Fortean ideas
Fortean: Based loosely on the ideas of American researcher and writer, Charles Fort (1874-1932), fortean studies include everything that is regarded as ‘anomalous phenomena’. In other words, ‘stuff that is hard to explain’. Fort’s own life-work was to take notes on anything that he found interesting. He appears to have been witty, energetic and endearingly odd. One of his unpublished books, titled simply ‘X’, explored the notion that the inhabitants of Earth are being controlled by the inhabitants of Mars. Charles Fort said, “I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.”
It all seems to be a mad mix of science fiction and fantasy, conspiracy theories, myths, magic, the paranormal with wedges of anarchic humour and general scientific and quasi-scientific research with added mayhem. Perhaps.
Here are links to The Centre for Fortean Zoology (on the track of unknown animals) and the Fortean Times Forum.