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

DANIEL FARSON’S GUIDE TO BRITAIN VOLUME 1 & V OLUME 2

CAT IN THE HAT FLAP • Fake AI footage and creepy TikTok videos spark panic about Dr Seuss character gone bad

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

ON THE ROAD AGAIN • Cats, dogs and an octopus light out for the territory

SIDELINES

THE HIGH FRONTIER • Beaming in with all the latest news and research from space

BUS PASTIME • Retired physicist’s private passion for making miniature buses revealed…

COSMIC FREQUENCIES • STU FERROL heads to Hexham for a weekend of space-themed talks, films, music and art

ARCHÆOLOGY • PAUL DEVEREUX finds the latest research into bones and stones overturning some old ideas

CLASSICAL CORNER

RICHARD DADD: BEYOND BEDLAM • DAVID V BARRETT finds fairy masterpieces and more at the RA – just remember to bring a magnifying glass!

The great gravity switch-off • With no bunker to retreat to, DAVID HAMBLING hangs onto his hat and watches the solar eclipse

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • Twenty-five years on from the attack on the World Trade Center NOEL ROONEY reflects on a day that changed the world – and conspiracy theory – forever.

The Tryon apparition • ALAN MURDIE attempts to discover the true origins of a classic London ghost story

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER finds a thylacine in the unlikeliest of places and a rabbit hiding in plain sight

TWISTED TECH TALES • AIs go off the reservation to mount a cyberattack, Waymos run wild, and robots take to begging

GHOSTLY GOINGS-ON • Ghost girl on camera, a friendly spirit at the Tiki bar and poltergeists up to their usual tricks

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

UFO victims and visitors • NIGEL WATSON hears the psionic dog whistles and tunes in to the latest Skinny Bob videos

BLACK BOX RECORDERS • Could radio-like devices with Bakelite knobs cure illness or enhance crops by tuning into the correct frequencies? Or even take photographs across space and time? MARK PILKINGTON looks at the remarkable story, and even more remarkable claims, of Oxford’s Delawarr Laboratories …

Good Vibrations: A Very Brief History of Radionics

Impossible Technologies: The Wishing Machine

MANGLED MUSIC

Martin Luther’s Anal Apocalypse • JEFFREY VALLANCE reveals how the man who launched the Protestant Reformation battled a thunderously farting Satan while sitting on the toilet and unleashed a scatological war of words and images in his fight against the Pope

ELY: CITY OF GHOSTS • Often said to have more ghost sightings than anywhere else in England, the Cambridgeshire cathedral city of Ely is supposedly haunted by early English saints, phantom monks and historical figures such as Oliver Cromwell and Nell Gwynne. REBECCA BATLEY sets out on her very own ghost tour…

SUBSCRIBERS

The Screaming Woods • NEIL NIXON goes down to the woods to get to the bottom of a Kentish creepypasta legend

Highway harbingers • ROB GANDY looks at three quite different cases of motoring accidents narrowly averted by coincidental interventions – or guardian angels…

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