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

WHERE’S THE GOAT? • Reports suggest animals are being killed in ritual sacrifices in a Hackney office building…

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FAKES AND FRAUDS • Not to mention fantasists, and Facebook filters…

SIDELINES

STRANGE FINDS • Dumped items become attractions, while wheelie bins travel across continents…

WEIRD SCIENCE • Research sheds new light on whales, flatulence and our sense of touch

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • NOEL ROONEY notes that Ukraine has returned to the forefront of conspiracy chatter with the sudden death of Senator Lindsay Graham and the bizarre ‘El Money’ trial in London

ARCHÆOLOGY • PAUL DEVEREUX ponders the latest Egyptian finds, plus ancient violence and big Neanderthal babies

CLASSICAL CORNER • FORTEANA FROMTHE ANCIENT WORLD COMPILED BY BARRY BALDWIN

CONTACT IN THE DESERT 2026 • ANTHONY PEAKE reports from “The Woodstock of Ufology”

Lost without it: when GPS goes bad • Why do GPS motoring disasters keep making headlines? DAVID HAMBLING gets his road map out

NEVER MISS AN ISSUE

Ghosts, gadgets and grand designs • ALAN MURDIE suggests that contemporary ghost hunters ought to be asking bigger questions

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER hails a new monkey discovery and clears up the mystery of a ‘golden egg’

BEASTLY BEHAVIOUR • Unwelcome visitors, pitch invaders, photogenic cows and a felonious feline with a taste for hair bands

MEDICAL BAG • This month: the Mount Everest of medical scams, twins get a DNA surprise and an Ethiopian farmer receives some unexpected blessings

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

When flying saucers and fiction collide! • NIGEL WATSON takes a cinematic trip back to the 1950s and the golden Age of flying saucer movies

BLACKPOOL’S ROMANY FORTUNE TELLERS • Before the roller coasters and candy floss arrived, there was another, stranger attraction luring visitors to the Blackpool seafront – an exotic encampment of Gypsies on the South Shore. KATE CHERRELL tells the story of the town’s fortune-telling Romany community and their legacy.

ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN • One legacy of the British occult revival of the late 19th century was its impact on the artists, illustrators, novelists and poets of the period. felix john taylor considers the careers ofWBYeats, Dion Fortune, Arthur Machen and others who wove the esoteric and magical into their artistic practice

researching the researchers • the beliefs and experiences of investigators of paranormal phenomena

THE WORLD OF STRANGE PHENOMENA ForteanTimes

Burnham and the Holy Hand • MATT BARTON makes a pilgrimage to Ashton-in-Makerfield in search not of Labour’s new leader, but of a holy relic with reputed healing powers

Small or far away? • MATT SALUSBURY gets out his tape measure and considers the difficulties witnesses experience in judging the size and distance of creatures in cryptid encounters.

Bigfoot: exposed but unseen • STU NEVILLE wonders if Marq Evans’s much discussed, but so far largely unseen, exposé of the Patterson-Gimlin film will ever be released…

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