The Res Bureaux Bulletin is a Forteanian zine published by the mysterious Mr. X., here from September 1976 through December ‘78. ‘Published’ tri-weekly from Kingston, Ontario, this run opens with issue 5, noting ‘the four previous issues … were largely experimental and quickly followed the demise of two earlier attempts, the Bigfoot Bulletin and From My Files, which were also distributed without charge.’ The dates of these previous issues are unknown. 
 
A non-exhaustive list of subjects covered in Mr. Xs’ deadpan journalistic reporting includes: 
Fossils, Atlantis, the hunt for the Sasquatch, Thunderbirds, UFOs, phantasms, plagues of air crashes, a mystery steel-dart sniper with twenty one female victims, Mars, Ice Ages, revived pterodactyls, squirrel terrors, Shakuntula Devi, lost wallets, x-ray pulsars, childhood favourite The Bermuda Triangle, mass animal deaths, lost writings found, unusual fish, killer bees, The Throng, and Death Rays. All reported as near and far as Siberia, India, Antarctica, and Grimsby. 
 
Forteanian refers to the academic and scientific tradition following American writer Charles Hort Foy, (1874 - 1932) whose research on anomalous phenomena inspired many of the theories behind the literary science fiction of the mid-20th century. His first followers formed the Fourtean Society in 1931, publishing a Fortean Society Magazine (sometimes known as Doubt) continually published until 1959 with the death of co-founder, actor-writer Tiffany Thayer. Various fanzines of Forteanian theories later sprung up across the world, including American INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown (1967), British ‘The News’ later renamed ‘Fortean Times’ (1973 - present). Mr. X. takes his name from an unpublished work by Fort, and remains a mysterious presence on various internet forums to this day. 
 
Fort was perhaps the first person to explain strange human disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction, and was an early proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis - strange lights and flying objects being ‘aliens’. He was the first use of the term ‘teleportation’, and published significant and abundant reports on ball lightening, out of place artifacts (OOPArts), spontaneous combustion, and much more across the sciences, the occult, and the paranormal.