Classification of Forteana
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This classification of forteana is an original classification scheme used for this website which offers to make phenomena easy to find and compare.
A: Phenomena formerly classified elsewhere
AM: Formerly missing objects, individuals, locations
AMI: Formerly missing individuals wherein account of having being lost has been firmly established
AP: Phenomena formerly considered supernatural
AS: Formerly secret objects, locations, organizations, projects
ASL: Formerly secret locations
ASR: Formerly restricted locations
ASR: Former religiously restricted locations
AU: Formerly unidentified phenomena
AUI: Formerly unidentified individuals
AUIC: Formerly unidentified criminals
AUICM: Formerly unidentified murderers and serial killers
AUS: Formerly unidentified sounds
C: Cryptozoology and cryptobotany
CR: Cryptids
CRB: Botanical cryptids
CRZ: Zoological cryptids
CRZA: Aquatic cryptids
CRZAL: Lake monsters
- Bear Lake Monster
- Beast of Busco
- Bessie
- Big Tim
- Brosno Dragon
- Bunyip
- Champ
- Chipekwe
- Cressie
- Eachy
- Flathead Lake Monster
- Gaasyendietha
- Gryttie
- Hudson River Monster
- Igopogo
- Irizima
- Issie
- Kingstie
- Kinosoo
- Kusshii
- Labynkyr Monster
- Lagarfljót Worm
- Lake Hopatcong Monster
- Lake Kanas Creatures
- Lake Tianchi Monster
- Lake Van Monster
- Lariosauro
- Lukwata
- Mahamba
- Manipogo
- Memphré
- Mishipeshu
- Mokele-mbembe
- Morag
- Muc-sheilch
- Muckie
- Mugwump
- Mussie
- "Nahuelito"
- Nessie
- North Shore Monster
- Nsanga
- Nyaminyami
- Ogopogo
- Old Greeny
- "Old Ned"
- Pamba
- Pinatubo monster
- "Raystown Ray"
- Reindeer Lake Monster
- Seljordsormen
- Seneca Lake Monster
- Sharlie
- Storsjöodjuret
- Tahoe Tessie
- Tarpie
- Thetis Lake Monster
- White River Monster
- Willy
- Winnipogo
CRZAS: Sea monsters
CRZF: Flying cryptids
CRZM: Mammalian cryptids
CRZMH: Humanoid mammalian cryptids
- Agogwe
- Almas
- Am Fear Liath Mòr
- Ban-manush
- Barmanou
- Batutut
- Beaman
- Bigfoot
- Chuchunya
- De Loys' Ape
- Devil Monkey
- Ebu gogo
- Fouke Monster
- Grassman
- Monkey Man of New Delhi
CRZR: Reptilian cryptids
CRZRH: Humanoid reptilian cryptids
- Cherufe
- Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
- Loveland Frog
- Jake the Alligator Man
- Flatwoods monster
- Thetis Lake Monster
D: Conspiracies and conspiracy theories
DC: Conspiracies
DT: Conspiracy theories
DTC: Conspiracy theories involving religions, cults
- Anti-Catholicism conspiracy theories
- 50 Years in the Church of Rome
- "Catholic Question"
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Exsultet conspiracy theories
- Jesuit conspiracy theories
- Know Nothings
- Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories
- Pope John Paul II assassination attempt, Conspiracy theories involving
- Popish Plot
- Priest, the Woman and the Confessional, The
- Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Conspiracy theories involving
- Six Months in a Convent
- Two Babylons, The
- Vatican conspiracy theories
- Antisemitic conspiracy theories
- Blood libel
- Conspiracy theories involving the Rothschild family
- Holocaust denial
- International Jewish conspiracy theory
- "Franklin Prophecy", The
- International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, The
- Jewish control of Hollywood, Conspiracy theory involving
- Jewish control of News Media, Conspiracy theory involving
- Jewish control of the Federal Reserve, Conspiracy theory involving
- Jewish control of Wall Street, Conspiracy theory involving
- Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory
- Political accusations against the Baha'i Faith
DTE: Conspiracy theories involving extraterrestrials
