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Anomalous phenomena and weird ideas: from Atlantis to Zeta Reticuli, from Alchemy to Zen Buddhism, from Akhenaten to Zelazny, from Ancient Astronauts to Zero-Point Energy.

Futuristic gadgets of the 1930s [ Pulp magazines, retro technology, science fiction]

Ambiguous Symbolism [ Art, Symbolism, The Bible]

Enigmatic Art [ Art, Symbolism, The Bible]

What's going on here? [ Fortean Times, Simulacra]

The Principle of the Excluded Middle [ Charles Fort, philosophy, The Bible, ufology]

The First Radio Hoax? [ hoaxes, satire]

Alien Politics [ Aliens, politics, UFOs]

Chronological Snobbery [ Fortean Times, History, Myth-conceptions]

Galileo wasn't always right... [ Astronomy, Myth-conceptions, Physics, The Bible]

Saint Patrick of Glastonbury? [ History, legends, Religion, Saints]

The Einstein Misconception [ Fortean Times, Myth-conceptions, Physics]

The First Paranormal Investigator? [ ghosts, hauntings, paranormal, skepticism]

The End of Books [ prophecy, retro technology, science fiction]

Angels in Machines [ Art, Astronomy, poetry, satire]

A Virtual Spaceship [ Astronomy, Physics, Pulp magazines, science fiction, space travel, ufology]

Devilish superstitions [ Archaeology, Earth mysteries, folklore, Sacred sex]

The History of Biblical Literalism [ Archaeology, History, mythology, Religion, The Bible]

Annual Report [ Aliens, Fortean Times, retrospective, Simulacra]

On the Diverse Benefits of being Struck by Lightning [ fossils, legends, phenomena, strange but true]

Green Children from Outer Space [ Aliens, Ancient astronauts, Fortean places, Knights Templar, legends, Theories]

Art and Archaeology [ Archaeology, Art]

Fortean Statistics [ Cryptozoology, Fortean Times, SETI, Theories]

Another Templar Head [ Conspiracy theories, Knights Templar, Secret societies]

The Mystic Nativity [ Art, Religion, Symbolism]

Trojans in Taunton and Totnes [ Archaeology, legends, mythology, New Age]

Searching for alien artifacts [ Aliens, Astronomy, Physics, SETI, space travel]

Fossil Hoaxes and Simulacra [ fossils, hoaxes, Simulacra]

Sea Serpents, Logic and Lewis Carroll [ Cryptozoology, philosophy]

Wikipedia's Hive Mind [ skepticism, Wikipedia]

Anthropic principles [ Astronomy, Fortean Times, metaphysics, Theories, weird science]

The government asks an astrologer for help (1666) [ astrology, Coincidences, History, prophecy]

Moon Aliens [ Aliens, Conspiracy theories, science fiction, space travel, ufology, UFOs]

Descent into Limbo [ Art, demons, legends, Religion, Saints, Symbolism]

Con Artists [ Art, comics, hoaxes]

Lisztomania [ Art, music, phenomena]

The Loch Ness Monster, a cloned sheep and a dubious dog [ Cryptozoology, legends, Simulacra]

Shadow of the Feathered Serpent [ Archaeology, Earth mysteries, Fortean places, prophecy, pyramids]

The Year Without a Summer [ phenomena, poetry, prophecy]

Neal Adams and his Theory [ comics, Fortean Times, New Age, Theories, weird science]

Gods of the Bible [ Ark of the Covenant, demons, H. P. Lovecraft, Religion, The Bible]

Words and music by Desmond Leslie [ Atlantis, music, New Age, ufology, UFOs]

William Buckland: an early Fortean experimenter [ Cryptozoology, folklore, fossils, phenomena, unexplained]

The Ancient Mariner [ demons, drugs, H. P. Lovecraft, poetry]

David Hume: a skeptic in the 18th century [ comics, paranormal, philosophy, skepticism]

The Bible's Excluded Middle [ Archaeology, History, The Bible, Theories]

Ghost town UFO? [ Fortean places, ufology, UFOs]

Otto Klemperer and the Large Black Dog [ Coincidences, Cryptozoology, hauntings, music, strange but true]

Satori - ape, goat-man or deer? [ Buddhism, Cryptozoology, folklore, legends]

The Wikipedia Authorship Question [ Shakespeare, Theories, Wikipedia]

Ningyo: the ugly little mermaid [ Cryptozoology, folklore, hoaxes, legends]

