Magical mystery tour

So we’re back, for another “celebration of the mysterious, the miraculous and the downright weird” – but does our motorcycle-mad host the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe have any new tricks up his sleeve in

Uri Geller has appeared in our newspapers, on our TV screens and in the pages of Fortean Times many times since he first burst onto the world stage in 1973 courtesy of a live appearance on The Dimbleb

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

Aliens come in all shapes and sizes: they have gone from being Little Green Men that met with media derision and laughter to the widely perceived image of large-headed and spindly-bodied Greys. The co

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52