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	Charles Fort - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
		Precisely what is encompassed by 'Fortean' is a matter of great debate; the term is widely applied from every position from a Fortean purists dedicated to Fort's methods and interests, to those with open and active acceptence of the actuality of paranormal phenomena, a position Fort would not at all have agreed with.
		The Fortean Society was founded in Fort's lifetime by his friends, and led by fellow writer Tiffany Thayer, half in earnest and half in jest, like the work of Fort himself.
		Fort, however, rejected the society and refused presidency; he was lured to its inaugural meeting by false telegrams.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Forteana (2666 words)

	1948: Signals Campaign
		Fortean Society - The Fortean Society - an organization based on the work of Charles Fort, no longer exists as a formal entity, having collapsed before the end of WWII, and it will not be formally re-started until the 1960s.
		The American Society of Psychical Research was founded in 1885, by Dr. Richard Hodgson, of the Society for Psychical Research (London), and refounded after his death in 1905 by Dr. James H. Hyslop a Professor of Logic and Ethics at Columbia University, who also edited the Proceedings and monthly Journal of the Society.
		The amalgamation was effected as of May 1, 1941, and since then two societies have functioned as one organization under the name of the American Society for Psychical Research with present headquarters at 880 Fifth Avenue, New York 21, N. With Dr. Hyslop and Dr. Murphy at the helm, a general reorganization followed.
	www.1948-signals.org /rules_policies/rules_contacts_psychic.shtml (1535 words)

	FORTEAN FAQ
		Forteanism is not a cult, religion, or doctrine.
		Though most Forteans would insist that the field of Forteanism is an indissoluble unity, interested in any and all anomalies, whether scientific, philosophical, artistic, religious, literary, behavioral, folkloric, etc., the fact is that many Forteans do specialize in one area of inquiry or endeavor.
		Forteans have been accused of ignoring evidence and being mystery-mongers by so-called 'Skeptics,' but then they also have been accused of not having the proper 'accepting attitude' by New Agers.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/fortean-faq.html (1652 words)

	Fortean Bureau-- The Curious History of the Micro-Cynicon by Lavie Tidhar
		The author of the Micro-Cynicon, that legendary collection of tantrumulous plays, is identified only by his initials M.T. This has led most scholars to suggest the author of this rare volume is the playwright Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), author of such bawdy comedies as A Trick to Catch the Old One (c.
		The most diligent researcher by far into the curious history of the Micro-Cynicon has been George Eggleton, a one-time actor, lecturer and book dealer who, in a manner befitting the great Charles Fort himself, worked diligently to compile a lucid and far-reaching history and bibliographical database on the plays.
		Believing that sufficient time has passed to once again perform the plays, the society proposes to stage a new production, details of which will be published soon, and we pleased to invite the reader to join us for this debut performance.
	www.forteanbureau.com /jan2004/Tidhar/index.html (1056 words)

	Charles Fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1959 Thayer died and the Fortean Society came to an end.
		The Fortean Times is advertised as exploring "the wild frontiers between the known and the unknown" and features articles on topics such as the government's alleged suppression of evidence regarding crashed UFOs, synaesthesia, a mysterious undersea structure, and other things the editors think are strange or weird.
		There are many other Fortean groups, as well, but it is worth noting that Fort opposed the idea of a Fortean Society.
	skepdic.com /fortean.html (964 words)

	Anomalous Phenomena, Forteana, Anomalies and Alternative Science Information Portal @ Singularly.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Spontaneous or hard-to-reproduce anomalies may be considered Fortean Times, partly because Archaeological forgery needs phenomena to be science.
		For, if in testing many swans, the researcher finds a single Society: Religion and Spirituality: Reincarnation, then the statement all swans are white would not be true; it would be falsified by the counterexample of the single fl swan.
		Fortean phenomena related to the works of Ball Lightning.
	www.singularly.net (1164 words)