The School of Athens [ Art, Atlantis, Gnosticism, Leonardo Da Vinci, Philip K. Dick, philosophy]

Mach's Principle [ Astronomy, metaphysics, philosophy, Physics, Theories, weird science, Wikipedia]

A Gnostic fable [ Gnosticism, philosophy, satire]

The Great Pyramid, and other British inventions [ Archaeology, History, prophecy, pyramids, Theories]

More things in Heaven and Earth [ comics, ghosts, paranormal, Shakespeare]

The man who invented aliens [ Aliens, Astronomy, metaphysics, philosophy, The Bible]

Paranormal investigation, 18th century style [ Art, folklore, hoaxes, paranormal, satire]

Descartes and the Buddha [ Buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy]

Simulacra in fiction [ John Dickson Carr, Simulacra]

The Phantom Time Hypothesis [ Archaeology, Conspiracy theories, Fortean Times, History]

Devil-worship [ demons, Gnosticism, legends, occult, Religion, witchcraft]

King Arthur's Stone [ Archaeology, Fortean places, legends, mythology, poetry]

Montségur and the fall of the Cathars [ Alchemy, Ark of the Covenant, The Da Vinci Code, Fortean places, Fortean Times, Gnosticism, Knights Templar, Lionel Fanthorpe, Rennes-le-Chateau]

Philip K. Dick, music critic [ music, Philip K. Dick, Richard Wagner, Symbolism]

Stranger than fiction [ Physics, ufology, weird science]

John Brunner: a British Philip K. Dick? [ drugs, Gnosticism, John Brunner, Philip K. Dick, science fiction]

UFOs: the forgotten book [ ufology, UFOs]

Space Odyssey [ Lionel Fanthorpe, mythology, science fiction]

Cold War collaboration [ Conspiracy theories, History, John Brunner, strange but true]

Psychic archaeology [ Archaeology, Architecture, Fortean places, spiritualism, strange but true]

Wikipedia versus Forteana [ Conspiracy theories, ufology, weird science, Wikipedia]

A sixteenth century dinosaur [ Art, Cryptozoology, demons, fossils, legends, Saints]

Secret Knowledge... by Mail Order [ comics, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pulp magazines, Secret societies]

The Mystery of Flight 19 [ phenomena, Pulp magazines, Richard Shaver, unexplained]

An anomaly from the early days of TV [ Fortean Times, phenomena, strange but true]

Philip K. Dick - two early British viewpoints [ Kohn Brunner, Philip K. Dick, science fiction]

The Swinging Sixties (1950-style) [ Coincidences, prophecy, Pulp magazines, science fiction]

Paranormal Classification, circa 250 BC [ Buddhism, paranormal]

Fortean Events that Shook the World [ Aliens, Conspiracy theories, The Da Vinci Code, paranormal, Religion, ufology]

Dorset's Red Sea [ phenomena, Simulacra, strange but true]

A Wagnerian Thor [ comics, mythology, Richard Wagner]

The Bomb-Proof Museum [ Archaeology, Conspiracy theories, Fortean places, History]

Hyperbolic Orbit [ History, Myth-conceptions, Physics, space travel]

From Myth to Reality [ Architecture, Fortean Times, Myth-conceptions, strange but true]

Black Easter [ demons, occult, science fiction]

An important discovery about animal magnetism [ Alternative therapies, legends, strange but true, Theories]

Dragons and dinosaurs [ Cryptozoology, fossils, legends]

The Alien Pharaoh [ Aliens, Ancient astronauts, Archaeology, Philip K. Dick, Theories]

Tantric Buddhism [ Buddhism, Sacred sex, Symbolism]

Crystal-gazing [ occult, prophecy, Theories]

An Intercontinental Rapid Transit System (1829) [ Art, prophecy, retro technology, satire]

Novel space technologies [ Sacred sex, science fiction, space travel, weird science]

Smoking simulacrum [ Simulacra]

An Unlikely Guru [ Buddhism, New Age, science fiction]

Forgotten Explorer [ Art, History, satire]

Damned Data [ Art, Knights Templar, Religion, Secret societies, Theories]

Magic Words [ Coincidences, Gnosticism, New Age, Religion, Symbolism, Theories]

A Trip to the Witches' Sabbath [ drugs, Fortean Times, John Dickson Carr, occult, Pulp magazines, witchcraft]

Zen Forteana [ Aliens, Buddhism, Fortean Times]

