Fortean Times

Fortean Times, named after maverick American writer Charles Fort, is one of the world’s most individual and best loved magazines. For over 35 years FT has been chronicling 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, FT 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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GLOBAL SWARMING • A plague of grasshoppers in Las Vegas, clouds of flying ants in Britain, locusts on the menu in Yemen

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • This month brings a return, a resurrection, an exhumation, and a reprise. NOEL ROONEY reports on two-way traffic at the rabbit hole...

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

STRANGE DAYS ANIMAL ODDITIES • Unusual sports of nature, tangled tails, and thieving rodents

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MORE LATE DEPARTURES • Super-centenarians in the world’s news

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IT’S A MIRACLE!

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ARCHÆOLOGY A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES • PAUL DEVEREUX, Managing Editor of Time & Mind, digs up the latest archæological discoveries

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

Here’s looking at you... • ALAN MURDIE finds that belief in the evil eye still haunts a tranquil Greek island

ALIEN ZOO NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN • KARL SHUKER hears news of feline cryptids from South America, and an out-of-place marten

DEVONSHIRE’S MYSTERY MARTEN

CRIMINAL CROPPERS • Bungling burglars, deluded dope dealers and hopeless house-breakers are among this month’s least wanted...

FALLING FROM THE SKY • Mexican city covered in ice, France hit by giant hailstones, frozen stowaway plummets to Earth

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THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING • PAUL GRAVETT reports from two current exhibitions in France celebrating the wartime service and subsequent career of comics legend Jack Kirby

MEDICAL BAG • This month’s casebook of curiosities features amazing awakenings, an astonishing example of brain growth, and a prodigious case of polydactylism

SOUNDS AND VISIONS • Techie gets dosed by a 50-year-old synth, plus the people who hear voices and other auditory hallucinations

NECROLOG • This month, we remember the psychic investigator whose name will forever be associated with the media frenzy surrounding the ‘Highgate Vampire’

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

Beware the unintended consequences • PETER BROOKESMITH surveys the latest fads and flaps from the world of ufological research

The Summer of Sixty-Nine • JENNY RANDLES looks back on her long involvement with the Jodrell Bank radio telescpope

THE MANSON MURDERS, THE END OF THE SIXTIES, AND THE ‘CULT OF THE OCCULT’ • Fifty years ago, Roman Polanski was enjoying the success of his Satanic horror film Rosemary’s Baby when his wife, actress Sharon Tate, was brutally killed by Charles Manson’s ‘Family’. JAMES RILEY examines the occult background of the Manson murders.

HELTER SKELTER: MUSIC FOR THE END? • Charles Manson believed The Beatles were communicating with him directly and chose the band’s White Album as the soundtrack to his apocalyptic programme for social breakdown in...