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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2014 15:27:31 GMT
Various Fortean favourites Bob Rickard & Paul Sieveking (eds.) - Fortean Times: The Journal of Strange Phenomena #131 (John Brown Ltd, Feb. 2000) Alex Howe
Featured articles:
Robert Irving - Capturing The Spirit: Exploring Ghostly Images In Photography. Bob Bartholemew - Phantom Menace. Investigating Attacks By "Mad Gassers" In Virginia. Gloria Moss - Sects, Drugs And Rotten Scrolls: Was Qumran A Hospital? ... plus usual weirdness, including the joys of necrophilia and amputee fetishism, bizarre deaths, "exploding rats win the war', strange cults, "grow yourself a new brain,' book, film and magazine reviews. readers' letters and the latest hoax-busting, fraud-fingering communique from mystery columnist, Hierophant. Personal favourite item from this issue, Bob Bartholemew's investigation of a case of mass hysteria in Fincastle, Boteford County, Virginia, between Christmas 1933 and February 1934 when a small rural community lived in fear of a gas-throwing bogeyman manufactured from their own fear and paranoia. Mr. Bartholemew draws on similar instances of "Mad Gassers and Mystery slashers: the Terrorists from the Twilight Zone" who may or may not have existed, to whom we might add such panic-raisers as the Sheffield Ghost, Spring-heeled Jack, and the Gorbals, Tower Hamlets, Abney Park Cemetery & Co. 'vampires' (the latter almost certainly either a member or fan of the Medieval Babes who'd recently performed a secret set in the grounds to an audience of Goths, wannabe undeads and, evidently, the local tramp community). Fortean Times# 87 (June 1996) Cover artwork: Nun - Haxan c.1922 AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI: Tentacles - Planet Earth Productions See The Ups & Downs of a Satanic SurvivorFortean Times# 80 (May 1995) Photo: Tim Flach Featured articles:
Paul Sieveking - Beasts In Our Midst. Recent big cat and phantom feline sightings acress the UK Ian Simmons - Viking From Hell: Varg Vikernes, Enonymous & the Norwegian Satanic Black Metal murders. Bob Rickard - Shooting Aliens: The not entirely convincing 'photographic evidence' of visitors from outer space. Paul Sieveking - Consumed By Vampires. Mercy Brown, the Rhode Island Vampire.... plus corpse-napping in Dallas, 'Spiders Colonise Hampstead', Pets in microwaves, Alan Moore reviews Phillip Sugden's The Complete History of Jack The Ripper, Stuart Coolie interviews Robert The Brentford Triangle Rankin, and Hierophant studies an illicit and supposedly pornographic Adventure Of Tin-Tin in which reference is made to our hero being buggered by a Yeti. Have quite a few of these so will drift up personal bests over coming days.
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 5, 2014 15:56:07 GMT
I still occasionally grab a copy of this - in fact I bought last month's one, mainly because it had the first part of a 2 part article on Rollo Ahmed that had a little bit to say about his relationship to Dennis Wheatley (mainly that Wheatley got pretty much everything he knew about "real" occultism from Ahmed). Great cover - Attachments:
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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2014 16:53:58 GMT
I still occasionally grab a copy of this - in fact I bought last month's one, mainly because it had the first part of a 2 part article on Rollo Ahmed that had a little bit to say about his relationship to Dennis Wheatley (mainly that Wheatley got pretty much everything he knew about "real" occultism from Ahmed). Great cover - Presumably those were the bits Wheatley had not swiped from Crowley, Montague Summers and even on one occasion, Peter Haining? Pretty sure this is the most recent issue I bought (i.e., not very recent at all). Fortean Times #256 (Dec. 2009) Dennis and all His Works Not that "the Journal of Strange Phenomena" had the monopoly on Fortean scoops. From the Sunday Sport for 19 July 1992 [/url] [/center] Rebel's body preserved in forest for 700 years ROBIN HOOD DIED CLUTCHING MAID MARIAN'S KNICKERS Hero snuffed it while having a Friar Tuck From ANDY SIMON deep in Sherwood
HISTORIANS were stunned last night after the body of ROBIN HOOD was found in a shallow woodland grave - clutching Maid Marian's PANTIES!
The ancient corpse was discovered by ramblers who stumbled upon what appeared to be a foot protruding from peaty soil.
