A Fortean in the Archives

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• “The lake that has no bottom…”
• Sorcerers and soulstealers: hair-cutting panics in old China
• The child murder that gave voodoo its bad name
• In the cave of the witches
• A visit to the underworld: the unsolved mystery of the tunnels at Baiae
• Walking to utopia
• The Monster of Glamis
• The mystery of the five wounds
• The wizard of Mauritius
• Inside the Great Pyramid
• “Tamám Shud”
• Adventures in time #2: Three 1950s youths in a medieval plague village
• Moving on up
• The dog that did bark in the night
• Some experiments with severed heads
• The parting of the ways
• Tracking the trends via Google’s New Book Database
• Truth, beauty and Pancho Villa
• A matter of life and death
• Erotic secrets of Lord Byron’s tomb
• Naked as nature intended? Catherine Crowe in Edinburgh, February 1854
• The chupatty movement
• Pope Pius XI: cryptozoologist
• Lord Dacre’s ghost
• When Satan came to Pembroke
• The Marian apparitions at Marpingen, Germany, #3. A village “not marked on normal maps”
• The Marian apparitions at Marpingen, Germany. #2: In which the BVM joins the childrens’ games, & rolls with them down a hillside
• The Marian apparitions at Marpingen, Germany: #1. The visionaries, the events of 1876, and their aftermath
• The Emperor’s electric chair
• “Our artist pictures what the witness saw…”
• A multi-witness, indoor, child-centred black dog case featuring animal death… from France
• Curses! Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his astounding death car
• Walter Powell, the Saladin, and some very early cases of lights in the sky (1881-1902)
• Of giant eels
• Wonderful, terrific and eccentric magazines
• Natives of the Red Dragon
• The strange tale of the Warsaw basilisk
• Spring-heeled Jack and the terrified child
• The horrible history of the Ostrich Inn
• Emily Brontë: a fantasy-prone personality
• The miniature coffins found on Arthur’s Seat
• Baron Von Forstner and the U28 Sea Serpent of 1915
• A Scottish spinster at the Battle of Nechtanesmere, 685AD
• A very early vision of the Virgin Mary
• Frank Searle’s lost second book
• Fat-stealing entities of Peru
• A bloody Belgrade bogeyman of 1903
• The Monster of Glamis
• Ghosts, witches, vampires, fairies, and the law of murder
• Fresh light on the axeman of New Orleans

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