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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SUPERCENTENARIANS • British man takes the title, but women are still way ahead in the oldie stakes

PECULIAR PLANTS • Leaning pines, a shroom-sprouting frog and an ecosexual tree-hugger

SIDELINES

INFELICITOUS INSERTIONS • Will they never learn?

PAINTING THE TOWN RED • Wine flows like water in Portugal

ECLIPSE VS APOCALYPSE • Despite various portents of doom, the 2024 solar eclipse passed uneventfully

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

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

Ancient engineering • DAVID HAMBLING says that despite the Internet memes the Great Pyramid’s mysteries are fading

WEATHER TURNS WEIRD • Frost quakes shakes Illinois, ‘gorilla hail’ falls in Kansas and a purple fog engulfs British Columbia

Spirits of Sutton Hoo • ALAN MURDIE explores the Suffolk Spiritualists’ finest hour and the trial of Helen Duncan

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Most of a missing gorilla turns up, cat shaving spreads to Berkshire and Ron’s Place is listed

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • OJ Simpson has been back in the news, along with Planet Nibiru, the Covid vaccines and the Deagel report. NOEL ROONEY watches as the conspirasphere cycles through some old favourites

FRAUDULENT FUNERAL • The mystery of a dead Latvian student, a £10,000 funeral with an empty coffin and a bizarre conman

Magical history tour • NIGEL WATSON reads the latest AARO report so you don’t have to and investigates a roundabout

Mist on the meadow • JENNY RANDLES explores cases in which weird atmospheric affects have been attributed to aliens

PHANTOMS OF THE SKY • Military aircrew have reported UFOs since the birth of powered aviation. But are these puzzling sightings really chance encounters? DAVID CLARKE examines the stories of RAF aircrew who were haunted by flying saucers.

“WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?” • DAVID CLARKE talks to the RAF personnel who witnessed the Little Rissington Incident

TALES FROM THE NEW MILLENNIUM PART THREE • For four decades up to 2019, Paul Sieveking selected and wrote up weird news stories for Fortean Times. In this third instalment, we reprint some of his favourite news reports from the years 2006 to 2009, including tadpole rains, a weird winged entity and a boy who cried tears of blood…

MEDICAL CURIOSITIES IN OLD CARTES DE VISITE • Taking a break from his regular ‘Peculiar Postcards’ series, JAN BONDESON turns to a now vanished pictorial fad – the once popular photographic calling card known as the Carte de Visite – and discovers a visual record of 19th century medical curiosities and sideshow stars.

THE WORLD OF ForteanTimes STRANGE PHENOMENA

Joe Rogan, Baphomet and the Smurfs • BRETT TAYLOR tunes in as Katt Taylor schools Joe Rogan in Atlantis, the GOAT and Smurfological esoterica…

Distant voices, other lives • MERRILY HARPUR shares a personal recollection of her grandmother’s mediumistic abilities and her mother’s role as assistant in the unusual ‘war work’ the two women carried out

Airborne crockery • Dave Clarke examines an essential and original...