http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/ The latest Fortean Traveller from Fortean Times UK en-GB Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:48:06 +0000 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:48:06 +0000 webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk 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/fortean_traveller/79/the_bokor_palace_cambodia.html Tom Vater visits the spooky Bokor Palace Casino – Cambodia’s equivalent of the Overlook Hotel – and finds that the country’s crumbling colonial heritage is haunted by the ghosts of war. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/89/roche_rock_cornwall_uk.html Religious refuge, hiding place for star-crossed lovers and sanctuary from the hounds of Hell, Roche Rock haunts the Cornish moorland, reports Loic Rich. Photos by Katerina Boijer. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/98/budapest_hungary.html It's 50 years since Russian tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the 1956 uprising. David Sutton visited a battle-scarred city of caves, churches, spas and statues. Photos by the author. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/99/the_gog_magog_hills_uk.html Simon Price visited East Anglia's only 'mountains' in search of TC Lethbridge's mysterious hill figures and the real site of the Trojan wars. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/108/up_helly_aa_shetland.html The Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa is a spectacular reminder of the Shetland Islands’ ancient Scandiniavian links. Claire Smith visited Lerwick to warm her hands in the flames. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/113/rendlesham_forest_uk.html Carolyn Waudby was offered the chance of a nocturnal trek following in the footsteps of Rendlesham’s Lieutenant Colonel Halt and Co. How could she refuse? Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/117/the_magic_castle_los_angeles.html James Bartlett put on his Sunday best and wangled his way into one of Hollywood’s most unsual venues – a dining club for practitioners of the magical arts. All images are copyright of the author. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/119/clapham_wood_uk.html A typical country village in sleepy West Sussex isn’t the kind of place you’d expect to find UFOs, dog abductions, mysterious deaths and a full-blown Satanic cult… but if you go down to Clapham Wood today, you might be in for a big surprise. Nick Brownlow investigates. All images are by the author. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/131/the_vegetarian_festival_phuket.html Before the Boxing Day tsunami devastated coastlines around the Indian Ocean, Tom Vater visited Phuket to observe the piercing rituals of the Vegetarian Festival. All photos by the author. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/133/chavn_peru.html Civilisation, including pyramid-building, in Peru predates Egypt's Old Kingdom. Mike Jay visits the later mysterious temple complex of Chavin de Huantar, dating from around 900BC, and hazards a guess about its ritual uses. All photos are by Aliya Saleem. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/145/sleepy_hollow_westchester_county_new_york.html J E Barnes takes a literary journey to the scene of Washington Irving’s most celebrated story, and finds that the spell of the past hangs over Sleepy Hollow even today. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/156/snorris_hot_tub_reykholt_iceland.html Jeffrey Vallance takes the saga tour and returns to one of his favourite haunts, Iceland, where he picks up the trail of an ancient Edda-writer and occasional landscape-gardener, Snorri Sturluson. All illustrations by Jeffrey Vallance. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/162/aztec_new_mexico_usa.html How the Aztec UFO crash turned around a small New Mexico town Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/178/the_tattoo_festival_at_wat_thailand.html Tom Vater rubs shoulders with the denizens of Thailand’s underworld at the ‘illustrated kill convention’ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/253/san_juan_chamula_mexico_a_church_out_of_time.html Deep in Mexico’s rebel heartland stands a centuries-old Catholic church that has heard no mass for 30 years. Mark Pilkington reports from the inside. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/480/the_temple_of_slontah_libya.html Paul Sieveking visits North Africa to see the ancient site of Slontah in Cyrenaica. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/662/devil_museum_kaunas_lithuania.html Rachel Bignell detects the whiff of brimstone as she enters the realm of the Horned One in Eastern Europe. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/1188/central_park_in_the_dark.html Searching for the truth about conspiracies, cockatrices, Martians and monster koi carp in the middle of Manhattan Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/1542/the_ghosts_of_east_berlin.html Spectres of World War II and the GDR still haunt this once divided city Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100