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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New issue on sale! Radionics; ghosts of Ely; Cat in the Hat school scare; Martin Luther’s anal Apocalypse; 9/11 remembered; Pluckley’s Screaming Woods; tech taxi terror; thylacine surprise; haunted tiki bar; Richard Dadd; Skinny Bob; Pétanque massacre, animal treks and more! shop.forteantimes.com

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University of Northampton @uninorthampton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do professionals in the #funeral industry report #paranormal experiences? If so, why does this happen? See Dr Cal Cooper's @forteantimes.bsky.social article for more. pressreader.com/uk/fortean-times/20261001/281496463137269 #parapsychology #funerals #psychology #thanatology

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fresh on the Haunted Generation site... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of the new BFI Children's Film Foundation box set. Magic marbles, escaped lions, scary Michael Elphick and PC Gareth Thomas on a steam engine. Salut @vicpratt.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/09/21/t...

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The Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Volume 6

Bob Fischer reviews the BFI's Children's Film Foundation Vol 6 DVD for Fortean Times

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New issue now on sale – at last! Richmal Crompton’s spooks and Spiritualists; uncanny experiences in funeral homes; Bigfoot corpse controversy; Green Lung interview; 1970s UFOs; wheelie bin obsessions; giant-sized Jesus; Superman fridge death; alien in the Pentagon; football curse lifted + more!

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're sorry to say that Fortean Times 475 is delayed due to a printer plant going out of business. Unfortunately, this affects both subscriber and newsstand copies. The new publication date is currently set for 9 Sept. If you have any questions, please contact hello@metropolis.co.uk

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Linz J-K @linzjk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@forteantimes.bsky.social ABC in Northampton

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New issue on sale now! Blackpool's Gypsy queens; art of the Golden Dawn; golden age of flying saucer movies; Andy Burnham’s Holy Hand; Hackney goat sacrifice; when GPS goes bad; BuzzBallz booze bird; wheelie bin mysteries; Chillingham Castle; science of farts; Adolf the Swedish Dwarf and much more!

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New issue on sale! In search of the Tatzelwurm; Black Magic and the Profumo affair; Pokémon evangelism; buried treasure folklore; wild boar go shopping; NYC Mole People mystery; Darth Cucumber; vaping squirrels; Yeti hand photos, Paul Screeton remembered + more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New issue on sale! Psychic animal football pundits; dead cat soccer curse; declassified UFO files; Near-Death experiences; Martian mummies; Crewe ‘doomsday cult’; frisky fairies; human trophy hunters; haunted hardware store; impossible staircases and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I know there’s probably a natural explanation, but this felt very #fortean. Saw these tadpoles today swimming in a vast circle (bonus photo of mass of tadpoles that look like a giant tadpole @forteantimes.bsky.social

A mass of tadpoles swimming in a circle in a large shallow pool.

A mass of tadpoles looking like a giant tadpole in a large shallow pool.

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Always a nice surprise when you’re watching an old tv show and see your employer @forteantimes.bsky.social #supernatural

A screenshot of Supernatural showing a character holding a copy of Fortean Times

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

WEST COUNTRY TALES: MISS CONSTANTINE (1982) Marvellously creepy anthology from BBC South West. Each episode was based on real-life stories sent in by viewers, like a dramatised version of @forteantimes.bsky.social 'It Happened To Me' pages. Here, a dear old lady is plagued by ghostly intruders...

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New issue on sale! Woodland witches, folklore favourites, Britain's oldest ghost, Wycombe Wyrm, Nick Pope remembered, return of the penis thieves, Epstein UFO files, flying pig, tool-using animals, missing scientists, female shaman vs the Nazis, and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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Steg68 @steg68.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

TWO @forteantimes.bsky.social this month so an extra special folklore treat! Still the best magazine in the world 🙂

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Make sure your weekend is a weird one! Our latest Fortean Times Special Collection is in shops now, or order a copy at: shop.forteantimes.com/product/folk...

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Beltane Blessings. @forteantimes.bsky.social are bringing out a bumper Folklore issue, and my first ever professionally published piece of writing is in it! Way back in the summer of 2004, my article on The Childe of Hale - first appeared in FT and now it's back! www.moorereppion.com/fortean-time...

