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

STRANGE DAYS

RUSSIA VS PSYCHICS

CRYPTO-CURIOSITIES • Recent discoveries and ongoing controversies

METEORITE MAYHEM • Misidentified space rocks and alien technosignatures

DARK NATURE • Giant sharks, angry orcas, malevolent moose and insect invasions – plus Moon roaches!

THE GREAT TOASTER HOAX • Further evidence that you shouldn’t believe everything you read on Wikipedia…

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

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

The race for fusion • Fusion is back in the news, says DAVID HAMBLING, with hopes that we have reached a tipping point

MEDICAL BAG • Another month in FT’s overcrowded A&E department finds a teen with an air gun pellet stuck up his nose and a woman impaled on a metal bar

Spirits of Glencoe • ALAN MURDIE feels the power of the past in the wilds of Glencoe, site of a notorious massacre

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN brings the Euro-weirdness, from a prophetic Italian ghost to Olympian weed growers

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • What might 2023 bring in the way of revelations from the Conspirasphere? NOEL ROONEY does his best impression of Nostradamus and looks at the top 10 online predictions…

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Trouble in paradise for the Brazilian rag doll family and the end of the line for Somerset’s creepy gimp

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • This month, we celebrate the long career of a British ufologist whose championing of novel ideas helped open the subject up to new ‘psycho-social’ perspectives

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

Nude aliens and morphing squirrels • NIGEL WATSON asks why ‘real’ ETs would present themselves in such daft and outlandish ways

Parallels, Part Two • JENNY RANDLES suggest time-travelling ghosts and ufonauts might be visitors from parallel realities

THE CHICAGO MOTHMAN PART ONE RED-EYED CREATURES & GREEN-EYED MONSTERS • In 2011, reports started to come in from the American Midwest about a weird winged entity that resembled the West Virginia Mothman famously documented by John Keel in the 1960s and 1970s. Had the creature made a new home in Chicago? Was a serial hoaxer at work? TEA KRULOS interviewed the researchers involved in the subsequent investigation and uncovered a story of terrified witnesses and bitter rivalries.

MAGIC IN HIS BONES • ROB GANDY talks to Dr Matteo Borrini about how he combines forensic anthropology and magic and juggles his many fortean interests with his academic career.

MATTEO’S FORTEAN RESEARCH

GOAT RIDERS IN THE SKY • MATT SALUSBURY goes in search of the bokkenrijders – the armed robbers who allegedly rode through the air on flying billy goats, swore oaths to the Devil and terrorised the population of Belgium and the Netherlands in the 18th century.

FANTASY ISLAND • 101 years on from the birth of Sir (x5) Eric Gairy, the grasping, UFO-crazy first Prime Minister of Grenada, SD TUCKER recalls an isle filled with alien corpses, obeah magic and murderous Mongooses…

THE WORLD OF STRANGE...