FT323
Fortean Times #323 (January 2015)
- Release date: 09 Jan 2015
- Cover: Kim Thompson
- Zinio version
Strange Days
Mystery bangs from North Yorkshire to New York, London hypno-heist, Burma's giant bell, Islamic apocalypse, ghosts of WWI, two-trunked elephant, resurrections, Jordanian rock rings, Portuguese angel hair - and much more.
- 05 The Conspirasphere
- 14 Science
- 18 Ghostwatch
- 22 Archaeology
- 23 Classical Corner
- 25 Alien Zoo
- 27 Mythconceptions
- 30 The UFO Files
Contents
- 34 Ghosts of the American South - Superstition, slavery and social control
- 40 I Sing the Mind Electric - Electromagnetic near-death experiences
- 06 American Grotesque - The photographs of William Mortensen
- 56 Pulling the Cosmic Trigger - Bringing Discordian drama to the stage
- 05 The Real Alex Jones - Conspiracy theorist or dead comedian?
Features
34 Ghosts of the American South (cover story)
The Old South was filled with folk beliefs and superstitions but in a society formed by the institution of slavery, ghosts were just as often a means of repression and social control. Jacob Middleton explores a forgotten world of haunted plantation and terrifying Night Riders...
40 I Sing the Mind Electric
Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs investigates esoteric and electromagnetic explanations for near-death experiences.
44 The Naked Truth
When he stumbled upon a mysterious engraving of a hairless hyene that matched no living specied known to science, Karl Shuker was intrigued; but did it show a vanished species, a genetic freak or just a mangy specimen? And how might it relate to other weird hairless creatures in the cryptozoological annals?
Reports
16 The Town at the End of the World - Dabiq and Islamic eschatology
32 Blasts from the Past - No 55. The cities of lost children
48 First Forteans - No 11. Ego rising: Arthur C Clarke
76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 36. The sleeping Frenchman of Soho
Forum
53 The myth of living fossils by Mark Greener
54 Nessie, Daughter of Kong? by Charles Paxton
56 Pulling the Cosmic Trigger by Ian 'Cat' Vincent
Regulars
02 Editorial
59 Reviews
71 Letters
74 It Happened to Me
79 Phenomenomix
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)
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