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The Knockmore Apparitions – Fortean Ireland
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There’s never been a shortage of religious visions on the Emerald Isle, and back in 1880 the folk of Knockmore had a whole bundle of them at their chapel. And just recently, across the water in Wales, a strange apparition photographed at a window is The Latest Ghost Sighting in the Haunted Town of Caernarfon. […]

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Did a Yowie Throw That Stone? – The Fortean
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If there are rocks coming at hapless people from out of nowhere, count on Cropster to be there. In this case it’s not polts he’s investigating, but Australia’s own hairy man, the Yowie. Reports of these rock slinging cryptids are common to both Aboriginals and Europeans, and include tales of shapeshifting as well as stalking. […]

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Ghost Writer: The Humpty Doo Poltergeist – The Fortean
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Cropster gives us a new perspective on an Australian poltergeist incident, through the eyes of freelance writer Max Anderson. It’s an entertaining and enlightening walk through the spook world, and its first person narrative will keep you reading to the very end. With A Poltergeist in San Marcos, Nicaragua, we are treated to a translated […]

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The Tamnadeese Terror – Fortean Ireland
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There’s no shortage of spooky stories on the island of Ireland, and in 1992 a spirit, who had perhaps been imbibing spirits, was terrifying drivers in County Derry. Her identity was never discovered, but her appearances have never been forgotten. And if you thought the 90s introduced the club scene, consider the Faerie Party Protocol: […]

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A Poltergeist in Sanyati, Zimbabwe – The Fortean
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Some of the most confounding reports we read concern poltergeist activity in Africa, more specifically in Zimbabwe. There are elements of strangeness to the phenomenon there that so far escape explanation. Cropster brings us this rather eerie report as relayed to him by a fellow researcher met while on location in Zimbabwe. It seems the […]

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Do You Remember The First Time? – Fortean Ireland
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Well, William Nesbitt certainly does, when on New Year’s Eve 1963 he picked up a hitchhiker en-route to Belfast, only to have the young colleen disappear before his very eyes. Other similar stories have since been told–but proving them is somewhat difficult. And in Iceland, The Seer and the Unseen is a documentary film that […]

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The Ballymoney Mystery Light – Fortean Ireland
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Some early UFOs, Old World and New… Could the producers of Episode 2 of the tv series Project Blue Book really have been onto something when they latched on to the “owl” explanation for the Flatwoods Monster? Shane Cochrane may have you wondering in this lead article. Fast forward 44 years from Northern Ireland to […]

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The Slide-Rock Bolter – The Singular Fortean Society
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As many of our readers are aware, strange folklore, both written and oral, is often rooted in historical truth. And sometimes, as you will realize in reading this post, it’s rooted in just keeping people safe or reminding them to keep out of the places they don’t belong. So it makes sense that a talking, […]

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Stone Throwing Ghost in Amguri, India – The Fortean
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Cropster adds another location to the growing list of stone throwing polt activity, this time in India and focused on two neighboring homes. We admire his ability to report well and remain objective, leaving it to his readers to discern what may be going on with this ever widening  spread of strangeness. Tulpas? Aircraft? US […]

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Taping the Tapping Ghost – Fortean Ireland
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Here’s a surprising article from the Belfast Telegraph in 1960. An actual “Ghost Recording” group was called in to uncover evidence of a haunting, documenting its findings which were then published in a serious fashion in the newspaper–no fancy gadgets or film crews or ghost hunters becoming possessed by the evil spirits of those who […]

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