FT268
Fortean Times #268 (November 2010)
- Release date: 14 Oct 2010
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated December 2010 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: Dave Needham
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Contents
- 36 Holy Terrors - An ordained Baptist Minister explains his lifelong fascination with horror films.
- 79 The Cryptid-Kid Investigates - The chilling tale of a werewolf & the Hexham Heads
- 54 The Abduction Trap - Budd Hopkins, artist & ufologist
- 46 The Greatest Ghoul on Earth? - Graveroobers raid PT Barnum's crypt
- 75 Skulls in the Landscape - Spooky simulacra
Features
30 Renovation Hauntings (cover story)
Despite a plethora of television programmes offering house makeovers or suggesting we undertake major home improvements, Peter A McCue advises that even modest DIY projects can sometimes unleash ghostly phenomena...
36 Holy Terrors
What happens when a lifelong horror fan becomes a Christian? Does he hide his copy of The Exorcist and burn all his HP Lovecraft books? Reverend Peter Laws confesses his cinematic sins and wonders whether horror and the Church have a shared history that means theology can be found in the bloodiest of places...
42 Mischief Night
Before the days of a commercialised and Americanised Hallowe'en, with its trick-or-treaters, there was an older autumnal tradition of licensed bad behavior. Chris & Karen Allen explore the mysteries and marvels of Mischief Night.
46 The Greatest Ghoul on Earth?
On the 200th anniversary of the death of the 'World's Greatest Showman', Michael J Bielawa offers a ghoulish solution to a mystery that followed PT Barnum into (and nearly out of) his grave.
Forum
51 A rhinoceros's tale by Jan Bondeson
52 Spider of blue, dilly dilly... by Karl Shuker
54 Budd and the abduction trap by Peter Brookesmith
Strange Days
Cardinal Newman is beatified; father chains up son possessed by a djinni; psychics hit and miss; memory plays tricks; hare escapes greyhounds; rosary saves soldier's life; fraudulent monk does a runner; record tumour and kidney stone; bullets linger on in the body - and much more.
- 14 Science: The Quiet Ones
- 16 Ghostwatch: Swimming Pool Spooks; Municipal Manifestations; Coin Apports
- 17 Mythconceptions: Tutankhamen's Peas
- 19 Alien Zoo: Trunko - Solved after 85 Years!; All at Sea about a Sea Monster
- 20 Archaeology: Vanish Fairy Forts; Puzzling Egyptian Connection; Take Your Pict; Runic Rhubarb
- 21 Classical Corner 130: I Am Lying, Egypt, Lying
- 22 Fortean Follow-ups
- 25 Konspiracy Korner: A Report That Avoids Fingering Conspiracy Theories' Real Origins
- 26 Necrolog: Fergus Gwynplaine MacIntyre
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
- Flyingsaucery: Brazil Nuts (Part 1); Brazil Nuts (Part 2); French Seaside Saucers
- UFO Casebook: Life With The Aliens Part 4
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 Seasonal Mischief
Reviews
- 57 BOOKS
- The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising by Kim Wagner - ISBN 9781906165277
- Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent - ISBN 9780199573400
- Utopia by Merlin Coverley - ISBN 9781842433164
- A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by JC McKeown - ISBN 9780195393750
- Angels: A History by David Albert Jones - ISBN 9780199582952
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach - ISBN 9781851687800
- The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable? by Russell Stannard - ISBN 9780199585243
- Overmodeled Skulls edited by Arthur C Aufderheide - ISBN 9780615296906
- BOOKS SPECIAL
- Patrice Chaplin: The Portal
- FILM & DVD
- Charlie St Cloud - Director Burr Steers, 2010
- Enter the Void - Director Gaspar Noe, 2009
- Buried - Director Rodrigo Cortes, 2010
- The Tortured from E1 Entertainment, Director Robert Lieberman
- 7 Days from E1 Entertainment, Director Daniel Grou
- Twelve from Chelsea Cinema
- GAMES
- Halo Reach
- Transformers: War for Cybertron
Letters
- 71
Simulacra Corner
- 75
It Happened to Me
- 76
Comix
- 79 The Cryptid-Kid Investigates
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Staff Writer/Picture Researcher - Jen Ogilvie
- Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Design Assistant - Chris Brawn
- Web Editor - Jen Ogilvie
- Work Experience - Darren Buck
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson