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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RETURN OF THE PENIS THIEVES • Panic reachesTanzania with deadly results

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

LIVING LEGENDS • Further fascinating results from the National Folklore Survey

SIDELINES

LIBRARY OF THE LOST • More massively overdue books finally come home

ANIMAL TALES • Dog shoots man, pig flies, Newfoundland causes lion scare and vanishing cat returns

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • Vanishing scientists, UFO disclosure, exotic technology research and another attempt on Trump’s life… NOEL ROONEY wonders if we are looking at the mother of all conspiracies.

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

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

Son of a tool maker • Is tool making unique to humans, or are other animals getting in on the act asks DAVID HAMBLING

MEDICAL BAG • This month’s emergency admissions include a Chinese man who swallowed a chopstick and a Russian boy who drank his own blood

Doctor Clay’s Casebook • ALAN MURDIE recalls the paranormal career of a country doctor who saw Britain’s oldest ghost

ALIEN ZOO • NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

INEPT CRIME ROUND-UP • Another collection of misguided malefactors and foolish fugitives from justice

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN presents his regular round-up of the weirdest news from across Europe

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • More missing scientists, Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories and the latest Havana Syndrome news

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • As ufology’s man from the ministry departs for the mothership we look back at his unusual and sometimes controversial career as a UFO commentator

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

Starseeds and survivors • NIGEL WATSON explores beliefs about ET--related super-children and Jeffrey Epstein’s master race

WITCH/CRAFT • SARA HANNANT introduces her latest exhibition, which explores changing attitudes to witches and witchcraft from the 16th century to the present. Witch/Craft brings together Anne Jackson’s knotted tapestries, ‘The Witchcraft Series’, about the witch trials, with Sara’s photographs of contemporary magical practitioners.

High Wycombe The town that needed Wyrming • STEVYN COLGAN goes in search of fake Templars and dubious dragons in the Chiltern Hills and explains how he and photographer Mark Page created a brand new folkloric festival out of long-forgotten local legends…

Inventing Traditions: The Rise of New Local Festivals

BEYOND AURORA COWBOYS AND ALIENS • In the second instalment of a three-part series, NIGEL WATSON re-opens his files on the spaceships that fell to Earth in the 19th century. 1897 saw a rash of newspaper reports about crashed airships all over the United States, as well as alleged encounters with strange alien beings, mad inventors and even Japanese pilots. Whether or not these were just tall tales concocted by American newspapermen, they helped...