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Fortean Times #331 (September 2015)

Release date: 20 Aug 2015
Cover Image: Getty Images/Dominika Lizonova (alien head)

Strange Days

Satanic statue unveiled in Detriot, more kamikaze canines, perverts on parade, glass delusion, gull attacks, dwarfs and duendes, Indonesia's Chicken Church, London's sewer hogs, Madrid's UFO conference - and much more.

05 The Conspirasphere
14 Science: Too Much Information
16 Ghostwatch: Elves, Duendes & Gremlins
19 Alien Zoo: Armoured in Arkhangelsk; A Gong for Debbie Martyr; Beavering Away in Devon
20 Special Report: The Inhabited Sky
22 Fortean Follow-ups
- Kamikaze Canine Hotspot FT196:4
- Avian Secret Agents FT308:4-5
- Dazed and Confused FT316:36-40
- Nanteos Cup Retrieved FT319:20
- Coming to get Choo FT328:10
23 Fairies and Folklore: Sewer Hogs & Crocs
24 Necrolog
26 the UFO Files
- Flyingsaucery
- UFO Casebook

Contents

06 End of the Line - Saying goodbye to Tama the cat, Japan's famous feline stationmaster
08 Chicken Church - Indonesia's oddest house of prayer
36 When Gull Attack - Winged terror at the British seaside
56 Fake Shakespeare? - A life portrait of the elusive bard - or not?
26 Defence of the Realm - Is Britain ready for an alien visitation?

Features

28 UFOs Over China (cover story)
The People's Republic of China is firmly under the control of one of the world's most secretive regimes. But, says CHRIS SAUNDERS, if the recent catalogue of strange events in the nation's media is anything to go by, some world-changing news could be about to emerge from the Far East...

34 No Mortal Maid Am I
A recent anime film tells the story of Kaguya, a princess from the Moon, exiled to Earth and raised by a peasant family. BOB RICKARD explores the background to this ancient Japanese tale of extraterrestrial visitation.

40 The Warminster Syndrome
David Simpson created UFOs from ordinary bits of plastic and metal in his workshop. Some people believed they came from other worlds. DAVID CLARKE reveals the story of the hoaxer who foold the Warminster skywatchers.

Reports

48 Building a Fortean Library - No 2. Forteana on the instalment plan

50 Strange Statesmen - No 5. A pawn in the game

74 Fortean Traveller - No 102. Tuscany's UFO Museum

76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 41. Paul Tetzel, the champion butcher

Forum

55 The misguided monster hunters by Brian Regal

56 Portraits of an invisible man by Jerry Glover

Regulars

02 Editorial
59 Reviews
- BOOKS
  - The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness by Laure Murat - ISBN 9780226025735
  - William Stanley as Shakespeare: Evidence of Authorship by the Sixth Earl of Derby by John Rollett - ISBN 9780786496600
  - Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future by Edward F. Malkowski - ISBN 9781620551974
  - Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell - ISBN 9781471114694
  - Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions by Louis Proud - ISBN 9781601633279
  - Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Paul Koudounaris - ISBN 9780500517789
  - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor - ISBN 9781473617940
  - The Chimes by Anna Smaill - ISBN 9781444794526
  - Crashing Heaven by Al Robertson - ISBN 9781473203402
  - Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien - ISBN 9780008116583
  - The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien - ISBN 9780007557301
  - Hy Brazil by Gerald Killingworth - ISBN 9781784620066
  - The Elder Ice by David Hambling - ISBN 9781291969863
  - The Magonia Stone by Markus Wolfson - ISBN 9781326310967
- FILM & DVD
  - The Wolfpack - Director Crystal Moselle, US 2015
  - Fantastic Four - Director Josh Trank, US 2015
  - Hemlock Grove Season 2 - Producer Eli Roth, US 2015, Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
  - Housebound - Director Gerard Johnson, New Zealand 2014, Metrodome
  - Shorts
  - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne - Second Sight
  - Out of the Dark - Metrodome
  - Magic in the Moonlight - Warner Home Video
  - Dead Shadows - Bulldog Film Distribution
69 Letters
- Simulacra Corner
73 It Happened to Me...
78 Reader Info
79 Phenomenomix: Madame Blavatsky 1
80 Strange Deaths

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-Release date: 20 Aug 2015
+* Release date: 20 Aug 2015
+* Cover Image: Getty Images/Dominika Lizonova (alien head)
 ===Strange Days===
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 * 05 The Conspirasphere
-* 14 Science
+* 14 Science: Too Much Information
-* 16 Ghostwatch
+* 16 Ghostwatch: Elves, Duendes & Gremlins
-* 19 Alien Zoo
+* 19 Alien Zoo: Armoured in Arkhangelsk; A Gong for Debbie Martyr; Beavering Away in Devon
+* 20 Special Report: The Inhabited Sky
 * 22 Fortean Follow-ups
-* 23 Fairies and Folklore
+** Kamikaze Canine Hotspot [[FT196]]:4
+** Avian Secret Agents [[FT308]]:4-5
+** Dazed and Confused [[FT316]]:36-40
+** Nanteos Cup Retrieved [[FT319]]:20
+** Coming to get Choo [[FT328]]:10
+* 23 Fairies and Folklore: Sewer Hogs & Crocs
 * 24 Necrolog
 * 26 the UFO Files
+** Flyingsaucery
+** UFO Casebook
+'''Contents'''
 * 06 End of the Line - Saying goodbye to Tama the cat, Japan's famous feline stationmaster
 * 08 Chicken Church - Indonesia's oddest house of prayer
@@ Line 22: / Line 32: @@
 * 26 Defence of the Realm - Is Britain ready for an alien visitation?
-Cover Image: Getty Images/Dominika Lizonova (alien head)
+===Features===
+UFOs Over China (cover story)<br />The People's Republic of China is firmly under the control of one of the world's most secretive regimes. But, says '''CHRIS SAUNDERS''', if the recent catalogue of strange events in the nation's media is anything to go by, some world-changing news could be about to emerge from the Far East...
-===features===
+No Mortal Maid Am I<br />A recent anime film tells the story of Kaguya, a princess from the Moon, exiled to Earth and raised by a peasant family. '''BOB RICKARD''' explores the background to this ancient Japanese tale of extraterrestrial visitation.
-UFOs Over China (cover story)
-No Mortal Maid Am I
+The Warminster Syndrome<br />David Simpson created UFOs from ordinary bits of plastic and metal in his workshop. Some people believed they came from other worlds. '''DAVID CLARKE''' reveals the story of the hoaxer who foold the Warminster skywatchers.
-The Warminster Syndrome
+===Reports===
-===reports===
 Building a Fortean Library - No 2. Forteana on the instalment plan
@@ Line 39: / Line 47: @@
 Fortean Traveller - No 102. Tuscany's UFO Museum
-Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No. 41 Paul Tetzel, the champion butcher
+Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 41. Paul Tetzel, the champion butcher
-===forum===
+===Forum===
 The misguided monster hunters by Brian Regal
@@ Line 47: / Line 55: @@
 Portraits of an invisible man by Jerry Glover
-===regulars===
+===Regulars===
 * 02 Editorial
 * 59 Reviews
+** BOOKS
+*** ''The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness'' by Laure Murat - ISBN 9780226025735
+*** ''William Stanley as Shakespeare: Evidence of Authorship by the Sixth Earl of Derby'' by John Rollett - ISBN 9780786496600
+*** ''Return of the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future'' by Edward F. Malkowski - ISBN 9781620551974
+*** ''Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East'' by Gerard Russell - ISBN 9781471114694
+*** ''Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions'' by Louis Proud - ISBN 9781601633279
+*** ''Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us'' by Paul Koudounaris - ISBN 9780500517789
+*** ''The Book of Phoenix'' by Nnedi Okorafor - ISBN 9781473617940
+*** ''The Chimes'' by Anna Smaill - ISBN 9781444794526
+*** ''Crashing Heaven'' by Al Robertson - ISBN 9781473203402
+*** ''Beowulf'' by J.R.R. Tolkien - ISBN 9780008116583
+*** ''The Fall of Arthur'' by J.R.R. Tolkien - ISBN 9780007557301
+*** ''Hy Brazil'' by Gerald Killingworth - ISBN 9781784620066
+*** ''The Elder Ice'' by David Hambling - ISBN 9781291969863
+*** ''The Magonia Stone'' by Markus Wolfson - ISBN 9781326310967
+** FILM & DVD
+*** ''The Wolfpack'' - Director Crystal Moselle, US 2015
+*** ''Fantastic Four'' - Director Josh Trank, US 2015
+*** ''Hemlock Grove Season 2'' - Producer Eli Roth, US 2015, Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
+*** ''Housebound'' - Director Gerard Johnson, New Zealand 2014, Metrodome
+*** Shorts
+*** ''The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne'' - Second Sight
+*** ''Out of the Dark'' - Metrodome
+*** ''Magic in the Moonlight'' - Warner Home Video
+*** ''Dead Shadows'' - Bulldog Film Distribution
 * 69 Letters
+** Simulacra Corner
+* 73 It Happened to Me...
 * 78 Reader Info
-* 79 Phenomenomix
+* 79 Phenomenomix: Madame Blavatsky 1
 * 80 Strange Deaths
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