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Fortean Times Folklore Special | moorereppion

Way back in the mists of time, the very first piece of writing I ever had published professionally appeared in Fortean Times #187. Back in the summer of 2004, my article on John Middleton - The Childe...

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

And we also have a special offer for you! Pre-order now using code FTFOLK20 to get 20% off your pre-order. This offer is valid until next Wednesday – don’t miss out: shop.forteantimes.com/product/folk...

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day! And if you're looking forward to a weekend of Jack in the Green, maypoles and morris dancers, then you'll definitely want to pick up a copy of our latest folktastic FT special collection, which goes on sale next week – here's a sneak peek to whet your appetite!

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Jamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Some snaps from the @forteanlondon.bsky.social event this afternoon including @tetzoo.bsky.social up on stage talking about sea creatures and Andy and me on Bigfooting @forteantimes.bsky.social

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I love @marghjenkin.bsky.social's films, I'm still having fun solving the temporal jigsaws of 'Enys Men'. His new film, 'Rose of Nevada', is equally great and it was lovely to chat again for @forteantimes.bsky.social... timeslips, pre-internet mystery and New Fast Automatic Daffodils. Out now!

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Matt Stanhope @mattstanhope7.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

What better way to round off a 12 hour shift than Yorkshire beer with a vintage @forteantimes.bsky.social??

Glorious Yorkshire ale accompanied by a 1998 Fortean Times with a mystery airship cover.

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My update on "Zwarte Piet" (Black Pete), Santa's blackface little helper in the Netherlands, and how's he's fading away - to be replaced by the more acceptable "Sooty Pete". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social - FT470, May 2026 issue.

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Two bylines in @forteantimes.bsky.social 470! 1st, my Forum article about how Paddington has become a very British psychopomp 2nd is my comics review column, where I review work by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @bigfootstudio.bsky.social & @paulcornell.bsky.social & others

The top of the page of the Comics and Graphic Novels section in Fortean Times, showing the cover of Golden Rage.

The title of the Forum section of Fortean Times, showing Forum, the title A very British psychopomp, and "Steve Toase observes the durious progress of Paddington Bear from afternoon tea to afterlife guide..."

The cover of Fortean Times 470 showing a crashed airship burning in a field.

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New issue on sale! Aurora UFO crash; Rose of Nevada; Ohio Bigfoot flap; Paddington the Psychopomp; disappearing scientists; superstitions on film; time-travelling Trump; tool-using wolf; AI killer; ancient opium use; supernatural winds and more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If you're in search of reading matter for the long Easter weekend, then don't forget that our April issue is on sale and absolutely jam-packed with fortean goodness!

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Some good news: Jonathan the tortoise is not dead and Mother Clanger has been reunited with her family after 50 years following a deathbed confession. Happy Easter everyone! news.canterbury.gov.uk/news/50-year...

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50-year mystery behind disappearance of Mother Clanger finally resolved - Canterbury Newsroom

The 50-year mystery behind the disappearance of Mother Clanger has finally been solved.

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New issue on sale! Finding Bigfooters; Cornish haunting; Hans Holzer’s Great British Ghost Hunt; Bevy Jaegers & the Psi Squad; I Married a Goblin; Dybbuk Box; Heaven’s Goat; ‘world’s oldest butthole’; Armenian Dragon Stones; Ghanaian Noah; Bigfoot porn & more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New issue on sale now! Erich Von Däniken's ancient aliens; cracking the Zodiac killer's code; Welsh folk horror; Hannen Swaffer & AO Spare; rains of ghostly coins; changelings in court; tapeworm diets; surfboard stealing otters; fairy fungus; new UFO docs & more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Strange Central 2026: Mysteries, Monsters, Ghosts, and UFOs Online and @conwayhall.bsky.social Saturday 18 April 10 am - 5 pm forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/02/stra... (1/8) @forteantimes.bsky.social

A flyer describing the event Strange Central taking place online and at Conway Hall on 18 April 2026 in London. Images include a Bigfoot on a red background, a sea-monster on a blue background, a coin with a UFO image and a flying saucer. Text is:

