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Fortean Times #250

By Gregon

The latest issue of Fortean Times (#250) has been released, with the usual bunch of strange reportage:

This issue, we explore the world of ‘imaginary childhood friends’ – from helpful gnomes and talking cats to Thunder Cloud the laughing policeman – and wonder if there’s more to this widespread phenomenon than we like to think. And staying with the childhood theme, Martin Gately, aka the Crypto Kid, casts his mind back to the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, when he had just one week to find Nessie while under close parental supervision.

Also this month, we are bemused by a Saudi craze for old sewing machines, stunned by some strange coma awakenings, horrified by tales of contemporary witch-hunts, and saddened by the death of writer, Neoplatonist and fortean John Michell.

Full details, and archived article from previous issues, are available at the FT website.

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.

One Comment

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    “Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people’s minds. More massive than a lot of real historical characters – these figures have real weight. They might be just made out of words and paper, but their effect in the world can be massive, if they’ve got the right kind of mass, the right kind of gravity and momentum.”

    –Alan Moore

    “Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably exist, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love’s name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred?”

    –Alan Moore

    “We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.”

    –A S Eddington, Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)

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