FT260
Fortean Times #260 (April 2010)
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- Release date: 4 Mar 2010
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated May 2010 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan
Contents
- 32 The Golden Age of Sea Serpents - Sailors, scientists and 19th-century monsters of the deep
- 46 Gateway to Hell - Berlin's Pergamon Altar has a long and shady past
- 40 Miracle Skulls of Bolivia - Healers and crime-busters
- 29 Britain's X-Files - Latest - MoD releases its fifth batch of UFO reports
- 58 The Voynich Manuscript - An enigmatic and unique relic
Features
32 The Golden Age of Sea Serpents
Mark Greener sifts through the tales of 19th-century sailors and fishermen and finds that their knowledge of many of the sea's mysterious denizens was often in advance of that of science. So, can we simply dismiss a plethora of expert witness accounts of sea monsters as mistakes and misidentifications?
40 Miracle Skulls of Bolivia (Cover Story)
Paul Koudounaris reports on a bizarre cult in which the skulls of the dead provide good luck, offer miraculous healing, and even help solve crimes.
46 Gateway to Hell
After a chance encounter in Berlin, Mark Fernyhough is left wondering whether one of the city's most prized antiquities - the Pergamon Altar - is actually Satan's throne on Earth.
Reports
29 Britian's X-Files - No 15. Fire from the sky? by Dr David Clarke
30 Blasts from the Past - No 19. Scareships by Peter Hassall
50 Dictionary of the Damned - No 32. Monsters of the lakes
Forum
55 G is for Gnostic by Dr David V Barrett
56 The Bat-man returns by Jaap van den Born
58 Voynich under the microscope by Barbara Barrett
Strange Days
UFO appears above park bowling green; graves robbed for cult ceremonies; winter wonderland; a reluctant Messiah; reptile encounters; human-faced animals; the weeping bungalow; underwater surprises; graveyard tributes to Poe and Valentino; animals stranded; albinos murdered for ritual magic - and much more.
- 14 Science
- 17 Mythconceptions
- 20 Archaeology
- 21 Classical Corner
- 26 Necrolog
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Subscriptions
- 54
Back Issues CD-Rom
- 60
Reviews
- 61
Letters
- 73
It Happened to Me
- 77
Phenomenomix
- 79
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Staff Writer/Picture Researcher - Jen Ogilvie
- Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Design Assistant - Stephen Savage
- Web Editor - Jen Ogilvie
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson