Coffin dodgers

A teenager came to police with a disturbing story – but was it true?

It was incredibly unusual for Leslie Preer not to turn up for work. When the 50-year-old failed to appear at the advertising production company in Washington DC where she worked on May 2, 2001, a co-w

In the annals of high strangeness forteana, few cases are quite as strange as that of Sandown Sam. On a Tuesday afternoon in May 1973, a seven-year-old girl (given the pseudonym “Fay” in the BUFORA re

“I hope you don’t f***ing drop me. The way they’re carrying me, you’d think I’d died of f***ing lead poisoning.” Funerals are never an easy experience, and can be made considerably harder when the dec

Danish archæologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old circle of wooden piles that they say could be linked to Stonehenge in Britain. The 45 Neolithic-era wooden pieces, in a circle with a diameter of a

Just where did all the weird ghosts go is a question that has been posed in Fortean Times. One answer might be Wales. Ghost hunter John Harries declared, “In order to meet a Welsh ghost one really nee