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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EDITORIAL

THE POPE PASSES ON • The death of Pope Francis proves a focus for prophecies, signs and portents

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

ODD CRIMEWAVE • Fictional countries, Pokémon heists, snail scams and weird red paint attacks

NEWS FROM SPACE • All the latest oddities from rocketry and astronomy

COLOSSAL SQUID • The elusive cephalopod is finally caught live on film–and it’s a baby

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • The death of Virginia Giuffre in April may have been the final act in a long-running saga of exploitation and abuse, but, says NOEL ROONEY, that doesn’t mean the story is over…

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

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

Memory and forgetting • DAVID HAMBLING brings good news and bad news from the latest memory research

PYRAMID REVELATIONS? • Reseachers claim the Pyramid of Khafre was built on the remains of a far older underground city

Put that light out! • ALAN MURDIE explores the world of lucid dreams and Near Death Experiences

ALIEN ZOO • NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN trawls the European papers for the latest news of art, eruptions and suspicious sucides

CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE • Hums, drones, taps, screeches and the fizzing and buzzing of the Northern Lights

MYTHCONCEPTIONS

NECROLOG • This month, we say goodbye to a popular promoter of the coming Apocalypse and a gentle cryptozoologist who just couldn’t say no to a weird theory…

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

Elusive UFOs and unwanted experts • NIGEL WATSON rounds up the latest news and views from the world of ufology

Beyond the time barrier • JENNY RANDLES considers the connections between time travel, Tesla and the Oz factor

THE PANDORA’S BOX OF PARANOIAS • How does the bizarre and brutal murder of an agricultural worker in 1945 connect with Hammer films, naked witches and folk horror classic The Wicker Man, and what does this tell us about British identity? CATHI UNSWORTH talks to director Rupert Russell – son of the legendary Ken – about his new film, The Last Sacrifice.

What was the Deerness Mermaid? • For nearly 20 years in the late 19th century a ‘mermaid’ was a regular visitor to Deerness on Orkney, and the sheer volume of witness testimony makes this one of the best-documented of fortean mysteries. But what was the Deerness Mermaid? SIMON YOUNG rounds up the usual and unusual suspects…

THE ZIZIANS HIGH STRANGENESS IN SILICON VALLEY PART ONE: THE ZIZIAN MARTYRS • NOEL ROONEY takes a closer look at the Zizians – frequently described in the media as a “trans death-cult” – and attempts to piece together the story of how a disparate group of bright young Silicon Valley types turned to violence and murder when their notional leader transformed himself from computer scientist Jack LaSota into rogue Rationalist ‘Ziz’.

Pop goes the crytpid • SHARON HILL ponders the fate of old school cryptozoology in the age of TikTok and

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