Fortean Mysteries SIG History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <B>Fortean Mysteries SIG History</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.gif"> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="03eb9880.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="136" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SEE ISSUE NUMBER 12</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0a2b76d0.jpg" border=0 width="183" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SEE ISSUE NUMBER 14</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="http://untilheaven.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://untilheaven.com"><U>index.htm</U></A>    <A HREF="http://untilheaven.com/id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://untilheaven.com/id82.htm"><U>bibliography</U></A>  <A HREF="http://untilheaven.com/id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://untilheaven.com/id39.htm"><U>calendar</U></A>   <A HREF="http://untilheaven.com/id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://untilheaven.com/id79.htm"><U>fortean mysteries SIG</U></A>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>   </B></FONT>          <B>               My Personal History</B></div> <div> <B>                                </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >  by Michael Halm</FONT></div> <div>     I have always been interested in the strange and unexplained. The first non-textbook that I ever bought was <I>Impossible Yet It Happened</I> (previously called <I>Forgotten Experiments</I>). It wasn't until I discovered the books of Charles Fort that recognized that I was a fortean, a strange data collector with an attitude, a playful, philosophical one, not an agenda. </div> <bR> <div>                <B>               The SIG History</B></div> <div>  The SIG began in March 1977 soon after I joined Mensa with a listing of possible interests, all taken from topics in Fort's books: </div> <div> abominable snowmen, Acambaro, airquakes, ancient technologies, apports, ashfalls, ball lightning, Bermuda triangle, Bigfoot, bio-showers, black holes, blobs, bloody rains, burning dirt, cloudless rain, crystal skulls, cup marks, cyclops, devil jelly, Devil's hoofprints, disappearances, etc., etc., etc.</div> <div>    In 1980 our membership peaked (probably because of our article, "Winter's Mysteries", in the March 1979 <I>Mensa Bulletin </I>) at over 100. Since 1989 (what we call our "recent history") the SIG has relied on Hierogamous House, which in 2000 became untilheaven.com .</div> <div>   Alas (some would say "mercifully") a few of our past newsletters have been lost over the years, but even so it's still quite an eclectic collection  --  hopefully soon to be collected into<I> 25 Years of Mpossibilities</I>. We're also hoping to do what we call <I>Eg 'n' Art's Almanac</I><I> </I>based on our Fortean calendars, etc.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 1"><U><B>issue 1</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Mar. 1977</FONT> "In the Heart of the Cheese", "(Where) Does Von Daniken Fit?", "New Light on Mayan Origins", "Tranquility Base, 1500 B. C.?", "The Shroud of Turin: Fortean?", "On Another Moon, Phobos", "On Yet Other Moons, Uranus", "Notice for Sasquatchers"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 2"><U><B>issue 2</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >June 1977</FONT> "The Bermuda Triangle", "Lost Civilizations", <I>Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs</I>, "THe Minnesota Iceman", "Hoax-proofs", "The Shroud Again", "Incorrupibility", "Foots, Little, Booted and Bare-", "Saint Quetzalcoatl", "Definitions", "Ogopogo", "Is Nothing Sacred?"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 4"><U><B>issue 4</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Sept. 1977</FONT> "Into Black Holes", "Tunguska: Comet, Not A Black Hole", "Mysterious Disappearances", "Male Milk", "Most People...", "Velikovsky and Milankovitch", <I>The Diviner's Handbook</I>, "Moon-worms", "Moon Glyphs", "The Lost Padre Mine", "The Green Children", "Hysteria", "Pony-lemmings", "New Matter"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 9"><U><B>issue 9</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >June 1978</FONT><I> One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration</I>, Letters, The True Story of Fatima, "on Hauntings", D Words, Cat-creatures, "More on Space Chemistry", "Gadgets from the Boarderland of Science", "The Critters", "Or Death Either",<I> Strangely Enough</I>, "More Mysterious Animals", "Baby Dima", "...And Whether Cats Have Wings"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 10"><U><B>issue 10</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Sept. 1978</FONT> <I>Pursuit</I>, <I>Journal of Borderland Research</I>, "The Shroudman", <I>The Jesus Factor</I>, "On Mutilations", <I>Brain-mind Bulletin</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 11"><U><B>issue 11</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Jan. 1979</FONT> cupmarks, <I>Special Non-linear Anomaly Research Bulletin</I>, "Hypernumbers", <I>Second Look</I>, <I>The People's Almanac II</I>, F Words, "Scotography", "CLB Therapy", "The Kensington Stone", <I>The