"Here's one about a woman who seizes babies from their mothers and starts breast feeding them," offers a junior editor, and adds, "Californian--naturally."
"Ah, another phantom breast-feeder," McNally, whose Staff Writer title holds second position on the FT masthead, exclaims. "We haven't got enough to start a file on that yet. We'll put her in 'Human Behavior.'"
This isn't your average editorial meeting. This is the Fort-sort, a monthly meeting among the editors and staff of Britain's Fortean Times. The objective: to glean from the stacks of letters, news items and press releases sent in from 400 stringers around the world those stories weird enough for inclusion in the Fortean Times, the self-described "magazine of news, reviews, and research on strange phenomena, experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents."
