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Fortean Times #325 (March 2015)

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Contents

  • 06 Winter Weirdness - Seeing in the New Year, Ukrainian style
  • 14 Baffling Blazes - Cases of spontaneous combustion
  • 44 The Ghost Hunter's Daughter - Who you gonna call? Alexandra Holzer!
  • 74 Goddess and Monsters - Looking for the Cretan labyrinth
  • 12 Miracle Moggy - The cat who came back from the grave

Features

28 The Fat Boy of Peckham (cover story)
As an epidemic of childhood obesity sweeps the developed world, Jan Bondeson explores a vanished age in which corpulent youngsters were treated neither as villains nor victims but celebrated as prodigies in the music halls and sideshows. Meet Johnny Trunley and his rotund rivals...

36 Dali and the Overweight Ghosts
SD Tucker explores an alarming outbreak of morbid obesity amongst 1930s ghosts, and finds Salvador Dali's bizarre explanations involving Adolf Hitler's fat back and Napoleon's edible trousers rather hard to stomach.

40 The Black Ball
In 1975 an enigmatic object was found in Ukraine - the so-called Black Ball. The late Vladimir Rubtsov wondered whether this enigma wrapped in a mystery might be the long-hoped for "indubitable extraterrestrial artefact".

44 The Ghost Hunter's Daughter
As an all-female remake of Ghostbusters is announced, Tea Krulos catches up with Alexandra Holzer, daughter of the man who helped inspire the original movie, to talk about discovering that your father was the most famous ghost hunter in America and honouring his legacy today.

Reports

48 First Forteans - No 12. Strange bedfellows by Bob Rickard

  • Nandor Fodor (1895-1964)
  • Hereward Carrington (1880-1958)
  • Harry Price (1881-1948)
  • Eric Dingwall (1890-1986)
  • Raymond Cass (1921-1977)
  • Walter Gillings (1912-1979)
  • Benson Herbert (1912-1991)
  • Eric Needham (1921-1983)
  • MP Shiel (1865-1947)
  • Egerton Sykes (1894-1983)
  • Harry Turner (1920-2009)

74 Fortean Traveller - No 98. Knossos, Crete by Maria J Perez Cuervo

Forum

53 The Curse of Aaron Ramsey by Rob Gandy

Strange Days

New Norse temple, zombie cat, Groundhog Day man, world's oldest art, ghost boy, vegetable lamb, girls trapped in time, mummified monk still meditating, amnesia myths, bringing up Bigfoot baby - plus much more.

  • 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
  • 10 Medical Bag
    • Locked in Time
    • Paralysis Puzzle
    • Locked-In Syndrome
  • 14 Science: Bewildering Blazes by David Hambling
  • 16 Archaeology by Paul Devereux
    • Art Before Art
    • Ancient Saharan Swimmers
    • An Iron Age from Space
    • Amber Evidence
  • 17 Classical Corner - 185: Tete Offensive by Barry Baldwin
  • 18 Ghostwatch by Alan Murdie
  • 21 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
    • Mystery Monkey in Brazil
    • Giant Eel Measures Up
    • And the Lamb Shall Return
  • 23 Mythconceptions - 186: Who am I? by Mat Coward
  • 24 Necrolog
    • Anne Naysmith
    • Dennis Elwell
    • Charles Townes
  • 25 Fairies and Folklore: Fairy Circles by Simon Young
  • 26 The UFO Files
  • 80 Strange Deaths

Regulars

Editorial

  • 02 Fat is a fortean issue
    • Fat Children and Obese Ghosts
    • Slender Spectres
    • Cartoon by Martin Ross

Reviews

  • 57 BOOKS
    • Australian Poltergeist: The Stone-Throwing Spook of Humpty Doo and Many Other Cases by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper - ISBN 9781921134340 - Alan Murdie
    • Why Science is Wrong... About Almost Everything by Alex Tsakiris - ISBN 9781938398315 - Jerome Clark
    • Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen by Lena Herzog and Lawrence Weschler - ISBN 9783836548496 - Jerry Glover
    • The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of Return by Zecharia Sitchin - ISBN 9781591432005 - Chris Josiffe
    • Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map by Joseph Nigg - ISBN 9781782400431 - Karl Shuker
    • Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer - ISBN 9780712357715 - Karl Shuker
    • The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino: Understanding the Roman Games by Jerry Toner - ISBN 9781421415864 - Barry Baldwin
    • Yurei: The Japanese Ghost by Zack Davisson - ISBN 9780988769342 - Mandy Collins
    • Sci-fi and fantasy round-up by David V Barrett
    • Gather Yourselves Together by Philip K Dick - ISBN 9780575132542
    • The Fire Sermon by Francesca Haig - ISBN 9780007563050
    • Resurrections - Rhapsody of Blood, Volume Three by Roz Kaveney - ISBN 9780986008597
    • Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch - ISBN 9780575132504
    • Irregularity edited by Jared Shurin - ISBN 9780992817213
    • A Cornelius Calendar by Michael Moorcock - ISBN 9781473200746
    • Kane of Old Mars by Michael Moorcock - ISBN 9780575092525
  • FILM & DVD
    • X + Y - Director Morgan Matthews, UK 2015 - Mark McConnell
    • Predestination - Directed by Spierig Brothers, Australia 2014 - Fohnjang Ghebdinga
    • Ganja and Hess - Director Bill Gunn, US 1973 - Daniel King
    • The Changes - Director John Prowse, UK 1975 - David V Barrett
    • The Reverend's Review by Reverend Peter Laws
    • Big Finish Productions
    • Shorts
    • Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead - Entertainment One - DK
    • Where the Devil Hides - Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment - DK
    • Dark House - Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment - DS

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