Fortean Times

Fortean Times chronicles the stranger side of life, delivering a heady mix of weird world news, up-to-date reports and features on every aspect of the unexplained: myths, monsters, ghosts and UFOs rub shoulders with ancient wonders and future science, while expert columnists bring you the latest on everything from cryptozoology to conspiracy theory. Open-minded, well informed and maintaining a healthy sense of humour, Fortean Times is the only place to go for a sensible look at our mad planet – it will change the way you see the world.

Fortean Times

EDITORIAL

A DIGEST OF THE WORLDWIDE WEIRD STRANGE DAYS

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ON THE WILD SIDE • More mysteries and misadventures from the animal kingdom

SIDELINES

DEAD, NOT BURIED • Corpse-keepers, con artists and mysterious cremated remains

TELEPORTING TRIAL • A FEMA official and his “no fun” adventures in time and space

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • NOEL ROONEY wonders what’s going on beneath the streets of New York: have the Mole People re-emerged from their subterranean world or are nefarious groups up to no good in the sewers?

ARCHÆOLOGY • PAUL DEVEREUX digs up the latest discoveries, plus space oddities and ‘yummy’ mummy sourdough

HEARTS OF OAK • One of Britain’s largest and most venerable trees gives up the ghost, while Kensington Gardens’ carved fairy folk get a makeover

CLASSICAL CORNER • FORTEANA FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD COMPILED BY BARRY BALDWIN

Epigraphy and mystery languages • AI can do a lot, says DAVID HAMBLING, but don’t expect it to decipher lost languages in a hurry

THE BEST KEPT SECRET • NEIL NIXON reports from the Unitarian Society for Psychical Studies 60th Anniversary Conference

The lost art of ghostly letter-writing • ALAN MURDIE puts pen to paper to mourn the decline of hand-written accounts of hauntings

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN presents his regular round-up of the weirdest news from across Europe

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER receives a set of yeti hand photographs direct from Pangboche Monastery

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Bigfoot visits Ontario, missing scientists story grows and bears continue their Japanese rampage

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • This month we raise a pint to a much-loved figure who, among other things, helped found the Earth Mysteries scene and investigated the Hexham Heads

Fairies, Folklore and Forteana • SIMON YOUNG FILES A NEW REPORT FROM THE INTERFACE OF STRANGE PHENOMENA AND FOLK BELIEF

Disclosure or distraction? • NIGEL WATSON looks at the mixed reception being given to the newly declassified UFO files

In Search of the Tatzelwurm THE DIVERSE CRYPTID OF THE ALPS • ULRICH MAGIN has scoured the archives, read the witness accounts and collected the newspaper reports. Now he crunches the data in an attempt to make sense of the wildly varying descriptions of the weirdest cryptid of the Alps, the aggressive and poisonous Tatzelwurm with its serpentine body, cat-like head and ever-changing number of legs!

STEPHEN WARD The Black Magic Osteopath

TRADING POPE LEO FOR POPPLIo The Heretical Cult of ‘Pokémon Evangelism’ • Cringeworthy attempts to make Christianity more ‘relevant’ by transforming it into a live-action videogame seem doomed only to hasten Game Over for the faith in adult eyes, says SD TUCKER

Have you got what it takes to be rich? • IJEREMY HARTE digs deep into the folklore of Britain’s buried treasure – stories of gold, ghosts and curses – and argues that these are tales not just about what is buried, but about why we yearn to uncover it…

The Demon-Haunted World at 30 • NEIL NIXON celebrates Carl Sagan’s influential defence of science as an antidote to shoddy thinking in a book that still holds...