Before the days of alien abductions, the Fairy Folk were up to the same sort of mischief, or so it might appear from Brent Swancer’s account of humans being reluctantly whisked away. These “harmless little spirits,â€� long-popular in children’s stories, he reckons were “certainly not always friendly.â€� (For much more on the subject of fairy […]
Not recently of course, since UK trains are more likely to be disrupted by “leaves on the line” and “the wrong sort of snow” (two of the most infamous excuses for delays given by the rail companies). In Victorian times the culprit was of the ethereal, spooky variety, and Dr Beachcombing takes a look back […]
The Professor continues marching towards the present in his cavalcade of “Faery Tales” with an attractively color-coded catalogue where the tints bear upon the “strength” or final “probity” of a case for a real phenomenon (whatever that may be!). The “Dover Demon” and Wollaton Park “lawn-mower racing gnomes” cases are surprising for rather different reasons. […]
There’s a seemingly apocryphal tale going around where Henry Hudson encountered fairies, or dwarves, during his historic voyages but The Professor can’t find any direct evidence of such in Hudson’s diaries. Instead, The Professor stumbled upon something which may indirectly support such tales by way of a venerable American Indian woman who spilled a whole […]
Folks gotta eat, especially in the UK as they gird their stiff upper lips for the Russian-backed Brexit, and Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths are hedging their bets to the tune of… well we’ll let you find out for yourself. On the other hand, Tim Binnall has a USB drive full of the greatest paranormal […]
Hungry? Nick Redfern notes the folkloric elements in one of the most interesting UFO Close Encounter stories, and the result is an appetizingly-illustrated post that provides food for thought. Less “light” is the fare discussed by Nick’s When Alien Abductees Are Watched By “Them”. Full-sized human beings seem behind some dark doings against people writing […]
Eat that, cynical and so-called “skeptics”. Try selling Neil Tyson’s underpants, or your semen-stained copy of The God Delusion, in a century and see how much that nets you or your descendents. Sadly the only money in forteana comes after death, much like fine art but at least we’re in good company. We leave you […]
Quite often an article’s headline is much zanier than its text. Such is emphatically not the case here. Brent Swancer provides a potpourri of cases that “fully catapult themselves into the furthest reaches of the extreme fringe of the bizarre, hovering out beyond all attempts to comprehend or explain them.” The first thought upon reading […]
Fairy’s been an epithet for gay dudes for the longest time, but Dr. Beachcombing wants to find out why. Four theories are floating around, and a friend of the blog provides a fifth which may shed light upon Beach’s thesis. And if fairies were cowboys, they’d certainly ride unicorns which brings us to Brent Swancer’s […]
Anthropologists unearth new species of humans every day, but they cherry pick which discoveries are worth their tenure. Perhaps they’re lurking at Mysterious Universe to evaluate Brent Swancer’s collection of oddities from Ata, Paracas skulls, and other curiousities the Smithsonian can only dream of hiding from public scrutiny. Joshua Cutchin is bolder, probably because he […]