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

DISCOVERER DISCOVERED • New DNA research suggests Columbus was a Spanish Jew

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

SIDELINES

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY…

LOOK OUT BELOW! • Fish falls, goat-flattening ice chunks and monster hailstones

DOORSTOP DELIGHT • Experts find Romanian rock to be valuable lump of amber

ARCHÆOLOGY A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES • PAUL DEVEREUX rounds up the latest discoveries from Mexico, China and Peru’s Nazca Plateau

CLASSICAL CORNER • 304: FAHRENHEIT CCCCLI, PART 2

The science of ghosts • DAVID HAMBLING looks at the relationship between ghost hunting and scientfic investigation

SERIOUSLY STRANGE 2024 • NEIL NIXON enjoys the ghostly wonders of Winchester and a weekend of splendid talks

The ghost rider of Newmarket • ALAN MURDIE explores the spectral lore surrounding champion jockey Fred Archer

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • In the wake of Hurrican Helene, tensions between the citizens of a devastated North Carolina and a Government agency are creating dark conspiracy theories says NOEL ROONEY

ALIEN ZOO NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN • KARL SHUKER asks if a tusked mystery has at last been solved and enjoys Bigfoot on TikTok

AGE OF MIRACLES • The Blessed Virgin Mary weeps and blinks, while a miracle-working teenager is set to be the first Millennial saint

MEDICAL BAG • This month’s curious cases include the worm that ate Robert Kennedy Jr’s brain and a woman who carried a stone baby for half a century

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • This month, we say goodbye to a scholar and writer who drew on his early experiences and Arabist interests to write a series of fantastical novels

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

Magonia’s end • NIGEL WATSON marks the end of an era and looks back on the history of a seminal UFO publication

Inner elves • JENNY RANDLES wonders if we’ve been looking for aliens in all the wrong places

WEIRD OUT WEST THE PARANORMAL RANGERS • PETER BROUGHAN tells how he met Stanley Milford Jr and Jonathan Dover, the Paranormal Rangers, whose work investigating paranormal goings-on in the Navajo Nation is now the subject of a new book.

THE NAVAJO RANGERS

The Case of the Vanishing Earl • On the 50th anniversary of a brutal murder and a mysterious disappearance, PHIL BAKER sifts through the evidence, weighs up the competing theories and asks if it really was Lord Lucan, in the basement, with the lead piping…

THE LUCAN LITERATURE

THE DRAGONS OF WAVERLEY ABBEY • Surely dragons are mythical monsters from the ancient past? It ain’t necessarily so says RICHARD FREEMAN as he heads to Surrey – of all places – to investigate a contemporary sighting of this supposedly legendary creature…

Alien attachments revisited • If you get an email from an alien civilisation, asks SD TUCKER, should you open the attachment?

The great golf ball mystery • ANDY OWENS finds that mysteriously appearing golf balls are baffling residents from Barming in Kent to Palmyra in...