DTG: Conspiracy theories involving government activities and operations
- Armenian conspiracy theories
- Federal Reserve, Conspiracy theores involving the
- New World Order
- Shadow government
- UFO conspiracy theories
- Zionist Occupation Government
DTI: Conspiracy theories involving intelligence activities and operations
DTM: Conspiracy theories involving military activities and operations
DTR: Conspiracy theories involving race, ethnicity
E: Extraterrestrial phenomena
F: Fringe science
FB: Fringe biological science
FC: Fringe computer science
FCA: Artificial intelligence
G: Pseudoscience, archaic science, obsolete science
GA: Pseudoarchaeology
GC: Alchemy
GM: Alternative medicine
GMB: Biologically-based therapies
- Amino acids
- Animal-derived extracts
- Botanicals
- Fatty acids
- Functional foods
- Minerals
- Other substances, materials
- Prebiotics and probiotics
- Proteins
- Vitamins
- Whole diets
GME: Energy therapy, energy medicine
GMEP: Putative energy medicine
- Crystal healing
- Esoteric healing
- Magnetic healing
- Pranic healing
- Psychic healing
- Spiritual healing
- Therapeutic touch
GMEV: Veritable energy medicine
GMI: Mind-body interventions
- Acupuncture
- Art therapy
- Alexander technique
- Alphabiotics
- Breathing exercises
- Chiropractic
- Dance therapy
- Guided imagery
- Guided meditation
- Music therapy
GMM: Manual therapy
- Acupressure
- Anma
- Applied kinesiology
- Bodywork
- Bone setting
- Bowen Technique
- Cranio-sacral therapy
- Dorn method
- Joint manipulation
- Joint mobilization
GMS: Alternative medical systems
GP: Pseudophysics
H: Hoaxes, deceptions, forgeries
HJ: Journalistic hoaxes
HP: Paranormal and parapsychological hoaxes
HPG: Hoaxes involving apparition entities, ghosts, hauntings
HS: Scientific hoaxes
HSA: Archaeological hoaxes
- Acámbaro figures
- AVM Runestone
- Bat Creek inscription
- Brandenburg stone
- Crystal skulls
- British Skull
- Heavener Runestone
- Ica stones
- Kensington Runestone
- Llygadwy Time Team excavation
- Newark Holy Stones
- Poteau Stone
- Tucson artifacts
HSB: Biological hoaxes
HSC: Chemical hoaxes
J: Occult phenomena, occultism
JD: Demonology
JDP: Demonic possessions
JDPA: Attributes commonly associated with demonic possession
JDPI: Possessed individuals, individuals claiming to be possessed
- Ananias
- Cele, Clara Germana
- Gay, Antoine
- Jesus of Nazareth
- John the Baptist
- Judas Iscariot
- Knapp, Elizabeth
- Lukins, George
- Michel, Anneliese
- Sarah
- Saul
- Simon Magus
- Talbye, Dorothy
- Taylor, Michael
- Whore of Babylon
JDPE: Exorcism, accounts of exorcism
- Exorcism of Gottliebin Dittus
- Exorcism of Roland Doe
- Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac
- Exorcism of the Yatton demoniac
JDPEI: Individuals who practice exorcism, individuals who have performed exorcisms
JDPEW: Works depicting or about exorcisms
JDPG: Multiple possession events, possessions of multiple individuals
JF: Divination, divinatory arts
JFA: Augury
JFAI: Augurs
JFAM: Methods of practicing augury
JFAW: Works discussing augury, concerning augury
JFO: Omens and omen texts
JFP: Palmistry, chiromancy
JFS: Sortilege, cleromancy
JFSM: Methods of practicing cleromancy
JFSO: Objects associated with cleromancy
JFZ: Spontaneous divination, not restricted to a particular medium
JH: Historical occultism
- Arriens, Mirgje
- Bernauer, Agnes
- Bien, Merga
- Birgitta, Lasses
- Bishop, Bridget
- Bonanno, Giovanna
- Burroughs, George
- Carrier, Martha
- Clarke, Elizabeth
- Von Borcke, Sidonia
JWH: Witch-hunts, witch trials, persecution of witches
- Affair of the Poisons
- Bamberg witch trials
- Basque witch trials
- Bideford witch trial
- Bury St Edmunds witch trials
- Doruchów witch trial
