FT311

Fortean Times #311 (February 2014)

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• Release date: 06 Feb 2014
• Cover price: £4.25
• US Edition is dated March 2014 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $17.30)
• Cover: Quinton Winter
• Zinio version

Contents

• 46 Sex Ghosts of Sicily - Gropers, panty-snatchers and self-abusers from beyond the grave
• 38 Droning On - Musical highs through drones
• 76 Phantom Pets - Readers' spooky tales of cats and dogs
• 42 Chiming In - Brainwaves, harmonics and windchimes
• 27 Haunted Skites - Elsie Oakensen's close encounter

Features

30 The House of Major Weir (Cover Story)
Jan Bondeson turns detective in an effort to shed some new light on Edinburgh's most haunted house - and finds that, contrary to local belief, the abode of Weir the Warlock still stands today.

38 Sounds Eternal 1: Droning On
Jimmy Billingham examines the mind-altering properties of the sustained musical drone, from the ancient world to contemporary minimalism and club culture

42 Sounds Eternal 2: Chiming In
Steve Marshall travelled to Woodstock to talk brainwaves and harmonics with award-winning percussionist and windchime maker Garry Kvistad.

46 Sex Ghosts of Sicily
Dr Paul Koudounaris meets 'Il Pene Grande', 'Il Masturbatore' and the other post-mortem perverts inhabiting the catacombs beneath a Palermo monastery.

Reports

28 Blasts from the Past - No 49. The Devil Kid of Newburg

50 Dictionary of the Damned - No 54. Fortean Machines

48 First Forteans - No 4. Eric Frank Russell: Part One

Forum

57 No country for old snakes by Shane Cochrane

58 King Arthur's Loco Reserve by Roy Bainton

Strange Days

Raining bats and body parts; river of molten caramel; dog disappearing acts; cookie monster sponge; bleeding from the eyes; little white ligers; pets that look like Hitler; fish attacks; haunted hospitals - and much more.

• 15 Alien Zoo
• 16 Ghostwatch
• 18 Archaeology
• 19 Classical Corner
• 21 Konspiracy Korner
• 23 Mythconceptions
• 25 Strange Deaths
• 26 The UFO Files

Regulars

Editorial

• 02

Reviews

• 61 BOOKS
• FILM & DVD

Letters

• 73

It Happened to Me

• 76

Comix

• 80 Phenomenomix

Reader Info

• 78

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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