‘Emma’ – the sickly work colleague of the future – is a life-sized dummy built to show how sitting all day at ergonomically-unfriendly desk might affect workers.

When popular harpist Reverend Charles Bunworth died in 1775 in County Cork, several of his friends were convinced that his passing was foretold by the “moaning and clapping” of a banshee a week earlier and then outside his very window on the night he died. And in the 1930s a young girl in County Derry […]

What constitutes parental worry has changed dramatically over the centuries. Prior to the 1900s parents in Europe worried about their kids being snatched by fairies and replaced by changelings. Tristan here recounts several creepy stories originally told by the English poet and topographer George Waldron. It’s a subject that Joshua Cutchin recently tackled in depth […]

These four articles highlight different personal results from encountering the UFO phenomenon. Tristan Shaw tells a hilarious story about 1950s contactee-claimant Buck Nelson, whose UFO convention literature even made its way into the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library archives. Shaw also gives us the darkest of sides to the human/UFO phenomenon dynamic in The Terrassa […]

Repeat after me: If you are led to the land of fairies, do not eat nor drink anything. You’d know this if you read anything by Josh Cutchin, and Tristan at Bizarre and Grotesque found there’s another dark secret behind fairy food with the potential to become a fortean fad diet! For other hardcore fairyists, […]

Even demons get the blues sometimes, it would seem. The down-and-out-lover of this story, an incubus, could not turn the head of his righteous amour who was so in love with her husband that she could love no other. The demonic creeper needed some serious work on his seduction techniques and his ability to take […]

Tristan Shaw’s got another one of those quirky humanoid stories from Japan that you’ve got to read and…well…enjoy, if not believe. Make sure you follow his side links to the “Kofu Incident” and the “Nikoro Incident,” as well. On the John Keel front, Keelian site master Doug Skinner has another installment in Special Cases–The Long […]

An unfortunate fellow in this charming English village was more than perturbed to be pursued by malevolent spirits back in the 1680s. Mind you, the sources for this story are a bit lacking, so was it Fake News? Brent Swancer continues on a similar theme, relating Scary Encounters with Evil Fairies through the ages. A […]

Poltergeist activity tends to be associated with adolescent girls, but Tristan Shaw’s found a case involving an 18th century polymath! Not given to flights of fancy, Diego de Torres Villarroel recorded some terrifying goings-on at the home of a local Countess. When you’re too chicken to spend a night in a haunted house, why not […]

Tristan Shaw translates another fascinating Spanish-language case. This CE2-physiological encounter apparently caused some serious complications for the seven-year-old boy involved. Shaw thinks a pre-existing condition caused the event, but there are, as always, elements that do not jibe in such cases. Shane Cochrane relates The Earl of Erne’s Eerie Light Mystery on the Fortean Ireland […]