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Fortean Times #173 (August 2003)

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• Release date: 28 Jun 2003
• Cover price: £3.20
• US Edition is dated September 2003 with a cover price of $7.25 USA (CAN $7.50)
• Cover: PA Photos/EPA

Contents

• 06 Iron Coffins - Submarine spookiness
• 30 The 'Other' One - Matrix Warrior Interview
• 50 Mallory Made It! - The 1924 Everest Expedition

Features

36 Apocalypse Postponed (Cover Story)
Paul Sieveking * David Sutton examine Japan's Pana Wave cult, while Mark Pilkington traces the roots of the current planet panic.

30 The Other One
Elizabeth Wu talks to writer and director Jake Horsley about life as a Matrix Warrior.

42 Iron Coffins
Roy Bainton concludes his survey of spooky sea stories with a collection of submarine mysteries.

50 Spirits of Everest
Nick Molloy asks whether two climbers from the 1924 Everest expedition might have beaten Hillary to the great mountain's summit.

Forum

57 The Hangover of History - Paul Gilham on our inebriated past

58 How Real is Real? - Helen Forbes on a confusing continuum

Reports

34 Fortean Bureau of Investigation - No 52. Skullduggery. Noel Rooney on Lloyd Pye's 'Starchild' skull

76 Fortean Traveller - No 23. The Potosi silver mines, Bolivia. Partha Lal on the silver mines of Potosi

Strange Days

Bigfoot heads south, worms return from space, Ecuador's little green man, glowing people, Stonehenge discoveries, flying potions...

• 05 Extra Extra
• 15 Science
• 16 Classical Corner
• 17 The Heirophant
• 17 Konspiracy Korner
• 18 Alien Zoo
• 24 Archaeology
• 26 UFOlogy
• 28 Mythconceptions
• 29 Strange Deaths

Regulars

Editorial

• 04 Fear of a 12th planet

Back Issues

• 55

Subscriptions

• 56

Reviews

• 59 Books
• 64 Film & DVD
• 66 Games

Letters

• 71

Simulacra Corner

• 71

It Happened to Me

• 75

Comix

• 78 Phenomenomix

Tales from the Vault

• 80

Coming Next Month

• Day of the dolphin - John Lilly and the Atlantis Project
• Riding the deathline - London's Necropolis Railway
• Harry Grindell-Matthews - The man who built the death ray
• Fortean Times Issue 174 on sale 26 Jul 2003

Reader Info

• 67

Masthead

• Editor - David Sutton
• Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
• Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
• Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
• Picture Research - Owen Whiteoak
• Reviews Editor/Chief Sub - Val Stevenson
• Contributing Editor - Ian Simmons
• Contributing Editor - Joe McNally
• Contributing Editor - Mark Pilkington
• Website - Alistair Strachan
• Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson

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