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...

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...

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Way back in the mists of time, the very first piece of writing I ever had published professionally appeared in Fortean Times #187. Back in the summer of 2004, my article on John Middleton - The Childe...

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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!

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 4mo ago

They obviously do things differently in Goa.

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...

50-year mystery behind disappearance of Mother Clanger finally resolved - Canterbury Newsroom

The 50-year mystery behind the disappearance of Mother Clanger has finally been solved.

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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!

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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!

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!