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Fiery objects rising from the ocean
" Very largely we shall concern ourselves with enormous fiery objects that have either plunged into the ocean or risen from the ocean", writes Fort in his The Book of the Damned. Among the many...
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Doubly Damned: Dorothy's Disappearance
During the course of the publications of his Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents and New Lands, Fort wrote and received many letters. These letters became scattered after his death in 1932. Fortean...
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26 human ears - cut off
Scanning old newspapers, one comes across some very odd things. One of these is accounts of the discoveries of uncanny amounts of human parts. Suitcases overflowing with human hair. Collections of...
View Articlethe mystery of the cut-off human ears solved
I admit that, after my last post, my thoughts involuntarily drifted back to that strange account of the parcel containing freshly cut-off human ears. What frightening serial ear collector or worse was...
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If you saw me you would be petrified
Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 18 December 1936. One of the most unsettling tales in the dark corners of Fortean cryptozoology is that of Gef, the talking mongoose. Before such...
View ArticleRosa Lotti's CEIIIK: a pictorial predecessor
Usually I refrain myself from posting preliminary and still unformed thoughts on various fortean subjects. Most of the times, I make a mental note and promise myself that one day, given enough time...
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Nova Scotia's Phantom of Parker Road
The Parker Road Phantom makes a brief appearance in Steve Vernon's Maritime Monsters. Illustration by Jeff Solway. Beginning of April, 1969, the little town of Berwick, Nova Scotia, was plagued by a...
View ArticleThe hidden roots of the 23 Enigma
In the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea I first encountered the rudiments of the 23 enigma. As the history of the origin of the 23 enigma has it, Robert Anton Wilson first...
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The Black Flash of Cape Cod
In the late 1930s, a frightening and phantomlike creature plagued Provincetown, Massachusetts. One October evening in 1938, so tradition speaks, a bizarre entity emerged from the dunes, "dressed in...
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