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==Fortean Times #338 (March 2016)==
==Fortean Times #338 (March 2016)==
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* Release date: 03 Mar 2016
* Release date: 03 Mar 2016
* Cover price: £4.25
* Cover: [[Etienne Gilfillan]], Bowie Mask by [[Mark Wardel]]
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===Contents===
* 28 The Mage Who Sold The World - The strange fascinations of David Bowie
* 40 Is the Truth Still Out There? - The X-Files returns to our screens
* 12 Lost Library - John Dee's books go on display
* 04 Japan's Ghost Fares - Taxi drivers report phantom passengers
* 14 Curious Cats - Chimaeras and other feline freaks
==Features==
28 The Mage Who Sold The World (Cover Story)<br />From an early interest in UFOs and Aleister Crowley to flirtations with Kabbalah and Nazi mysticism, David Bowie cultivated a number of esoteric interests over the years and embraced alien and occult imagery in his costumes, songs and videos. '''[[Dean Ballinger]]''' explores the fortean aspects and influences of the late musician's career.
34 The Running Man<br />'''[[Chris Aubeck]]''' and '''[[Martin Shough]]''' unearth a baffling proto-UFO incident, involving a fiery anthropomorphic figure, from the early 19th century, and explain the work of Magonia Exchange, an online group dedicated to bringing fortean research into the 21st...
36 A Return to Magonia (sidebar)<br />'''[[Chris Aubeck]]''' argues that a global army of latter-day Charles Forts, armed with laptops and with access to the digitised archives of the world's newspapers, is transforming fortean research in the 21st century...
40 Is the Truth Still Out There?<br />'''[[Loren Coleman|Loren]]''' and '''[[Jenny Coleman]]''' welcome ''The X-Files'' back to our TV screens after a decade-and-a-half absence. What do Mulder and Scully have to say to us in a post-9/11 world?
44 The Cave of the Witches<br />According to local legend, a Chilean island was once home to a secret society of powerful warlocks who murdered their victims, kidnapped children, created terrifying monsters and were only brought to trial in the late 19th century. '''[[Mike Dash]]''' uncovers a strange story...
==Forum==
54 The Automatic leprechaun by [[Ryan Shirlow]]
56 Suffolk's mystery mutant moggy by [[Matt Salusbury]]
==Reports==
12 Special Report: Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library of John Dee by [[David V Barrett]]
50 [[Strange Statesmen]] - No 9. American Psychos 2: Raping Ronald Reagan by [[SD Tucker]]
76 [[Stories from the Illustrated Police News]] - No 45. Succi, the fasting man by [[Jan Bondeson]]
==Strange Days==
Japan's phantom taxi fares, John Dee's lost library, Indian claims death by meteorite, cretinous criminals, curious cats, Harry Price traduced, ancient Greek laptop, Flat Earth rapper, ghostly photobombs, bogey beasts - and much more.
* 05 [[The Conspirasphere]] by [[Noel Rooney]]
* 05 Extra! Extra!
* 15 Alien Zoo by [[Karl Shuker]]
** Nessie's Hideaway
** Worming Out Some Monsters
** A Whiter Shade of Tall
* 16 Ghostwatch: The Price is Not Right by [[Alan Murdie]]
* 23 [[Mythconceptions]] - 98: Lies in Their Eyes by [[Mat Coward]]
* 24 Necrolog
** Oliver Sacks
** Nancy Sandars
* 25 Fairies and Folklore: Bogey Beasts by [[Simon Young]]
* 26 The UFO Files
** UFO Casebook: Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Three by [[Jenny Randles]]
* 80 Strange Deaths
==Regulars==
===Editorial===
* 02 Lazarus rising
