Retro-Forteana

Prompted by some comments on a previous post , I thought I'd write something about "UFO-themed songs". But after looking into ...

  The above may not be great comic-book art, but it's passable enough, and (with a couple of caveats I'll come to later) I created i...

Back in the 1970s, Colin Wilson was one of the big names of what might be called "mass-market forteana". But while I did borrow a ...

  Image by Bing AI The album pictured above doesn't exist yet (and probably never will), but at least I've now got a second song for...

  Charles Fort is most commonly associated with the more offbeat end of the anomalous spectrum - things like frogs falling from the sky - an...

   With April Fools' Day last week, it brought to mind a book I wrote a few years ago called Fake Physics . Around a third of the books ...

In the comment thread to last week's post, I mentioned that Fortean Times occasionally touches on various aspects of popular culture, fr...

  I decided to dig down close to the bottom of my Fortean Times collection to have a look back at issue 73 from February/March 1994, 30 yea...

  A few years ago I discovered (by reading about it in a book, I'm sorry to say, rather than actually noticing it with my own eyes) that...

A long time ago on this blog, I did a post about Dante's Inferno - Hunt Emerson's comic-book adaptation of a 14th century epic po...

  (courtesy of Bing Image Creator) This is basically a sequel to last week's post , about the way certain "fringe" topics evol...

A peculiarity of certain fortean topics is the way the details develop and change over time. To pick an example, there's the legend (whi...