FT245
Fortean Times #245 (February 2009)
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- Release date: 08 Jan 2009
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated March 2009 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan and Danielle Vallee
Contents
- 30 The Dyatlov Pass Incident - Nine Soviet skiers were killed in a remote region by "an unknown force"
- 38 Night People - The exotic and mysterious world of the sleepwalker
- 44 The Van Meter Monsters - Flying creatures in the USA
- 76 Ghosts of the GDR - A visit to the haunting underbelly of East Berlin
- 46 The Gabriel Feather - Sacred relic or rare plume?
Features
30 The Dyatlov Pass Incident (Cover Story)
Fifty years ago this February, nine young Russian skiers set out on a doomed expedition to the Ural Mountains that ended in their mysterious deaths due to "an unknown force". Svetlund Osadchuk and Kevin O'Flynn investigate a chilling case that remains unsolved.
38 Night People
In the 18th and 19th centuries, sleepwalkers often seemed to possess supernatural or visionary powers and were seen as but a short step away from the spirit world. Antonio Melechi looks back to the golden age of somnambulism.
46 The Gabriel Feather
A footnote in a 19th-century reference book prompted Dr Karl Shuker to begin an investigation into a hitherto obscure but fascinating subject: an elusive holy relic said to be a feather from the wing of the Archangel Gabriel...
Forum
55 Goodbye to all that by John Rimmer
56 The tallest story ever told? by Guy Lyon Playfair
Reports
36 Fortean Bureau of Investigation - No 96. Mass Monster Mash by Nick Redfern
44 Blasts from the Past - No 6. The Van Meter Monsters & others by Theo Paijmans
50 Dictionary of the Damned - No 25. Ghosts and hauntings, Part 1
76 Fortean Traveller - No 61. The ghosts of East Berlin by Mark Fernyhough & Heike Schneider-Matzigkeit
Strange Days
Where have all the acorns gone? Japanese knotweed invades; fish tableaux; new natural resources; the cat saviours; virtual reality encroaches on marriage, divorce - and also on crime; Mother Nature deceives the eye; the family who fooled all the art experts - and much more.
- 14 Science
- 16 Alien Zoo
- 18 Archaeology
- 19 Classical Corner
- 20 Fortean Follow-ups
- 26 Ghostwatch
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Subscriptions
- 54
Back Issues CD-Rom
- 58
Reviews
- 59
FT Book Offer
- 63
Competition
- 66
Letters
- 71
It Happened to Me
- 75
Phenomenomix
- 79
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 67
Masthead
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- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Staff Writer/Picture Researcher - Jen Ogilvie
- Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Design Assistant - Sophie Chery
- Web Editor - Jen Ogilvie
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