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

FAIRY SALE ENDING • Cottingley fairy photos belonging to Frances Griffiths’s childhood friend go to auction

IT MUST BE BUNNIES! • “Zombie looking rabbits” plus robobunnies vs snakes

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

BEASTLY TALES • Clever cockatoos, tool-using orcas and 14 million angry bees on the loose…

SIDELINES

CROP TOPS • While the peak of crop circle mania is long past, people are still being creative in Britain’s fields

FROM OUTER SPACE… • A new interstellar visitor on the block

CLASSICAL CORNER • FORTEANA FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD

ARCHÆOLOGY • PAUL SIEVEKING reports on sweet-smelling statuary and ancient sisters doing it for themselves

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • It’s not easy to kill a conspiracy theory, says NOEL ROONEY, as he observes the reanimated corpses of Butler, Russiagate and the Epstein files lurching back into the news

Robot fakes and frauds • DAVID HAMBLING looks at the history of overinflated automaton claims and brazen showmanship

MEDICAL BAG • Fake dentists are rife in the Czech Republic it seems, while a vascular surgeon and would-be disabled astronaut is accused of lying about his missing legs…

Alan Gauld: some early adventures • ALAN MURDIE looks back at the earliest investigations of a young Cambridge ghost hunter

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER ponder’s Percy Fawcett’s monster spider and a mystery nightjar wing

WALKING THE DOG • IAN SIMMONS is impressed by the variety and high quality of events at this year’s Black Shuck Festival in Bungay, Suffolk

WELCOME OUR AI OVERLORDS • Is mankind under threat from rogue robots and hallucinating AIs?

MYTHCONCEPTIONS • 294: BZZZZZZZZZZZ

NECROLOG • This month, we say goodbye to the “crackpot countess” who proved to be a visionary figure in the fields of psychedelic science and drug policy research

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

Mechanical elves and other mysteries • NIGEL WATSON rounds up the latest news and views from the world of ufology

Visitations • JENNY RANDLES looks at the patterns of imagery and memory within abduction experiences

THE URI GELLER EXPERIENCE • URI GELLER has been making headlines and dividing opinion for decades with his claims of telekinetic powers, remote viewing and alien encounters, and he remains one of the best known and most controversial figures in the world of strange phenomena. GORDON RUTTER caught up with him to talk about his long life in and out of the media and his search for a successor…

SEEING ANGELS INSTEAD HIGH-STRANGENESS UFO CASES • Over a long career investigating ordinary people’s UFO encounters, NIGEL WATSON has come across many cases in which the psychological and spiritual elements of the experience seem to come to the fore. Do these high-strangeness cases involving guardian angels and winged figures point to a religious dimension to the UFO experience?

MAKING THE CASE FOR SPONTANEOUS HUMAN CONBUSTION PART 3 • In the final part of his survey of the subject, LARRY E ARNOLD argues that the much-touted...