Fortean Times
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The journal of strange phenomena
New issue on sale now! Blackpool's Gypsy queens; art of the Golden Dawn; golden age of flying saucer movies; Andy Burnham’s Holy Hand; Hackney goat sacrifice; when GPS goes bad; BuzzBallz booze bird; wheelie bin mysteries; Chillingham Castle; science of farts; Adolf the Swedish Dwarf and much more!
New issue on sale! In search of the Tatzelwurm; Black Magic and the Profumo affair; Pokémon evangelism; buried treasure folklore; wild boar go shopping; NYC Mole People mystery; Darth Cucumber; vaping squirrels; Yeti hand photos, Paul Screeton remembered + more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
New issue on sale! Psychic animal football pundits; dead cat soccer curse; declassified UFO files; Near-Death experiences; Martian mummies; Crewe ‘doomsday cult’; frisky fairies; human trophy hunters; haunted hardware store; impossible staircases and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
New issue on sale! Woodland witches, folklore favourites, Britain's oldest ghost, Wycombe Wyrm, Nick Pope remembered, return of the penis thieves, Epstein UFO files, flying pig, tool-using animals, missing scientists, female shaman vs the Nazis, and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
Make sure your weekend is a weird one! Our latest Fortean Times Special Collection is in shops now, or order a copy at: shop.forteantimes.com/product/folk...
And we also have a special offer for you! Pre-order now using code FTFOLK20 to get 20% off your pre-order. This offer is valid until next Wednesday – don’t miss out: shop.forteantimes.com/product/folk...
New issue on sale! Aurora UFO crash; Rose of Nevada; Ohio Bigfoot flap; Paddington the Psychopomp; disappearing scientists; superstitions on film; time-travelling Trump; tool-using wolf; AI killer; ancient opium use; supernatural winds and more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
If you're in search of reading matter for the long Easter weekend, then don't forget that our April issue is on sale and absolutely jam-packed with fortean goodness!
New issue on sale now! Erich Von Däniken's ancient aliens; cracking the Zodiac killer's code; Welsh folk horror; Hannen Swaffer & AO Spare; rains of ghostly coins; changelings in court; tapeworm diets; surfboard stealing otters; fairy fungus; new UFO docs & more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
New issue now on sale! John Cowper Powys; ghosts of the Colorado gold rush; the Ditchingham Chicken Roundabout; 3I/Atlas aliens; puzzling pongs; Bigfoot's big butt; morgue mix-ups; raccoon rampage; talking plants; phantom boobs; folklore of fibbing; toad-licking myths; Druid's Temple and more!
Get 2026 off to a properly weird start with our January issue! The occult origins of television; Martin's Devils; Viennese esoteric art; Fortean Pynchon; the Washington Stain; partying ghosts; Japanese bear wars; rampaging robots; werewolf arrested; baby vs snake; Antarctic mystery signals and more
Our Christmas issue is now on sale! South Shields Poltergeist at 20; SAS vs Gnomes; Enys Tregarthen's Cornish tales; Europe's Yuletide spectres; Warminster Thing; Fortean TV 1988 Christmas Special; illustrious eunuchs; phantom twanger; Masonic Super Mario + much more shop.forteantimes.com/subscribe
If you're looking for a Hallowe'en gift for the witch, warlock or furry familiar in your life, we can wholeheartedly recommend our latest Fortean Times special collection... Available in shops or order online from: shop.forteantimes.com/product/witc...
New issue on sale ! Colonel Fawcett's mystery beasts; lucid dreaming; Greek dream oracles; police vs panthers; Colin Wilson; Indian drone panic; haunted furniture; Etsy witches; flat-pack aliens; extreme fart horror; Nosher remembered and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
New issue on sale! Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk; Ghost Witches of Essex; Black Sabbath vs the Devil; Sam the Sandown Clown; Bernard Manning From Beyond the Grave; Midsomer Murders; Scotland’s ‘Lost Tribe’; Ripperston Farm Spaceman; tiny crocodile panic + much more! subscribe.forteantimes.com
Our intrepid news editor encountered Brian Blessed in his natural habitat at last weekend's Strange Days Festival. We hear that Bigfoot was also spotted at the event and even caught on camera...
New issue on sale now! Uri Geller: shaman or showman?; angelic UFO encounters; aristocrats on acid; sea serpent scrapbook; Father Lionel Fanthorpe; top crop circles; Cthulhu's rabbits; cockroach shoots man; robot rebellion; rogue dentists; vibrator myths and more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue
New issue on sale! Pluckley uncovered; world's weirdest riots; seagull revenge; Edwardian automaton; stone ghost girl; Wallasey catman; curlews vs posties; Satanic gangs; hot dog homicide; Joe Nickell remembered; terrorist numerology; Macron's penis-stealing plot + more! shop.forteantimes.com
What is the truth about the Calvine UFO photo? To mark the 35th anniversary of the incident, FT regular David Clarke will be giving a public talk at Blair Atholl Village Hall on Saturday 2 August from 4-6 PM. Get your free tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-calvin...
New issue now on sale! Spontaneous Human Combustion, Colombia's alien artefact , Liverpool leprechaun hunt, Ithell Colquhoun, Broken Veil, Reform's Most Haunted chairman, half-bodied ghosts, epic pet treks, geo-engineering protests, Holyhead Sea Devils, lunar brewery, bronze boob battle & more!
New issue on sale! Japanese toilet ghosts; Arthur Conan Doyle’s other fairy photos; St Albans' ghostly monks; Antikythera Mechanism; ape sandwich stories; dire wolves; Aztec death whistles; very late library books; hedgehog myths; watery Welsh ghosts; Silicon Valley eschatology and much more!
New issue on sale! The Last Sacrifice, Deerness Mermaid, Zizian mayhem,Tesla and time travel, Attenborough's Fabulous Animals, cryptozoological cosplay, Prophecies of Malachy, mystery hums, colossal squid, lucid dreams, Loch Ness rediscoveries, criminals against crime and more! shop.forteantimes.com
What better way to celebrate VE Day than to pick up a copy of FT and learn about the distinctly fortean approach to warfare of WWII's Ghost Army?
Can you help FT pal Urszula Wolski with her research? If you are a paranormal investigator past or present please take part by scanning the QR code, or if you prefer click on: forms.gle/C9rruSM6iesJ...
MURDER MOST WEIRD! From the FT archives comes a new collection exploring the strangest and most macabre cases in the annals of crime, from the London Monster to the BTK Killer – with added commentary from novelist Cathi Unsworth. In shops now, or order online: shop.forteantimes.com/product/weir...
New issue on sale! The mysterious death of Netta Fornario; London Uncanny; Tibet's Paradise Valleys; Werewolf of London; Beatles UFO sightings; weasels stole my plimsole; screaming mummies; snailien invasion; Zizian killing spree; secret space lasers and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft456bs
Was Britain really being invaded by bandicoots in 1996? The truth is in the current issue of Fortean Times! shop.forteantimes.com/ft455bs
In our new issue we re-open the files on a classic UFO contact case in which two Mississippi shipyard workers, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, had a close encounter with bizarre aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River one night in October 1973. shop.forteantimes.com/ft455bs
New issue on sale! Pascagoula close encounter; Green Children of Woolpit; bandicoot invasion hoax; haunted computers; David Lynch; Cannock Chase; flesh-eating squirrels; orca fashion tips; Pasadena Pee Bandit; anti-ghost panties; hamsters on a plane and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft455bs
New issue on sale! Arthur Lowe's lost X-Files; quantum grammar Nazis; grave-robbing witches of Helsinki; the great drone panic; Edinburgh ghosts; underwater aliens; shapeshifting jailbirds; Spanish cultists; helpful fairies; human chocolate bars and much, much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft454bs