	Welcome to the Appalachian Fortean Society
		Welcome to the official home of the Appalachian Fortean Society...
		We are a group of paranormal (ghost and UFO) investigators in East Tennessee - the greater Knoxville area including Knox, Blount, and Sevier Counties.
		We conduct ourselves in a professional manner, using scientific equipment to try to gather hard data about the paranormal, and to try to help each client better understand what is happening in their surroundings.
	www.appalachianfortean.org (461 words)

	FarShores CryptoNews Story: English Fortean Cryptozoologists Go Fishing For Monster
		Now Jonathan, 42, from Exwick, and other members of the Exeter-based Fortean Society, are determined to track down the demon of the deep.
		The society, which was made up of a group of scientists, experimented in introducing exotic animals into Britain in the 1850s.
		In recent years, the Fortean Society, which is 10 years-old, has taken its detective work to countries far and wide.
	farshores.org /c02mermo.htm (808 words)

	disinformation \| charles fort: scientist or humorist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is probably safe to say there are more people familiar with the work of Fort's work than actually know anything about him, in spite of the stalwart campaigns of various Fortean societies, organizations and institutes, not to mention 'Fortean Times', the London based 'Journal of Strange Phenomena'.
		It shouldn't be assumed, however, that 'Forteans' - those who practice a form of humorous agnostic skepticism - should be thought of as dogmatic - for the very nature of Forteanism demands the questioning of all doctrine, never mind how sacred.
		The 'International Fortean Organization' (INFO) was set up in 1965 to continue and expand the original 'Fortean Society'.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id254/pg1 (792 words)

	neilswaab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This blurb was run in the March 2001 issue of The Fortean Times (FT 143) in the "Wired For Weird" section.
		The most refreshing comic strip to come along in years, "Rehabilitating Mr Wiggles" may not be poised for international acclaim, but then again, do we- as a society- really want a vulgar, lascivious, crystal-meth abusing teddy bear to find critical acclaim?
		Only if society took a drastic turn for the better, I'd say...
	www.neilswaab.com /about/fortean.html (74 words)

	Sea Monsters: Sightings, Strandings, and the Ones That Got Away
		Forteans are not the only people interested in the unexplainable.
		The International Society of Cryptozoology in Tucson, Arizona is made up of anthropologists, zoologists, and paleontologists from all over the world.
		Unfortunately, they were more concerned with their own credibility than with the people they interviewed, and many of the descriptions of the sea serpent had little resemblance to each other ("Research Notes: Historians Examines Responses...," 1990).
	www.newenglandanomaly.com /stories/sea_monsters.htm (3976 words)

	Astop: "Fact Sheet Fortean Fallacy"
		The two most serious modern Forteans — a Fortean being one who occupies himself clipping weird reports out of old magazines and newspapers, like Fort himself — are Vincent H. Gaddis and William R. Corliss.
		Such book-producing Forteans should not be confused with members of the Fortean Society, a club founded in 1931 by members of the New York novel-writing profession, including Tiffany Thayer, Alexander Wolcott, Booth Tarkington, and Ben Hecht.
		The Fortean Society was merely an excuse for buddies to get together, hear exceptionally valueless speeches after a good dinner, and then drink one another under the table.
	www.csj.org /infoserv_articles/astop_fortean_fallacy.htm (1171 words)

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		(Current skeptics are the opposite of those of history; the forteans more closely resemble Pyrrho and Zeno.) Skeptics tend to compare theories and look for the best explanation; forteans tend to collect anomalous data and reject theories.
		Skeptics are concerned about Type I errors; forteans are concerned about Type II errors.
		Fortean Times is full of counterexamples to current theories.
	www.discord.org /~lippard/What_Skeptics_Can_Learn_From_Forteans.ppt (200 words)

