FT319

Fortean Times #319 (October 2014)

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• Release date: 18 September 2014
• Cover: Archive image/Etienne Gilfillan
• Zinio version

Strange Days

China's killer Christian cult, flying wizard crash lands, plagues ancient and modern, Tsunami girl returns, strange tastes and weird phobias, monkey gland cocktails, Holy Grail news, Europe's dirtiest man - and much more.

• 10 Medical Bag
  • Paperback Biter
  • Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
  • Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
  • Cataplexy
  • Chloephobia
  • Diaphragmatic Hernia/Hair Brushing Syndrome
• 14 Science: Monkey Glad Cocktails by David Hambling
• 16 Archaeology by Paul Sieveking
  • Moving Pyramid Stones
  • Donegal Giant
  • Entombed Diggers
  • Celtic False Tooth
• 17 Classical Corner - 180: Beyond the Vicar of Dibley by Barry Baldwin
• 19 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
  • New Call for Bigfoot Hair Samples
  • A Novel Search for the Thylacine
  • A Dodo-Related Liver Bird!
• 21 Konspiracy Korner by Robin Ramsay
• 23 Mythconceptions - 180: The Judge's Gavel by Mat Coward
• 24 Necrolog
  • Stephen Gaskin
  • Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (Diana Moore)
• 25 Fairies and Folklore: Winging It by Simon Young
• 26 The UFO Files
  • Flyingsaucery by Andy Roberts and Dr David Clarke
    • The Mark of the Devil?
    • Chilean Government Goes Fortean Over UFOs (or is that UAPs?)
  • UFO Casebook: Hoaxing Saucers by Jenny Randles

Contents

• 42 Stones in the City - The rise and fall of Glasgow's modern stone circle
• 54 From Mons to Mars - Machen, Burroughs and World War I
• 28 The Cat-Faced Woman - An unusual entity stalks the streets
• 06 Nightmares of teh 1970s - The photographs of Arthur Tress
• 76 Voodoo Market - Shopping for fetishes in Togo

Features

30 London's Haunted Murder Houses, Part Two (Cover Story)
London is full of properties that once witnessed bloody murders and subsequent hauntings. Some have vanished, some still stand, but their vioolent histories are largely forgotten. In the second part of his investigation, Jan Bondeson goes in search of some of the bloodiest addresses of the great metropolis.

40 The New 'Spirit' of Scotland
Brian J Robb talks to movie producer Peter Broughan about the inaugural Scottish Paranormal Festival, set to spook Stirling this Hallowe'en.

42 Stones in the City
Why is there a megalithic circle in the middle of a half-demolished Glasgow housing estate? Who created it, and why? John Reppion talks to Duncan Lunan about the rise and fall of one of modern Scotland's strangest public building projects: the Sighthill Stone Circle.

Reports

28 Blasts from the Past - No 53. The Cat-faced Woman of East Florence

48 Dictionary of the Damned - No 57. Abduction by aliens, part two

76 Fortean Traveller - No 96. Lome's Voodoo Market, Togo

Forum

53 The Hunting of the Woggle by Rob Gandy

54 Bowmen of Mons and Mars by David Clarke

56 Preserving parapsychology by Christopher Laursen

Regulars

02 Editorial

• North of the border
• Technical Difficulties

59 Reviews

• BOOKS
• FILM & DVD

79 Phenomenomix

• Strindberg 3 by Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson

74 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
  • 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, 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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