STRANGE CENTRAL
A day of Ghosts, Monsters, UFOs and Fortean Strangeness on 18 April 202o at Conway Hall, Holborn, London. Hosted by the London Fortean Society.
Andrew J Bartlett & Jamie Lewis and Darren Naish on seeking monsters.
Dominic Chorney reveals History's Weird Money: Treasures of the Occult.
Meanwhile… Alice Vernon, Ben Machell & Sarah Sparkes go Ghost Hunting in the Archives.
Mark Pilkington discloses UFOs and politics in New Trump America
David Clarke reveals the New Folklore of the Calvine UFO
Strange Central 2026: Mysteries, Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs
Saturday 18 April 2026 10 am - 5 pm
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Standard: £23, Student: £18,
Living Support: £15. Online is £12.
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Folklorist Icy Sedgewick on stage at Conway Hall on 22 November 2025. The stage is wood-panelled and Icy is in a green dress. Text on a screen says: "The most dramatic and awesome of all the boggarts.
A Frightful goblin armed with teeth and claws, having eyes as big as saucers, and loaded with heavy chains, which rattle and clank."

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Martin McGrath @martinmcgrath.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

From a round up of stories about unusual (or, perhaps, not *that* unusual) unfortunate insertions in this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social ... ...this could be the start of a dark reimagining of that old woman who swallowed a fly story.

Highlighted text reads:
“Reports seven-inch dildo inserted into rectum when it accidentally went too far. He attempted to use pliers to remove it. Pliers stuck too"

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The new Fortean Times is out, including my Fortean Traveller article on Druid's Temple in Yorkshire, a place that has hosted bikers, students, (possible) devil worship, and pet hermits!

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New issue now on sale! John Cowper Powys; ghosts of the Colorado gold rush; the Ditchingham Chicken Roundabout; 3I/Atlas aliens; puzzling pongs; Bigfoot's big butt; morgue mix-ups; raccoon rampage; talking plants; phantom boobs; folklore of fibbing; toad-licking myths; Druid's Temple and more!

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Emma LH Ghost Catcher Isles @ghostcatcherisles.com · 20/01/2026

Thrilled to share my piece on the quirky Ditchingham Chicken Roundabout in @forteantimes.bsky.social And I’m on the front cover! 🫨 FT has been part of my life since I was a kid, sneaking my mum's copies under the covers. Grab a copy to learn more! 🐔 #forteantimes #ChickenRoundabout

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Get 2026 off to a properly weird start with our January issue! The occult origins of television; Martin's Devils; Viennese esoteric art; Fortean Pynchon; the Washington Stain; partying ghosts; Japanese bear wars; rampaging robots; werewolf arrested; baby vs snake; Antarctic mystery signals and more

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We're finally winding down for the festivities and wish all our lovely readers a wonderful Christmas! We'll leave you with a cautionary seasonal headline from the archive: SHROPSHIRE FAMILY HAVE CHRISTMAS DINNER RUINED BY FLUORESCENT GREEN TURKEY FROM TESCO, Shropshire Star, 3 Jan 2017.

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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Illustrious Eunuchs is definitely a band name. As is Phantom Twanger. Or Masonic Super Mario.

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our Christmas issue is now on sale! South Shields Poltergeist at 20; SAS vs Gnomes; Enys Tregarthen's Cornish tales; Europe's Yuletide spectres; Warminster Thing; Fortean TV 1988 Christmas Special; illustrious eunuchs; phantom twanger; Masonic Super Mario + much more shop.forteantimes.com/subscribe

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you're looking for a Hallowe'en gift for the witch, warlock or furry familiar in your life, we can wholeheartedly recommend our latest Fortean Times special collection... Available in shops or order online from: shop.forteantimes.com/product/witc...

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New issue on sale ! Colonel Fawcett's mystery beasts; lucid dreaming; Greek dream oracles; police vs panthers; Colin Wilson; Indian drone panic; haunted furniture; Etsy witches; flat-pack aliens; extreme fart horror; Nosher remembered and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.uk and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...

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The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk

An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.

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Steg68 @steg68.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Halloween is a good time for promoting @forteantimes.bsky.social in the newsagents 🙂

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

On sale now! Witches and Witchcraft: Stories of Sorcery, Spells and Superstition A new special edition from the archives of Fortean Times, with an introduction and commentary by historian of witchcraft Malcolm Gaskill. In shops now, or order direct from: shop.forteantimes.com/product/witc...

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