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Fortean Times #317 (August 2014)

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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

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
  • 80 Strange Deaths

Regulars

Editorial

  • 02

Reviews

  • 57 BOOKS
  • FILM & DVD

Letters

  • 69

It Happened to Me

  • 73

Phenomenomix

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