FT335

Fortean Times #335 (Christmas 2015)

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• Release date: 10 Dec 2015
• Cover: Etienne Gilfillan
• Zinio version

Strange Days

Nefertiti's secret burial chamber, false flag operations, the amazing world of MC Escher, tapeworms in the brain, crop circle drone rage, more school faintings, mysteries of Pluto, Norwich ghost photos, little blue men - and much more.

• 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
• 06 Special Report: The Amazing World of MC Escher by David V Barrett
• 10 Medical Bag
  • Something on His Mind
  • Human Chimaeras
  • Going Dental
  • Under a Cloud
• 12 The Church Sign of Guilderland, New York by Steve Marshall
• 14 Science: Pluto, Planet of Mystery by David Hambling
• 16 Archaeology by Paul Sieveking
  • Steppe Geoglyphs
  • Child-Killing Carthaginians
• 17 Classical Corner - 194: Dave Spart-acus? by Barry Baldwin
• 18 Ghostwatch: Norwich Ghost Photos by Alan Murdie
• 21 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
  • Daedalus Sea Serpent Denouement?
  • New Mokele-Mbembe Expedition
  • A Giant Galapagos Surprise
• 22 Fortean Follow-ups
  • Simon Says FT288:4, FT330:23
  • Bogus Social Workers FT315:24
  • Vexing Hexes FT279:22
  • Shrouded in Mystery FT324:24, etc.
  • Crows Bearing Gifts FT329:22-23
• 23 Mythconceptions - 95: Arise, Sir Fortean by Mat Coward
• 24 Necrolog
  • Geoffrey Brindley
  • David Raup
  • Bernard D'Espagnat
• 25 Fairies and Folklore: Tripping Witches by Simon Young
• 25 The UFO Files
  • Flyingsaucery by Andy Roberts and Dr David Clarke
    • It's a Bonny Day for UFOs!
    • The Cracks are Showing
    • Sheer Lunacy?
    • It's the Little Blue Man!
  • UFO Casebook: Time and a Word (or Two) by Jenny Randles

Contents

• 06 Blowing Your Mind's Eye - The amazing world of MC Escher
• 04 A Tomb Fit for a Queen? - Nefertiti's secret burial chamber
• 72 It Happened to Me - Encounters with the shadow people
• 74 A Death Road in Kyoto - Pilgrims and portals to the Underworld
• 36 Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane - Sex, scandal and the supernatural

Features

28 The Most Haunted House in London (cover story)
According to its Wikipedia entry, it is the most haunted property in London - but have the garbled tales of ghosthunters and the advert of the Internet added too many layers of legend to the real story? Jan Bondeson goes in search of the truth about 50 Berkeley Square.

36 A Haunting on Scandal Street: The Cock Lane Ghost Revisited
Roger Clarke delves into the background of a notorious 18th-century haunting and finds that with its emphasis on sex, the supernatural and the seamy side of London life, the story of the Cock Lane ghost was in many ways a precursor to every tabloid sensation since...

42 Nightmare Before Christmas: The Strange Disappearance of Oliver Lerch
On Christmas Eve 1889, Oliver Lerch went out to fetch some water from the well and was never seen again, his cries of terror echoing in the night skies... Theo Paijmans and Chris Aubeck turn literary detectives and attempt to trace this enduring weird tale back to its ultimate source.

Reports

48 Building a Fortean Library - No 6. Dying to know more by The Hierophant's Apprentice

74 Fortean Traveller - No 105. A death road in Kyoto by John Billingsley

Forum

51 Well, they would, wouldn't they? by Stu Neville

52 Visions of the inner eye by Ted Harrison

54 They came from the shadows by Nick Parkins

Regulars

02 Editorial

• Bookshop ghosts and library angels
  • The Haunting Season
  • Building a Fortean Library
  • Cartoon by Martin Ross

79 Phenomenomix

• (a rotten gag) by Hunt Emerson and Nils Erik Grande

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
• Clipping Credits
  • Richard Alexander, Gerard Apps, David V Barrett, James Beckett, Rob Chambers, Peter Christie, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Graham Cordon, Mat Coward, Mike Dash, Kate Eccles, JD Evans, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Richard George, Alan Gibb, Anne Hardwick, Hugh Henry, Nigel Herwin, Colin Ings, Dave Malin, Bert Gray-Malkin, Betty Gray-Malkin, Nick Maloret, Tom Mason, Greg May, John Palazzi, Tom Ruffles, Steve Scanlon, Jonathan Sibley, Ron Stewart, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Dave Trevor, Nicholas Warren, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, Janet Wilson, Gary Yates

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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