MARKS OF THE WITCH: BRITAIN’S RITUAL PROTECTION SYMBOLS
‘Witch mark’ is a term popularly used to describe a range of ritual protection symbols found in churches, grand buildings and caves. DAVID CLARKE visits an ice age site where a huge concentration of magical graffiti was recently discovered.

MULCH, MYTH AND MAGIC
LISA GLEDHILL digs into the world of allotment folklore, from top-secret super-spuds and lunar planting cycles to butterfly whispering and the terrifying leek-slasher...

MIND WARP
Reality appears to be changing around us, from minor facets of pop culture to major historical events. BRIAN J ROBB investigates the spread of the Mandela Effect and explores some causes, from time travellers to alternate universes.

A LIFE IN PRINT, PART TWO
PAUL SIEVEKING looks back at another decade of newsgathering on Fortean Times, and presents some of his highlights from the 1990s – including a talking cat, bees paying their last respects and milk-drinking Hindu idols..

PLAGUE DOCTORS 
HOW EUROPE'S MASKED MEDICS BECAME OMINOUS ICONS OF DEATH

WANDERING SPIRITS
THE GHOSTLORE OF BRITAIN'S GYPSIES..

THE LONDON MONSTER
Fresh from filming a new documentary on the subject, JAN BONDESON and DENNIS MOHR attempt to apprehend the buttock-stabbing phantom attacker who terrorised the capital.

BLITHE SPIRITS
SD TUCKER compares the poltergeist to the age-old mythological figure of the Trickster, and asks what such entities are trying to tell us through their mischievous pranks..

THE MYTHOS MEME
RICHARD STANLEY ON COLOR OUT OF SPACE AND WHY THE 21ST CENTURY BELONGS TO HP LOVECRAFT

HIDDEN HOARDS
DR DEE AND THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF SUTTON HOO..

JACK CHICK
THE CARTOONIST WHO TERRIFIED SINNERS INTO SEEING THE LIGHT.

INTOTHEDARKLINGWOOD
DAVID HAMBLING catches up with legendary SF writer Brian Stableford to talk about his long career and the interplay between science and strange phenomena.

GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS
CHARLES DICKENS, M R JAMES, AND THE BBC'S GOLDEN AGE OF SUPERNATURAL TV DRAMA

EGYPTIAN GOTHIC - CURSED MUMMIES, HAUNTED MUSEUMS, AND ANCIENT MAGIC.

SCRAMBLE, UFO! - WAS A JET PILOT'S UFO ENCOUNTER COVERED UP?..

THE CHASE VAULT MYSTERY REVISITED: The moving coffins of Barbados have been a staple subject of books on the unexplained for over a century, and yet no one has so far provided a satisfactory solution to the spooky mystery. BEN RADFORD thinks we’ve been looking in the wrong place...

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THE HILL ABDUCTION ON SCREEN A new film based on the 1961 abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, asks what it means to be an alien in America. NIGEL WATSON explores the relationship between the Hill case and the representation of alien encounters in cinema and television.

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY Beyond the Light Barrier THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE

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DAVID THRUSSEL explores the forgotten songbook of Dave McEnery, whose fortean subjects – including the Manson Family murders – were ripped straight from the headlines of the day.

GAMBLING ON THE UNBELIEVABLE Retired bookmaker GRAHAM SHARPE shares the wackiest wagers of his long career, from bets on Nessie to odds on UFOs.

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Strange Statesmen Doomsday delayed SD Tucker

A Roman caracal in Norfolk Matt Salusbury

Building a fortean library hunting monsters the hierophant's apprentice

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WEIRD WEEKEND NORTH 2019 Northern Weirdness to Full ROB GANDY

FORTEAN TRAVELLER The Munich ‘Monkey Tower’ JAN BONDESON

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BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY Marpingen THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE

Dark side of the forced LISA GLEDHILL

Elements, oil and æther MATT SALUSBURY

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PROTECT AND SURVIVE: ANDY PACIOREK explores some of the strands of small-screen fear that shaped British television’s 1980s obsession with nuclear Armageddon and post-apocalyptic survival

RAISING CHILDREN: PART TWO BOB RICKARD concludes his survey of tales concerning the levitation and teleportation of children, examining the links between such supernatural ‘transportations’ and outbreaks of poltergeist phenomena, which are so often reported to be centred on young people.

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STRANGE STATESMEN Brexit Babylon SD TUCKER

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY Remote Viewers THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE

Witchcraft in the White House TED HARRISON

Citizen forteana GORDON RUTTER and much more...