But on closer examination the perfectly preserved corpse of Britain's most famous outlaw was revealed.
Next to the corpse lay the battered remains of a bow, and arrows in a quiver. A tattered pair of knickers in its left hand may have belonged to the flaxen-haired heroine of the legend, experts believe.
As news of the find in the depths of Sherwood Forest, Notts., filtered out, teams of excited archaeologists threw a tight cordon around the historic site.
Booties
They are attempting to piece together the last movements of the 5ft tall man - who was dressed in coarse green cloth - in a bid to work out how he died.
According to legend, the patriotic crusader - played by Kevin Costner in last year's blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - lived to a ripe old age before popping his booties at the end of the 13th century.
The last reported sighting was of a fit and active Robin celebrating what may have been his 87th birthday, fuelling the myth that he was fit enough to have been ON THE JOB at the time of his death.
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A pair of tattered KNICKERS were found being tightly gripped in the left hand of Robin's corpse.
And one expert who has already carried out preliminary forensic tests on the ripped lace fabric declared: "They look very much to be a pair of women's frillies from that period - we can all assume that they belonged to Maid Marian.'
"It appears from a rough size check that the knee-length knickers belonged to a woman with a fair size girth. They are not very sexy but they were probably a real turn-on for the men at the time.'Apologies for the quality of scan and lack of credit. The page was sent me way back in mists of time from a lady on a forum which has long vanished into the ether.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 5, 2014 16:59:20 GMT
A tattered pair of knickers in its left hand may have belonged to the flaxen-haired heroine of the legend, experts believe. I find science fascinating!
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 5, 2014 17:13:55 GMT
I still occasionally grab a copy of this - in fact I bought last month's one, mainly because it had the first part of a 2 part article on Rollo Ahmed that had a little bit to say about his relationship to Dennis Wheatley (mainly that Wheatley got pretty much everything he knew about "real" occultism from Ahmed). Great cover - Presumably those were the bits Wheatley had not swiped from Crowley, Montague Summers and even on one occasion, Peter Haining? Pretty sure this is the most recent issue I bought (i.e., not very recent at all). It seems Wheatley and Ahmed were genuine friends and met up on a fairly regular basis - whereas Wheatley didn't take to Crowley at all, and I don't think he liked Summers much either (not hard to imagine why).
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Post by dem bones on Aug 6, 2014 6:36:42 GMT
A tattered pair of knickers in its left hand may have belonged to the flaxen-haired heroine of the legend, experts believe. I find science fascinating! Too true. Hoorah for "experts" everywhere! Fortean Times #59 (Sept. 1991) Nick 'Spike' Davis Mike Dash on media fuelled greeting card appeals for sick and dying children, at least some of whom didn't actually exist. Bob Rickard on 'Acid Fiends' including the phantom squirter on the London Underground, and Terence Goodhew of Bethnal Green who was sentenced to five years for attacking young women's arses with corrosive fluids. He even set fire to one unfortunate woman's behind in a bus queue. Denis Stacy on the latest developments in the James Randi-Uri Gellar war of writs. Also 'Octopus Invasion,' big squids and marauding Kraken off the English coast: 'Mysterious Moggies: An ABC of Alien Big Cats,' and a souvenir photo of a Spanish bricklayer, crushed to death under a rock while in the process of molesting a hen. One-time Peter Hammill/ Van Der Gothic Gloom Generator collaborator Chris Judge Smith has a letter in this issue. Fortean Times #157 (April 2002) PA Photos/ Era Grim. The regular Strange Days column goes bloodthirsty with Killing For Satan, a detailed report on the murder of Frank Hackert by 'vampire' couple Daniel & Manuela Ruda. Meanwhile, the torso of a young boy is fished from the Thames opposite the Globe Theatre. Elsewhere Mark Pilkington asks "Does 'Pagan' now describe something akin to lifestyle?," the answer to which is surely 'yes.' Fortean Times #141 (Dec. 2000) Alex Howe Main Features Patrick Harpur - The Landscape of Panic: Fear and Loathing in the Great Outdoors. The Great God Pan - still scaring everybody out of their wits. Gordon Rutter - Away With The Fairies: The Facts and Folklore behind Fairy Rings. Are they really made by elves and pixies? David V. Barnett - Eastern Promise: Tales Of Travel in Eastern Foundation Myths. How travel broadens the minds of the ego maniacal and Messianic. Also Alan Murdie in search of Britain's headless phantoms, stowaway scorpions invade our supermarkets, enormous vegetables, etc.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 6, 2014 9:10:03 GMT
I'm helping Bob Rickard (founding editor of Fortean Times) out at the moment (along with 20 or so other people)
We are scanning all the back issues for a forthcoming index of the magazine.
