Who Forted?

June 29th, 1854, spiritualist John Murray Spear encased himself in gemstone adorned metal suite, slipped into a deep trance, and began receiving messages from the Electricizors. As clairvoyants surveyed an ectoplasmic umbilical cord slither from Spear, a nearby woman began experiencing labor pains. Then the machine began to move..

Last March, WF? hosted it’s very own paranormal event, the first crowd-sourced paranormal conference ever. The road to hosting our own event was a rocky one, a path that pitted us against the sabotaging efforts of angry television fan clubs, sneaky backhand dealings by jealous local psychics, lawsuit threats from the über-serious International Fortean Organization, and at times, even each other. What did we learn? Find out in part 1 of the three part piece titled “If You Want it Done Right: What We Learned from Hosting our Own Paranormal Conference.”

1883 saw the first recorded sighting of the Lake Champlain Monster, Vermont’s own cousin to Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster. Lovingly nicknamed “Champ” by the locals, the beast was sighted countless times over the years, with occurrences peaking in the 70’s. But now, the lake has gone silent. John Dockum looks into how a monster went missing.

Believe it or not, there exists a form of fortune telling that consists of reading someone’s past and future by staring at the corresponding cheek of a bare ass. It’s called “rumpology”, and it’s being pioneered by Rambo’s mom. Jason Korbus attempts to, um, get the bottom of things in his first piece for WF.

Spirit art is the process by which a psychic will claim to have drawn the image of a dead person that they have no prior knowledge of, using only their psychic ability.. and it’s easier than you think! Tony Hart-Wilden gives us a step-by step guide to finding out if your spirit artist is drawing from something unexplained, or painting by numbers.