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Fortean Times #317 (August 2014)

Release date: 24 July 2014
Cover: Etienne Gilfillan, Makeup: Paolo Navarino, special thanks to Coco and Flavia
Zinio version

Strange Days

Islamists versus "mystical bees"; Ugandan cop shoots "aggressive tortoise; runic code cracked; human Etch a Sketch; super-rats; hammock bear; Hampstead witch doctor; hippie conspiracy; British folk art - and much more.

14 Archaeology
15 Classical Corner
19 Konspiracy Korner
22 Medical Bag
23 Mythconceptions
24 Necrolog
25 Fairies and Folklore
26 The UFO Files

Contents

38 Mirage Men - UFOs and teh art of disinformation
76 Wild Child - The story of Krao, the MIssing Link
16 Meet the Super-Rats - Disarming land mines, invading homes
06 Scaring off the Spirits - Bali's Grebeg Ritual
53 Gods and Gangsters - Venezuela's strange new deities

Features

30 Slender Man: From Viral to Postal (Cover Story)
How did two 12-year-old girls from Wisconsin come to carry out a brutal attempted murder to please a fictional Internet Monster? Ian 'Cat' Vincent probes the online origins of Slender Man and asks what the spread of this faceless meme tells us about the nature of contemporary belief.

38 Mirage Men
Is the history of UFOs one of a long campaign of deliberate disinformation? Were saucer scares intended to disguise the machinations of the government? Or to obscure what that government knew about UFOs? Roland Denning attempts to throw some new light on these questions.

42 British Voodoo: Part Two
Rollo Ahmed practised black magic, taught Dennis Wheatley yoga, helped Aleister Crowley find a flat and wrote a history of magic. Christopher Josiffe concludes his profile of a forgotten figure of British occultism.

Reports

28 Blasts from the Past - No 52. Mysterious falling stones at Glaveaux

48 First Forteans - No 8. HG Wells and Lance Sieveking

74 Fortean Traveller - No 95. The Museum of Souls in Purgatory, Rome

76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 32. Krao, the Missing Link

Forum

53 Of gods and men by David Hambling

54 Ireland vs the Flying Saucers by Shane Cochrane

Regulars

02 Editorial

57 Reviews

BOOKS
FILM & DVD

69 Letters

73 It Happened to Me

79 Phenomenomix

Strindberg 1 by Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson

80 Strange Deaths

Masthead

Editor - David Sutton
Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson

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 * Release date: 24 July 2014
+* Cover: [[Etienne Gilfillan]], Makeup: [[Paolo Navarino]], special thanks to Coco and Flavia
 * [https://www.zinio.com/www/browse/issue.jsp?skuId=416310375#/ Zinio version]
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+===Strange Days===
+Islamists versus "mystical bees"; Ugandan cop shoots "aggressive tortoise; runic code cracked; human Etch a Sketch; super-rats; hammock bear; Hampstead witch doctor; hippie conspiracy; British folk art - and much more.
+* 14 Archaeology
+* 15 Classical Corner
+* 19 Konspiracy Korner
+* 22 Medical Bag
+* 23 Mythconceptions
+* 24 Necrolog
+* 25 Fairies and Folklore
+* 26 The UFO Files
+'''Contents'''
+* 38 Mirage Men - UFOs and teh art of disinformation
+* 76 Wild Child - The story of Krao, the MIssing Link
+* 16 Meet the Super-Rats - Disarming land mines, invading homes
+* 06 Scaring off the Spirits - Bali's Grebeg Ritual
+* 53 Gods and Gangsters - Venezuela's strange new deities
+===Features===
+Slender Man: From Viral to Postal (Cover Story)<br />How did two 12-year-old girls from Wisconsin come to carry out a brutal attempted murder to please a fictional Internet Monster? '''[[Ian 'Cat' Vincent]]''' probes the online origins of Slender Man and asks what the spread of this faceless meme tells us about the nature of contemporary belief.
+Mirage Men<br />Is the history of UFOs one of a long campaign of deliberate disinformation? Were saucer scares intended to disguise the machinations of the government? Or to obscure what that government knew about UFOs? '''[[Roland Denning]]''' attempts to throw some new light on these questions.
+British Voodoo: Part Two<br />Rollo Ahmed practised black magic, taught Dennis Wheatley yoga, helped Aleister Crowley find a flat and wrote a history of magic. '''[[Christopher Josiffe]]''' concludes his profile of a forgotten figure of British occultism.
+===Reports===
+Blasts from the Past - No 52. Mysterious falling stones at Glaveaux
+First Forteans - No 8. HG Wells and Lance Sieveking
+Fortean Traveller - No 95. The Museum of Souls in Purgatory, Rome
+Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 32. Krao, the Missing Link
+===Forum===
+Of gods and men by [[David Hambling]]
+Ireland vs the Flying Saucers by [[Shane Cochrane]]
+===Regulars===
+====02 Editorial====
+====57 Reviews====
+* BOOKS
+* FILM & DVD
+====69 Letters====
+====73 It Happened to Me====
+====79 Phenomenomix====
+* Strindberg 1 by [[Hunt Emerson]] and [[Kevin Jackson]]
+====80 Strange Deaths====
+===Masthead===
+* Editor - [[David Sutton]]
+* Founding Editor - [[Bob Rickard]]
+* Founding Editor - [[Paul Sieveking]]
+* Art Director - [[Etienne Gilfillan]]
+* Book Reviews Editor - [[Val Stevenson]]
+* Resident Cartoonist - [[Hunt Emerson]]
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