Magazine has always been a favourite of mine since the early 1990's.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 6, 2014 13:30:19 GMT
I'm helping Bob Rickard (founding editor of Fortean Times) out at the moment (along with 20 or so other people) We are scanning all the back issues for a forthcoming index of the magazine. Magazine has always been a favourite of mine since the early 1990's. Ah, now there's a proper project. Well done, mr. the spurs! Fortean Times # 156 (March, 2002) Cover: Helkon SK Main Feature: THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES SPECIAL
Bob Rickard - The Mothman Special. The editor reviews Mark Pellington's then forthcoming movie. Bob Rickard - Mothman Cometh. The earliest sightings of the weird winged entity that spread terror through West Virginia. Rick Moran - Point Pleasant Revisited. Moran recalls his 1978 visit to the town of Point Pleasant, centre of the outbreak of high strangeness recorded in The Mothman Prophecies Doug Skinner - John A. Keel: A Biography. Doug Skinner - Lunch with Kee. Skinner, George Kuchar and Mamie Eaton chews the fat with the man himself. Plus a bibliography of essential Keelian books. Colin Bennett - Invasion Of The Doll People. The links between Keel's strange creatures, political assassinations and the culture of mass entertainment. Jerome Clark - Keel Versus Ufology. Keel's influence on ufology and his often prickly relationships with its central figures Tony 'Doc' Shiels - The Owling. Max Ernst, the Owlman and weird times in CornwallPlus; The return of Chupcabras the Goatsucker, Lost Nessie footage rediscovered, kinky criminals, Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo, etc. David V. Barrett very favourably reviews Gareth J. Medway's excellent The Lure Of The Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism, Kevin McClure annihilates John King & John Beveridges Princess Diana: The Hidden EvidenceI always preferred Owlman over Mothman, most likely because the former was home grown and therefore more chance of encountering it. However, there was at least one reported possible sighting of Keel's nemesis on these shores. From a Checklist of UK Vampires, 1600 - 1999 (Mutiny! Press, 2003) Winter 1963. Sandling Park, Kent. Teen UFO-spotters report a close encounter with what may or may not have been a Mothman, the winged phenomena noted for it's ability to take off vertically and hitherto regarded as peculiar to Beatnik - Hippie era America. This English variant is described by eyewitness Mervyn Hutchinson as a "humanoid bat" and "a tall dark figure; it was completely black and had no discernible head". John Flaxton, also present, will later back-pedal, controvert entire incident, when he decides they'd been deceived by a bizarre trick of the light and the nightmare figure was a scarecrow ...
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 6, 2014 17:14:51 GMT
merci beaucoup monsieur Demonik.
We do our best.
