Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00136)

In a message dated 11/10/98 11:38:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Cybercmh@aol.com writes:

<< Curious - what does the Fortean Society do/believe in? >>

Dear Christine,

Charles Fort was an American original, an eccentric who
spent most of his inherited money investigating anomalous
happenings, like strange rains which would deposit
small frogs and fish on dry land, the sightings of sea
monsters, bigfoot, unexplained objects in the sky, instances
of spontaneous combustion, lost continents, etc., etc.  He
was, in a sense, the 19th century precursor of FOX TV's
program "Sightings."

The website for the International Fortean Organization is
INFO Home Page
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~frizzell/info.

There are dozens of Fortean Societies around the world.

We had a great bunch of speakers this time at the FortFest:
John Michell, a Cambridge graduate, the author of *The View
Over Atlantis*, *Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions*, etc.,
Colin Wilson, the author of over 100 books, but better known for
*The Occult*,   *From Atlantis to the Sphinx*, and *The
Philosopher's Stone*, Joscelyn Godwin, a professor at Colgate
College, the author of *The Theosophical Enlightenment*
(an excellent history!), *Mystery Religions in the Ancient World*,
and *Arktos, The Polar Myth In Science, Symbolism and Nazi
Revival", Ivor Zapp, a professor at the University of Columbia and
author of Atlantis in America*.  There were many other interesting
speakers as well, including Tom Valone, the film director of *Free
Energy: Race to Point Zero*.  Needless to say, I got many
autographed books and met a bunch of fascinating people, as I
usually do when I attend these sort of meetings.

Try to get on their mailing list.
Best Wishes,
Augoeides