** Immersed in Crowley's Uniform
** Mediaeval FT
** Erratum
*** [[FT337]]:17 Missing title of Classical Corner
** Cartoon by [[Martin Ross]]
===Reviews===
* 59-63 BOOKS
** ''Red: A Natural History of the Redhead'' by Jacky Collis Harvey - ISBN 9781925266191 - [[David V Barrett]]
** ''Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir'' by Stan Lee, Peter David and Colleen Doran - ISBN 9781471152597 - [[David Sutton]]
** ''They Exist: A Review of Key Literature on Extraterrestrial Existence'' by Piers Morris - ISBN 9781781489147 - [[Andy Roberts]]
** ''Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality'' by Rhodri Evans & Brian Clegg - ISBN 9781472120373 - [[Andrew May]]
** ''Shirley MacLaine Meets the Pleiadians: The Amazing Flying Saucer Experiences of Celebrities, Rock Stars and the Rich and Famous'' by Timothy Green Beckley & Sean Castell - ISBN 9781606111932 - [[Jay Rath]]
** ''Stonehenge and the Neolithic Cosmos: A new look at the oldest mystery in the world'' by ND Wiseman - ISBN 9780692362822 - [[Robert Ixer]]
** ''Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age'' by W Bernard Carlson - ISBN 9781400846559 - [[David Hambling]]
** ''UFOs Over Poland: The Land of High Strangeness'' by Piotr Cielebia - ISBN 9780993492808 - [[Nigel Watson]]
** '''Also Received'''
** ''Goodbye God? An Illustrated Exploration of Science vs. Religion'' by Sean Michael Wilson and Hunt Emerson - ISBN 9781780262260
** ''Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words: From Abraxas to Zoar'' by Claude Lecouteax - ISBN 9781620553749
** ''Our Holographic World'' by Anthony Milne - ISBN 9781857568271
** ''Revisiting the 'Nazi occult': Histories, Realities, Legacies'' edited by Monica Black and Eric Kurlander - ISBN 9781571139061
** ''The UFO Dossier'' by Kevin D Randle - ISBN 9781578595648
** ''There Must Be Evil: The Life and Murderous Career of Elizabeth Berry'' by Bernard Taylor - ISBN 9780715650516
** ''A Colorful History of Popular Delusions'' by Robert E Bartholomew and Peter Hassall - ISBN 9781633881228
* 64-66 FILM & DVD
** ''Hitchcock/Truffaut'' directed by Kent Jones, France/US 2015 - [[David Sutton]]
** ''Miss Hokusai'' directed by Keiichi Hara, Japan 2015 - [[Julie McNamee]]
** ''Insidious Chapter 3'' directed by Leigh Whannell, US 2015 - [[Brian J Robb]]
** ''Dragon Blade'' directed by Daniel Lee, China 2015 - [[Daniel King]]
** ''Maelstrom'' directed by David Maloney, UK 1985 - [[David V Barrett]]
** '''The Reverend's Review''' by Reverend [[Peter Laws]]
** ''The Mutilator'' directed by Buddy Cooper, US 1984
** ''Five Dolls for an August Moon'' directed by Mario Bava, Italy 1970
** ''Deep Red'' directed by Dario Argento, Italy 1975
** '''Shorts'''
** ''Deathgasm'' - Studiocanal - [[Daniel King|DK]]
** ''Tripped'' - ITV Studios Home Entertainment - [[Daniel King|DK]]
** ''Aaaaaaaah!'' - Icon Entertainment - [[David Sutton|DS]]
===Letters===
* 71 Spectrophilia - [[Martin Jenkins]], London
* 71 Panic in Chile - Mr [[LB Jackson]], Willenhall, West Midlands
* 71 Goat chow - [[Tracey Serle]], Alexandria, Virginia
* 71 Lady Diana Cooper - [[Rob Kemp]], Colchester, Essex
* 72 Wait Ummo - [[George White]], Bray, Co Wicklow
* 72 Foreign Water - [[Lorna Stroup Nilsson]], Princetown, Devon
* 72 Perks or perils - '[[Bertrand Beech]]', Somerset
* 72-73 Selling hair - [[Gail-Nina Anderson]], Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
* 73 Loch Inver creature - [[Ewan McVicar]], Linlithgow, West Lothian
* 73 DIY mummies - Dr [[Darren-Jon Ashmore]], Professor of Anthropology, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Sakaori, Japan
===Simulacra Corner===