	Fortean Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fortean Society was started in Britain in 1931 by Tiffany Thayer in order to promote the ideas of Charles Fort.
		The Fortean Society Magazine (also called Doubt) was published regularly until Thayer's death in 1959, when society and magazine came to an end.
		Many Society members went on to become prominent science fiction authors, and Fort's ideas and influence can be seen in their work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fortean_Society (185 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Charles Fort
		One of his admirers, Tiffany Thayer, the novelist, organized the Fortean Society in 1931, along with such literary figures as Alexander Woollcott and Ben Hecht.
		A recent issue reports that in the last 120 years there have been 70 reported fishfalls in Australia; in 1989, for instance, about 800 sardine-sized fish (sea bream, it turned out) fell from the sky onto the home of an astonished couple in Queensland, 60 kilometres from the sea, as the fish flies.
		The Fortean Times welcomes new contributors and carries a little note that indicates the nature of its contents while warning writers against making common spelling mistakes: "millennium has two n's; prophesy is the verb and prophecy is the noun; occurred has two r's; phenomena, simulacra, bacteria and data are plural.
	www.robertfulford.com /CharlesFort.html (1040 words)

	Charles Fort Institute - The Writings of Charles Fort
		This was rescued by Mr X and published in Fortean Studies, Vol.1, 1994.
		Fort learned his trade as a cub reporter with a special interest in crime and before he began work on his 'Fortean' books, wrote a considerable number of short stories for newspapers and weekly magazines.
		This collected edition was published for the Fortean Society.
	www.forteana.org /html/fortsbooks.html (631 words)

	UFOs at close sight, UFOs A to Z: F
		Fortean researchers consider ufology as a sub-branch of forteanism.
		Fry claimed he was invited aboard and travelled to New York City and back in half and hour and was subsequently released back into the desert with the promise that there would be further contacts.
		He said the beings were descendants of a previous Earth civilization; which had emigrated into space in the distant past.
	ufologie.net /htm/f.htm (1484 words)

	The Flat Earth and its Advocates: A List of References: Science Reference Guides (Science Reference Services, Library ...
		A description of several experiments which prove that the surface of the sea is a perfect plane, and that the earth is not a globe.
		An experimental inquiry into the true figure of the earth, proving it a plane, without orbital or axial motion, and the only known material world; its true position in the universe, comparatively recent formation, present chemical condition, and approaching destruction by fire, &c., &c.
		The portrait is of Samuel Shenton, the society's general secretary.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/flatearth.html (1245 words)

	Godfella: Lionel Fanthorpe - FT107
		Most of our faithful readers will be more than familiar with him thanks to Channel 4's Fortean Television, which has just started its second series; others will know him as co-author (with wife and agent Patricia) of a fistful of books on enduring mysteries.
		Fortean Times managed to grab a few words with him in a rare moment of rest from filming the second series of Fortean Television.
		If the shade of Charles Fort is reading this I'm sure he's around here somewhere having wonderful discussions with the God who gave him his fortean sense of humour to benefit the rest of us he would regard his admittedly deep, complex and worthwhile philosphy as being totally compatible with amusing TV.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/107_fanthorpe.shtml (814 words)

	The Frogweb: IWFS
		The Isle of Wight Fortean Society (IWFS) was founded on Robert Anton Wilson Day, 23rd July, 2004 by fortean writer Jack Phoenix and composer James Nye, who also works part time at Isle of Wight branch of Ottakar's.
		The Society is dedicated to the non-partisan exploration and discussion of strange phenomena and anomalous experience.
		The talk was given by Fortean Times contributor, author Mike Jay who discussed his book on the extraordinary case of James Tilly Matthews and The Air Loom Gang.
	www.frogboy.freeuk.com /iwfs1.html (451 words)

	Surfing The Apocalypse
		Fortean Times is a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences,curiosities, prodigies and portents.
		Throughout his life, Fort was skeptical about scientific explanations, observing how scientists argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and that inconvenient data was ignored, suppressed, discredited or explained away (which is quite different from explaining a thing).
		INTERNATIONAL FORTEAN ORGANIZATION--I.N.F.O. --The International Fortean Organization (INFO) was incorporated as a non-profit educational society in 1965 in order to continue and expand the original Fortean Society.
	www.surfingtheapocalypse.com /weirdsci.html (2720 words)

