FT338

Fortean Times #338 (March 2016)

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• 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...

36 A Return to Magonia
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 teh 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

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 by Noel Rooney
• 05 Extra! Extra!
• 15 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
  • Nessie's Hidaway
  • 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

Letters

• 71

It Happened to Me

• 75

Phenomenomix

• 79

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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