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

APG: Phenomena formerly considered related to apparition experiences, ghosts

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
CRZAS: Sea monsters
CRZF: Flying cryptids
CRZM: Mammalian cryptids
CRZMH: Humanoid mammalian cryptids
CRZR: Reptilian cryptids
CRZRH: Humanoid reptilian cryptids

D: Conspiracies and conspiracy theories

DC: Conspiracies

DT: Conspiracy theories

DTC: Conspiracy theories involving religions, cults

DTE: Conspiracy theories involving extraterrestrials

DTG: Conspiracy theories involving government activities and operations

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

GME: Energy therapy, energy medicine

GMEP: Putative energy medicine
GMEV: Veritable energy medicine

GMI: Mind-body interventions

GMM: Manual therapy

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

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
JDPE: Exorcism, accounts of exorcism
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

JW: Witchcraft and events related to witchcraft

JWI: Individuals claimed to be witches or possess abilities related to witchcraft

JWH: Witch-hunts, witch trials, persecution of witches

JWW: Texts and writings related to the practicing of witchcraft

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

LCE: Curses supposedly related to events or chronology

LCL: Supposedly cursed locations

LCO: Supposedly cursed objects

LCP: Supposedly cursed persons or groups of persons

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

MIC: Missing due to or related to criminal activity

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
MOVS: Missing or lost ships

MOW: Missing or lost works

MOWA: Missing or lost works of art
MOWB: Missing or lost books
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

P: Parapsychological phenomena

PP: Psychic phenomena, extrasensory perception

PPA: Apparitional experiences and related phenomena

PPAG: Ghosts, specific apparition entities
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
PPAVT: Ghost trains

PPC: Clairvoyance and related phenomena

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

SGI: Intelligence organizations and organizations related to intelligence organizations not described elsewhere

SGJ: Groups related to the internet

SGP: Politically-active secret groups

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

SLM: Secret military bases, facilities, installations

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
SOWDF: Declassified documents

SP: Secret projects

SPG: Secret government projects, activities, operations

SPI: Secret intelligence projects, activities, operations

SPM: Secret military projects, activities, operations

ST: Trade secrets

T: Unsolved problems in science and technology

TA: Unsolved problems in astronomy

TB: Unsolved problems in biology

TC: Unsolved problems in computer science

TCC: Unsolved problems in computational complexity

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

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

UIC: Unidentified criminals

UICM: Unidentified murderers
UICMS: Unidentified serial killers

UO: Unidentified objects

UOA: Unidentified archaeological objects

UOF: Unidentified flying objects

UOW: Unidentified aquatic objects

UOWS: Unidentified submerged objects

US: Unidentified sounds

USA: Unidentified atmospheric sounds

USS: Unidentified submarine sounds

UST: Unidentified terrestrial sounds

V: Unexplained phenomena not classified elsewhere

VI: Unexplained phenomena involving particular individuals not classified elsewhere

VID: Disappearances still unexplained, despite individual or individuals having been found

VL: Unexplained phenomena involving a particular location or locations not classified elsewhere

VM: Unexplained medical phenomena

VO: Unexplained phenomena involving a particular object or objects not classified elsewhere

W: Weird, unusual, abnormal, rare phenomena

WL: Unusual locations

WM: Abnormal medical phenomena

WMR: Rare medical substances

X: Unclassified elsewhere

XT: Technology-related phenomena unclassified elsewhere

XTC: Computer technology-related phenomena unclassified elsewhere

XTCS: Cybersecurity-related phenomena
XTCSG: Hacktivist groups and entities
XTCSH: Hacking and cybersecurity attacks

Z: Mysteries, mysterious phenomena not classified elsewhere

ZI: Mysteries, mysterious phenomena involving particular individuals

ZID: Mysterious deaths or circumstances surrounding death, not classified elsewhere