Underground Art [ demons, Fortean places, hauntings, legends, Leonardo Da Vinci, Saints]

Japanese reactor repair, 1970s style [ Fortean Times, strange but true]

A Polish Pact with the Devil [ Fortean places, legends, occult, Simulacra]

The Person from Porlock [ Aliens, Conspiracy theories, drugs, poetry, science fiction]

Death Rays of the 1920s and 30s [ History, retro technology, science fiction, weird science]

Roche Rock simulacrum [ Coincidences, Fortean places, Fortean Times, Simulacra]

Jurassic ink [ fossils, strange but true, weird science]

Pulp Buddhism [ Buddhism, occult, Pulp magazines, science fiction]

Travellers from the Stars [ Aliens, Ancient astronauts, comics, science fiction]

A "true" FOAF tale [ strange but true, urban legends]

Berlin's Chamber of Horrors [ Fortean places, History]

Hellfire Caves [ Fortean places, Sacred sex, Secret societies]

Nick Pope at the MOD [ ufology]

Sinister Barrier: the first Fortean novel [ Eric Frank Russell, Pulp magazines, science fiction]

The Double Helix of God (1914) [ metaphysics, Religion, Theories, weird science]

The Daemon of Tedworth [ demons, Fortean places, H. P. Lovecraft, hauntings, phenomena, unexplained]

Fortean Times in popular culture [ Alchemy, Fortean Times, science fiction, video games]

A Victorian Theology of Everything [ Ark of the Covenant, Religion, Sacred sex, Symbolism, Theories]

The Hierophant Mystery [ Fortean Times, satire, Theories, unexplained]

Califorteana [ astrobiology, Fortean places, ghosts, hauntings]

Seth Shostak on SETI (1983) [ Aliens, astrobiology, Astronomy, SETI]

Vatican Cosmology [ Astronomy, The Da Vinci Code, Religion]

Yeti Relic [ Buddhism, Cryptozoology, Fortean places]

Ball Lightning in the Laboratory [ phenomena, Physics, unexplained, weird science]

Alien-looking demon (1941) [ Aliens, Coincidences, demons, Pulp magazines, science fiction]

Demonic-looking Cat [ Cryptozoology, demons, Simulacra]

The Dalai Lama, quantum physics and UFOs [ Aliens, Buddhism, New Age, Physics, ufology, UFOs]

Ufology in a reputable journal [ ufology, UFOs]

Cosmic Geometry in the West Country [ Archaeology, Astronomy, Coincidences, Earth mysteries, Fortean places, New Age, Theories]

The Devil of Rennes-le-Chateau [ Coincidences, Religion, Rennes-le-Chateau, Sacred sex, Symbolism]

Fanthorpe's Fortean Fiction [ Lionel Fanthorpe, Pulp magazines, science fiction, UFOs]

Fortean World Heritage Sites [ Archaeology, History, Fortean places, New Age, pyramids, Religion, Theories]

Dinosaur Orbit [ Astronomy, Coincidences, Physics, space travel, weird science]

Dorset Myth-conception [ Myth-conceptions, Simulacra, urban legends]

UFO Simulacrum [ Coincidences, Simulacra, UFOs]

Phony Space Missions [ science fiction, space travel]

Voodoo Recycling [ occult, paranormal, Pulp magazines, science fiction]

UFO Detector [ ufology, UFOs, weird science]

Precogging Philip K. Dick [ Philip K. Dick, Pulp magazines, Richard Shaver, science fiction]

Sixteenth century alien [ Aliens, Art, Religion]

The Face on Mars (1958) [ Aliens, Astronomy, Coincidences, comics]

Experimental Metaphysics [ Ark of the Covenant, Fortean Times, metaphysics, Religion, spiritualism, The Bible]

The Great Moon Hoax [ Astronomy, Conspiracy theories, Fortean Times, satire]

Goya's Shadow [ Art, Coincidences, Pulp magazines]

The Black Buddha of Stonehenge [ Buddhism, Religion, Theories]

Alien Simulacrum [ Aliens, Art, Fortean Times, Simulacra]

Wikipedia Prophecy (1909) [ prophecy, satire, science fiction, Wikipedia]

The Da Vinci Code and Medieval Symbolism [ Art, The Da Vinci Code, Fortean Times, History, Leonardo Da Vinci, Religion, Saints, Symbolism]

Copyright © 2012 Andrew May