Hartford, Conn., Aug. 12 — Angelo Faticoni, known as “The Human Cork”, because he could stay afloat in water for fifteen hours with twenty pounds of lead tied to his ankles, died on August 2 in Jacksonville, Fla., it became known here today. He was seventy-two years old. Faticoni could sleep in water, roll up [...]
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Fort für euch 11 – Angelo Faticoni
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Wild Talents am Oktober 28, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
Fort für euch 10 – Steine, die vom Himmel fallen
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, The Book Of The Damned am Oktober 17, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
In Science, March 9, 1888, we read of a block of limestone, said to have fallen near Middleburgh, Florida. It was exhibited at the Sub-tropical Exposition, at Jacksonville. The writer, in Science, denies that it fell from the sky. His reasoning is: There is no limestone in the sky; Therefore this limestone did not fall [...]
Fort für euch 9 – The Revival
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Lo! am Oktober 7, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
Liverpool Echo, Jan. 18 — “Wales in the Grip of Supernatural Forces!” This was in allusion to the developing frenzies of the revival, and the accompanying luminous things, or beings, that had been reported. “Supernatural” is a word that has no place in my vocabulary. In my view, it has no meaning, or distinguishment. If [...]
Fort für euch 8 – Electric Girl
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Wild Talents am Oktober 3, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
There are many accounts of poltergeist-phenomena that are so obscured by the preconceptions of witnesses that one can’t tell whether they are stories of girls who had occult powers, or of invisible beings, who, in the presence of girl-mediums, manifested. But the story of Angelique Cottin is an account of a girl, who, by an [...]
Fort für euch 7 – Botschaften vom Mars
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, New Lands am September 27, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
New York Tribune, Sept. 2, 1921: “J.C.H. Macbeth, London Manager of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., told several hundred men, at a luncheon of the Rotary Club, of New York, yesterday, that Signor Marconi believed he had intercepted messages from Mars, during recent atmospheric experiments with wireless on board his yacht Electra, in the [...]
Fort für euch 6 – Die fliegende Schlange
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Lo! am September 23, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
I don’t know what will be thought generally of our data, but in the New York Times, July 6, 1873, the writer of General Notes tells of something that he considered “the very worst case of delirium tremens on record.” This was before my time. He copied from the Bonham (Texas) Enterprise — that a [...]
Fort für euch 5 – Unheimliche Friseure
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Wild Talents am September 19, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
There were accounts in the London newspapers, of Dec. 2 and 10, 1922, of a scare in places east and west of London. In a street, in Uxbridge, Middlesex, a woman found that her braid had been cut off. She had been aware of no such operation, but remembered that, in a crowd, her hat [...]
Fort für euch 4 – Besucher von anderen Welten
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Lo! am September 16, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
I should like to think that inhabitants of other worlds, or other parts of one existence, have been teleported to this earth. How I’d like it, if I were teleported the other way, has nothing to do with what I’d like to think has befallen somebody else. But I can’t say that our own stories, [...]
Fort für euch 3 – Engel am Himmel
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, New Lands am September 13, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
In a pamphlet entitled Wonderful Phenomena by Curtis Eli, is the report of an occurrence, or of an alleged occurrence, that was investigated by Mr. Addison A. Sawin, a spiritualist. He interpreted in the only way that I know of, and that is the psychochemic process of combining new data with preconceptions with which they [...]
Fort für euch 2 – Massenpsychologie
Veröffentlicht in Forteanismus, Getaggt Forteanismus, Wild Talents am September 11, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
New York Sun, May 22, 1928 — story from the town of Newton, Mass. In this town, a physician was, by telephone, called to the home of William M. Duncan. There was nobody to meet him at the front door, but he got into the house. He called, but nobody answered. There seemed to be [...]






