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Fortean Times #323 (January 2015)

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Strange Days

Mystery bangs from North Yorkshire to New York, London hypno-heist, Burma's giant bell, Islamic apocalypse, ghosts of WWI, two-trunked elephant, resurrections, Jordanian rock rings, Portuguese angel hair - and much more.

  • 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
  • 14 Science: The Morgellons Mystery by David Hambling
  • 18 Ghostwatch
  • 22 Archaeology
  • 23 Classical Corner
  • 25 Alien Zoo
  • 27 Mythconceptions
  • 30 The UFO Files

Contents

  • 34 Ghosts of the American South - Superstition, slavery and social control
  • 40 I Sing the Mind Electric - Electromagnetic near-death experiences
  • 06 American Grotesque - The photographs of William Mortensen
  • 56 Pulling the Cosmic Trigger - Bringing Discordian drama to the stage
  • 05 The Real Alex Jones - Conspiracy theorist or dead comedian?

Features

34 Ghosts of the American South (cover story)
The Old South was filled with folk beliefs and superstitions but in a society formed by the institution of slavery, ghosts were just as often a means of repression and social control. Jacob Middleton explores a forgotten world of haunted plantation and terrifying Night Riders...

40 I Sing the Mind Electric
Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs investigates esoteric and electromagnetic explanations for near-death experiences.

44 The Naked Truth
When he stumbled upon a mysterious engraving of a hairless hyene that matched no living specied known to science, Karl Shuker was intrigued; but did it show a vanished species, a genetic freak or just a mangy specimen? And how might it relate to other weird hairless creatures in the cryptozoological annals?

Reports

16 The Town at the End of the World - Dabiq and Islamic eschatology

32 Blasts from the Past - No 55. The cities of lost children

48 First Forteans - No 11. Ego rising: Arthur C Clarke

76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 36. The sleeping Frenchman of Soho

Forum

53 The myth of living fossils by Mark Greener

54 Nessie, Daughter of Kong? by Charles Paxton

56 Pulling the Cosmic Trigger by Ian 'Cat' Vincent

Regulars

02 Editorial

  • Recalibrating your weird meter
  • FT Website Update

59 Reviews

71 Letters

74 It Happened to Me

79 Phenomenomix

80 Strange Deaths

78 Reader Info

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