http://www.forteantimes.com/features/ The latest Features from Fortean Times UK en-GB Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:40:19 +0000 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:40:19 +0000 webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2176/aeronauts_from_the_future.html Witness accounts of flying platforms and rocketmen Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:51:01 +0000 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2239/truelife_encounters_with_the_paranormal.html Spooky stories extracted from the new FT book 'It happened to me!, vol. 2' Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:51:01 +0000 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2350/city_of_symbols.html While Dan Brown looks for Masonic symbolism in Washington, DC, we journey through Masonic London, on a trail that takes in Isaac Newton and Jack the Ripper, St Paul's Cathedral and Canary Wharf, conspiracy theories and occult forces... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:03:57 +0000 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/2323/edinburgh_festival_part_3.html Mentalism, serial killers and the Penguin Café Orchestra Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:05:36 +0000 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/2311/greetings_from_planet_gong.html As legendary cosmic rockers Gong prepare for a major UK tour, FT talks to band founder (and keen Fortean Times reader) Daevid Allen. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:48:47 +0000 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/1/the_wang_saen_suk_hell_garden_thailand.html An unnerving trip through Buddhist Hell Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/2/underground_paris.html Carolyn Waudby finds war, skulls and adventure when she descends beneath the streets of Paris. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/5/joe_nickell.html Paranormal investigator Nickell talks about his role as consultant on this new supernatural movie Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fbi/4/harold_berneys_contactee_scam.html Nick Redfern scrutinises one of the strangest UFO-related files ever opened by the US Government and finds a scam at the heart of the contactee movement. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/45/the_unarius_society.html Dean Bertram finds the Unariuns in good heart and recalls his encounters with Charles Spiegel, Norman’s successor, shortly before Spiegel died. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fbi/13/new_frontiers_symposium_canada_2006.html Nick Redfern reports from the first New Frontiers Symposium, held on 14 October 2006 at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Photos by the author. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/14/a_mystery_apparition.html The legend of Spring-heeled Jack enthralled Victorian London but, Alan Murdie finds, one of his most notorious and spectacular visitations was presaged by a mysterious apparition… Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/15/weighting_for_perpetuity.html In the light of recent claims of a working free-energy machine, Jerry Glover examines the story of the 18th Century inventor Johann Bessler and his remarkable perpetually moving wheel. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/37/iain_sinclair.html A meeting with the pioneer psychogeographer Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/24/of_rats_and_cats_and_suicide.html Is the age-old relationship between man and moggy one that has altered human consciousness through the agency of a tiny parasite that can change our personalities? Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/38/erik_davis.html Erik Davis' Techgnosis is an essential guide to steering your way through the clutter of circuit boards, crystals and wandering spirits that populate the late 20th century. Mark Pilkington spoke to him on a recent visit to London. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/39/robin_hardy.html The director of The Wicker Man talks about the film's enduring appeal Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/40/gary_lachman.html Born in 1955 in New Jersey, Gary Lachman moved to London in 1996. He has contributed to Fortean Times, Mojo, TLS, Bizarre, Literary Review and Gnosis. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/41/alexandre_philippe_and_david_marchiori.html David Sutton talks to director Alexandre Philippe and producer David Marchiori about their new documentary focusing on the evolution of the Klingon language and the people who speak it, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/42/dr_hal_puthoff.html Dr Hal Puthoff has been conducting serious scientific research at the frontiers of knowledge for over a quarter of a century. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/43/george_p_hansen.html Books about fortean phenomena tend either to examine the study from the cold, dispassionate distance of the sociologist, or from the blinkered, tunnel-visioned insider’s perspective of the believer or sceptic. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100