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Strange Falling Stones in Raigarh, India – The Fortean
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Cropster shares his latest findings on a stone throwing poltergeist–or really bad neighbors–with news this time coming from Raigarh, India. As seems typical of these stories, the people experiencing the phenomenon are terrified, and authorities are oblivious to the situation despite the news coverage. But there’s strangeness in more mainstream locales as well. The Mysterious […]

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Le Mystere du Bol de Pudding Volant – Fortean Ireland
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No French needed for reading Shane Cochrane’s typically quirky story of weird doings in the Emerald Isle. But this “UFO-explained” from 1967 comes off nearly as hard to believe as some of the guesses for the UFOs that truly cannot be explained. Also more than eye-opening is the figure in the headline Chile: 100,000 Witnesses […]

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Momo, The Missouri Monster – The Singular Fortean
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We challenge you to read about a completely different Momo. One that doesn’t look like a sexy Japanese harpy. Down in the Show-Me state Tobias Wayland’s been mucking about the Mississippi river’s wetlands, collecting accounts of something like bigfoot but completely different. If you reckon you can help the search for a specimen, or samples, […]

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Reports from the Void: 'I Swear I Believe You' – Singular Fortean Society
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Here’s a trio of cryptid stories to keep you intrigued for awhile. In a report that sounds inspired by the movie Annhilation, a witness has sent in details of his sighting of a bat-winged deer.  We bet all the deer would line up to get a pair of those babies–it would drive the wolves wild. […]

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Hell Hath No Fury Like A Cousin Scorned – Fortean Ireland
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Behold a trashy tale, not of America’s trailer parks, but the Emerald Isle. A sordid tale courtesy of Shane Cochrane, mercifully avoiding the messy details details, illustrates how a woman’s fury doesn’t summon up supernatural circumstances. On the other hand, good ol’ Nick Redfern ponders the possibilities of Men In Black As Tulpas. Rather than […]

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Reports from the Void: 'I Saw Something Strange' – Singular Fortean
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Here’s a good old fashioned encounter with the unexplained. The witness describes a blob of darkness moving across the road one night and disappearing into a parked car. Unfortunately no further information has been shared, so it’s up to our readers to decide for themselves what was going on there. Next we have something mysterious […]

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The Gorillas of Eden – The Fortean
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Hairy hominids are no stranger to Australia’s outback, but gorillas? As it goes, gorillas don’t look anything like Yowies nor bunyips which makes Paul Cropper’s recollection of these strange encounters all the more intriguing. Better yet, sightings of gorillas date back to the dawn of the 20th century! At the other end of the spectrum, […]

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Fortean Profile: Adam Benedict of the Pine Barrens Institute – Singular Fortean
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Imagine a source of cryptid and paranormal information that existed free of embellishment and ignorance. Nice, right? Now go to Wisconsin and find the Pine Barrens Institute because what you just imagined appears to be real. Plus its founder Adam Benedict has some great stories to tell. And if you like story telling, check out […]

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Great Yowie Story, Shame About The Tracks – The Fortean
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Here’s an intriguing piece accompanied by a witness interview that will leave you scratching your head just a little. Several encounters with a strange smelly bipedal creature on an Australian ranch left behind behind little in evidence other than large and disfigured footprints. An injured Yowie? Or has the Land Down Under produced an even […]

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Fish Rain in Amalapuram, India – The Fortean
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Cropster weighs in on reports from India of a phenomenon where fish have dropped from the sky. As there were witnesses to the event, he looks more deeply into the mystery and discovers that these fish sometimes jump from the water and land on shore, where members of the community gather them as food. A […]

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