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STRANGE STATESMEN Carry On Don’t Follow That Kemal SD TUCKER

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY The Gemstone Files THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE

Parapsychology – in from the cold ALAN MURDIE and much more...

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WALKING AROUND THE WORLD JAN BONDESON presents an illustrated selection of some of history’s oddest globe-trotters and their often doomed journeys.

THE CASE OF THE DECAPITATED UNICORN What was the identity of the mystery beast killed in South Africa and sent back to England in 1821? Another cryptozoological conundrum resurrected and resolved by KARL SHUKER

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY Ratshit Patrol THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE and much more...

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DR POOLITTLE SD TUCKER invites you to meet the millionaire ‘Great Masticator’ who gave the public something new to chew on by promising to turn their turds into ‘alimentary dandruff’ that smelled like freshly-baked biscuits.

STRANGE CONTINENT Europe’s weirdest news ULRICH MAGIN & THEO PAIJMANS

What is UFO research? NIGEL WATSON and much more...

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THE MYTH OF QUEEN MARY’S TREE Is there any truth to the legend that Mary Queen of Scots planted a much-visited tree near Edinburgh? And what about all the others? JAN BONDESON investigates an arboreal mystery

BLASTS FROM THE PAST The Headless Horrors of Sandling Road THEO PAIJMANS

FORTEAN TRAVELLER Chester’s Winter Watch ROB GANDY and much more...

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APOCALPYSE COW! Why has the birth of a cow got Jews excited about the potentrial rebuilding of Jerusalem’s Temple and Christian End Timers looking forward to the Last Days? TED HARRISON investigates the Jewish prophecy of the Red Heifer Without Blemish.

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY Earth Lights Revelation THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE and much more...

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Strange Statesmen: The Misapplicance of science

Building a fortean library: The hierophant's apprentice and much more...

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THE HAUNTING OF DAVID BARTON ROB GANDY shares another selection of first-person accounts of weirdness from the Southport area: this time, though, the events described all happened to one man...

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY Dragons in Cryptozoology THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE and much more...

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THE TRIBE OF WANNABE Many white Americans have made spurious claims of Native American heritage. PAUL WILLETTS looks back at some of the most brazen imposters, from Red Fox and “the Crying Indian” to jazz age con-man Chief White Elk. 

A Life in Pictures: The otherwordly photographs of Simon marsden and much more...

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COVER STORY: HP LOVECRAFT AND THE HORROR OF HISTORY The weird tales of HP Lovecraft reveal a man whose relationship to history was both complex and deeply contradictory. JAMES HOLLOWAY explores the ways in which Lovecraft’s fictions articulated racist fears, cosmic horror and a warning to the archæologically curious...

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY The Condon Report THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE and much more...

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STRANGE STATESMEN Homo Economics SD TUCKER

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY: Three sides to every story THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE and much more...

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STRANGE STATESMEN Taxing Credulity: Gabriel Green SD TUCKER

TRANSPORTATION BYAN INVISIBLE POWER 2 BOB RICKARD concludes his survey of early British and Irish accounts of levitation and other forms of supernatural transportation. Here, he examines cases that include accusations of witchcraft and possession-like phenomena and much more...

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TRANSPORTATION BY AN INVISIBLE POWER:
BOB RICKARD continues his survey of historical accounts of levitation by examining some early British and Irish cases. These bear parallels to the famous abduction of Dr Moore by fairies in October 1678 and share many motifs, including the mediation of supernatural entities such as spirits, demons or fairies.

BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY: The Indian Rope Trick THE HIEROPHANT’S APPRENTICE and much more...

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My evening in a cave with david Icke GORDON RUTTER

Presidential chaos GARY LACHMAN

Strange Statesmen: Stop all the clocks SD TUCKER and much more...

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Fortean Times is a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents. It was founded by Bob Rickard in 1973 to continue the work of Charles Fort (1874-1932).

Born of Dutch stock in Albany, New York, Fort spent many years researching scientific literature in the New York Public Library and the British Museum Library. He marshalled his evidence and set forth his philosophy in The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo (1931), and Wild Talents (1932).

He was sceptical of scientific explanations, observing how scientists argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and that inconvenient data was ignored, suppressed, discredited or explained away. He criticised modern science for its reductionism, its attempts to define, divide and separate. Fort's dictum "One measures a circle beginning anywhere" expresses instead his philosophy of Continuity in which everything is in an intermediate and transient state between extremes.

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