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

THE JFK FILES DROP • No smoking gun, but some interesting insights into the US intelligence services

STAMPS OF MYSTERY • The Royal Mail celebrates British folklore and legend

SIDELINES

GOBLINS & WITCHES • Magical mayhem and demonic doings around the world

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE • Some surprising missives from bygone days

CORNISH LABYRINTH • The ancient craft of hedging returns

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

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

Ghost attacks and crawling bugs • DAMNED DATA, NEW DISCOVERIES AND RADICAL RESEARCH

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A nation in low spirits • KEEPING AN EYE ON THE HAUNTED WORLD

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • Conspiracy theories don’t go away when faced with facts, says NOEL ROONEY, and some grow ever stranger in the face of the latest scoops and leaks…

ALIEN ZOO • NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

CREATURE FEATURES • A “massive monkey thing” on the loose in Cambridge, a lonely sunfish in Japan and some very eager beavers

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Mystery cat clipping moves to Lincolsnhire, while a road in Wales is targeted by a phantom tart-flinger

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • This month, a famed American mentalist heads for the great TV studio in the sky and a noted neuroscientist and NDE researcher finds out if he was right…

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

New science and mad scientists

Space-age sea shanties • A trip to Lytham St Annes finds JENNY RANDLES contemplating UFO sightings at the seaside

THE PHANTOM MENACE THAT BEAT HITLER! • BRIAN J ROBB EXPLORES THE IMAGINATIVE DECEPTIONS OF THE GHOST ARMY, A TOP SECRET US ARMY TROOP THAT PLAYED A DECISIVE ROLE IN THE DEFEAT OF HITLER.

BRITAIN’S FORCES OF DECEPTION

CAMOUFLAGE AND COMICS

THE WAR MAGICIAN

Ghosts at Goblin Hill • ROB GANDY uncovers the haunted history of one of Staffordshire’s great country estates and finds witness testimony concerning many a modern apparition – as well as an unexpected link with the legendary Middle-earth of JRR Tolkien

Rings and Hobbits: Tolkien in Staffordshire

The Legend of the Robber’s Grave • JAN BONDESON travels to the historic town of Montgomery in the Welsh Marches in search of the truth behind a popular legend concerning an executed robber, a weird weather event and a curse uttered from the scaffold…

Murderous Mormons • MIKITA BROTTMAN wonders how we account for the recent bumper crop of Mormon-related true crime TV shows.

When the cuckoo calls • CHRIS SAUNDERS welcomes the return to Britain of that most mysterious of birds, the cuckoo, whose arrival is freighted with legend and folklore

ORANGE DISORDERS • Five years on from the start of Covid-19 lockdowns across Europe, SD TUCKER profiles the vested interests of Italy’s Orange anti-vax General, an artiste of rare genius seeking to bring harmony to mankind (once he’s sorted out some minor copyright...