Fortean Times - November 2010 (gnv64)

Fortean Times - November 2010

English | PDF | 85 pages | 36.9Mb



Fortean Times looks at the worlds' wieldest news stories



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    

16 GHOSTWATCH    

17 MYTHCONCEPTIONS

19 ALIEN ZOO    

20 ARCW/EOLOGY    

21 CLASSICAL CORNER

25 KONSPIRACY KORNER

26 NECROLOG

27 STRANGE DEATHS

28 THE UFO FILES



Features

HALLOWE'EN SPECIAL

30 RENOVATION HAUNTINGS

Despite a plethora of television programmes offering k 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 behaviour. CHRIS & KAREN ALLEN explore the mysteries and marvels fctf 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



Regulars    

02 EDITORIAL        

56 SUBSCRIPTIONS    

57 REVIEWS    

71 LETTERS

78 READER INFO    

79 THE CRYPTID-KID INVESTIGATES

80 TALES FROM THE VAULT