Fakirs and frauds

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

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

As an occultist, novelist, painter, poet and magician, Aleister Crowley was notorious as a master of the dark arts. He’s less well known for his short but pioneering climbing career.

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

Haunting family history: generations of Goodmans have experienced ...

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors