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Fortean Times #339 (April 2016)
- Release date: 31 Mar 2016
- Cover price: £4.25
- Cover: Shaunl/Getty Images
- Subscriptions: Fortean Times Subscription Website
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Contents
- 42 In the Land of the Chaneques - Adventures with Mexico's Little People
- 58 Where the Wild Things Are - Can a human become an urban fox?
- 18 Ghosts of the Tsunami - Foreign phantoms haunt Thai beaches
- 26 Return to East Gate - Early accounts of the Rendlesham Forest UFO
- 36 The Tell-Tale Eye - The last thing you see is your killer...
Features
28 The Eye-Spy Teddies of Albania (Cover Story)
Protective traditions intended to ward off the power of the 'evil eye' are found throughout history and all over the world - but do they morph and adapt to the events of recent history? John Billingsley travelled to Albania, where he found scarecrows and rams' horns displaced by cuddly rabbits and tatty teds - soft toys united in a struggle against the social changes wrought by capitalism...
- Sidebars: Evil Eyes in Architecture (photos of examples), Grilled Teddy Bears (such as on the front of garbage trucks), Evil Eye Online (how to ward off trolls?)
36 The Tell-Tale Eye
Jan Bondeson explores the history of one of the odder delusions of criminology: the notion that on the retinas of the recently murdered is captured an image of the last thing they saw - the perfect scientific evidence to catch a killer...
42 In the Land of the Chaneques
When Chris Pollard first moved to Veracrus State he was a confirmed sceptic. Since then, odd experiences and tales of close encounters with Mexico's little people have left him wondering whether the stone-throwing, trick-playing, child-stealing fairy-folk might be more real than he'd ever imagined...
Forum
56 In search of the Little Blue Man by Theo Paijmans
58 Where the wild things are by Charles Foster
Reports
48 Strange Statesmen No 10. American Psychos 3: Independents' Day by SD Tucker
52 Building a Fortean Library No 9. Paradoxography: forteana before Fort by The Hierophant's Apprentice
Strange Days
Britain's dullest men, auroral simulacra, alien sex fiends, Irish abductee, Yeti prints photographed, Thailand's angel dolls, pets that sniff out illness, black fox, deathbed dreams and visions, man/penguin love story - and much more.
- 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
- 05 Extra! Extra!
- 14 Science: The Great Art by David Hambling
- 16 Archaeology by Paul Devereux
- Once Upon a Time...
- By The Rivers of Babylon
- Womens' Rites
- 17 Classical Corner - 197: All Shipshape by Barry Baldwin
- 18 Ghostwatch by Alan Murdie
- Deathbed Dreams
- Ghosts of the Tsunami
- 21 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
- A Ghost with Eight Legs - Ghost Octopus
- A Blacker Shade of Dark #1 - Black Fox
- A Blacker Shade of Dark #2 - Black Coyote
- 23 Mythconceptions - 99: No Nobel by Mat Coward
- 24 Necrolog
- Binkie Braithwaite - Stephen Volk
- Edgar Mitchell
- Robert Spitzer
- 25 Fairies & Folklore: Goatsucking Hedgehogs by Simon Young
- 26 The UFO Files
- UFO Casebook: Rendlesham Forest Genesis Part Four by Jenny Randles
- 80 Strange Deaths
Other
- 04 Joao and Dindim: a love story - retired bricklayer and a Magellanic penguin
- 06 Images in the Northern Lights: God of the North and Great Green Bird
- 08-09 Never being boring... the Dull Men's Club
- 10-11 Alien Sex Fiends - women who claim to have had babies with aliens and Gerry Battles' abduction story
- 12 Yeti prints in Bhutan? - strange footprints on mountain side
- 20 Thai 'Child Angels' - Dolls with the souls of dead children called luuk thep and the more terrifying kuman thong made by necromancers
- 22-23 Sniffing Out Illness - Pets that detected illnesses in human partners
- Sidelines: non-extinct cranefly, faeces and urine collector, javelin sand boa, raccoon attack in Richmond District of San Francisco, half-sisters from South Korea reunited by job, Lars Monsen talks with dog through medium, owl on oil rig, Chris Massey, purple slime, moose shot at wildlife center, odd names, buggy name, wild pig living with cattle, water biscuit ovens flooded, djinn causing fires, forestry minister causes fire, Crowley house burns, man scared of spiders prompts domestic violence call
