FT338
Fortean Times #338 (March 2016)
- Release date: 03 Mar 2016
- Cover price: £4.25
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan, Bowie Mask by Mark Wardel
- Zinio version --- Google Play
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-UGO 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...
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
50 Strange Statesmen - No 9. American Psychos 2: Raping Ronald Reagan
76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 45. Succi, the fasting man
Strange Days
Japan's phantom taxi fars, 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
- 05 Extra! Extra!
- 15 Alien Zoo
- 16 Ghostwatch
- 23 Mythconceptions
- 24 Necrolog
- 25 Fairies and Folklore
- 26 The UFO Files
- 80 Strange Deaths
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Reviews
- 59
Letters
- 71
It Happened to Me
- 75
Phenomenomix
- 79