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

THE ZIZIAN MYSTERY • NOEL ROONEY tries to unravel a tangled web of murderous vegan weirdness

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

SIDELINES

SOUT OF THE SKIES • Mystery metal from the heavens and more meteorite near-misses

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER • Supercentenarians share their secrets

THE LOST COLONY FOUND?

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

ARCHÆOLOGY • A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES

Attack of the secret space lasers • DAVID HAMBLING doubts that direct-energy weapons were behind the recent California wildfires

SUPERSTITION: STRANGE WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES • MATT SALUSBURY visits an exhibition of East Anglian curiosities in Bury St Edmunds’s Moyse’s Hall Museum

Phantom footsteps in Ireland • ALAN MURDIE enjoys spooky stories of fairy-haunted Ireland from two very different sources

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • It’s 2025 and we’re still alive! But don’t celebrate too soon, says NOEL ROONEY, as he contemplates the prophecies of the Deagel Corporation and the growth of global gloom.

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN rounds up Europe’s latest oddities, from puzzling sky bangs to Catalonian ghosts

ANIMALS BEHAVING BADLY • More criminal critters, including a bear in a supermarket and a weasel shoe thief

THE SAVAGE SEAS • Man swallowed by a humpback whale, woman chomped while snapping a shark and mermaid attacked by a Chinese sturgeon

MEDICAL BAG • This month’s notable patients include the Italian man who lost 39 years’ worth of memories and the Danish breakdancer with a ‘headspin hole’

MYTHCONCEPTIONS • 289: NAKED IN SPACE

NECROLOG • This month, we say farewell to a veteran psychical researcher and psychologist who combined hands-on investigation with a lengthy academic career

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

Flaps and fantasies • NIGEL WATSON reports on an iconic pair of torn trousers, Paul McCartney’s UFO musical and more…

DEATH BY FAERY? THE STRANGE CASE OF NETTA FORNARIO • NINA ANTONIA revisits the short life and mysterious death of Netta Fornario, whose fascination with the realms of faery and the mystical arts took her from the occult ferment of post-Golden Dawn London to a lonely end on the isolated Scottish island of Iona.

FANTASY ISLAND: DEBUNKING SOME NETTA MYTHS

In Search of the Paradise Valley •  TED HARRISON explores the myths surrounding Tibet’s 108 ‘beyuls’, lush hidden valleys in the Himalayas where the natural and spiritual worlds overlap and where anyone who gains entry to them will live in happiness for 1,000 years…

LONDON UNCANNY IN PURSUIT OF DISTURBANCE AND DREAM • Introducing his latest book, London Uncanny, CLIVE BLOOM invites us to explore the most liminal of cities by walking the haunted streets of the metropolis and excavating its many layers of Gothic secrets…

The Mark of the Wolf • On the 90th anniversary of its release, EDWARD PARNELL celebrates the first Hollywood feature film to deal with lycanthropy: 1935’s Werewolf of...