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 No Normal
Reviews
- 61-65 BOOKS
- Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories by Rob Brotherton - ISBN 9781472915610 - David V Barrett
- Giants on Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files by Jim Vieira & Hugh Newman - ISBN 9780956786517 - Noel Rooney
- Failure: Why Science is So Successful by Stuart Firestein - ISBN 9780199390106 - Mark Greener
- The Aztec UFO Incident: The Case, Evidence, and Elaborate Cover-Up of One of the Most Perplexing Crashes in History by Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey and Frank Thayer - ISBN 9781632650016 - Nigel Watson
- Bad UFOs: Critical Thinking About UFO Claims by Robert Sheaffer - ISBN 9781519260840 - Peter Brookesmith
- Swarm Troopers: How Small Drones Will Conquer the World by David Hambling - ISBN 9781942761747 - Andrew May
- Also Received
- In Search of Lake Monsters by Peter Costello - ISBN 9781938398322
- Delusions in Science and Spirituality: The Fall and Rise of the Standard Model and the Rise of Knowledge from Unseen Worlds by Susan B Martinez - ISBN 9781591431985
- Paranormal Petersburg by Pamela K Kennedy - ISBN 9780764349423
- Lightning: Nature and Culture by Derek M Elsom - ISBN 9781780234960
- The Reincarnation of Giordano Bruno by Terry Emm - ISBN 9781516825899
- Our Holographic World by Anthony Milne - ISBN 9781857568271
- Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su - ISBN 9781844038039
- 66-68 FILM & DVD
- The Passing directed by Gareth Bryn, Wales 2015 - Julie McNamee
- The Brand New Testament directed by Jaco van Doemael, Belgium 2015 - Etienne Gilfillan
- The Enfield Haunting directed by Kristoffer Nyholm, UK 2015 - David V Barrett
- Harry Price - Ghosthunter directed by Alex Pillai, UK 2015 - Christopher Josiffe
- Black Cats directed by Lucio Fulci and Sergio Marino, Italy 1972/1981 - Peter Laws
- The Reverend's Review by Reverend Peter Laws
- American Horror Project, Vol 1 directed by Matt Climber, Christopher Speeth, Robert Allan Schnitzer Cooper, US 1973-76
- Shorts
- Sinister 2 - Entertainment One - Daniel King
- The Carrier - Altitude Film Entertainment - DK
- Contracted Phase II - Primal Screen - DK
Letters
- 73 Pagan Ritual - Paul Giamatti, Brooklyn, New York
- 73 Lovecraft's version - Ulrich Magin, Hennef, Germany
- 73 Reader Survey - Tania Thomas, by email
- 73 Black widow spiders - John Aho, North Mankato, Minnesota
- 73 Ether & dark matter - Kurt Lothman, Houston, Texas
- 73 Toynbee tiles - Simon Bickerdike, by email
- 73 Entombed blackbird - Isobel Horsburgh, East Boldon, Tyne & Wear (there is an editor response)
- 74 UMMO strikes again! - Luis R Gonzalez, Malaga, Spain
- 74 Pull the other one - Duncan Kaiser, by email
- 74-75 Lure of the dominant - Joseph Barnes, New York
- 75 Rachel's Challenge - Laura Gjovaag, Sunnyside, Washington
- 75 By Jove! - Chris Patterson, London
- 75 A minor oopart - Jerry Glover, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Simulacra Corner
It Happened to Me
- 77 The King and I - Nils Erik Grande, Oslo, Norway
- 77 Stockport hitch-hiker - Harold Weaver Smith, Offerton, Greater Manchester
Comix
- 73 Cartoon by John Robert Docherty
- 79 Phenomenomix: Faust Part 1 by Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson
Coming Next Month
- Star Whackers - Is a Tinsel-Town conspiracy killing off Hollywood stars?
- Mowing Devils - Crop circles and the hairy man of St Trinian's
- + Demonic Divorce, Gateway to Hell, Rural Monsters, and Much More... Fortean Times 340 on sale 28 Apr 2016
Reader Info
- 78 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 & Colin Bord
- Fort Sorters (who classify clippings placed in the Archives for Fortean Research)
- Clipping Credits
- Gerard Apps, David V Barrett, Louise Bath, James Beckett, Peter Christie, Terry Colvin, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, John H Evans, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Alan Gibb, Nils Erik Grande, Tony Healy, Hugh Henry, Ernest Jackson, Dave Malin, Nick Maloret, Greg May, John Palazzi, Jim Price, Tom Ruffles, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Dave Trevor, Carole Tyrrell, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, Janet Wilson, Gary Yates, 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