Poltergeist</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 12"><U><B>issue 12</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >May 1979</FONT> Devil's Hoofprints<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > [see illo to left]</FONT>, <I>Incredible Collectors</I>, <I>Weird Antiques And Odd Hobbies</I>, "On SHC", "A Sky Mystery", "The Temperate Sun", G Words, "Crepuscular Rays"</div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 13"><U><B>issue 13</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Sept. 1979</FONT> "An Arachne Network",<I> Kronos</I>, "Pig #311", "On Astronomy", "On Cycles", "Anne Whateley", "BVM Sightings", H Words, Gresham's & Sodd's 1st Laws and Finangle's 6th Rule, "Formenstrahlen"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 14"><U><B>issue 14</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Nov. 1979</FONT> Moon Hoax <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >[see illo to left]</FONT>, "The Presidential Death Curse", "The Humanoids", "Doctors Dumbfounded -- Again", <I>Motel of Mysteries</I>, "Messy Nessie", "And Strange Things Above Also", "Rock Music", I Words, "Supernatural Selection"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 15"><U><B>issue 15</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Feb. 1980</FONT> "The 'Ancient' Prisoner", "Love Potions", "God's Gone It Again", "Thermal Anomalies", "Cattle-mutilators", "Big Cosmic Bubble", "Man-eating Lizard", "Cave Martians", "Bigfoot Prints", J Words, <I>INFOJ</I>, "The Shroud?",<I> Nonsense: How to Overcome It, Dictionary of Misinformation</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 16"><U><B>issue 16</B></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >  May 1980</FONT> "Food of the Gods Anyone?", "Brain-damaged Girl Graduates from College", , "A Ghost Story", "Astronomical News", K Words, "End Near", "New Senses, New Sciences", "Two New Diseases", "Doc Disappears", "The Bristol Hum", "The Bartley Light", "Selfish DNA", Pursuit, <I>The World's Last Mysteries</I>, "Show Biz", "Shark!", "Closer Encounters"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 17"><U><B>issue 17</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Aug. 1980 </FONT>"Who Built This Stone Monument?", "The One and Only Marsh 3", "Shocking!", L Words, <I>The Encyclopedia of UFOs</I>, <I>Maya/Atlantis:Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx</I>, <I>The Cat I. Q. Test</I>, <I>The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People</I>, "Eggsighting News", "A Summer Sermon", "More Lunacy", "God Takes Off 102#", "Dowser Does It", "The Fall River Mystery", "A Flasher?", "Universe", "UFO Cover-up", "3,500,000,000-year Old"</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 18"><U><B>issue 18</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > Sept. 1980</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > "Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?", "The Shroud", "Remember December, 1904?", "Perpetual Motion", "Encounters with the Past", "The Miracle Carborator", "Zombi", "The Plesiophonus", a crossword puzzle, "The Blind Prophets of Easter Island", "Science/Witchcraft?", <I>How to Write without Knowing Nothing</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 20"><U><B>issue 20</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Jan. 1981</FONT> "Saganalysis", <I>Hellstone</I>, <I>Scholastic Aptitude Potential Test</I>, <I>Blueprint Invisibility</I>, <I>Shagasha</I>, <I>The Bible and Flying Saucers</I>, <I>Journeys into the Bright World</I>, <I>Necronomicon</I>, <I>Monsters in the Sky, Searching for Hidden Animals, Fact, Fraud and Fantasy, Lists II, Sex after Death</I>, Blue-seven Phenomenon, "Vampires", "Chinese Monsters", "Sagan on Sirius", "The Chaplins", "Sasquatch Watch", "The Phillip Phenom", "Psychic Astronomy", Mobius Triangles, N Words</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 21"><U><B>issue 21</B></U></A></FONT>:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0099" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Mar. 1981 </FONT>"Dog Cures Blindness", "Bouncing Back ... to Life", "Believing Is Seeing", "Wright-Patterson Revisited", Letters, "The Jumping Man", "Three Toes", "... Blowing in the Wind" [Hemingway's OOBE], Fortean Calendar, "The Bulgarian Twins",  "Hostages", "A [SHC] Theory" , "The Last Mammoth", "Mathemagic?" [<I>Cycles of Heaven</I>], "A NewScience?", "A Proof in the Putting", O Word List, "Apishness", "Intelligent Life"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 22"><U><B>issue 22</B></U></A></FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >May 1981</FONT>"The Shroud", "The Square-Cube Law", Fortean Calendar, "The Incredibly Shrinking Planets", "Who Shot J.F.?",  , "Thy Will Be Done", "Lancelot", Wonderland" [<I>Tales of Terror and Wonder in Psychic Phenomena], </I>"Going Ahead", "Long Distance", "Barely Possible", "Astrocomical", P Wordlist, "Pancake Psychology", <I>Strange, Sudden and Unexpected!</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 23"><U><B>issue 23</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Aug. 1981</FONT>"Oak Island", Q Words, "For Sale -- Hot", "OOBE", "Flash!" [natural laser], "Proof?", A Letter, "Werewolves", "Satanism", "Animal Ghosts", "Sasquatch", Fortean Calendar, Forteana, "Prophesies, "The Astrobra", "Bubbles", "Rumors" "A Sexchange?" "Quantum Billiard", "BVM", "Atlantis", "Apemen","ETI" [<I>Are We Alone?