FT258
Fortean Times #258 (February 2010)
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- Release date: 7 Jan 2010
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated March 2010 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: Alex Tomlinson
Contents
- 40 The Pantheon of Modern-Day Celebrity Saints - How Elvis, Princess Di and Jacko have ascended into a rarefied circle of worship
- 49 Blood, Sweat and Tears - Visions of weeping and bleeding statues
- 32 The Puppet Master - The mind-controlled showbiz celebs
- 44 Solarcon-6 - Philip K Dick's FBI contacts
- 22 Swedish Lesbian Enclave Thrills China - Strange reports from the world's largest nation
Features
32 The Illuminati X-Factor (Cover Story)
Are we being programmed and manipulated through celebrity worship and media control? Are fashion shoots deliberately filled with occult symbols and the music industry run by inter-dimensional lizards? Richard Leon investigates a new form of occult conspiracy theory.
40 Michael, The King and Di
Ted Harrison welcomes the late Michael Jackson into the select pantheon of modern-day celebrity saints.
44 The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6
In an extract from his new book Science Fiction Secrets, Nick Redfern opens the FBI files on Philip K Dick to uncover a bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War in the United States.
Reports
30 Blasts from the Past - No 17. The Bendigo Spring-heeled Jack by Theo Paijmans
49 Dictionary of the Damned - No 31. Blood, sweat and tears
Forum
55 Alien abductions revisited by Peter Hough
58 Worlds in Collision by Patrick Harpur
Strange Days
Doing the zombie walk; meteorite hoax; organ-trading rumours persist; suicide case reopened after mediums contact ghost; Saturn's monster ring; photo uncovered of man who had an iron bar driven through his brain; Swedish lesbian town forbidden to men excites China; garlic mania - and much more.
- 14 Science
- 16 Ghostwatch
- 20 Archaeology
- 21 Classical Corner
- 23 Mythconceptions
- 24 Konspiracy Korner
- 26 Necrolog
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Subscriptions
- 54
Back Issues CD-Rom
- 60
Reviews
- 61
Competition
- 67
Letters
- 73
It Happened to Me
- 77
Comix
- 79 Phenomenomix
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
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