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No, not a spelling mistake, but previous to finding this forum I was constantly on a mailing list for Fortean fans, based around the Fortean Times magazine readership and dealing in the strange and unexplained events, past, present and sometimes even future.
I started to read Fortean Times when I was about 18, while it was still picking up a readership and way before all the fuss about fortean phenomena started. It called to be in a newsagents and I ended up picking it up on a trip to London as it had an interesting cover. It soon interested me so much that I became a subscriber for 3 years and that is when I found the mailing list. University came in very handy here, there was free internet access (back when home internet access was anything but free) and plenty of time to indulge in the hundreds of mails that would pour in throughout the day.
We discussed many things, Unidentified Flying Objects, strange Men In Black sightings, Black Dogs (very popular theme in the west country) and government conspiracy theories were some of the orders of the day. There were members from all over the world and I even had a very kind lady from Texas sending me UFO documentaries from US TV (along with Twinkies and other stuff!) What interested (and still interests) me is that there are likeminded people who don’t balk at me discussing why the government has covered up another UFO sighting as a US army research facility or that an elf had been spotted in a forest in Herts.
How I started being interested in Fortean Phenomena is a mystery in itself. It’s not like I woke up one morning and decided to take an interest in strange objects in the sky, it just seems to have been in me from the start. I’ve always had a liking for ghost stories and particularly those that were more factual than fantasy based and I’ve been an avid reader of people’s accounts of strange sightings on Bodmin and beyond. There is something in me that still believes in magic. Oh, not Paul Daniels style conjuring or anything like that, but REAL magic. It’s slightly more acceptable now (but, I’m sure will die out again as we get further from the Millennium effect that causes an interest in everything strange) People would really look at me in a funny way if I confessed that I didn’t think fairies being real was a strange thing, but I don’t and I don’t see why some people are so blinkered against anything they think doesn’t make sense in their little world. Sooner or later, Science may find answers to some of the things we think are weird and out of this world, but some will never be answered by science, and why should they? Where is the fun in knowing exactly how everything works when you can’t enjoy it for what it is?
So, it’s been a long time since I was a member of the Fortean mailing list, and I’m sure they’ve all forgotten me now, if there are in fact any original members left there at all, but my interest in anything strange and beyond reasoning has never dwindled and I continue my journey into the unknown, undaunted.
I started to read Fortean Times when I was about 18, while it was still picking up a readership and way before all the fuss about fortean phenomena started. It called to be in a newsagents and I ended up picking it up on a trip to London as it had an interesting cover. It soon interested me so much that I became a subscriber for 3 years and that is when I found the mailing list. University came in very handy here, there was free internet access (back when home internet access was anything but free) and plenty of time to indulge in the hundreds of mails that would pour in throughout the day.
We discussed many things, Unidentified Flying Objects, strange Men In Black sightings, Black Dogs (very popular theme in the west country) and government conspiracy theories were some of the orders of the day. There were members from all over the world and I even had a very kind lady from Texas sending me UFO documentaries from US TV (along with Twinkies and other stuff!) What interested (and still interests) me is that there are likeminded people who don’t balk at me discussing why the government has covered up another UFO sighting as a US army research facility or that an elf had been spotted in a forest in Herts.
How I started being interested in Fortean Phenomena is a mystery in itself. It’s not like I woke up one morning and decided to take an interest in strange objects in the sky, it just seems to have been in me from the start. I’ve always had a liking for ghost stories and particularly those that were more factual than fantasy based and I’ve been an avid reader of people’s accounts of strange sightings on Bodmin and beyond. There is something in me that still believes in magic. Oh, not Paul Daniels style conjuring or anything like that, but REAL magic. It’s slightly more acceptable now (but, I’m sure will die out again as we get further from the Millennium effect that causes an interest in everything strange) People would really look at me in a funny way if I confessed that I didn’t think fairies being real was a strange thing, but I don’t and I don’t see why some people are so blinkered against anything they think doesn’t make sense in their little world. Sooner or later, Science may find answers to some of the things we think are weird and out of this world, but some will never be answered by science, and why should they? Where is the fun in knowing exactly how everything works when you can’t enjoy it for what it is?
So, it’s been a long time since I was a member of the Fortean mailing list, and I’m sure they’ve all forgotten me now, if there are in fact any original members left there at all, but my interest in anything strange and beyond reasoning has never dwindled and I continue my journey into the unknown, undaunted.