- Ellwangen witch trial
- Finspång witch trial
- Fulda witch trials
- Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597
- Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1649-50
- Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-62
- Islandmagee witch trial
- Kirkjuból witch trial
- Køge Huskors
- Labourd witch-hunt of 1609
- Liechtenstein witch trials
- Lisbon witch trial
- Mora witch trial
- North Berwick witch trials
- Northamptonshire witch trials
- Northern Moravian witch trials
- Ramsele witch trial
- Roermond witch trial
- Rosborg witch trials
- Rugård witch trials
- Salem witch trials
- Spa witch trial
- Thisted witch trial
- Torsåker witch trials
- Val Camonica witch trials
- Valais witch trials
- Vardø witch trials
- Werewolf witch trials
- Wiesensteig witch trial
- Witch trial of Fuersteneck
- Witch trial of Nogaredo
- Witch trials of Fulda
- Witch trials of Trier
- Würzburg witch trial
- Zaubererjackl witch trials
K: Unclear circumstances
KO: Unclear circumstances surrounding objects
KOW: Unclear circumstances surrounding works
KOWA: Unclear circumstances surrounding works of art
KOWB: Unclear circumstances surrounding books
KOWI: Unclear circumstances surrounding images
KOWIP: Unclear circumstances surrounding photographs
KOWM: Unclear circumstances surrounding manuscripts
KOWP: Unclear circumstances surrounding plays
KOWR: Unclear circumstances surrounding recordings
KOWS: Unclear circumstances surrounding speeches
L: Legends and myths
LC: Curses
LCL: Supposedly cursed locations
LCO: Supposedly cursed objects
LCP: Supposedly cursed persons or groups of persons
- Curse of Tippecanoe (Tecumseh's Curse)
LM: Myths
LMC: Mythological creatures, legendary creatures
LMCL: Werewolves, lycanthropy
LMCLH: Persecution of werewolves
LMCLM: Medical conditions possibly linked to werewolves, lycanthropy
LML: Mythological locations
LMLB: Mythological buildings
LMO: Mythological objects
LU: Urban legends
LUM: Medical urban legends
M: Missing objects, individuals, locations
MI: Missing individuals or groups of individuals
MIA: Missing in action
MIK: Missing due to abduction or kidnapping
MIM: Missing, confirmed murdered, but no body recovered
MIO: Missing, likely due to membership in an organization
MIR: Missing, runaway
MIS: Missing, confirmed suicide, but no body recovered
MIU: Missing for reasons unknown
ML: Missing, lost, destroyed locations
MLD: Destroyed locations
MLL: Lost locations
MO: Missing or lost objects
MOT: Missing or lost valuables
MOV: Missing or lost vehicles
MOVA: Missing or lost aircraft
- America
- Aotearoa
- Campbell Dirigicycle
- Endeavour
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Manuel Rodríguez
- Old Glory
- Pampero
- Pathfinder
- Saint Raphael
- Saladin
- Ville de Paris
MOVS: Missing or lost ships
MOW: Missing or lost works
MOWA: Missing or lost works of art
MOWB: Missing or lost books
- Baba, Meher, Missing book of
- Frank, Margot, Lost diary of
- Inventio Fortunata
- "Isle of the Cross"
- Margites
MOWD: Missing or lost documents
MOWF: Missing or lost films
MOWM: Missing or lost manuscripts
MOWP: Missing or lost plays
MOWR: Missing or lost recordings
MOWS: Missing or lost speeches
N: Unsolved problems not classified elsewhere
NC: Unsolved crimes
NCM: Unsolved murders
NCMG: Unsolved group murders
NCMI: Unsolved murders of individuals
NCMS: Unsolved serial murders
NCV: Unsolved vehicle seizures
NCVA: Unsolved aircraft hijackings
NCVC: Unsolved carjackings
NCVM: Unsolved maritime hijackings
O: Out-of-place objects
- Aluminum Wedge of Aiud
- Antikythera mechanism
- Baghdad Battery
- Baigong Pipes
- Coso artifact
- Dendara light
- Dorchester Pot
- Eiserner Mann
- Eltanin Antenna
- Esperanza Stone
