Editorial

Our cover story marks the 20th anniversary of the onset of one of Britain’s most notable modern poltergeist cases. In December 2005, a family in South Shields, South Tyneside, began experiencing disco

The weekend of 5-7 September marked the inaugural Strange Days Festival of Forteana. Organiser Matt Page’s promise of ‘The most extraordinary weekend of your life’ was spot-on. Strange Days took place

It’s a relief after the horrors of Fortean TV Uncut (FT464:46-51) to find that Lionel Fanthorpe was given one last hurrah by Channel 4 – an “X-mas Files” seasonal special punning off the then wildly p

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b

With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “

You might be surprised to learn that there are more ghost sightings on Christmas Eve than there are at Halloween, so what better time for a ghost hunt? The festive season has always been favoured by l