Biofort

Almost two decades ago, I wrote a short little book about the alleged mass hysteria that occurred in Mattoon, Illinois in 1944 - known coll...

The sheer wrath and condemnation that than one would incur for the use of the phrase "the weaker sex" is an apt and simple demonst...

I read in the newspaper this morning that a gentleman from Traverse City, Michigan found a dead shark in Lake Michigan. This did not surpris...

The article below is from 1929: A s ad truth exists in the anomalistic portion of the world: Those individuals who report that they were wit...

The city of Springfield, Illinois (like many others) has a Starling problem. Millions of these birds haunt the historic downtown area, leavi...

Thirty years ago, in 1977, central Illinois was all abuzz over Marlon Lowe. This diminuitive 10-year-old child had been attacked by what can...

It had been a frustrating late April 2005 morning of turkey hunting. John [not his real name] and his father-in-law had conceded that they w...

Fellow biofortean Chad Arment, who kindly posted a comment on my previous post on my paper on the Washington eagle, has posted on his websit...

This paper originally appeared in The Meadowlark: The Journal of the Illinois Ornithological Society For over one hundred years, ornitholo...