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Fortean Times #264 (July 2010)

Strange Days

MoD did not keep a secret file on sea monsters; local police were convinced Nessie was real; giant sinkholes in Canada and Guatemala; the "rabbit whisperer"; scientists create artificial organism; funerary quirks; speaking with new tongues; human weather vane; grass-eater and other medical oddities; record catfish - and much more.

• 10 Fortean Follow-ups
• 14 Ghostwatch
• 15 Mythconceptions
• 16 Science
• 20 Archaeology
• 21 Classical Corner
• 22 Medical Miscellany
• 25 Alien Zoo
• 26 Necrolog
• 27 Strange Deaths
• 28 The UFO Files
  • Flyingsaucery
  • UFO Casebook

Features

32 The Serpents of Sweden (Cover Story)
Sweden is noted for its treasure-hoarding dragons and sea monsters, but could it also be home to a flesh-and-blood giant serpent? Richard Svensson follows the trail of the legendary lindorm.

40 The Occult World of CG Jung
While the materialistic mainstream has never accepted the groundbreaking work of Carl Gustav Jung, his influence has been profound, says Gary Lachman - and nowhere more noticeably than in the psychologist's ambivalent involvement in the arena of mysticism and magic.

46 The Lost Children of Hamelin
On 26 June, the German town of Hamelin celebrates Rat Catcher's Day. Maria J Perez Cuervo asks what really happened there, and who was the mysterious Pied Piper?

Reports

30 Blasts from the Past - No 23. The petrified cornfield by Theo Paijmans

38 Fortean Bureau of Investigation - No 105. The Southwark Mysteries by Dr David V Barrett

50 Fortean Times Dictionary of the Damned - No. 34. Extra-sensory perception, Part 2. Clairvoyance

Forum

55 Megalithomania 2010 by Christine Rhone

56 Bosch and the art of the NDE by Sophie Stoll

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 19 Unconvention Ad
• 54 Subscriptions
• 58 Back Issues CD-Rom
• 59 Reviews
  • BOOKS
    • The Kingdom of Agarttha: A Journey into the Hollow Earth by Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre - ISBN 9781594772689
    • Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex, Blood, and the Supernatural by Jack Hunter - ISBN 9781840683011
    • Shock!: The Black Dog of Bungay by David Waldron and Christopher Reeve - ISBN 9780955523779
    • Messages: The World's Most Documented Extraterrestrial Contact Story by Stan Romanek - ISBN 9780738715261
    • The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History by E C Coleman - ISBN 9780752452272
    • Caeser's Druids: Story of an Ancient Priesthood by Miranda Aldhouse-Green - ISBN 9780300124422
    • Inside the Wicker Man: How Not to Make a Cult Classic by Allan Brown - ISBN 9781846971440
  • FILM & DVD
    • Profound Desires of the Gods - Director Shohei Imamura, 1968, Eureka!
    • Warehouse 13 - Director Jake Alexander, Vincent Misiano et al., 2009, Universal Pictures
    • Goth Cruise - Director Jeanie Finlay, 2008, Tiger Lily Films
    • 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep - Director Ben Hopkins, 2006, Tiger Lily Films
  • GAMES
    • Alpha Protocol from Obsidian Entertainment
• 65 Competition
• 71 Letters
• 75 Simulacra Corner
• 76 It Happened To Me...
• 78 Reader Info
• 79 Phenomenomix
• 80 Tales from the Vault

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