* 71 Cowled Witness - [[Anthony Cranstoun]], by email
* 74 [[Nicola Maasdam]], [[Pete Bowman]], [[Chris Seavor]], [[Nickie Baglow]]
===It Happened to Me===
* 75 Phantom Footsteps - [[Nils Erik Grande]], Oslo, Norway & [[Paul Jackson]], Wiltshire
* 75 Bloodshot Eyes - [[Elijah Lycett]], Macclesfield, Cheshire
* 75 Music Hall Fright - [[Nidge Solly]], by email
* 75 Bettyhill Phantom - [[Karen Lilly]], Clatham, Kent
===Comix===
* Cartoon by [[Carol Isaacs]]
* 79 [[Phenomenomix]]: David Bowie by [[Hunt Emerson]] and [[Kevin Jackson]]
===Coming Next Month===
* Mexican Fairies - In Search of Duendes, Chaneques and Others
* The Tell-Tale Eye - Can Murder Victims' Final Visions Catch Their Killers?
* + Being a Beast, Demonic Divorce, Eye-Spy Teddies, and Much More... [[FT339|Fortean Times 339]] on sale 31 Mar 2016
==Reader Info==
* 78 Special Correspondents
** Australia - [[Graham Cordon]] (SA), [[Tony Healy]] (ACT), [[John Palazzi]] (NSW), [[Len Watson]] (Qld)
** Canada - [[Brian Chapman]] (BC), [[Graham Conway]] (BC)
** Cyberspace - [[Richard Alexander]], [[John F Callahan]], [[Hugh Henry]], [[Steve Scanlon]], [[Janet Wilson]]
** England - [[Gail-Nina Anderson]], [[Louise Bath]], [[James Beckett]], [[Claire Blamey]], [[Peter Christie]], [[Mat Coward]], [[Kate Eccles]], [[Paul Farthing]], [[George Featherston]], [[Paul Gallagher]], [[Alan Gardiner]], [[Keith George]], [[Anne Hardwick]], [[Richard Lowke]], [[Alexis Lykiard]], [[Diana Lyons]], [[Dave Malin]], [[Nick Maloret]], [[Valerie Martin]], [[Tom Ruffles]], [[Meryl Santis]], [[Paul Screeton]], [[Gary Stocker]], [[Roman Suchyj]], [[Frank Thomas]], [[Paul Thomas]], [[Nick Warren]], [[Owen Whiteoak]], [[Bobby Zodiac]]
** France - [[Michel Meurger]]
** Germany - [[Ulrich Magin]]
** Holland - [[Robin Pascoe]]
** Ireland - [[Andy Conlon]], [[Pat Corcoran]], [[Andrew Munro]]
** Israel - [[Zvi Ron]]
** New Zealand - [[Peter Hassall]]
** Romania - [[Iosif Boczor]]
** Scotland - [[Roger Musson]]
** Sweden - [[Sven Rosen]]
** Thailand - [[Chris Williams]]
** USA - [[Loren Coleman]] (ME), [[Jim Conlan]] (CT), [[Myron Hoyt]] (ME), [[Greg May]] (FL), [[Dolores Phelps]] (TX), [[Jim Riecken]] (NY), [[Joseph Trainor]] (MA), [[Jeffrey Vallance]] (CA), [[Gary Yates]] (UT)
** Wales - [[Janet  & Colin Bord]]
* Fort Sorters (who classify clippings placed in the Archives for Fortean Research)
** [[Phil Baker]], [[Rachel Carthy]], [[Chris Josiffe]], [[Mark Pilkington]], [[Bob Rickard]], [[Paul Sieveking]], [[Ian Simmons]]
* Clipping Credits
** [[Garrick Alder]], [[Gerard Apps]], [[Louise Bath]], [[James Beckett]], [[Terry Browning]], [[Rob Chambers]], [[Terry Colvin]], [[Andy Conlon]], [[Pat Corcoran]], [[Graham Cordon]], [[Ken Crocker]], [[Kate Eccles]], [[JD Evans]], [[Grum Gallagher]], [[David Gamon]], [[Alan Gardiner]], [[Keith George]], [[Alan Gibb]], [[Hugh Henry]], [[Colin Ings]], [[Tim Greening-Jackson]], [[Don Lamont]], [[Diana Lyons]], [[Dave Malin]], [[Bert & Betty Gray-Malkin]], [[Nick Maloret]], [[Tom Mason]], [[Greg May]], [[Andy Munro]], [[Paul Music]], [[John Palazzi]], [[Jim Price]], [[Noel Rooney]], [[Tom Ruffles]], [[Meryl Santis]], [[Christian Saunders]], [[Paul Screeton]], [[Richard Spiers]], [[Gary Stocker]], [[Frank Thomas]], [[Paul Thomas]], [[Dave Trevor]], [[Carole Tyrrell]], [[Nicholas Warren]], [[Len Watson]], [[Owen Whiteoak]], [[Paul Whyte]], [[Colin Wight]], [[Janet Wilson]], [[Gary Yates]], [[Bobby Zodiac]]
==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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Fortean Times #338 (March 2016)

