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Fortean Times #339 (April 2016)

• Release date: 31 Mar 2016
• Cover price: £4.25
• Cover: Shaunl/Getty Images
• Digital editions: Zinio --- Google Play --- Magzter

Contents

• 42 In the Land of the Chaneques - Adventures with Mexico's Little People
• 58 Where the Wild Things Are - Can a human become an urban fox?
• 18 Ghosts of the Tsunami - Foreign phantoms haunt Thai beaches
• 26 Return to East Gate - Early accounts of the Rendlesham Forest UFO
• 36 The Tell-Tale Eye - The last thing you see is your killer...

Features

28 The Eye-Spy Teddies of Albania (Cover Story)
Protective traditions intended to ward off the power of the 'evil eye' are found throughout history and all over the world - but do they morph and adapt to the events of recent history? John Billingsley travelled to Albania, where he found scarecrows and rams' horns displaced by cuddly rabbits and tatty teds - soft toys united in a struggle against the social changes wrought by capitalism...

36 The Tell-Tale Eye
Jan Bondeson explores the history of one of the odder delusions of criminology: the notion that on the retinas of the recently murdered is captured an image of the last thing they saw - the perfect scientific evidence to catch a killer...

42 In the Land of the Chaneques
When Chris Pollard first moved to Veracrus State he was a confirmed sceptic. Since then, odd experiences and tales of close encounters with Mexico's little people have left him wondering whether the stone-throwing, trick-playing, child-stealing fairy-folk might be more real than he'd ever imagined...

Forum

56 In search of the Little Blue Man by Theo Paijmans

58 Where the wild things are by Charles Foster

Reports

48 Strange Statesmen No 10. American Psychos 3: Independents' Day

52 Building a Fortean Library No 9. Paradoxography: forteana before Fort

Strange Days

Britain's dullest men, auroral simulacra, alien sex fiends, Irish abductee, Yeti prints photographed, Thailand's angel dolls, pets that sniff out illness, black fox, deathbed dreams and visions, man/penguin love story - and much more.

• 05 The Conspirasphere
• 14 Science
• 16 Archaeology
• 17 Classical Corner
• 18 Ghostwatch
• 21 Alien Zoo
• 23 Mythconceptions
• 24 Necrolog
• 25 Fairies & Forteana
• 26 The UFO Files
• 80 Strange Deaths

Regulars

Editorial

• 02

Reviews

• 61

Letters

• 73

It Happened to Me

• 77

Comix

• 79 Phenomenomix

Coming Next Month

• Star Whackers - Is a Tinsel-Town conspiracy killing off Hollywood stars?
• Mowing Devils - Crop circles and the hairy man of St Trinian's
• + Demonic Divorce, Gateway to Hell, Rural Monsters, and Much More... Fortean Times 340 on sale 28 Apr 2016

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
  • Gerard Apps, David V Barrett, Louise Bath, James Beckett, Peter Christie, Terry Colvin, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, John H Evans, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Alan Gibb, Nils Erik Grande, Tony Healy, Hugh Henry, Ernest Jackson, Dave Malin, Nick Maloret, Greg May, John Palazzi, Jim Price, Tom Ruffles, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Dave Trevor, Carole Tyrrell, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, 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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