FT172
Fortean Times #172 (July 2003)
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- Release Date: 31 May 2003
- Cover price: £3.20
- US Edition is dated August 2003 with a cover price of $7.25 USA (CAN $7.50)
- Cover: National Cancer Institute/Science Photo Library
Contents
- 46 Ghost Ships and Maritime Hauntings - Tales of terror on the high seas
- 65 Nigel Kneale on DVD
- 22 Patrick Moore's saucerful of secrets
Features
32 SARS Attacks! (Cover Story)
David Hambling and Nick Warren on the hysteria and facts behind the latest modern plague.
Plus Konspiracy Korner: SARS conspiracies page 17
40 UnCon 2003
Merrily Harpur and Jim & Kiarna Boyd's diaries of high jinks and unconventional wisdom.
46 Shiver Me Timbers!
Roy Bainton recounts some notable tales of nautical hauntings.
Forum
55 Modernity's Vulgar Error - Ian Simmons on a gentleman and scholar
56 Huge Hype, Colossal Squid - Karl Shuker says it was impressive but...
57 In The Octopus's Tentacles - Kenn Thomas on a chain of odd events
Reports
38 Fortean Bureau of Investigation - No 51. Bewitched Teens - Mark Pilkington on Buffy's real-life sisters
76 Fortean Traveller - No 22. The Kunstkamera, St. Peterburg, Russia. Daniel Humpheries on Peter's bottled babies
Strange Days
Saddam and the UFOs, Old Man goes, combusting boy, African magic, cold fusion, deer in a tree, voodoo legalised, new religious movements, money pit for sale, and who needs brains?
- 05 Extra Extra
- 14 Science
- 16 Classical Corner
- 17 The Heirophant
- 17 Konspiracy Korner
- 18 Alien Zoo
- 22 UFOlogy
- 24 Medical Bag
- 30 Mythconceptions
- 31 Strange Deaths
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 The end, again
Subscriptions
- 58
Back Issues
- 53
Reviews
- 59 Books
- 64 Film & DVD
- 66 Games
Letters
- 71
Simulacra Corner
- 71
It Happened to Me
- 75
Comix
- 79 Phenomenomix
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Coming Next Month
- Posadas and the UFOs - A Latin American Trotskyite saucer cult
- Riding the deathline - London's Necropolis Railway
- Harry Grindell-Matthews - The man who built the death ray
- Fortean Times Issue 173 on sale 28 Jun 2003
Reader Info
- 67
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