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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MIRACLE NEAR-MISS • Did God save Donald Trump from an assassin’s bullet – or was the whole thing staged?

WEIRD WILDLIFE • Bizarre bee tales, fake pandas and a man with hamsters in his pants

LOST IN THE POST • Another sackload of long-delayed mail makes its way to Fortean Towers

MACABRE DOLL • An 18th century doll with a gruesome story in her petticoat sells at auction

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

ARCHÆOLOGY • PAUL SIEVEKING examines pagan buckles, Celtic heads, fakes fossils and meteoric treasures

Middle-aged Mulder: time to move on? • From a scientific viewpoint, says DAVID HAMBLING, paranormal research is now just a footnote

DANGEROUS BOOKS • Libraries around the world deal with difficult literary legacies, from aresenic-laced tomes to volumes bound in human skin

Ignatius the phantom bellringer • ALAN MURDIE recalls one of the strangest ghost stories ever to appear in the British press

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN gathers the weird news from Europe, from weeping Madonnas to nightmare weather

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • More monoliths appear, goblin plague continues and the Omagh Hum gets a council cover-up

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS GO LEGIT • Academia explores alien intelligences on Earth

FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA • SIMON YOUNG FILES A NEW REPORT FROM THE INTERFACE OF STRANGE PHENOMENA AND FOLK BELIEF

Disclosure imminent? • NIGEL WATSON looks at high-profile UFO ‘whistleblower’ Luis Elizondo and his fantastic claims.

FORTEAN TV REVISITED • In January 1997, Channel 4 viewers were treated to a television version of Fortean Times in which REV LIONEL FANTHORPE presented “a celebration of the miraculous, the mysterious and the downright weird”. Join RYAN SHIRLOW as he begins his survey of Fortean TV…

THE PIASA BIRD OF ILLINOIS • ERIC HOFFMAN goes in search of a legendary Mississippian monster recorded in a mysterious rock painting – and finds a tangled tale of Native American myth and modern legends

Crooks, angels and demons: the Butler affair • On 13 July Donald Trump was the target of an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The former president walked away with just a grazed ear – miraculously, according to his supporters – but the manifold oddities and unanswered questions left in the wake of the incident have created fertile ground for conspiracy theories. NOEL ROONEY surveys the scene.

RUPERT SHELDRAKE • CONTINUING HIS SERIES OF INTERVIEWS WITH PROMINENT FORTEAN FIGURES, GORDON RUTTER TALKS TO BIOLOGIST

The Hong Kong tiger mystery • JON DOWNES attempts to get to the bottom of a curious tale concerning an out-of-place tiger in wartime Hong Kong…

A positive future for forteans • Things may look bad, but if we accept the anomalous and embrace the quest, argues PHIL SMITH, then the future is bright – it’s fortean…

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The lore of landscape – and more • Gordon Rutter examines a pricey academic text, and finds it an excellent and deeply informative exploration of Folk Horror...