Fortean Times

Fortean Times chronicles the stranger side of life, delivering a heady mix of weird world news, up-to-date reports and features on every aspect of the unexplained: myths, monsters, ghosts and UFOs rub shoulders with ancient wonders and future science, while expert columnists bring you the latest on everything from cryptozoology to conspiracy theory. Open-minded, well informed and maintaining a healthy sense of humour, Fortean Times is the only place to go for a sensible look at our mad planet – it will change the way you see the world.

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WIN! THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN • LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITION 4K ULTRA HD & BLU-RAY

FOLKLORE FINDINGS • First results of the National Folklore Survey offer insights into contemporary beliefs

HOLY SHIT! • Judgement Day is delayed, Thai monks are mired in scandal and Palantir boss takes on the Antichrist

SIDELINES

ANIMAL PLANET • Chimps and raccoons take to drink while pelicans plummet from the skies

BEAR-FACED CHEEK • Ursine invader busted in California ice cream parlour

THE CONSPIRASPHERE • One of the many mysteries surrounding the ‘J6’ protests of 2021 has recently resurfaced in conspiracy circles. NOEL ROONEY follows its journey from the memory hole to the rabbit hole…

CLASSICAL CORNER • 317: NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS

STRANGE DAYS FESTIVAL 2025 • RUTH MORRIS gets off the sofa and goes wild in the country

Wild riders and noisy ghosts • ALAN MURDIE gets into the Christmas spirit with a gallop through Europe’s ghostly traditions

ALIEN ZOO • KARL SHUKER asks if praying mantises are colonising the UK and hears tales of giant spiders

STRANGE CONTINENT • ULRICH MAGIN presents his regular round-up of the weirdest news from across Europe

FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS • Further strange developments in stories previously reported in the pages of FT

MYTHCONCEPTIONS • 297: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN CHRISTMAS

OUT OF THE HEAVENS • Plummeting space debris or meteorite hits? Stuff falling from skies has been doing some serious damage of late

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE • Is extrasolar object 3I/ATLAS an unusual comet or an alien craft?

The Warminster ‘Thing’ at 60 • NIGEL WATSON revisits Warminster to celebrate the events that made it a UFO pilgrimage site

The South Shields Poltergeist 20 Years On • December 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the onset of one of the best attested cases of a poltergeist outbreak on record. It has been described as “one of the most violent outbreaks in British poltergeist history”, and the events that occurred left all that witnessed them shocked, bewildered and traumatised. Twenty years on, DARREN W RITSON reflects on his investigation of the South Shields Poltergeist.

SAS VERSUS GNOMES • BEN TIMBERLAKE explains how a soldier’s hallucination in the Welsh woods led him to re-examine a theory that fungi might be behind our ghost stories, religious visions, and things that go bump in the night…

Enys Tregarthen The Forgotten Folklorist • LALLY MACBETH uncovers the life and work of the writer Nellie Slogget, aka Enys Tregarthen, whose books brought to life the lore and landscape of her native North Cornwall for young readers, despite being spurned by the folklore establishment.

FORTEAN TV REVISITED CHRISTMAS SPECIAL • In 1997 and 1998, Channel 4 viewers were treated to a television version of Fortean Times in which REV LIONEL FANTHORPE presented “a celebration of the miraculous, the mysterious and the downright weird”. Join RYAN SHIRLOW as he concludes his series rewatch with a look at Fortean TV’s last hurrah – the 1998 Christmas Special…

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