The poltergeist cases of contagion

Last time (FT460:28-35), we explored something of the historical background behind the idea of spontaneous human combustion and how the orthodoxy of forensics and fire experts has largely damned the p

I grew up fascinated by all things spooky. Now my daughter and I have formed the perfect paranormal partnership!

Pluckley is a small English village located on the northern edge of the Kentish Weald between Maidstone and Ashford. It was an Anglo-Saxon settlement, boasts a 14th century church, and found fame in t

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

There’s a bit of a spooky feel to this month’s proceedings. Our cover story concerns the notorious Kentish village of Pluckley, frequently cited in the press and popular ghost books as “the most haunt

My father died in the first week of January this year, 2025. We both shared a love of Fortean Times for over 30 years, and he had once been published in your letters page. I would like to recount an o