Features: Fortean Bureau of Investigation

Was Freemasonry a force for or against the social order?

A new website tells medical history stories through the religious, scientific and downright bizarre objects lurking in the dustier corners of the Science Museum’s collections

Nick Redfern scrutinises one of the strangest UFO-related files ever opened by the US Government and finds a scam at the heart of the contactee movement.

In the merry month of May, Merrily Harpur joined a motley band of megalithomaniacs in the Assembly Rooms of Glastonbury and discovered that Britain’s ancient stones still have plenty to tell us…

Rumours of an ET-human exchange programme in the 1960s have set the Internet’s UFO community aflame. Is it a hoax, a reality, or something in between?

Nick Redfern reports from the first New Frontiers Symposium, held on 14 October 2006 at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Photos by the author.