FT177
Fortean Times #177 (Special 2003)
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- Release date: 18 Oct 2003
- Cover price: £3.20
- US Edition has a cover price of $7.25 USA (CAN $7.50)
- Cover: Alex Tomlinson
Contents
- 23 Thirty Years of Forteana - How our weird world has changed
- 18 Now It Can Be Told: A Brief History of FT - The inside story on the world's weirdest magazine
Special Features
18 Now It Can Be Told
Thirty years of Fortean Times. Founders Bob Rickard & Paul Sieveking look back at the publishing history of our esteemed journal.
23 30 Years of Forteana (Cover Story)
Our expert panel examines how the field has changed since Fortean Times was just a Rickardian brainwave.
Retrospective - Our Greatest Hits
Favourite features selected from FT's glorious past
34 The Flying Nun
A tale of translocation and religious rapture. Bob Rickard relates the story of Maria of Agreda.
42 Hair Today
Oriental dis-tress - Chinese hair-snipping panics as recounted by Steve Moore.
50 Horns of Plenty
The bizarre phenomenon of humans growing horns. Strange pages of medical history from Paul Sieveking's files.
56 The Runamo Runes
Archaeology or plain fantasy? Sven Rosen tells how even the experts can be led astray.
Irregulars
- 40 The Ninth Wave
- 48 The Monsters of Achanalt
- 49 The Phantom Diner
- 61 Fort The Philosopher
- 80 Treasures from the British Library
Strange Days
Even more things to do with a dead cat, a flying salmon plummets, plastic ducks go a-roaming, dogs show their tricks, burglars foiled in the act, man survives drilling and much more...
- 08-09 Extra! Extra!
- 17 Strange Deaths
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 Many fortean returns
Competition
- 33
Subscriptions
- 55
International Subscriptions
- 64
Reviews
- 65 Books
- 68 Film & DVD
- 70 Games
Letters
The strangest items from FT's postbag and our favourite simulacra pics.
- 75
Simulacra Corner
- 78
Comix
- 62
Coming Next Month
- Wright or wrong? - Rival claimants to the first powered flight
- The Dragon Project - Human consciousness and sacred sites
- The dowsing detectives - Paranormal policing in war-time Britain
- Fortean Times Issue 178 on sale 15 Nov 2003
Reader Info
- 71
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor/Anniversary Issue Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor/Anniversary Issue Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Junior Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Picture Researcher - Winnie Liesenfeld
- Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Contributing Editor - Ian Simmons
- Contributing Editor - Joe McNally
- Contributing Editor - Mark Pilkington
- Website - Alistair Strachan
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson