FT247
Fortean Times #247 (April 2009)
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- Release date: 05 Mar 2009
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated May 2009 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: David Newton, Additional image manipulation Etienne Gilfillan
Contents
- 44 The Dead Reawaken! - Tales of premature burial from the sensationalist pages of the Illustrated Police News
- 30 Raising the Dead in Finland - From ancient lore to modern miracles
- 36 Sisterhood of the Skulls - A strange cult based on Naple's old bones
- 06 All Washed Up - A mystery beast's body turns up in Devon
- 76 Celebrating Some Great Escapes - A near-death fiesta in Spain
Features
30 Raising the Dead in Finland (Cover Story)
Finland's traditions of powerful shamans and mysterious spirit realms are surely a thing of the country's distant past? Not so, says Dr Ed Dutton - miracle healing an even necromancy are alive and well in Europe's Far North.
36 Sisterhood of the Skulls
Dr Paul Koudounaris descends into a cave complex beneath Naples to investigate a bizarre and little-known cult centered on the skulls of the city's dead.
44 The Dead Reawaken!
Jan Bondeson uncovers some lurid yarns from the pages of the Illustrated Police News, a lowbrow weekly newspaper catering to the Victorian obsession with crime, violence and death.
Reports
40 Blasts from the Past - No 8. Entombed in the ice by Theo Paijmans
51 Dictionary of the Damned - No 26. Ghosts and hauntings, Part 2
76 Fortean Traveller - No 63. Romeria de Santa Marte de Riberteme, Las Nieves, Galicia by Jon Santa Cruz
Forum
55 Stuffed: Life in Death by Tim Weinberg
56 Communing with the Dead by Gail-Nina Anderson
Strange Days
The Nazi 'Angel of Death' and some South American twins; a strange creature's body washes up on a Devon beach; weather control; ghosts in a Northern Irish village and a Derby hospital; a purple squirrel; scare stories; miracle healings and visions are under review; animals are on the attack - and much more.
- 14 Science
- 18 Archaeology
- 19 Classical Corner
- 20 Ghostwatch
- 22 Alien Zoo
- 26 Fortean Follow-ups
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Subscriptions
- 54
Back Issues CD-Rom
- 58
Reviews
- 59
Letters
- 71
It Happened to Me
- 75
Comix
- 79 Phenomenomix
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Staff Writer/Picture Researcher - Jen Ogilvie
- Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Design Assistant - Sophie Chery
- Web Editor - Jen Ogilvie
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson