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Fortean Wonders

The Charles Fort Institute, with a little help from Fortean Times, are looking for nominations for their list of the ‘Seven Fortean Wonders of the World’:

Earlier this year the publicly voted New Seven Wonders of the World were announced, which put an idea into the collective head of The Charles Fort Institute. They want to establish the Seven Fortean Wonders of the World – the places and artefacts that are most steeped in mystery – and they need your suggestions!

They will draw up a shortlist from the ideas that are sent in, and to get the ball rolling we have put together a selection below of likely candidates. (Note: these are not our choices – just suggestions). You have until the end of September 2007 to get your vote in.

I’m sure, between us all, we could assemble a fair list of ‘wonders’ worth voting on. Email your thoughts to the CFI, or post a comment here and I’ll see that the CFI receives it.

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  1. My nominees!
    I wrote to them a couple of days ago, these were my nominations:

    Fortean places: La Zona del Silencio, in Durango.

    Fortean artifacts:
    The Olmec Heads at La Venta, Tabasco
    The Pyramid of Cholula, Puebla
    And (why not?) The tombstone of Pakal, in Palenque Chiapas (Erich Von Daniken would never forgive me if I didn’t mention that one!!)

    I admit it. I went very nationalistic with my choices. But hey! If Chichen Itza is now a new “endorsed” wonder, let’s see if we can keep a good thing going! 😉

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

      1. Noooo! 🙁
        The closest I’ve been to any of those, is to some of the olmec heads they have displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology

        http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/

        They also have a nice reproduction of Pakal’s tomb. I think they do have the original jade mask he was wearing when they buried him too.

        My parents went to Chichen Itza, back when i was still allowed to climb the pyramid. Alas, they didn’t take me 🙁

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. Oh! and BTW
          Did youknow that Werner Von Braun made two expeditions to La Zona del Silencio, the first one because one of their NASA test rockets crashed there. I read in a magazine that he once said “if I were an alien visitor, I would not hesitate to pick La Zona del Silencio as my landing site. That way nobody would notice it” (or something like that, I read it in a spanish magazine).

          And La Zona del Silencio is awfully close to Nevada, Utah and Roswell too…

          —–
          It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
          It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

          Red Pill Junkie

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