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

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

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

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

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...

He'd have probably gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for those perishing kids. One for the @forteantimes.bsky.social though. share.google/roLgsWfyAT4t...

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

NYC-based Forteans might want to get along to this series of screenings celebrating the publication of CHARLES FORT: RESEARCH from The Further Reading Library. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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

Never change @forteantimes.bsky.social ❤️

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...

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...

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...

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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!

This is one for the @forteantimes.bsky.social!

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...

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

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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...