</I>], "Possibilities"[omnipotence]</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 24"><U><B>issue 24</B></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > Oct. 1981</FONT>"SINA", Letters, <I>Psi Trek, Missing Time, The Demonologist, Doomsday 1999</I>, Fortean Calendar, "SSP", "OOB", "ABSMs", "The Shroud", "Curses!", "Which?" [seaserpent theories], R Wordlist, "Coso Artifact", "Critters", "Final Note", divertisements</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 25"><U><B>issue 25</B></U></A></FONT>: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Feb. 1982 </FONT>"MIBs?", "Seeing the Light", Letters, "Mrs. Banks", <I>Mysterious World, Photographs of the Unknown, Project Identification, </I>"Have You Seen This Creature?", Fortean Calendar, S Wordlist, </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 27"><U><B>issue 27</B></U></A></FONT>: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Dec. 1982 </FONT>"Alleluia!" [NDE], "Holy Molars!", <I>Adventures in Immortality, The Complete Prophesies of Nostradamus, Phone Calls from the Dead, Strangers Among Us, </I>"The Shroud", "On Mysteries","On Ghosts", "'Tain't So!", "Maybe So?", "Stonehenge, etal.", T Wordlist, "ISOs", "Go, Grannie, Go!"</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 28"><U><B>issue 28</B></U></A></FONT>: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Feb. 1983</FONT>"What To Do?", <I>Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe, The Return of the Star of Bethlehem: Comet, Stellar Explosion or Signal from Above?, Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space, Spaceships in Pre-History, Stones from the Stars: the Unsolved Mysteries of Meteorites, A Natural History: Dragons and Unicorns</I>, "etc.", "Supernovae", "Wicca", "MarsEffect", U Wordlist, "Vela"</div> <bR> <div> 30: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Sept. 1983</FONT>"The Shroud", "PreColumbians", <I>Flying Saucers: Magic in the Skies: A Psychohistory, Great Exploration Hoaxes,  Living Wonders, Dodosaurs: Dinosaurs that Didn't Make It, Open Files, </I>"Animal Tales", "A Toad", "A Cat", "A Quiz", "Archeometrology", Letters, "Red M & Ms", "And Blue Meanies", <I>Alternative 003, W Wordlist</I></div> <bR> <div> 31: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Feb. 1984 </FONT>SIG News, psywar (<I>Mind Race</I>), <I>Image of Guadalupe: Myth or Miracle?, Betrayers of the Truth, Encyclopedia of Monsters, Dracula Was A Woman, "A Secret Formula", X Wordlist, </I>No. No. (surreals), 'Gator, Bad Vibes, Breaking Bread (Banach-Tarski Paradox), Giantization, A Sure Cure, Comet Watch</div> <bR> <div> 32: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >June 1984</FONT> SIG News,WARNING (killer hamsters), Lost Cat, Greenies, Gruesome (<I>The Paradoxicon</I>), Deathstar, <I>Echoes of the Ancient Skies,  500 Years of New Words, Sniglets, A Second Browser's Dictionary, </I>Where? (Pied Piper), superstars. Lizzie, <I>Mysteries, Monsters and Untold Secrets</I>, <I>To Kiss Earth Good-bye, </I></div> <bR> <div> 34: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Feb. 1985</FONT> Oh, baby! (91-year-old mother), Southern Cross, i. q., negentropy, Hello (ET contact), Apes, Beerstone, Mindreader, <I>Carmania/Cap Trafalgar</I>, miracles, et cetera (the Wizard's coat), Far Out! (deep space probes), the Scope, Rats! (<I>Southern Fried Rat and Other Gruesome Tales</I>), werewolves, divertisements</div> <bR> <div> 35: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Apr. 1985</FONT> Answers (Mensa Membership Renewal Test), SIG News, saurocide, <I>The Roswell Incident</I>,<I> Everything Jesus Taught, The Stairway to Heaven, Threshold to Tomarrow, Facts and Fallacies: A Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions</I>, <I> New Light on the Passion</I>,   letters, Transparent Chinese-Dragon Fightingfish</div> <bR> <div> 36:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > Oct. 1985  </FONT>SIG News, miscellaneoi, <I>The Witch Who Switched, </I>The Newcombe Case, BOARING!, Expect the Unexpected (based on <I>Puzzle-M</I>), <I>Lord of the Absurd</I>, comet panic, zomi pwder, the Parahyba script, The Jersey Devil, Library Angel Effect, Solar Biography, laws, <I>Unfinished Animal</I>, Oops (the rabbage), God's will, stigmata, mere coincidence? the tetragrammaton , Miraculous Hell Town, B. D. Who? (<I>What Really Happened to B. D. Cooper?</I>), last words, Medjogorje, SIG Update, Yeti Almost Found, divertisements</div> <bR> <div> 37: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Dec. 1985</FONT> letters, <I>Incredible Coincidence: the Baffling World of Synchronicity, 303 of the World's Worst Predictions, </I>astrology, hexing, t. q., relativistic Santa, Lo! (new stars, new DNA code, new arthropoid), ruined runes (Runamo), Happy Old Year, Zener</div> <bR> <div> 38: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Mar. 1986</FONT> whichcraft, expos<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>è</B> </FONT>(<I>The Frankenstein Papers</I>), </div> <div> <I> </I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>