FT305
Fortean Times #305 (September 2013)
- Release date: 20 Aug 2013
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated October 2013 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $17.30)
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan
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Contents
- 32 Crook Frightfulness - One man's battle against ventriloquial terror and mind control in the East End
- 48 The Art of the Witch - The enduring spell of the weird sisters
- 76 Joined at the Hip - Conjoined twins of the Victorian era
- 14 Unquiet Graves - Human remains and hauntings
- 58 In Search of Peter Costello - On the track of a lost cryptozoologist
Features
40 Strange Tales of Homeland Security (Cover Story)
Why would the US government pursue a campaign of terror against one of its own citizens? Robert Guffey recounts a strange tale of state-sponsored gangstalking, top secret invisibility technology and stolen night vision goggles...
32 Crook Frightfulness
A campaign of harrassment, intimidation and ventriloquism is revealed by its victim, an East End rent collector. Daniel Wilson revisits one of the strangest books ever published.
48 The Art of the Witch
The image of the witch has long fascinated artists, and as a new exhibition takes in 500 years of crones and cauldrons, Brian J Robb considers her enduring artistic spell.
Reports
30 Blasts from the Past - No 46. Cue the winged sea serpents
76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 24. Conjoined twins
Forum
55 Shadow of the Slenderman by Sharon Hill
56 The coming of the ultraterrestrials by Jerome Clark
58 In search of Peter Costello by Loren Coleman
Strange Days
Florida's Swedish-speaking amnesiac; ice from the skies and other unlikely falling objects; super-centenarians; runny nose horror stories; out-of-place animal corpses; Cheshire's silver spaceman; mystery macaw; Geordie Roman god; Satanic pony sacrifice and much more.
- 14 Ghostwatch
- 19 Alien Zoo
- 20 Archaeology
- 21 Classical Corner
- 23 Mythconceptions
- 25 Konspiracy Korner
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 04
Reviews
- 61 BOOKS
- FILM & DVD
Letters
- 71
It Happened to Me
- 74
Tales From The Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson