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

WHAT'S IN STORE FOR '24? • Predictions include quakes, political turmoil and WWIII

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

SIDELINES

ANIMAL NEWS • Accidental magpie god, rabid moose, monkey railway workers and mini-shark attack

THE XMAS FILES • Seasonal weirdness abounded in 2023, from wise dogs to deadly trees

WHAT’S IN A NAME? • Odd book titles and embarrassing Russian villages

The final frontier • DAVID HAMBLING reports on how propellentless space drives are now facing their biggest test

ARCHÆOLOGY A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES • PAUL DEVEREUX brings news of lost prehistoric populations and a cunningly hidden mediæval curse

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

Visions of light • ALAN MURDIE examines traditions of aerial lights as supernatural signs and portents

ALIEN ZOO NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN • KARL SHUKER remembers a veteran Nessie researcher and shares a Yeti hair update

CRYPTO-CONFERENCE • MATT SALUSBURY reports from the 2023 Rencontres Europeennes de Cryptozoologie, in Dinant, Belgium

TOXTETH DAY OF THE DEAD 2023: THE KROSSING • IAN SIMMONS takes a ferry ’cross the Mersey for a glimpse of the afterlife according to the KLF

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Updates on some of last year’s news stories: mummies, mushrooms and mystery gassers

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • Dead chefs, gay sex and a former first lady who is actually a man – not to mention a new Netflix movie. NOEL ROONEY ventures down the rabbit hole of Obama conspiracy theories…

SATAN VERSUS SANTA • The Satanic Temple gets in on the US festive season, while Russian cannibals are freed to fight in Ukraine

Lust in Space • NIGEL WATSON catches up with the growing literary sub-genre of Alien Romance and its top authors

THE RESTAURANT THE MEGATRON STORY AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE • In 1990, a very unusual restaurant opened outside an American airbase in rural Cambridgeshire. It was shaped like a flying saucer, manned by aliens and robots and haunted by poltergeists and werewolves. TONY CONN tells the strange, forgotten story of the Megatron

FAIRY CENSUS 2 • Six years on from the publication of the first Fairy Census, SIMON YOUNG returns with a further stocktake of encounters with the little people. But what, he asks, do these 500 newly collected cases tell us about the nature of such experiences? Are we dealing with real entities, psychological projections or something else?

THE GHOST SCRAPBOOKS OF TOM PERROTT PART TWO • The 1970s were a golden age for ghost stories in British newspapers, says ALAN MURDIE, and thanks to the late Tom Perrott, who collected newsclippings from the local press, we can step back in time to this haunted decade.

BARKING MAD? • Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding new President, Javier Milei, is a man on a mission from both God and Dog to save his nation from the evil economic policies of Satan and the current Communist Turd-Pope. SD TUCKER analyses the very strange mind of One Man and His (Dead) Dog.

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