Fortean Historical Archive

"Wild, Weird Man Scares Rockaway" trumpeted the November 29th, 1893 edition of the New York Herald, a suiting way to describe the ...

"Strange things are being seen these days", starts off the July 31, 1895 article in the New York Herald, "on the earth and in...

It is always fascinating to observe the frequent amount of anomalous activity that can occur on a given day, especially with how certain day...

hey everyone, I know it's been a while since my last post, but I have not forgotten about this blog. I have been working on seperate ar...

On April 22, 2007, the New York Times reported a fascinating news story , namely that a two-foot long alligator had been found sunbathing by...

As mentioned in my last post, in 1894 the town of Mapleton, Long Island experienced a ghost scare that would excite the imaginations of the ...

As every student of Forteanea knows, during the past 70 years there have been numerous monster and "phantom attacker" scares in di...