Goblins and ghosts

I found Ben Timberlake’s article [FT465:38-41] about seeing gnome-like entities through a military night-vision sight rather interesting. Ben puts forward a theory about spores from fungi being a cont

Giles Catchpole on riverside ghosts

Sai Baba, as long-term readers of FT may recall from previous coverage of the man and his miracles in these very pages (see FT276:28-29), was a fuzzy, Afro-headed, saffron-clad Indian guru with many m

Somewhen back in the 1980s, I was sitting on the couch in my living room smoking weed and watching TV around 11 in the morning. Nothing unusual. (I had been toking for roughly 20 years by then.) A com

The hills are alive with the sound of rock’n’roll.

Long before online influencers advised us all how to keep our pads clean and cosy, our forebears were passing down their own ‘handy’ hints on building a happy home – one free from witches, demons, and belligerent spirits!