- Helicopter hieroglyphs
- Iron pillar of Delhi
- Kingoodie artefact
- Klerksdorp sphere
- Lake Winnipesaukee mystery stone
- London Hammer
- Los Lunas Decalogue Stone
- Misrah Ghar il-Kbir
- Quimbaya airplanes
- San Pedro Mountains Mummy
- Saqqara Bird
- Starving of Saqqara, The
- Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head
- Wolfsegg Iron
P: Parapsychological phenomena
PP: Psychic phenomena, extrasensory perception
PPAG: Ghosts, specific apparition entities
- Agnes of Glasgow
- Beauport Phenomenon
- Bell Witch Haunting
- Black Aggie
- Blue Lady
- Bloody Mary
- Bush, Joe
- Darke, Jack
- Froese, Jack, Emails
- Gray Man, The
- Greenbrier Ghost
- Grimbold, Alice
- Hairy Hands
- Lincoln's Ghost
- Morgan, Kate
- Niles Canyon ghost
- Old Book
- Polly, Elizabeth (Blue Light Lady)
- Quay, Minnie
- Queen Esther
- Santa Fe courthouse ghost
PPAH: Reportedly haunted locations
PPAHC: Reportedly haunted cemeteries, places of death
PPAHH: Reportedly haunted houses, places of living
PPAV: Reportedly haunted vehicles, phantom vehicles
PPAVA: Phantom automobiles
PPAVS: Ghost ships
- Flying Dutchman, The
- HMS Resolute
- MV Joyita
- SV Carroll A. Deering
- SV Mary Celeste
- SV Resolven
- SV Sea Bird
- SV The Twenty One Friends
- SV Zebrina
- Young Phoenix
PPAVT: Ghost trains
PPCA: Clairalience
PPCC: Claircognizance
PPCE: Clairenunciate
PPCG: Clairgustance
PPCH: Clairaudience
PPCS: Clairsentience
PPCV: Clairvoyance
PPCVP: Precognition
PPCVR: Retrocognition
PPCVV: Remote viewing
PPK: Psychokinesis
PPKP: Pyrokinesis
Q: Coincidences and coincidental events
S: Secret objects, locations, organizations, projects
SA: Secret agents
SG: Secret groups
SGC: Covert organizations
SGE: Economically-active secret groups
SGF: Front organizations
SGH: Humorous secret groups
SGP: Politically-active secret groups
- Bilderberg Group
- Knights of the Golden Circle
- Propaganda Due
- Room 39
- Skull and Bones
- Society of the Elect
SGQ: Philanthropic secret groups
SGR: Secret religious groups, cults
SGS: Other secret groups, societies
SGU: Secret groups whose existence is unsubstantiated
SL: Secret locations
SLC: Secret cities, towns
SLI: Secret intelligence bases, facilities, installations
- Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity
- Black sites
- CIA University
- George Bush Center for Intelligence
- Homey Airport
- P.O. Box 1142
- Room 39
- Sandia Base
- Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis
- Special Collection Service
SLM: Secret military bases, facilities, installations
- 816 Nuclear Military Plant
- Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity
- Black sites
- Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity
- Homey Airport
- McDowell Grove Forest Preserve
- Metro-2
- Mezhgorye, Republic of Bashkortostan
- Mount Yamantau
- Yucca Airstrip
- Yulin Naval Base
SLR: Restricted locations
SLRC: Closed cities
SLRP: Politically restricted locations
SLRR: Religiously restricted locations
SO: Secret objects
SOW: Secret works
SOWD: Secret documents
SOWDC: Classified documents
- "Downing Street memo"
- Afghan War documents leak
- Cabinet Files, The
- Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures
- Family Jewels
- Hanslope Park
- Operation Mincemeat
SOWDF: Declassified documents
SP: Secret projects
SPG: Secret government projects, activities, operations
- Black budgets
- Cleveland, Stephen Grover, Surgery
- Counter Intelligence Program
- Hemingway, Ernest, FBI surveillance of
SPI: Secret intelligence projects, activities, operations
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état
- 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
- Acoustic Kitty
- CIA and the Cultural Cold War
- GSF Explorer
- GhostNet