	The Appalachian Fortean Society (Maryville, TN) - Meetup.com
		The Appalachian Fortean Society (Maryville, TN) - Meetup.com
		The Appalachian Fortean Society meets weekly to discuss Fortean happenings locally and around the world.
		The group is available to, when called upon, to provide to the public free, confidential, and professional paranormal investigations.
	paranormal.meetup.com /396/?gj=sj5 (100 words)

	Minicon Fortean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Minicon 40 (Minicon Fortean*) will be held on Easter Weekend, March 25-27, 2005 at the Sheraton Bloomington South (formerly the Radisson South).
		If you aren't familiar with the works of Charles Fort (hence 'Fortean') then you probably don't recognize the reference to 'Minicon Fortean.' Fort was a devotee of unusual phenomena and had some skepticism of scientific explanations which ignored inconvient data at hand in favor of predetermined opinion.
		The Fortean Times, a journal which was founded with Charles Fort in mind, describes itself as a "forum for the discussion of observations and ideas, however absurd or unpopular, and maintains a position of benevolent skepticism towards both the orthodox and unorthodox." A better description of Minicon could not be found.
	www.mnstf.org /minicon40 (419 words)

	Fortean Bureau-- Title by Author
		Doubtless they were natives of this region; perhaps if he could recruit some there was still a chance that he could complete his map for the Royal Geographical Society.
		He could hear the thunder of the waterfall nearby, but otherwise the forest was quiet.
		It seemed otherworldly, and not for the first time since leaving England, Merewether was glad the Society had funded his research.
	www.forteanbureau.com /dec2004/Chesley/index.html (1563 words)

	Charles Fort: Godfather of Postmodern Relativism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While understanding that scientific theories model the world rather than describe it, he believed that their inability to deal with anomalous data showed that they were inflexible, dogmatic beliefs.
		There are now several societies that describe themselves as Fortean, as well as magazines and even a British television programme (Fortean TV, an occasional series shown by Channel Four).
		Ironically, Charles Fort himself did not like the idea of a Fortean Society, as he thought it would attract people who truly believed in the strange phenomena he was cataloguing.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2004/jul/m27-002.shtml (591 words)

	The International Fortean Organization (INFO)
		The Original Fortean Society founders included many leading literary lights of the day including Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, H. Mencken, Alexander Woolcott, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
		Fort's work also influenced science fiction and horror writers through the introduction of Fortean themes which is often evident in the work of contemporary luminaries such as Stephen King.
		The International Fortean Organization (INFO) was incorporated as a non-profit educational society in 1965 in order to continue and expand the original Fortean Society.
	www.forteans.com (816 words)

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		During Charles Fort's life some of his close friends organized ``the Fortean Society.'' This was an organization devoted to carrying on Fort's work of collecting strange reports and using them to ridicule the scientific establishment.
		Fort himself, not being a joiner, did not approve of the move, and at one point commented, sarcastically, that he ``would just as soon join the Elks.'' Today, the Fortean society is still in existence in the United States, England, and elsewhere.
		Charles Fort is also known today for having invented the word ``teleportation'' in one of his books, and in circles where paranormal reports are described the adjective ``Fortean'' is often used to describe weird, quirky, anomalous events that seem to somehow defy the laws of science as we know them.
	www.rpi.edu /~sofkam/ISUNY/Journal/vol1_3.html (2804 words)

	INFO Journal Back Issues
		Forteana's most complete index lists all of the subjects, events, places, names, dates, witnesses, contributors and reviews (by title and by author) in the first 50 issues of The INFO Journal.
		With some 40,000 entries, this unique and valuable reference is without precedent in the world of Fortean publishing.
		Fortean Phenomena and the Destiny of Man. (Available in copy only, $7.00.)
	www.forteans.com /journalbackissues.htm (277 words)

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