Tag Archives: Forteana
links for 2007-11-05: Anomalist, BBC1 Controller
THE ANOMALIST A journal of anomalous phenomena. No RSS feed, which is pretty anomalous all by itself. (via Post Human Blues, I think…) (tags: paranormal weird news unexplained forteana) What price Putin or Murdoch as the next controller of BBC1? … more…
Hums and Fountains
We begin with an article from the Sydney Morning Herald (linked by BLDGBLOG a few days ago) concerning a mysterious low frequency hum which is disturbing those Aucklanders who can hear it. Close reading of the article, however, suggests that … more…
Roswell Incident Had Victims, Program Says
While he told the world that a weather balloon went down in Roswell, an Army general had in his hand a memo telling Pentagon brass of a UFO crash with “victims,” according to a new television documentary. A computer analysis … more…
What Did Poe Know About Cosmology?
Nothing. But He Was Right. it seems that Edgar Allen Poe ‘prediscovered’ (horrible word) what we now understand as the Big Bang in 1848, and published his thoughts as a prose poem called Eureka. “From the one particle, as a … more…
The Voynich Manuscript
Unsolved cryptographic mystery alert! The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated book of about 200 pages, written in what is apparently an alphabetical script, but which has resisted all attempts to decipher it. It was bought from a Jesuit College at … more…
Angels, of Mons and Elsewhere
Some people may recall, about three weeks ago I reported the rumoured existence of a list of web sites about stone circles and other palaeolithic matters, written on a piece of paper and believed to be in the New Cross … more…
Alan Moore on magic(k)
I slept for a long time last night, stumbled out of bed not that long ago… SMS about earthquakes in Manchester (didn’t that happen already?) and rewound the VCR. C4 repeated a documentary/interview with Alan Moore at some ridiculous hour … more…
Museum of Ancient Inventions
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Museum Directory There are some extraordinary things documented on this page, some of which cast the innovations of the industrial revolution in a rather different light – not least the aeolipile (steam engine) and … more…
Cerne Abbas condom intervention
Product placement The UK Family Planning Association put a condom on the Cerne Abbas Giant last weekend. Tacky as it is, this is not the worst indignity suffered by the vast chalk carving in its history: during the C19th, cretinous … more…
Vatican Sitting On Time Machine?
Vatican Sitting On Time Machine? Great. Someone claims that a working time machine was invented by a Benedictine monk in the 1950s, in which he zero’ed in on the crucifixion with a movie camera! Way! Perhaps! No evidence is offered, … more…