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- From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Anyone here read the Fortean Times?
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 04:40:03 GMT
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- jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
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- > Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:
- >
- > > Have any of you guys seen the Fortean Times? It was started yonks
- > >ago by a Mr Forte (or some such.) It exists purely to report ULs. They make
- > >no attempt to explain the causes - scientific vs spooky - they just report
- > >wierd newspaper stories, strange occurrences, etc. The pictures and stories
- > >are fabulous. Many of the (untrue) legends from the FAQ I have already
- > >seen reported in this magazine. I'm just suprised it's not in the FAQ,
- > >itself.
- >
- > I believe the Mr. Forte you refer to is Charles Forte, and the Fortean
- > Times undoubtedly is published by the society which bears his name. They
- > are into investigating unexplained phenomana of all types, though they seem
- > fairly content to leave such things as ghosts and UFOs to others.
- >
- > I first became acquainted with them a couple years back when I ran across a
- > book in the Undergraduate Library here at Purdue called _Unexplained_Mysterie
- > (I THINK that was the title, it's been awhile). I've always been interested
- > in such things, and I found the book to be fascinating reading. It went from
- > cryptozoology -- which I always thought was just dealing with things like
- > Bigfoot and the Yeti, but actually encompasses much more, to other stories th
- > I'd never heard before.
- >
- > Stories like a rash of attempted abductions of children several years ago by
- > people in clown suits -- very similar clown suits, and the Mad Gasser of
- > Matoon (anyone heard this story? Pretty bizarre).
- >
- > All this is from memory, and it's been awhile. So if anyone's interested,
- > I'll go look up the book in the library again.
- >
- > Jonathan "Darn it, can't think of anything to put between my names"
- > Neuenschwander
- >
- >
- > ___ |Jonathan |Internet:jonathan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu|Whom computers
- > |__||Neuenschwander|NeXTmail:buzz@symphony.cc.purdue.edu |would destroy, the
- > | | |America Online:Buzz Lee |must first drive m
- >
- > --
- > ___ |Jonathan |Internet:jonathan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu|Whom computers
- > |__||Neuenschwander|NeXTmail:buzz@symphony.cc.purdue.edu |would destroy, the
- > | | |America Online:Buzz Lee |must first drive m
- >
-
- For those not familiar with Charles Fort, he was writer who read a lot of
- newspapers and scanned a lot of scientific journals for odd happenings.
- Raining frogs and fish, odd disappearances of people and the like.
- He wrot 4 books like this that are still in print and still entertaining
- reads. They are often available as a set. He is considered the father
- of the study of Anomalous Happenings. Definitely check him out.
-
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