Research Archive

FORTEAN WINDS

Research Archive

Every article on this site, organized by topic. Use this page to find research that doesn’t appear in the main navigation, or to explore threads across the full body of work.


Investigation Series


What Is Fortean?


UAP Behavior & Characteristics


Human Contact & Effects


Paranormal Hotspots & Geographic Anomalies


Consciousness, Quantum & Remote Viewing


Non-Human Intelligence, Religion & The Ancient Record


Occult History

  • The Occult History — Series Hub — Ten-chapter series on what the occult actually is, where it came from, who held it, and where it intersects with everything Fortean Winds researches.
  • Ch. 1 — What the Occult Actually Is — Definition, scope, the right-hand/left-hand divide, and why the word itself is the first obstacle to understanding.
  • Ch. 2 — Ancient Origins: Where Occult Knowledge Begins — Egypt to Mesopotamia to Greece to Rome to the Church: tracing the transmission line that built the Western occult tradition.
  • Ch. 3 — The Transmission Problem — How occult knowledge survived the fall of Rome, six centuries of Church suppression, and the near-total destruction of classical libraries. The answer runs through Baghdad, Florence, and a Macedonian monk carrying a manuscript.
  • Ch. 4 — The Grimoires: What They Actually Say — The Key of Solomon, Abramelin, Enochian, the Goetia — what’s actually in these texts, what the consistent elements reveal, and why the FW grimoire analysis found what it found.
  • Ch. 5 — The Orders: Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn, OTO — Every major occult order followed the same arc: synthesis, institutionalization, fracture. The Rosicrucian template, the Golden Dawn’s synthesis, Crowley’s Lam portrait, and the thread from the OTO to JPL.
  • Ch. 6 — The Occult and Power: Nazis, MKUltra, Political Occultism — Ariosophy to Himmler’s SS, Project Hexen, and the three threads that run from Nazi occult research to MKUltra, Stargate, and the propaganda methodology active today.
  • Ch. 7 — The American Occult — Joseph Smith as scryer, the 19th-century respectable period, the California current from Parsons through Hubbard, and the three features that make American occultism distinctly American.
  • Ch. 8 — Satanism: A Late Invention — Organized Satanism postdates the medieval period by a millennium. LaVey’s Church of Satan as political theater, the Satanic Panic as manufactured hysteria, and why the occult tradition this series traces has almost nothing to do with Satan.
  • Ch. 9 — The Occult–UAP Interface — The operational logic connecting five thousand years of occult contact protocol to modern UAP and close encounter phenomena. Crowley’s Lam portrait, the Gateway Experience, the CIA’s own assessment, and why the grimoire tradition and the abduction record are describing the same interface.
  • Ch. 10 — What’s Still Active — Where the occult tradition stands now: Project Stargate’s unofficial continuation, chaos magic and meme magic as democratized contact protocol, the propaganda methodology running at scale through algorithmic media, and why the record is a starting point, not a conclusion.

Ancient Mysteries & Archaeological Anomalies


Cryptids & Anomalous Entities


Specific UAP Cases & Events


Legacy Category Pages

Early site category overviews, preserved for reference.

Current research is organized through the four hubs: The Behavior, The Infected, The Places, and The Record.