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No, not a spelling mistake, but previous to finding this forum I was constantly on a mailing list for Fortean fans, based around the Fortean Times magazine readership and dealing in the strange and unexplained events, past, present and sometimes even future.
I started to read Fortean Times when I was about 18, while it was still picking up a readership and way before all the fuss about fortean phenomena started. It called to be in a newsagents and I ended up picking it up on a trip to London as it had an interesting cover. It soon interested me so much that I became a subscriber for 3 years and that is when I found the mailing list. University came in very handy here, there was free internet access (back when home internet access was anything but free) and plenty of time to indulge in the hundreds of mails that would pour in throughout the day.
We discussed many things, Unidentified Flying Objects, strange Men In Black sightings, Black Dogs (very popular theme in the west country) and government conspiracy theories were some of the orders of the day. There were members from all over the world and I even had a very kind lady from Texas sending me UFO documentaries from US TV (along with Twinkies and other stuff!) What interested (and still interests) me is that there are likeminded people who don’t balk at me discussing why the government has covered up another UFO sighting as a US army research facility or that an elf had been spotted in a forest in Herts.
How I started being interested in Fortean Phenomena is a mystery in itself. It’s not like I woke up one morning and decided to take an interest in strange objects in the sky, it just seems to have been in me from the start. I’ve always had a liking for ghost stories and particularly those that were more factual than fantasy based and I’ve been an avid reader of people’s accounts of strange sightings on Bodmin and beyond. There is something in me that still believes in magic. Oh, not Paul Daniels style conjuring or anything like that, but REAL magic. It’s slightly more acceptable now (but, I’m sure will die out again as we get further from the Millennium effect that causes an interest in everything strange) People would really look at me in a funny way if I confessed that I didn’t think fairies being real was a strange thing, but I don’t and I don’t see why some people are so blinkered against anything they think doesn’t make sense in their little world. Sooner or later, Science may find answers to some of the things we think are weird and out of this world, but some will never be answered by science, and why should they? Where is the fun in knowing exactly how everything works when you can’t enjoy it for what it is?
So, it’s been a long time since I was a member of the Fortean mailing list, and I’m sure they’ve all forgotten me now, if there are in fact any original members left there at all, but my interest in anything strange and beyond reasoning has never dwindled and I continue my journey into the unknown, undaunted.
I started to read Fortean Times when I was about 18, while it was still picking up a readership and way before all the fuss about fortean phenomena started. It called to be in a newsagents and I ended up picking it up on a trip to London as it had an interesting cover. It soon interested me so much that I became a subscriber for 3 years and that is when I found the mailing list. University came in very handy here, there was free internet access (back when home internet access was anything but free) and plenty of time to indulge in the hundreds of mails that would pour in throughout the day.
We discussed many things, Unidentified Flying Objects, strange Men In Black sightings, Black Dogs (very popular theme in the west country) and government conspiracy theories were some of the orders of the day. There were members from all over the world and I even had a very kind lady from Texas sending me UFO documentaries from US TV (along with Twinkies and other stuff!) What interested (and still interests) me is that there are likeminded people who don’t balk at me discussing why the government has covered up another UFO sighting as a US army research facility or that an elf had been spotted in a forest in Herts.
How I started being interested in Fortean Phenomena is a mystery in itself. It’s not like I woke up one morning and decided to take an interest in strange objects in the sky, it just seems to have been in me from the start. I’ve always had a liking for ghost stories and particularly those that were more factual than fantasy based and I’ve been an avid reader of people’s accounts of strange sightings on Bodmin and beyond. There is something in me that still believes in magic. Oh, not Paul Daniels style conjuring or anything like that, but REAL magic. It’s slightly more acceptable now (but, I’m sure will die out again as we get further from the Millennium effect that causes an interest in everything strange) People would really look at me in a funny way if I confessed that I didn’t think fairies being real was a strange thing, but I don’t and I don’t see why some people are so blinkered against anything they think doesn’t make sense in their little world. Sooner or later, Science may find answers to some of the things we think are weird and out of this world, but some will never be answered by science, and why should they? Where is the fun in knowing exactly how everything works when you can’t enjoy it for what it is?
So, it’s been a long time since I was a member of the Fortean mailing list, and I’m sure they’ve all forgotten me now, if there are in fact any original members left there at all, but my interest in anything strange and beyond reasoning has never dwindled and I continue my journey into the unknown, undaunted.