge but I found some interesting things so far. I’ll add them to this thread. Follow <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> to not miss any.</p>
Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈<p>The biggest problem with me trying to update my Fortean Times cover gallery's index is that I keep stopping to re-read articles.</p><p><a href="https://ft.gjovaag.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ft.gjovaag.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fortean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortean</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>#85 Bob Rickard and Paul Sieveking (eds) - Fortean Times 76. John Brown Publishing Ltd, London, Aug/Sep 1994. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BobRickard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BobRickard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulSieveking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaulSieveking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookOfTheDay</span></a></p>
Jon Schoenfelder<p>I'm volunteering with the <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/ForteanTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForteanTimes</span></a> to index their back issues. Today it's stories about lost watches and cellphones being rediscovered inside fish. Strange Days indeed.</p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/FTIndex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTIndex</span></a></p>
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