http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/ The latest Commentary from Fortean Times UK en-GB Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:29:40 +0000 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:29:40 +0000 webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/2323/edinburgh_festival_part_3.html Mentalism, serial killers and the Penguin Café Orchestra Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:05:36 +0000 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/14/a_mystery_apparition.html The legend of Spring-heeled Jack enthralled Victorian London but, Alan Murdie finds, one of his most notorious and spectacular visitations was presaged by a mysterious apparition… Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/15/weighting_for_perpetuity.html In the light of recent claims of a working free-energy machine, Jerry Glover examines the story of the 18th Century inventor Johann Bessler and his remarkable perpetually moving wheel. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/24/of_rats_and_cats_and_suicide.html Is the age-old relationship between man and moggy one that has altered human consciousness through the agency of a tiny parasite that can change our personalities? Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/55/unexplained_medical_conditions.html The unknown syndrome Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/56/ufo_crashes.html They're dropping like flies! Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/110/sonic_weapons.html A recent pirate attack on a luxury liner was apparently rebuffed by the use of sonic weapons. Jack Sargeant re-examines the sound and the fury of modern warfare. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/142/outsider_art.html Have the lunatics taken over the gallery – or have the art critics taken over the asylum? Sean Thomas visits one of the biggest exhibitions ever of Outsider Art in Paris, but wonders why it took so long. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/200/the_hangover_of_history.html For centuries, our ancestors unleashed the dogs of war under the influence of a fog of booze Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/395/who_was_charles_fort.html Ian Kidd delves into the philosophical groundwork that underlies all of Fort’s writings... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/396/the_23_phenomenon.html With the release of movie The Number 23 earlier this year we paid tribute to the late, much lamented Robert Anton Wilson by reprinting this 1977 article from (you guessed it) Fortean Times 23... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/438/king_of_the_cabbages.html A 19th-century case of breach of contract posed a historical farming conundrum, so Paul Chambers decided to dig up the details – and his garden. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/443/pass_grade_in_passing_on.html Jacob Middleton examines how the Victorians’ obsession with death extended to terrifying their children in order to prepare them for the grave… Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/580/this_years_fortean_events.html Missing the UnCon? Try these... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/614/a_fortean_at_the_fringe.html High strangeness at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/600/riding_a_cock_horse.html Inspired by a fine lady on a white horse, Jen Ogilvie makes a journey to Banbury to find out what a cock horse might be. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/616/a_fortean_at_the_fringe_part_ii.html Gordon Rutter continues his round-up of the weirder side of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/626/probe_international.html A ufology and conspiracy convention coming up in October Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/640/new_pigfaced_lady_portrait.html Jan Bondeson shares with us a recently discovered image of a Pig-faced Lady from a most fortuitous source. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/688/we_are_witnessing_the_dawn_of_an_unknown_science.html Mark Bennett reports on a fascinating new exhibition on the relationship between photography and the paranormal Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/690/a_fortean_at_the_fringe_part_iii.html The third and final part of Gordon Rutter’s Edinburgh Fringe round-up. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100