About “WF?” & Contributors
Who Forted? is an online magazine run by a bunch of amateur journalists who investigate weird stuff. Weird stuff like hunting Bigfoot, chasing ghosts, watching UFO’s, and other equally strange things. We have a bad habit of making fun of people. A lot.
Created in the fall of 2008, WF? began as a weekly blog about the misadventures of a few jaded paranormal enthusiasts, and before long, it had morphed turned into an online destination for anyone with even a passing interest in all things weird. Boasting a diverse roster of contributers, including writers, artists, paranormal investigators, skeptics, film makers, teachers, and radio show hosts, to name a few, the ‘zine has become an often-imitated, though never duplicated portal to an oddball world that exists, though hidden, within the confines of our everyday lives: the world of the fringe.
The aim of Who Forted? has always been to provide an alternative outlet to the sometimes stuffy, often times self-aggrandizing nature inherent in many of the other publications dedicated to the paranormal, in an effort to produce a publication that is honest, humorous, and easily relatable. WF? is a labor love, not of profit, which we hope is evident by the lack of paid advertisements on the site. Furthermore, we retain an open submission policy, something that you won’t see too much of in other paranormal magazines, so we invite anyone, expert or not, to contribute. This ‘zine is not only for you, it’s by you.
If anything can be said about us, it’s that we’re a little bit different, because if we only manage to be different, then we’re already doing something right.
Regular Contributors:
Greg Newkirk
Greg is the co-creator and contributing editor for Who Forted?, as well as the infamous founder of the barrier shattering paranormal adventuring team, Ghost Hunters, Inc. How infamous, you ask? George Lutz, the man who fled his home after a harrowing 28 days with the demonic, in events that would later become the basis for The Amityville Horror, actually referred to him as “bad news”. Either the Amity house had all the scares of a carnival ride, or Newkirk is one bad ass monster hunter from hell. You decide.
When he’s not occupied by writing about or documenting the world of the weird and unexplained, he’s busy making films with guerrilla film company Fight or Flight Productions and trolling used bookstores for antique occult manuscripts.
He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. You can email Greg here.
Dana Newkirk
Dana Newkirk is a co-creator and regular contributor to WF? ‘Zine. Dana hosted the internationally syndicated television series The Girly Ghost Hunters, which originally aired on the Space Channel in Canada. It was pretty terrible. If you so choose, you can catch the reruns on Sunday mornings around 4:30am on channel 44.
Her main interests lie within the genre of vintage fringe, though she has been known to stand awkwardly in the background of many Who Forted videos. She’s into odd folks, strange sub-cultures, piles of research, and illogical beliefs. She dislikes psychics, self-proclaimed experts, and people who “borrow” her ideas.
She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. You can email Dana here.
Nick Foust
Nick Foust is a figment of our collective imagination. Forged in the dreaming subconscious of sleeping children throughout the world, Nick exists for the sole purpose of spreading fear and confusion among evolutionary scientists. Or at least, that’s what we’d like to believe. He’s actually a member of Ghost Hunters, Inc. and is, quite easily, the funny bone of Who Forted. Go ahead, watch Sergey’s Dance Party, Technical Difficulties, or even WF Investigates: Crystal Head Vodka without laughing. We dare you. It’s impossible.
Nick claims that he has never actually seen a ghost or any other type of paranormal entity, though he did admit once to seeing something that sounded an awful lot like a faery.
He’s currently posted up in Troy, Pennsylvania.
Tony Hart-Wilden
Tony hails from Winchester, Hampshire in the UK and is the man behind Chasing Midnight, a website dedicated to the pursuit of everything strange. With over sixteen million page hits and counting, it’s become a destination for everyone interested in learning a thing or two about diving into the paranormal. He’s got 20 years of off the wall adventuring under his belt gained at some of the world’s most famously paranormal hotspots throughout the U.S., U.K., and Europe.
Tony currently resides in Winchester, where he acts as our UK Regional Contact. You can email Tony here.
Ken Summers
IDoubtIt
Secret government spy by day, blogger and paranormal news junkie by night. Intent on exposing those who practice sham inquiry all dressed up in scientifical symbols, she visited WAY too many paranormal investigator’s web sites. Now, she knows too much.
Visit her blog at scientifical.info.
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.
