Forteana — named for writer Charles Fort, who spent his career cataloguing reports of anomalous phenomena that conventional science struggled to explain — is the Vault's broadest umbrella category, covering unexplained and anomalous phenomena in general, distinct from any single specific field or mechanism.
Scope
This category exists for a genuine structural reason: many of the Vault's subjects don't share an underlying claimed mechanism with one another, only a general position outside mainstream science. A cryptid sighting, a poltergeist case, and an unexplained aerial phenomenon have nothing in common biologically, physically or psychologically — they only share the fact of being unexplained. Forteana is the category built for that shared position, rather than forcing unrelated subjects into a more specific category (such as Category:Parapsychology) that doesn't actually fit their subject matter.
More specific categories should still be used alongside Forteana wherever they genuinely apply:
- Category:Cryptozoology — for claimed unknown animals specifically.
- Category:Parapsychology — for claimed psychic or mental phenomena specifically (telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship).
- Category:Ghosts and Hauntings — for haunting-type phenomena specifically.
Forteana is the right category when a subject is genuinely general-purpose anomalous, or when it spans more than one of the more specific categories above without belonging fully to any single one.
Adding a page to this category
Add [[Category:Forteana]] directly to any article covering unexplained or anomalous phenomena, alongside the article's more specific categories where applicable. This isn't added automatically by any infobox or template.
See also
Pages in category "Forteana"
The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.