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Contents

  • 28 The Mage Who Sold The World - The strange fascinations of David Bowie
  • 40 Is the Truth Still Out There? - The X-Files returns to our screens
  • 12 Lost Library - John Dee's books go on display
  • 04 Japan's Ghost Fares - Taxi drivers report phantom passengers
  • 14 Curious Cats - Chimaeras and other feline freaks

Features

28 The Mage Who Sold The World (Cover Story)
From an early interest in UFOs and Aleister Crowley to flirtations with Kabbalah and Nazi mysticism, David Bowie cultivated a number of esoteric interests over the years and embraced alien and occult imagery in his costumes, songs and videos. Dean Ballinger explores the fortean aspects and influences of the late musician's career.

34 The Running Man
Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough unearth a baffling proto-UFO incident, involving a fiery anthropomorphic figure, from the early 19th century, and explain the work of Magonia Exchange, an online group dedicated to bringing fortean research into the 21st...

36 A Return to Magonia (sidebar)
Chris Aubeck argues that a global army of latter-day Charles Forts, armed with laptops and with access to the digitised archives of the world's newspapers, is transforming fortean research in the 21st century...

40 Is the Truth Still Out There?
Loren and Jenny Coleman welcome The X-Files back to our TV screens after a decade-and-a-half absence. What do Mulder and Scully have to say to us in a post-9/11 world?

44 The Cave of the Witches
According to local legend, a Chilean island was once home to a secret society of powerful warlocks who murdered their victims, kidnapped children, created terrifying monsters and were only brought to trial in the late 19th century. Mike Dash uncovers a strange story...

Forum

54 The Automatic leprechaun by Ryan Shirlow

56 Suffolk's mystery mutant moggy by Matt Salusbury

Reports

12 Special Report: Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library of John Dee by David V Barrett

50 Strange Statesmen - No 9. American Psychos 2: Raping Ronald Reagan by SD Tucker

76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 45. Succi, the fasting man by Jan Bondeson

Strange Days

Japan's phantom taxi fares, John Dee's lost library, Indian claims death by meteorite, cretinous criminals, curious cats, Harry Price traduced, ancient Greek laptop, Flat Earth rapper, ghostly photobombs, bogey beasts - and much more.

Regulars

Editorial

  • 02 Lazarus rising
    • Immersed in Crowley's Uniform
    • Mediaeval FT
    • Erratum
      • FT337:17 Missing title of Classical Corner
    • Cartoon by Martin Ross

Reviews

  • 59-63 BOOKS
    • Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Collis Harvey - ISBN 9781925266191 - David V Barrett
    • Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee, Peter David and Colleen Doran - ISBN 9781471152597 - David Sutton
    • They Exist: A Review of Key Literature on Extraterrestrial Existence by Piers Morris - ISBN 9781781489147 - Andy Roberts
    • Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality by Rhodri Evans & Brian Clegg - ISBN 9781472120373 - Andrew May
    • Shirley MacLaine Meets the Pleiadians: The Amazing Flying Saucer Experiences of Celebrities, Rock Stars and the Rich and Famous by Timothy Green Beckley & Sean Castell - ISBN 9781606111932 - Jay Rath
    • Stonehenge and the Neolithic Cosmos: A new look at the oldest mystery in the world by ND Wiseman - ISBN 9780692362822 - Robert Ixer
    • Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W Bernard Carlson - ISBN 9781400846559 - David Hambling
    • UFOs Over Poland: The Land of High Strangeness by Piotr Cielebia - ISBN 9780993492808 - Nigel Watson
    • Also Received
    • Goodbye God? An Illustrated Exploration of Science vs. Religion by Sean Michael Wilson and Hunt Emerson - ISBN 9781780262260
    • Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words: From Abraxas to Zoar by Claude Lecouteax - ISBN 9781620553749
    • Our Holographic World by Anthony Milne - ISBN 9781857568271
    • Revisiting the 'Nazi occult': Histories, Realities, Legacies edited by Monica Black and Eric Kurlander - ISBN 9781571139061
    • The UFO Dossier by Kevin D Randle - ISBN 9781578595648
    • There Must Be Evil: The Life and Murderous Career of Elizabeth Berry by Bernard Taylor - ISBN 9780715650516
    • A Colorful History of Popular Delusions by Robert E Bartholomew and Peter Hassall - ISBN 9781633881228
  • 64-66 FILM & DVD
    • Hitchcock/Truffaut directed by Kent Jones, France/US 2015 - David Sutton
    • Miss Hokusai directed by Keiichi Hara, Japan 2015 - Julie McNamee
    • Insidious Chapter 3 directed by Leigh Whannell, US 2015 - Brian J Robb
    • Dragon Blade directed by Daniel Lee, China 2015 - Daniel King
    • Maelstrom directed by David Maloney, UK 1985 - David V Barrett
    • The Reverend's Review by Reverend Peter Laws
    • The Mutilator directed by Buddy Cooper, US 1984
    • Five Dolls for an August Moon directed by Mario Bava, Italy 1970
    • Deep Red directed by Dario Argento, Italy 1975
    • Shorts
    • Deathgasm - Studiocanal - DK
    • Tripped - ITV Studios Home Entertainment - DK
    • Aaaaaaaah! - Icon Entertainment - DS

Letters

Simulacra Corner

It Happened to Me

Comix

Coming Next Month

  • Mexican Fairies - In Search of Duendes, Chaneques and Others
  • The Tell-Tale Eye - Can Murder Victims' Final Visions Catch Their Killers?
  • + Being a Beast, Demonic Divorce, Eye-Spy Teddies, and Much More... Fortean Times 339 on sale 31 Mar 2016

Reader Info

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