FT284
Fortean Times #284 (February 2012)
- Release date: 5 Jan 2012
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated March 2012 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $17.30)
- Cover image: David Newton with thanks to Pippa
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Contents
- 26 The Paranormal Terrors of UnCon Late - A full report of what went on at UnConvention 2011... and its evening incarnation
- 40 The Subs of Loch Ness - From early hoaxes to recent research vessels
- 53 Skeptics vs Psychics - The Sally Morgan scandal
- 74 The Ghost Skulls of Bangkok - They look after the destitute and the unknown
- 76 Cat Woman of Rottingdean - A Victorian animal hoarder
Features
34 Scared to Death (Cover Story)
Were supernatural forces at work in Yorkshire in 1855 - with fatal consequences? David Clarke unearths the story of a Sheffield woman who died "from fright" following an encounter with a ghost. Was this truly a case of death by supernatural causes?
40 The Subs of Loch Ness
Jeffrey Vallance stirs the murky waters of Loch Ness as he dredges up the strange, submarine history of the lake's mechanical inhabitants.
44 They Came From Hollywood
Peter Hassall concludes his trip through the weirdest byways of cinema history, looking for feature films in which genuinely anomalous phenomena such as UFOs, ghosts or monsters have allegedly been caught by accident on film.
Reports
26 UnCon 2011 by Stuart Ferrol
32 Blasts from the Past - No 35. The fabulous flying men of 1880, Pt 1 by Theo Paijmans
48 Dictionary of the Damned - No 43. UFO crash retrievals, Pt 1
74 Fortean Traveller - No 77. The Ghost Skulls of Bangkok by Paul Koudounaris
76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 9. The cat woman of Rottingdean by Dr Jan Bondeson
Forum
53 Double standards? by Gordon Rutter
54 Our believing brains by Lawrence R Samuel
56 A time to remember by Rob Gandy
Strange Days
Nearest thing yet to Earth's twin planet; 'alien' kept in fridge; demon theatre; roadkill diet; animal oddities; unusual sex drives; mass fainting outbreaks - and much more.
- 12 Fortean Follow-ups
- 14 Archaeology
- 15 Classical Corner
- 16 Science
- 18 Ghostwatch
- 21 Mythconceptions
- 23 Alien Zoo
- 24 Necrolog
- 25 Strange Deaths
- 30 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Subscriptions
- 52
Reviews
- 59
Competition
- 65
Letters
- 69
It Happened to Me
- 72
Comix
- 79 Phenomenomix
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
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