Some of the best Fortean writing these days takes the form of regional studies, and this one by Jim Miles, who is an economics teacher by profession and a historian and Fortean by avocation, has produced a huge round up of Georgian Forteana.
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Some of this material has come from modern researchers, others from the files of the old newspapers and local histories. So we have UFO reports, old fashioned close encounters, occupant reports from the pre-abduction days, all manner of strange creatures from Bigfeet to a phantom hog, a reasonable study of historical mysteries and weird stuff of all kinds.
There are, of course, abductions, including one from way back in 1971 (It would be interesting to see if that story was actually reported back then, making it one of the missing link abduction narratives from the gap years 1968-72). There is also what might be the next phenomena, the shadows who are just that, and walk through walls just like your old time abducting grays.
Jim Miles' own take on this, is that though this weird stuff happens, none of it is real. It seems to come in an out of existence, leaving sometimes marks of its passing, but can never be tracked down. More sceptically minded Magonians might question that evidence of passage, and argue that the weirdness exists mostly in our perception of the world, and is evidence of the artistry behind perception.
- Peter Rogerson
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