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Fortean Times #34 (Winter 1981)

• Cover price: 95p $2.50
• 56 pages (60 w/covers)
• Cover art by John Stalin

In Search of Dinosaurs + Phantom Hitch-hikers; Mystery Cats; Beached Whales; Ice Falls; Synchronicity

Articles

• 04-06 On Synchronicity and the Self by Dr Jean Bolen/Dave Fideler
• 08-09 In Search of Dinosaurs by Dr Roy Mackal/James Powell
• 10-12 Nicknaming those Aquatic Monsters by Joseph Zarzynski
• 14-16 On the Road Again by Michael Goss
  • Clipping credits: Martin Kottmeyer, Donald K Johnson, Bill Zeiser, Alan Gardiner, Paul Screeton, G M Gardner, Chris Holtzhausen
• 18-20 Strange Creatures in Powys by Janet & Colin Bord

Comix

• 07 Telly Kinex - JH Szostek
• 13 Facts You Might Forget - Pokkettz
• 28 Phenomenomix - Hunt Emerson

Columns

• 37-38 On the Trail by Loren Coleman
• 39-41 Words from the Wizard by Doc Shiels
• 41-43 Notes from the Trashkashic Record by David Fideler
  • Credits: Ion A Will for 'Trashkashic Records' and 'Suburban Shamanism'; Colin Wilson for justifiable paranoia; JR 'Bob' Dobbs for "Science does not remove the fear of the Gods."

Notes

• 17 Synchronicity - Nature follows Art by PRAdeGS
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Brian Hain, Chris Holtzhausen, Kurt Lothman, John Michell, Peter Rogerson, Sam, Paul Screeton, Doc Shiels, Dwight Whalen, Nigel Watson, Ion Will
• 20-25,36 Out of Place - 1980 Cat Flaps by RJMR
  • After the Barn Storm
  • Wolverhampton Wonders
  • And in New York!
  • Southern Sightings
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Peter Christie, Loren Coleman, Joan Elsmore, Peter Hope-Evans, Alan Gardiner, Chris Hall, J Lang, Paul Screeton, David Sutton, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, Ion Will, Steve Wrathall
  • Puma Sightings in Surrey by Chris Hall
  • Scottish Puma - Saga or Farce? by RJMR
  • Credits: Norman Adams, Janet & Colin Bord, James Chambers, Peter Christie, Brian Hain, Chris Hall, Peter Hope-Evans, David Houston, Alan Gardiner, Mike Rickard, Paul Screeton, Doc Shiels, Martin Straw, David Sutton, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, Roland Watson, Ion Will, J Lang, David Smith
• 26-27 Attacks - Animal Saboteurs by SM
  • Mass Attacks - Mice, Rats, Rabbits, Squirrels, Pigs, Rooks, Insects, Worms, Mackerel
  • Long Rangers - Spiders, Fish, Mice, Birds, Lizards, Cats, Dogs, Sheep, Deer, Moose, Horses, Bulls, Elephants
  • Credits: Paul Burd, Helen Coles, Chris Hall, GPL, Valerie Martin, Sam, Paul Screeton, Dwight Whalen
• 30-31 Marine Mysteries - Beached Whales by RJMR
  • On the Beach
  • Beachings - A Listing
  • Credits: Greg Axford, Lionel Beer, Donald Boates, James Chambers, Loren Coleman, Dave Fideler, Bob Forrest, Alan Gardiner, Paul Pinn, Sam, Paul Screeton, Ion Will
• 32-34 Falls - Ice Bombs by RJMR
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Keith Chapham, David Clarke, Loren Coleman, Terry Cox, Michael Diamond, Dan Goring, Peter Hope-Evans, Bengt-Olof Liden, Henri Premont, Al Rosenzweig, Phyllis Benjamin, Simon Rowley, Sam, Jeff Saward, Paul Screeton, Paula Simons, David Sutton, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend
• 35 Dooms - Inept Crimes by PRAdeGS
  • American Disasters
  • British Bunglers
  • Tartan Terror
  • Toy Gun Antics
  • Safe Work
  • Fingered
  • Caught Napping
  • The Florida Bum
  • Mugger Ruins Suicide
  • Carry on Spying
  • Credits: James Chambers, J Chetwynd, Judy Cordell, Chris Hall, Chris Holtzhausen, Sam, Andy Townsend, Roland Watson, Dwight Whalen

Usual Stuff

• 01,56 Editorial
• 52 Classified Exchange
• 54 News
  • Book News
  • Pamphlet News
  • Periodicals
  • Meetings Etc
• 55 Help!
• 56 Truss Fund (donations) - David Appleton, Sid Birchby, Miss M Carruthers, Nick Cohn, Tim Dinsdale, Hilary Evans, Michael Ferrier, Alan Gardiner, Dr Mia Gerhardt, Roger Gibbons, Mike Grayson, John Harvey, John Hitchens, Phyllis Hall, JP Kain, Kevin McClure, Graham McEwan, Olivier Pecquet, Steve Roberts, Tom H Sakai, Udo Schlegel, Raymond Sinclair, Stephen Spriggs, Paul Thompson, WK Vannan, Roger Waddington, Mike Ward, Douglas Watson, Judith Gee
• 56 Next Issue: Darwinism, Runes of Runamo, Photos of Christ
• 58 Subscription info

Letters

• 02-3 The Dark Gods Review (FT33p45f) - Anthony Roberts
• 03,43,44 response from Michael Anthony Hoffman
• 44 Golfball Rain? - AT Ryland
• 44-45 A Letter to FT Readers - Chris Hall
• 45 Pundit Panned - Stephen Wrathall, Mick Malloret, with editorial response

Reviews

• 46-51 Books
  • The Enclyclopedia of UFOs edited by Ronald Story - RJMR
  • Observing UFOs by Richard F Haines - RJMR
  • The Janos People by Frank Johnson - Nigel Watson
  • The Andreasson Affair by Raymond E Fowler - Nigel Watson
  • The Spiritual Nature of Man by Alister Hardy - RJMR
  • Shamanic Voices by Joan Halifax - RJMR
  • Primal Myths by Barbara C Sproul - RJMR
  • Incredible Coincidences by Alan Vaughan - RJMR
  • Agricultural Records AD 220-1977 by JM Stratton - Alan Gardiner
  • Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving - RJMR
  • The Interrupted Journey by John G Fuller - RJMR
  • The Book of Lists No 2 by Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Sylvia Wallace - RJMR
  • La Memoire Des Ovni by Jean Bastide - RJMR
  • Psi and the Mind by HJ Irwin - RJMR
  • The Paranormal and the Normal by M Leeds & G Murphy - RJMR
  • Gaia by JE Lovelock - RJMR
  • The Quest for Gaia by Kit Pedler - RJMR
  • A History of Witchcraft by Jeffrey B Russell - RJMR
  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R Hoffstadter - RJMR
  • Unknown Earth: A Handbook of Geological Enigmas by William Corliss - RJMR
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth by John Allegro - RJMR
• 51-52 Booklets
  • The UFO Cults by Weldon Burge - RJMR
  • The Parapsychological Impact of the Accident at Three Mile Island by Larry E Arnold - RJMR
  • Quantum Jump: Answer to the UFO Mystery by Peter Simon - RJMR
  • Celestial Dynamics and Levitational Force by Robert Morison - RJMR

Other

• 56 Crossword
• Inside back cover: Headlines - an occasional feature: No 1. Animal Attacks

Masthead

• Editor - Robert JM Rickard
• Editorial Assistants - Steve Moore and Paul Sieveking
• Contributing Editor - David Fideler
• Art Director - Richard Adams
• Comix Editor and section heading artwork - Hunt Emerson

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