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

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.

I have been reading this magazine for decades, it is part of who I am. To all you writers out there it is a goldmine of weirdness. Honestly, throw a Fortean scene in a book, even a romance or YA, just for fun #writer #authors #writingcommunity

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

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

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...

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

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 [email protected] and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...

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

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...

New issue on sale! Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk; Ghost Witches of Essex; Black Sabbath vs the Devil; Sam the Sandown Clown; Bernard Manning From Beyond the Grave; Midsomer Murders; Scotland’s ‘Lost Tribe’; Ripperston Farm Spaceman; tiny crocodile panic + much more! subscribe.forteantimes.com

Our intrepid news editor encountered Brian Blessed in his natural habitat at last weekend's Strange Days Festival. We hear that Bigfoot was also spotted at the event and even caught on camera...

"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my illustrated article on probably one of the first cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social (FT 462. October 2025).

New issue on sale now! Uri Geller: shaman or showman?; angelic UFO encounters; aristocrats on acid; sea serpent scrapbook; Father Lionel Fanthorpe; top crop circles; Cthulhu's rabbits; cockroach shoots man; robot rebellion; rogue dentists; vibrator myths and more! shop.forteantimes.com/current-issue

Pleased to see Pluckley on the cover of @forteantimes.bsky.social - a lifetime ago, we used to visit the Black Horse on a Saturday night and then go ghost hunting in the churchyard or the Screaming Woods. Happy memories!

It’s very hard to describe how comforting I find reading The @forteantimes.bsky.social It still carries a tongue in cheek sense of the 1990s paranormal revival without the 2020’s full commitment to conspiracy theory. If only the world was as crazy as the FT presented, it would make more sense.

Just over a year since my archaeology themed horror collection, Dirt Upon My Skin came out from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social, and what a ride, with reviews in @forteantimes.bsky.social, @archaeologyuk.bsky.social's British Archaeology, and culminating with a nomination for a British Fantasy Award!

New issue on sale! Pluckley uncovered; world's weirdest riots; seagull revenge; Edwardian automaton; stone ghost girl; Wallasey catman; curlews vs posties; Satanic gangs; hot dog homicide; Joe Nickell remembered; terrorist numerology; Macron's penis-stealing plot + more! shop.forteantimes.com

What is the truth about the Calvine UFO photo? To mark the 35th anniversary of the incident, FT regular David Clarke will be giving a public talk at Blair Atholl Village Hall on Saturday 2 August from 4-6 PM. Get your free tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-calvin...

Lovely @bobfischer.bsky.social on his Broken Veil feature in this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social

New issue now on sale! Spontaneous Human Combustion, Colombia's alien artefact , Liverpool leprechaun hunt, Ithell Colquhoun, Broken Veil, Reform's Most Haunted chairman, half-bodied ghosts, epic pet treks, geo-engineering protests, Holyhead Sea Devils, lunar brewery, bronze boob battle & more!

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New issue on sale! Japanese toilet ghosts; Arthur Conan Doyle’s other fairy photos; St Albans' ghostly monks; Antikythera Mechanism; ape sandwich stories; dire wolves; Aztec death whistles; very late library books; hedgehog myths; watery Welsh ghosts; Silicon Valley eschatology and much more!

For many years, I've wanted to track down Jeremy Beadle's library, legendary in certain quarters. I did so for @thefence.bsky.social for their brilliant 23rd issue (the significance of the number will not be lost on Ken Campbell fans) www.the-fence.com/the-beadlean... @forteantimes.bsky.social

Hexham Heads anyone? Here's the @forteantimes.bsky.social feature I wrote about the unearthing of this notorious 1976 Nationwide report. It has Celtic mythology, poltergeists, werewolves and @bbcarchive.bsky.social's own @grzegster.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/05/23/t...

Out now! Got mine from WHSmith - just in! Weird Crime: Murder, Madness and Mystery from @forteantimes.bsky.social #WeirdCrime

As a Fortean, I have an interest (though not necessarily a belief) in a lot of subjects, one of those being auras (I grew up in the 70s and 80s with Kirlian photography in many Strange Phenomena books), so this is a fascinating article. @forteantimes.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2479...

