Fortean Times

It's a lot of replayability in that game.

The, uh, Fortean Times described his strange archeology methods.

He surprised everyone, especially the farmers who'd carved them, by stating that certain boundary markers were actually anchor stones from the ark.

Oh, my God.

Aha, Paige Smith says, Peter, I followed you from the film review.

Wow, from the film review in the Fortean Times.

Your good self and Reverend Fanthorpe.

Thank you.

And £10.

Wow, thank you so much for that, Paige.

Yeah, Fortean Times is a magazine that I have been writing for now for about 12 years, maybe more.

And it explores the paranormal, ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, everything.

Instead, what we've got is an enormous gap.

So research published in the Fortean Times, love them, examined the origins of the story, and author Ian Wilson contacted a later landlord of the Busby Stoop.

According to that investigation, the cursed chair story appeared to have been unknown before the Second World War.

[gasps] What?

He is variously described as a delivery driver or brewery delivery driver.

I don't think that makes too much difference, while later accounts add specific years and claims about how quickly he died after leaving the pub.

But an investigation published in Fortean Times reveals something particularly interesting about the stories attributed to Tony Earnshaw himself.

It refers to four deaths involving people Earnshaw said he had personally known: an army sergeant, a teenage bricklayer, a 42-year-old friend, and another man associated with his Masonic lodge.

And he was there with friends of his from London.

And they were people who wrote for the Fortean Times.

I don't know if you know that magazine.

And so they were all these people into weird stuff.

And I just, you know, threw myself into it.

And I hit the ground running and started writing as much as I could.

The Fortean Times is one of them.

I wrote several articles.

The European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite re-measured stellar distances in the 1990s, and when FISH's own selection criteria were applied to the new figures, six of her 15 stars dropped out.

Brett Holman, writing in Fortean Times in 2008, called what was left, no match at all.

Fish died in April 2013, and her obituary says that after the newer data came in, she concluded the correlation was unlikely and said so.

Skeptics who went looking for that statement could not find it published anywhere, and the retraction rests on the family's obituary alone.

Uh, contactee...

Uh, the letters include names contactee Wayne Aho, aviation journalist Don Berliner, the Reverend Frank Stranges, John Keel, the author of The Mothman Prophecies and other UFO and Fortean books, psychic Ted Owens, as well as Terry Wilmot, with an address to Roswell, New Mexico.

He was in fact the son of Dan Wilmot, who reported with his wife the UFO shape, quote, 'like two inverted saucers facing mouth-to-mouth on the night of July 2nd shortly before the famous crash.'" It's crazy.

It's nuts, man.

And then when it comes to the term teleportation, it's my understanding that this largely originates with Charles Fort.

Um, um, when you hear, hear the word Fortean, uh, this is, uh, the Charles Fort in, uh, in question here.

Uh, he wrote a lot about, uh, anomalous phenomena.

Yeah.

The namesake of the Fortean Times.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.