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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ForteanTimes PRESENTS THE UFO FILES • From the archives of FORTEAN TIMES, the world’s foremost journal of strange phenomena, comes a new collection exploring the fascinating world of UFOs.

ZIMBABWE GOBLINS • One family’s life has been turned upside-down by a malign poltergeist… or is it a goblin?

MONOLITHOMANIA! • Mysterious monoliths and obelisks are all the rage in Wales

MEDICAL BAG • Twins from two wombs, the waters of youth and a metal-munching Indian weightlifter

TRACKS AND TICKS • Mysterious tracks in the snow and a fake African currency on X

CLASSICAL CORNER

ARCHÆOLOGY • PAUL SIEVEKING digs up the latest discoveries, incuding ancient wood and some royal skeletons

Cloak and dagger • DAVID HAMBLING tells how an Above Top Secret US aircraft gave rise to a 1990s UFO sighting

Ghosts of the great outdoors • ALAN MURDIE argues that not all ghosts are haunted house-bound, as three recent stories show

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER shares news of a pair of surprising UK visitors and hope for the Javan tiger

PUTTING THEIR FOOT IN IT • British Bigfoot is back, with multiple prints sparking a cryptozoological film turf war

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN rounds up the Euro-weirdness, from a modern day Flying Dutchman to some monster eels

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • All the latest updates on astronomical own goals, mystery drones and apocalypse cows

MYTHCONCEPTIONS • 279: SPARKING WATER

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • The Baltimore Key Bridge disaster is a black swan event offering an embarrassment of potential theories and villains. NOEL ROONEY finds himself suffering from conspiratorial overload…

DB COOPER FOUND? • According to his son, Richard Floyd McCoy Jnr was the man behind the legendary heist. Will he finally ‘get the credit’?

Beyond the nuts and bolts • NIGEL WATSON revisits the spiritual and religious aspects of UFO encounters from Ezekial to Bill Bean

Reality blinks again • JENNY RANDLES returns to the subject of those ‘glitches in the Matrix’ when reality seems to shift

THE GOAT GLAND DOCTOR • A century ago, a fake doctor pioneered ‘goat gland’ transplants as a miracle cure-all, using the emerging mass medium of radio and populist politics to make his fortune. BRIAN J ROBB examines the rise and fall of Dr John R Brinkley, the infamous Texan goat gland doctor.

POLITICAL SCIENCE TOTALITARIAN ABUSES OF SCIENCE, FROM HITLER AND STALIN TO PUTIN’S RUSSIA • In an extract from his new book Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, SD TUCKER talks Communist corpuscles, Nazi nuclei and NATO-backed mutant homosexual potatoes from outer-space…

MERMAIDS AND MANIMALS OF SUFFOLK • In an extract from his new book on the mystery animals of Suffolk, MATT SALUSBURY tackles some of the oddest putative denizens of that curious county – from freshwater mermaids with a remit to terrify local children to dog-headed men and red-haired werewolves…

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Curse of the Were-Jackal • MARK GREENER goes beyond lycanthropy with some...