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

JAPAN’S BEAR WARS • 2025 saw an unprecedented number of bear attacks – now the military are being called in

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY…

SIDELINES

UFOS-A-GO-GO • Link between UFOs and nuclear test sites gets a boost, plus an incident at Area 51

TRAIN IN VAIN • Florida’s “Death Train” continues its reign of terror and van-driving dog causes railway chaos

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • The curious case of the J6 pipe bomber continues. As the FBI produce a new suspect, NOEL ROONEY considers the claims being made by those with conspiratorial skin in the game.

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

CLASSICAL CORNER • 318: OZY, NOT OZZIE

WHEN HABSBURGS WALTZED WITH SPIRITS: VIENNA’S OCCULT UNDERWORLD UNVEILED • ROB WEINBERG visits Vienna’s Leopold Museum, where an exhibition reveals the Austrian capital’s secret history, revealing how Spiritualism, Theosophy and esoteric practices influenced the city’s Modernist revolution.

The silphium enigma • DAVID HAMBLING explores an enduring culinary mystery from the ancient world

Ghosts at the party • ALAN MURDIE celebrates the festive season with tales of spectres at the feast

CRAP CRIME CAPERS • Another round-up of hapless hoods and failed felons – has nobody ever told these people about CCTV?

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER shares some first-hand accounts of giant scorpions scuttling around Florida

LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT • Vintage snack wrappers, ancient ale and other itinerant objects

PLANETARY PECULIARITIES • Anomalous signals from beneath Antarctica and other mysteries

MYTHCONCEPTIONS • 298: ALMOND MILK

NECROLOG • We bid farewell to ‘Britain’s Oldest Witch’ as she heads for the great coven in the sky and mourn the loss of a researcher who applied science to Bigfoot studies…

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

Angels, aliens and anæsthesia • NIGEL WATSON finds links between angelic visitations, alien encounters and medical procedures

HAUNTED SCREENS THE OCCULT ORIGINS OF TELEVISION • A century ago, JOHN LOGIE BAIRD publicly displayed his invention of television – a new technology that contained within it a history of occult notions, writes BRIAN J ROBB

MARTIN’S DEVILS • EMILIA UKKONEN recounts the story of the Ylöjä rvi Poltergeist of 1885, one of Finand’s best attested cases thanks to the existence of court records and multiple witness testimonies.

A Collection of Curious Occurrences • Dedicated follower of weirdness ROB GANDY returns with another collection of real-life encounters with strange phenomena – in this case a famly who appear to be magnets for high strangeness, ranging from doppelgängers and ghostly children to spooky woodland entities…

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Who’s been Pynchon Fort’s ideas? • Was Thomas Pynchon’s literary career partly inspired by a close reading of the works of none other than Charles Fort? SD TUCKER seeks the pot of fortean gold at the end of Gravity’s Rainbow.

The Washington Stain • Christ isn’t the only figure visible...