FT334
Fortean Times #334 (December 2015)
- Release date: 12 Nov 2015
- Cover Illustration: Etienne Gilfillan from source material.
- Top Flash Image: Museum of London
- Zinio version
Strange Days
Floating city over China, phantom siren haunts Swansea, escapological mishaps, back from the dead, UFO outsider art, epic sneezathon, Mothman anniversary, knitted alien autopsy, history's earliest beheadings - and much more.
- 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
- 14 Science: A Pox on Both Your Houses by David Hambling
- 16 Archaeology by Paul Devereux
- Heads We Lose
- The Magnificent Five
- They Also Walked the Earth
- 17 Classical Corner - 193: Fat Chance by Barry Baldwin
- 18 Ghostwatch: Haunted Healey (& Co) by Alan Murdie
- 21 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
- A Meeting with Mothman
- Killer Vampire Squirrel No More
- Spider Surprise
- 24 Medical Bag
- Providential Rescues
- A-Choo!
- She'd Seen Enough
- Off With His Head!
- 25 Mythconceptions - 94: Inside Out Ovens by Mat Coward
- 26 Necrolog
- Ionel Talpazan
- 28 The UFO Files
- UFO Casebook: Life on Mars by Jenny Randles
Contents
- 32 The Case of the Headless Evangelist - Hex and violence in old Detriot
- 40 A Woolf in the Fold - The Bloomsbury set and Jack the Ripper
- 48 The Black Dahlia - Surrealism and the art of murder
- 06 Attack of the Giant Vegetables - A bumper harvest in more ways than one
- 18 Haunting Healey - Labour MPs vs the supernatural
Features
32 The Headless Evangelist (cover story)
In July 1929, the city of Detroit was rocked by the bizarre and bloody killing of an entire family. Benny Evangelist was an oddball sorcerer and self-proclaimed prophet - but why did someone cut off his head and slaughter his wife and children? Was it a case of magical murder or ritualistic revenge? ROBERT DAMON SCHNECK investigates one of the strangest unsolved cases in the annals of American crime.
40 Virginia Woolf and the Whitechapel Murders
A considerable distance, geographical and social, separated the elegant squares of Bloomsbury from the slums of Whitechapel, and yet there exists a curious network of connections between one of England's most celebrated novelists and Jack the Ripper, as THERESE TAYLOR explains.
48 Black Dahlia: The Art of Killing
Was one of the 20th century's most notorious unsolved cases a ritual killing of even a homicide planned as a work of art? BRIAN J ROBB examines the evidence in the shocking murder of Elisabeth Short, better known as the Black Dahlia.
Reports
22 The Crime Museum Uncovered - Inside Scotland Yard's Special Collection by Roger Clark
30 Blasts From the Past - No 60. The Monster Makers by Theo Paijmans
56 Building a Fortean Library - No 5. A trick, a treat, and some startled hares
76 Fortean Traveller - No 104. The Missing Lake of Guerledan
Regulars
02 Editorial
- Crimes and wonders
- Murder More Weird
- The $50,000 Rainbow
59 Reviews
71 Letters
75 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)
- Clipping Credits
- Richard Alexander, Gerard Apps, Louise Bath, James Beckett, Rob Chambers, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Kate Eccles, JD Evans, Sonya Flynn, Rob Gandy, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Alan Gibb, Hugh Henry, Ernest Jackson, Diana Lyons, Dave Malin, Bert Gray-Malkin, Betty Gray-Malkin, Nick Maloret, Tom Mason, Greg May, Martin Meeks, Steve Moore, John Morgan, John Palazzi, Adam Poole, Jim Price, Alan Rivett, Tom Ruffles, Meryl Santis, Stewart Shillito, Jonathan Sibley, Tony Smith, Paul Street, Frank Thomas, Nicholas Warren, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, Janet Wilson, Gary Yates, Bobby Zodiac, Zebbie Zubbeh
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