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.

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EDITORIAL

COMPETITION • THANKS TO ACORN MEDIA INTERNATIONAL WE HAVE THREE FABULOUS SETS OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL BLU-RAYS AND DVDS TO GIVE AWAY!

BIG BIGFOOT STORIES • While a new documentary claims to debunk the Patterson-Gimlin film, Bigfoot stalks Ohio

EXTRA! EXTRA! • FT’S FAVOURITE HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

THE DARK ARTS • Sham shamans, feng shui fracas and the arrest of Putin’s favourite witch

SIDELINES

WEIRD NATURE NEWS • Some surprising stories from the animal kingdom

AI ODDITIES • More strange tales from the interface between artificial intelligence and human behaviour

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

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

FORTEAN FLICKS WEIRD WEEKEND NORTH GOES TO THE PICTURES • ROB GANDY reports on the first outing for a fledgling fortean film festival

Evolution of the poltergeist • DAVID HAMBLING traces historical changes in our understanding of poltergeist phenomena

RENAISSANCE SECRETS • A novelist finds a misattributed Michaelangelo and a dentist cracks the da Vinci code… maybe

Porchwatch • ALAN MURDIE wonders whether it’s time to revive a long-lost April ghost hunting tradition

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • A sextet of US scientists have either disappeared in extremely odd circumstances or have met mysterious deaths – are they all connected in some way? NOEL ROONEY investigates.

DONALD TRUMP: TIME TRAVELLER • “I know things that other people don’t know…”

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Black Pete fades away while White Gladis and her pod reveal the linguistic secrets of orcas

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • This month, we say goodbye to the amateur art restorer whose ‘Monkey Christ’ attracted worldwide mockery and her cosmic fellow countryman ‘Carlos Jesus’.

FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA • SIMON YOUNG FILES A NEW REPORT FROM THE INTERFACE OF STRANGE PHENOMENA AND FOLK BELIEF

A saucerful of secrets • NIGEL WATSON enjoys a new film about the web of disinformation underlying modern UFO mythology

AURORA THE MARTIAN SPACESHIP CRASH • In the first instalment of a three-part series, NIGEL WATSON gets ready for Disclosure Day by re-opening his files on the spaceships that fell to Earth. In 1897, according to a local newspaper, a mysterious ‘airship’ went down over the tiny settlement of Aurora, Texas; by the 1970s, when the tale was rediscovered, ufologists were searching the site for unearthly metal fragments and the body of an alien pilot in what became known as the ‘Texas Roswell’…

TIME AND TIDE • With his new film Rose of Nevada, Cornish director MARK JENKIN is once again toying with our perceptions of time. When a lost fishing boat reappears after 30 years, it is pressed back into service with an unsuspecting new crew – who, on their first expedition, find themselves passing through a timeslip into the Cornwall of 1993. BOB FISCHER dusts down his Charlatans cassettes and joins Mark on the journey…

OLIVIER LEROY AND THE MAGIC SEESAW • BOB RICKARD continues his researches into cases suggestive of levitation, this time digging into the French archives to unearth an...