FT327

Fortean Times #327 (May 2015)

• Release date: 30 Apr 2015
• Cover: Jonathan Irish/Getty Images
• Additional Image Work: Etienne Gilfillan
• Zinio version

Strange Days

Hampstead's Satanic panic, dead Putin's body doubles, fairy door clampdown, fish spillages, aerial portents, animal prodigies, Essex doppelganger, ghosts of the R101, another Grey Lady photographed - and much more.

• 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
• 14 Science: I Heal the Body Electric by David Hambling
• 16 Archaeology by Paul Devereux
  • The Embrace of Time
  • Stony Secrets of the Sands
  • Alien DNA
  • Solar Spirals?
• 17 Classical Corner - 187: The First Spin Doctor by Barry Baldwin
• 18 Ghostwatch: The Airmen Who Would Not Die Re-Examined by Alan Murdie
• 22 Fortean Follow-ups
  • The Mole Man of Hackney FT215:04, FT269:26
  • Load of Malarkey FT291:40-44
  • Flight MH370 FT313:04
  • The Big Sleep FT316:08
  • Hypno-Heist FT323:09
• 23 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
  • Costa Rican Dodos
  • Mythical Creatures Down in Denver
• 25 Mythconceptions - 188: Chinese Restaurant Syndrome by Mat Coward'
• 27 Fairies and Folklore: Fairy Hurlers by Simon Young
• 28 The UFO Files
  • Flyingsaucery by Andy Roberts and Dr David Clarke
    • Who's Zooming Who?
    • The 'Missing' Files
    • Japan Not on Alien Tourist A-List
  • UFO Casebook: Flappy Valley, Part 3 by Jenny Randles

Contents

• 24 If You Go Down to the Woods Today... Clampdown on fairy builders in a Somerset woodland
• 34 Unlocking the Cage - Life in England's "most haunted house"
• 06 Fort's Mad Fishmonger - Belfast road covered in mackerel
• 20 Blood Moon Rising - And other strange aerial portents
• 28 Obama on UFOlogy - The President's alien secrets

Features

30 Harbinger Ghosts (cover story)
You're sitting up late waiting for your husband, when at long last you hear his footsteps outside. He turns the key in the lock, opens the door and enters the house. You call to ask if he's OK... and there's no one there. You just had a visit from a vardoger, the friendly ghost of the Nordic countries, as Nils Erik Grande explains...

34 Unlocking the Cage
What has been described as "the most haunted house in England" is up for sale after scaring off its owner, who then opened it up to paranormal investigators. Ghost hunter John Fraser tells the story of Essex's haunted prison.

38 Rogue Oscillators
Daniel Wilson dusts off his wireless and tunes in to one of the weirdest controversies in broadcasting history - a story of hellish howlers, ghost cars and witch-hunts.

46 Strange Rain
Falls of frogs and showers of fish, black rains and bloody downpours, ash-filled skies and deadly smogs... Cynthia Barnett examines weird weather events and asks whether humankind plays a considerable role in creating them.

Reports

76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 38. Teddy Wick, the faster barber in the West

Forum

53 The Adventure of the Sailor in the River by Helen Barrell

54 Ghosts of the firestorm by Jenny Randles

56 Atlantean brass by Jerry Glover

Regulars

02 Editorial

• Commemorating Charles Fort

78 Reader Info

• 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 Bord, 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

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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