New issue on sale! The Last Sacrifice, Deerness Mermaid, Zizian mayhem,Tesla and time travel, Attenborough's Fabulous Animals, cryptozoological cosplay, Prophecies of Malachy, mystery hums, colossal squid, lucid dreams, Loch Ness rediscoveries, criminals against crime and more! shop.forteantimes.com

What better way to celebrate VE Day than to pick up a copy of FT and learn about the distinctly fortean approach to warfare of WWII's Ghost Army?

Can you help FT pal Urszula Wolski with her research? If you are a paranormal investigator past or present please take part by scanning the QR code, or if you prefer click on: forms.gle/C9rruSM6iesJ...

MURDER MOST WEIRD! From the FT archives comes a new collection exploring the strangest and most macabre cases in the annals of crime, from the London Monster to the BTK Killer – with added commentary from novelist Cathi Unsworth. In shops now, or order online: shop.forteantimes.com/product/weir...

New issue on sale now! Ghost Army vs Hitler; Tolkien in Staffordshire; cuckoo folklore; Cambridge Bigfoot; seaside UFOs; murderous Mormons; JFK files; phantom food-flingers; goblin onslaught; mystery cat-shavers; demons on a plane; The Amazing Kreskin & much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft457bs

Postie's been with the new @forteantimes.bsky.social Always a happy occasion, but this month, in Bob Fischer's "The Haunted Generation," my musical tour "Time Travelling In A Sussex Church " gets a warm review 😍 Thank You @bobfischer.bsky.social

New issue on sale! The mysterious death of Netta Fornario; London Uncanny; Tibet's Paradise Valleys; Werewolf of London; Beatles UFO sightings; weasels stole my plimsole; screaming mummies; snailien invasion; Zizian killing spree; secret space lasers and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft456bs

Definitely our headline of the day: "Australian woman admits trying to sell human toes she found in dog vomit", South China Morning Post, 17 March 2025. www.scmp.com/news/asia/au...

Was Britain really being invaded by bandicoots in 1996? The truth is in the current issue of Fortean Times! shop.forteantimes.com/ft455bs

In our new issue we re-open the files on a classic UFO contact case in which two Mississippi shipyard workers, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, had a close encounter with bizarre aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River one night in October 1973. shop.forteantimes.com/ft455bs

New issue on sale! Pascagoula close encounter; Green Children of Woolpit; bandicoot invasion hoax; haunted computers; David Lynch; Cannock Chase; flesh-eating squirrels; orca fashion tips; Pasadena Pee Bandit; anti-ghost panties; hamsters on a plane and much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft455bs

If you usually get your copy of FT from your local WHSmith and are worried that it's one of the 17 that are closing, you can use this handy store locator to find out who stocks Fortean Times in your area! services.marketforce.co.uk/storelocator...

New issue on sale! Arthur Lowe's lost X-Files; quantum grammar Nazis; grave-robbing witches of Helsinki; the great drone panic; Edinburgh ghosts; underwater aliens; shapeshifting jailbirds; Spanish cultists; helpful fairies; human chocolate bars and much, much more! shop.forteantimes.com/ft454bs

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The truth is out there! In the @forteantimes.bsky.social 👽✌🏽🛸 Thank you @bobfischer.bsky.social for writing about Fractures in this wonderful publication.

Very much enjoyed reading this article about Corrie spin-off Turn Out The Lights by Andrew T Smith in @forteantimes.bsky.social today! (If you want more Corrie spookiness and horror, we have a playlist of episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...)

Absolute cracker after Christmas! @forteantimes.bsky.social Ghostly goings on! Alien probes! Mystery drones! Arthur Lowe cover star!? It’s got the lot!

A real delight to see my article on the improbable Coronation Street spin-off Turn Out The Lights in @forteantimes.bsky.social. The editor and I achieved our dream of putting Arthur Lowe on a magazine cover in newsagents and supermarkets around the country in 2025!

Happy Friday! Reader Felicity Keane Lovell shared this sighting of the caterpillar dog of Bulkeley Hill near Peckforton Castle. "Having taken some photos of family members and our dogs, I later saw my German Shepherd Hattie had been replaced by the faeries with a strange caterpillar dog."

This is pretty cool. A homeowner's security camera caught sound and video of a meteorite impact just outside his house! A first, apparently. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mystery Rock Elvis – this was in our files, but we have no idea where it came from. Anyone got any ideas?

A few of our favourite FT Elvis moments: Roman Elvis, Bird Poo Elvis, Fireplace Elvis and Elvis the Skate.