I believe the project will be available to the public once finished.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 7, 2014 9:55:47 GMT
Today's pair. A Premature burial primer and a Kidney bingo organ fun special. Fortean Times 138 (Sept. 2000) Alex Howe Are Coma and Seconds real? Was C. Birkin onto something with So Pale, So Cold, So Fair? Are children in Third World countries really snatched from the streets and robbed of their organs for the benefit of wealthy Americans? Where does the truth end and the urban myth begin? Benjamin Radford blows the lid on the supposed international organ-stealing racket. Also Mark Pilkington meets the Crop Circle artists, Gordon Rutter on "Whatever happened to the Amityville Horror?" and incontrovertible evidence that Dracula was a Derry man. Fortean Times 146 (May. 2001) Alex Howe Udolpho regular Jan Bondeson offers five fear-filled pages of Edgar Allan Poe action in the self-explanatory Buried Alive ("He jumped out of the coffin and jitterbugged down the aisle"). Gloria Moss wonders if Jesus's resurrection was enabled by a narcotic passed him via a sponge as he hung from the cross, and Doug Skinner revisits the lives and times of the inspiration for Chelsea Quinn Yawnbore's vampire count. Also, more Big Cat bollocks and early encounter with Gunter 'Mr. Plastinator' von Hagens and his corpses 'n resin sculptures. Morbid, much.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2014 8:11:58 GMT
Fortean Times #155 (Feb. 2002) Cover image: Ronald Grant archive. Image manipulation: Etienne Gilfillan Great cover but, as mentioned elsewhere - The 'Who was the Ripper?' issue - Nick Warren's round up of the leading suspects is slightly disappointing (though I like the 'Invisible Man' theory). Also: "Ufology's top crackpot" taken out by the FBI, The Salem Five exonerated, really fat domestic cats, the truth about Mama Cass and the ham sandwich of doom, "Is your brain really necessary?" (lets hope not) and a really tacky advertisement for a Txt-chat line. Fortean Times #140 (Nov. 2000) Mick Brownfield Featured articles Flip Coppens - Dogon Shame Richard Stanley: The Voodoo Diary Gary Lachman - The Mystical CountCommissioned by the BBC to film a documentary on voodoo in Haiti, Richard Stanley, a descendant of the legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, kept a journal of his adventures in the graveyards and citadels of Port Au Prince "where the faces of Stephen Lawrence and Princess Diana are as likely to be seen adorning the altars as the Virgin Mary" (the Blessed Virgin is a Fortean favourite). Funny, instructive and not a little creepy, Mr. Stanley's journal steals the issue. Elsewhere, Gary Lachman charts the life and weird death of Polish aristocrat turned Oriental wanderer, Count Jan Potocki of The Saragossa Manuscript fame ("Baron Münchhausen meets Marco Polo"). Also Bigfoot and Chupacabras updates, a panther attack in Monmouthshire, human vampires. python devours oil-worker while he's having a wank and "Cod eats man's head."
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 11, 2014 8:41:23 GMT
I got this one earlier in the year because of the Jack interest, but found it disappointing too.
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Post by ripper on Aug 11, 2014 10:40:12 GMT
I subscribed to FT in the early 2000s but haven't read an issue in over a decade now. I do regularly check out the FT site and forum, though I don't post there.
Just as a matter of interest, did the JTR issue point the finger at any particular suspect?
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2014 14:15:58 GMT
Just as a matter of interest, did the JTR issue point the finger at any particular suspect? Just the thirty-two suspects in Nick Warren's Ripper Who's Who ... (#155), though I believe casebook.org have since narrowed it down to everyone who was alive in 1888. Fortean Times #128 (Nov. 1999) Bob Rickard interviews Dan Myrick and Ben Rock, producer-director and production designer of The Blair Witch Project who enthuse enthuse over their influences, while Joe McNally lists a number of similarly influential 'mockumentaries' including Stephen Volk's notorious Ghostwatch. Roy Bainton on 'the Philadelphia Experiment': Was the USS Eldbridge really involved in secret time travel tests? Plus, a resourceful cult defies the Chinese authorities, Jaws spotted off the Cornish coast, African amphibian antics, and Ghost haunts Truro sweetshop' (it keeps moving the penny shrimps around). Fortean Times #145 (April 2001) Fairburn SR Jan Bondeson on the 'hog-faced gentlewomen,' reputedly all the rage with the seventeenth century public although many don't seem to have been pig-featured in the least. Adam Davies goes dinosaur-hunting in the Congo - sadly, no sign of Reptilicus - and Paul Collins on Solresol "the incredible universal language" (so how comes you never hear anyone speaking it in Kwik-Save). There's also a round-up of bollock-biting and penis-severing women. The ads are getting a bit full-on by now, with one page devoted to the new Beki Bondage album, another to Weed World: the Cannabis magazine, and a third to those tragic serial killer t-shirts ('Ed Gein Fan Club', 'Reverend Jim Jones - 600 Religious Fanatics can't be wrong,' etc.) as worn by total wankers the world over. At least there's the talking trout of Watford to take our mind off it all.
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Post by valdemar on Jan 25, 2015 8:37:44 GMT
Useless fact for today: The proper term for 'Amputee Fetishism' is Acrotomophilia. I had a rather odd friend, years ago, and this was, to quote Rowan Atkinson, 'The bag he was in to'.
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