
Next week begins the much awaited fortean festival Strange Days, hosted at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet near Pewsey, Wiltshire. The festival boasts an impressive lineup of speakers ranging from cryptozoologists to podcast hosts, as well as evening entertainment. The local area for the festival suits the subject of the strange as well, most famously…

There are many so-called areas of high strangeness across the globe, from The Bermuda Triangle to Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The term ‘high strangeness’ was coined by Dr. J. Allen Hynek in 1972 and means ‘a high number of strange events in conjunction with UFO sightings.’ Almost inevitably, the mind thinks of famous cases from…