- Intelink
- Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System
- MUSCULAR
- Phoenix Program
- Special Collection Service
- Stargate Project
SPM: Secret military projects, activities, operations
ST: Trade secrets
T: Unsolved problems in science and technology
TA: Unsolved problems in astronomy
- Coronal heating problem
- Fermi paradox
- Flyby anomaly
- Galaxy rotation problem
- Injection problem
- Lithium problem
TB: Unsolved problems in biology
- Arthropod head problem
- Darwin's abominable mystery
- Faint young Sun paradox
- Origin of life
- Paradox of the plankton
- Protein folding
TC: Unsolved problems in computer science
TCC: Unsolved problems in computational complexity
- L = NL problem
- L = P problem
- L = RL problem
- NC = P problem
- NP = co-NP problem
- P = BPP problem
- P = PSPACE problem
- P versus NP problem
- Unique games conjecture
TCP: Unsolved problems in programming language theory
TE: Unsolved problems in economics
TH: Unsolved problems in chemistry
TL: Unsolved problems in linguistics
TM: Unsolved problems in mathematics
TMA: Unsolved problems in algebra
TMC: Unsolved problems in combinatorics
TMG: Unsolved problems in geometry
TMGE: Unsolved problems in Euclidean geometry
TML: Unsolved problems in analysis
TMN: Unsolved problems in number theory
TMNP: Unsolved problems involving prime numbers
TMR: Unsolved problems in graph theory
TMS: Unsolved problems in set theory
TMT: Unsolved problems in topology
TN: Unsolved problems in physics
TNC: Unsolved problems in cosmology
TNO: Unsolved problems in optics
TNP: Unsolved problems in particle physics
TNQ: Unsolved problems in quantum physics
- Black hole information paradox
- Chronology protection conjecture
- Cosmic censorship hypothesis
- Vacuum catastrophe
TP: Unsolved problems in psychology and neuroscience
TPC: Unsolved problems in cognitive psychology
TPN: Unsolved problems in neuroscience
TPS: Unsolved problems in social psychology
TS: Unsolved problems in statistics
U: Unidentified phenomena
UG: Unidentified groups and organizations
UI: Unidentified individuals
- "Lady of the Dunes"
- "Little Miss 1565"
- Babushka Lady
- Benny the mystery philanthropist
- Bhekhirst, Y.
- Boy in the Box
- Chandler, Joseph Newton III
- Dunkelgrafen
- Falling Man, The
- Female Stranger, Grave of the
- Fulcanelli
- Hauser, Kaspar
- Isdal woman
- Jerome of Sandy Cove
- John Doe No. 24
- Khmer Rouge, Victims of
- L'Inconnue de la Seine
- Leatherman
- Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936
- Lustig, Victor
- Man in the Iron Mask
- Nakamoto, Satoshi
- Persian Princess
- Person from Porlock
- Poe Toaster
- Roland Doe, Exorcism of
- Stakeknife
- Tamam Shud Case
- Tank Man
- Titor, John
- Valor por Tamaulipas
- White woman of Gippsland
- Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
UIC: Unidentified criminals
- "D. B. Cooper"
- Batman rapist
- Circleville Writer
- Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion
- Monster with 21 Faces, The
UICM: Unidentified murderers
UICMS: Unidentified serial killers
- Axeman of New Orleans
- Cleveland Torso Murderer
- Colonial Parkway Killer
- Golden State Killer
- Jack the Ripper
- Long Island serial killer
- Mostro di Firenze, Il
- Oakland County Child Killer
- Phantom of Heilbronn
- Zodiac Killer
UO: Unidentified objects
UOA: Unidentified archaeological objects
UOF: Unidentified flying objects
- UFO sightings
- Nocturnal lights
- Daylight discs
- Radar-visual
- Close encounters of the first kind
- Close encounters of the second kind
- Close encounters of the third kind
- Close encounters of the fourth kind
- Close encounters of the fifth kind
- Close encounters of the sixth kind
- Close encounters of the seventh kind