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Fortean Times #34 (Winter 1981)

• Cover price: 95p $2.50
• 56 pages (60 w/covers)
• Cover art by John Stalin

In Search of Dinosaurs + Phantom Hitch-hikers; Mystery Cats; Beached Whales; Ice Falls; Synchronicity

Articles

• 04-06 On Synchronicity and the Self by Dr Jean Bolen/Dave Fideler
• 08-09 In Search of Dinosaurs by Dr Roy Mackal/James Powell
• 10-12 Nicknaming those Aquatic Monsters by Joseph Zarzynski
• 14-16 On the Road Again by Michael Goss
  • Clipping credits: Martin Kottmeyer, Donald K Johnson, Bill Zeiser, Alan Gardiner, Paul Screeton, G M Gardner, Chris Holtzhausen
• 18-20 Strange Creatures in Powys by Janet & Colin Bord

Comix

• 07 Telly Kinex - JH Szostek
• 13 Facts You Might Forget - Pokkettz
• 28 Phenomenomix - Hunt Emerson

Columns

• 37-38 On the Trail by Loren Coleman
• 39-41 Words from the Wizard by Doc Shiels
• 41-43 Notes from the Trashkashic Record by David Fideler
  • Credits: Ion A Will for 'Trashkashic Records' and 'Suburban Shamanism'; Colin Wilson for justifiable paranoia; JR 'Bob' Dobbs for "Science does not remove the fear of the Gods."

Notes

• 17 Synchronicity - Nature follows Art by PRAdeGS
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Brian Hain, Chris Holtzhausen, Kurt Lothman, John Michell, Peter Rogerson, Sam, Paul Screeton, Doc Shiels, Dwight Whalen, Nigel Watson, Ion Will
• 20-25,36 Out of Place - 1980 Cat Flaps by RJMR
  • After the Barn Storm
  • Wolverhampton Wonders
  • And in New York!
  • Southern Sightings
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Peter Christie, Loren Coleman, Joan Elsmore, Peter Hope-Evans, Alan Gardiner, Chris Hall, J Lang, Paul Screeton, David Sutton, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, Ion Will, Steve Wrathall
  • Puma Sightings in Surrey by Chris Hall
  • Scottish Puma - Saga or Farce? by RJMR
  • Credits: Norman Adams, Janet & Colin Bord, James Chambers, Peter Christie, Brian Hain, Chris Hall, Peter Hope-Evans, David Houston, Alan Gardiner, Mike Rickard, Paul Screeton, Doc Shiels, Martin Straw, David Sutton, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, Roland Watson, Ion Will, J Lang, David Smith
• 26-27 Attacks - Animal Saboteurs by SM
  • Mass Attacks - Mice, Rats, Rabbits, Squirrels, Pigs, Rooks, Insects, Worms, Mackerel
  • Long Rangers - Spiders, Fish, Mice, Birds, Lizards, Cats, Dogs, Sheep, Deer, Moose, Horses, Bulls, Elephants
  • Credits: Paul Burd, Helen Coles, Chris Hall, GPL, Valerie Martin, Sam, Paul Screeton, Dwight Whalen
• 30-31 Marine Mysteries - Beached Whales by RJMR
  • On the Beach
  • Beachings - A Listing
  • Credits: Greg Axford, Lionel Beer, Donald Boates, James Chambers, Loren Coleman, Dave Fideler, Bob Forrest, Alan Gardiner, Paul Pinn, Sam, Paul Screeton, Ion Will
• 32-34 Falls - Ice Bombs by RJMR
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Keith Chapham, David Clarke, Loren Coleman, Terry Cox, Michael Diamond, Dan Goring, Peter Hope-Evans, Bengt-Olof Liden, Henri Premont, Al Rosenzweig, Phyllis Benjamin, Simon Rowley, Sam, Jeff Saward, Paul Screeton, Paula Simons, David Sutton, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend
• 35 Dooms - Inept Crimes by PRAdeGS
  • American Disasters
  • British Bunglers
  • Tartan Terror
  • Toy Gun Antics
  • Safe Work
  • Fingered
  • Caught Napping
  • The Florida Bum
  • Mugger Ruins Suicide
  • Carry on Spying
  • Credits: James Chambers, J Chetwynd, Judy Cordell, Chris Hall, Chris Holtzhausen, Sam, Andy Townsend, Roland Watson, Dwight Whalen

Usual Stuff

• 01,56 Editorial
• 52 Classified Exchange
• 54 News
• 58 Subscription info

Letters

• 02-3 The Dark Gods Review (FT33p45f) - Anthony Roberts
• 03,43,44 response from Michael Anthony Hoffman
• 44 Golfball Rain? - AT Ryland
• 44-45 A Letter to FT Readers - Chris Hall
• 45 Pundit Panned - Stephen Wrathall, Mick Malloret, with editorial response

Reviews

• 46-51 Books
  • The Enclyclopedia of UFOs edited by Ronald Story - RJMR
  • Observing UFOs by Richard F Haines - RJMR
  • The Janos People by Frank Johnson - Nigel Watson
  • The Andreasson Affair by Raymond E Fowler - Nigel Watson
  • The Spiritual Nature of Man by Alister Hardy - RJMR
  • Shamanic Voices by Joan Halifax - RJMR
  • Primal Myths by Barbara C Sproul - RJMR
  • Incredible Coincidences by Alan Vaughan - RJMR
  • Agricultural Records AD 220-1977 by JM Stratton - Alan Gardiner
  • Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving - RJMR
  • The Interrupted Journey by John G Fuller - RJMR
  • The Book of Lists No 2 by Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Sylvia Wallace - RJMR
  • La Memoire Des Ovni by Jean Bastide - RJMR
  • Psi and the Mind by HJ Irwin - RJMR
  • The Paranormal and the Normal by M Leeds & G Murphy - RJMR
  • Gaia by JE Lovelock - RJMR
  • The Quest for Gaia by Kit Pedler - RJMR
  • A History of Witchcraft by Jeffrey B Russell - RJMR
  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R Hoffstadter - RJMR
  • Unknown Earth: A Handbook of Geological Enigmas by William Corliss - RJMR
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth by John Allegro - RJMR
• 51-52 Booklets
  • The UFO Cults by Weldon Burge - RJMR
  • The Parapsychological Impact of the Accident at Three Mile Island by Larry E Arnold - RJMR
  • Quantum Jump: Answer to the UFO Mystery by Peter Simon - RJMR
  • Celestial Dynamics and Levitational Force by Robert Morison - RJMR

Other

• 56 Crossword
• Inside back cover: Headlines - an occasional feature: No 1. Animal Attacks

Masthead

• Editor - Robert JM Rickard
• Editorial Assistants - Steve Moore and Paul Sieveking
• Contributing Editor - David Fideler
• Art Director - Richard Adams
• Comix Editor and section heading artwork - Hunt Emerson

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