http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/ The latest Commentary from Fortean Times UK en-GB Sat, 17 May 2008 05:01:50 +0100 Sat, 17 May 2008 05:01:50 +0100 webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/921/to_sleep_perchance_to_dream.html FT visits the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition, 'Sleeping and Dreaming'. Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:51:55 +0000 http://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 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:46:07 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/692/weird_weekend_2007.html Matt Salusbury reports on the Centre for Fortean Zoology’s annual cryptozoological gathering Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:44:55 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/694/monster_weekend.html From the Lambton Worm to the Vegetable Lamb - all manner of monsters were out to party at this gathering in Newcastle Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:42:55 +0100 http://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. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:50:15 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/626/probe_international.html A ufology and conspiracy convention coming up in October Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:33:07 +0100 http://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, 29 Aug 2007 14:10:54 +0100 http://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. Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:24:54 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/614/a_fortean_at_the_fringe.html High strangeness at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:28:03 +0100 http://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. Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:09:14 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/580/this_years_fortean_events.html Missing the UnCon? Try these... Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:14:20 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/56/ufo_crashes.html They're dropping like flies! Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:59:02 +0100 http://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… Mon, 21 May 2007 14:43:48 +0100 http://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... Mon, 21 May 2007 13:54:10 +0100 http://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. Mon, 21 May 2007 13:54:10 +0100 http://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… Sun, 20 May 2007 18:18:08 +0100 http://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. Sun, 20 May 2007 18:18:08 +0100 http://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? Sun, 20 May 2007 18:18:08 +0100 http://forteantimes.com/features/commentary/55/unexplained_medical_conditions.html The unknown syndrome Sun, 20 May 2007 18:18:08 +0100 http://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. Sun, 20 May 2007 18:18:08 +0100 http://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. Sun, 20 May 2007 18:18:08 +0100