FT367

[ramonmercado]

Spoiler: Watch out for the line...

"Its origin and purpose still a total mystery."

I'll keep an ear out for it.

 

[sherbetbizarre]

And...

Spoiler

See you next Wednesday!

 

[GNC]

And...

Spoiler

See you next Wednesday!

If you drop acid when they say that, it might have worn off by the stargate!

 

[Tigerhawk]

Enjoyed reading the Fortean Follow Ups, always glad when they return!

 

[GNC]

Enjoyed reading the Fortean Follow Ups, always glad when they return!

I agree, it frustrates me when I see a weird story in the news and it's left hanging, never followed up. The FT is providing a fine service with that column.

 

[XEPER_]

Er....haud on. Where the f**k's the podcast section?

 

[Nemo]

Witch Finders Direct (Horrible Histories).

 

[Dinobot]

Enjoyed this issue, but was slightly concerned when I read Phenomenix and misread the character Dino-boy as Dinobot!

 

[GNC]

Incidentally, the Jayne Mansfield was a Satanist (only she probably wasn't) documentary is better than the review makes it sound.

 

[McAvennie]

Also, the simulacra on the Letters page - anyone seeing a profile of Tom Baker?

That was my thought too, was surprised it wasn't referenced in the letter.

 

[AgProv]

read the short about the surgeon who "autographed" a patient's liver with his initials S.B. I'm sure this has happened at least once before: a doctor in the USA initialled his work while stitching up a patient and carved his initials into the patient's skin at the end of a row of stiches - with a scalpel - on the grounds that every piece of art needed a signature, or something. He had mental health issues and was struck off the register and the hospital had to pay quite a lot in compensation, as I recall - looking for the case and further details. I also recall reading something about a surgeon in Germany after WW2. In this case he was described as being far too old to practice and suspected of suffering from Alzheimers, but Germany had lost so many doctors in the war that they had to take what they could get to fill the gaps - this brain surgeon was still there approaching eighty, and apparently his initials went somewhere inside the patient's skull but not in the brain tissue itself. There's quite an interesting fortean sub-set emerging here!

Here's another case, here in Britain this time:
https://www.iflscience.com/health-a...s6dJKiw5wev3VfE3UURrglI1pknGUNKNLpkahyyQqv1HA

 

[AgProv]

Having searched the archives for something else entirely (as you do) I found FT367 and was distracted by it. With the hindsight of being in 2024, the Ghostly Mists and Fogs article by Alan Murdie (pp16 - 18) ties in with material used in FT390 (March 2020) and FT445 (June 2024) concerning eldritch and strange fogs: AM quotes Jenny Randles' speculations that some fogs may be more than they seem ("certain cloud-like manifestations may be plasma vortices") and it's certainly worth relating to the later FTs.

But the really spooky one, with hindsight, is a speculative article by David Hambling on page 26 - Attack of the Slaughterbots - in which he discusses how drone technology might be a game-changer on what were then future battlefields. Six years on...