FT325
Fortean Times #325 (March 2015)
- Release date: 05 Mar 2015
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan, thanks to Alexander Tomlinson, images courtesy Jan Bondeson
- Zinio version
Strange Days
New Norse temple, zombie cat, Groundhog Day man, world's oldest art, ghost boy, vegetable lamb, girls trapped in time, mummified monk still meditating, amnesia myths, bringing up Bigfoot baby - plus much more.
- 05 The Conspirasphere
- 14 Science
- 16 Archaeology
- 17 Classical Corner
- 18 Ghostwatch
- 21 Alien Zoo
- 23 Mythconceptions
- 26 The UFO Files
Contents
- 06 Winter Weirdness - Seeing in the New Year, Ukrainian style
- 14 Baffling Blazes - Cases of spontaneous combustion
- 44 The Ghost Hunter's Daughter - Who you gonna call? Alexandra Holzer!
- 74 Goddess and Monsters - Looking for the Cretan labyrinth
- 12 Miracle Moggy - The cat who came back from the grave
Features
28 The Fat Boy of Peckham (cover story)
As an epidemic of childhood obesity sweeps the developed world, Jan Bondeson explores a vanished age in which corpulent youngsters were treated neither as villains nor victims but celebrated as prodigies in the music halls and sideshows. Meet Johnny Trunley and his rotund rivals...
36 Dali and the Overweight Ghosts
SD Tucker explores an alarming outbreak of morbid obesity amongst 1930s ghosts, and finds Salvador Dali's bizarre explanations involving Adolf Hitler's fat back and Napoleon's edible trousers rather hard to stomach.
40 The Black Ball
In 1975 an enigmatic object was found in Ukraine - the so-called Black Ball. The late Vladimir Rubtsov wondered whether this enigma wrapped in a mystery might be the long-hoped for "indubitable extraterrestrial artefact".
44 The Ghost Hunter's Daughter
As an all-female remake of Ghostbusters is announced, Tea Krulos catches up with Alexandra Holzer, daughter of the man who helped inspire the original movie, to talk about discovering that your father was the most famous ghost hunter in America and honouring his legacy today.
Reports
48 First Forteans - No 12. Strange bedfellows
74 Fortean Traveller - No 98. Knossos, Crete
Forum
53 The Curse of Aaron Ramsey by Rob Gandy
Regulars
02 Editorial
- Fat is a fortean issue
- Fat Children and Obese Ghosts
- Slender Spectres
- Cartoon by Martin Ross
57 Reviews
69 Letters
73 It Happened to Me
79 Phenomenomix
- Carl Jung Part 5 by Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson
80 Strange Deaths
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)
- Clipping Credits
- Gail-Nina Anderson, Gerard Apps, David V Barrett, Louise Bath, James Beckett, John F Callahan, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Graham Cordon, Elizabeth Cumming, Emily Davies, Brian Duffy, Kate Eccles, John H Evans, Paul Farthing, Rob Gandy, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Alan Gibb, Benjamin Gleisser, Tony Healy, Hugh Henry, Colin Ings, Paul Jackson, Tim Greening-Jackson, Tony James, Richard Lowke, Diana Lyons, Bert Gray-Malkin, Betty Gray-Malkin, Nick Maloret, Greg May, John Palazzi, Chris Peat, Martin Piechota, Zvi Ron, Tom Ruffles, Matt Salusbury, Paul Screeton, Jonathan Sibley, Tony Smith, Nidge Solly, Paul Street, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Carole Tyrrell, Jebadiah Valentine, Nicholas Warren, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, Janet Wilson, Bobby Zodiac
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