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Hello all, I have bought a lot of back issue lots from Ebay over the last year or two and this has left me with a nice pile of duplicates / triplicates etc that I give to people wanting to read English publications ( I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil where English is not spoken much at all ). The...

Hello all, just to rub salt in, I have just received my copy of 188 here in Brazil - a mere 6000 miles. It is a bit of a record as it normally takes 3 weeks to get here. thanks Iain

I was reading through some old issues of FT ( in the 40-50 range ) this morning and realised that I found them more enjoyable than the current manifestation of the magazine. I tried to work out why this was the case and realised that it was down to the way I was reading it. To explain this...

Hello there Chopstix, with all the construction work on the go around Canary Wharf, it may have been something being dropped into an empty steel barge, or a large, empty container being hit by something - it gives a similar sort of sound to thunder and is easily distorted by the sound passing /...

I remember a program about a vicar on a motorbike doing Fortean TV, but I thought a bit of improved production could have made it more appealing. As for the programs on Sky, I'm stuck with Brazilian TV which is a mix of nasty American reruns and home made game shows / variety shows which have...

Hello all, I agree with phitran that there are plenty of web based resources (of varying quality) which would make an article based FT website difficult to operate as a separate business. The biggest advantage FT has IMHO is that it has a huge resource in its article and review archives for...

Originally posted by David Sutton: On the subject of book reviews, I bought a copy of Amok Dispatch last year and it kept me reading for months on and off as it is big book of mini book reviews grouped by genre. I know FT has a huge source of much more detailed book reviews from past issues...

Hello all, if anyone wants to buy the book, there is one on ebay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=378&item=4212285470&rd=1 start price is 2 pounds. No connection to them etc etc... thanks Iain

Hello there emps, I would be grateful if you could find out a little more ( I'm in a different time zone so it makes calling around expensive and hard to meet the working hours of the people involved ). I'm willing to invest in this project if we can get the stuff available again. thanks Iain

Hello there Helen, I have been watching ebay for a month or so and so far only one set of compilation books has gone through, and several of them fetched over 30 quid, so it is an expensive way to do it. Later issues of the magazine ( 70 onwards ) are probably cheaper to get individually or in...

Thanks Owen, that means that we know that quite a lot of the work for issues 113 on is already done. I will work with Emperor and the other volunteers to complete an index ASAP so we have a starting point and where we have contributers with a large number of articles, we can approach them to...

Hmm, it sounds like there is quite a patchwork of things we can use and cannot (at least not yet). I wonder if it would be practical to continue with the plan to produce an index, and for some stalwart individual to contact some of the major contributors (who can be identified from the index) to...

Hello there Emps, I appreciate the need for the e-mag version to be well presented, but I thought it best to use all the original work of the editors and keep it as a scan for people to browse - that way the file never needs any kind of updating. The data part - ie the text and pictures - can...

Thanks Arthur, I will look into this as a way of capturing the data once it has been manually checked after OCR. It will give us a chance to make an index much more accurate as any items which refer to a ghost sighting can be given an attribute of "ghost" rather than an article about UFOs which...

scanning settings Hello there, I am looking for ideas on the best way to scan in old magazines so I can convert them to TIFF or PDF format, with the intention of converting many old, unavailable and hard to find jornals of fortean interest. Aside from the copyright issues ( which I will...

Hello all, the subject of creating Fortean Times in electronic format has been discussed on a few occasions in the past with particular interest in getting back issues available either for general interest or as a searchable database of some kind. The copyright clearly belongs to the magazine...

Excellent stuff - thanks for the links. We are working on gathering all this together and haev enough now to create the look for the collection. thanks again Iain

Hello all, I have a favour to ask to help my wife in the creation of her next fashion collection. She is working on a theme of the landscape of hell for the inspiration of colours, textures and images which she will abstract to make clothes which give an image of hellishness but without anything...

Part of the anchor for demand for this kind of thing is a good base of reviews culled from the magazine over the years. FT have started to add new reviews from the current issues and I have added reviews culled from isses from the earlier issues ( 100-130ish) which have been scanned in and...

Hello there adman, I have had some practice in helping start-up companies with their need to focus advertising revenues and in the case of FT I think the guys are exactly right in stating that you have a quite specialised readership who are loyal to the topic of Forteana in its myriad flavours...

Hello all, I have been working on scanning in the book review sections of past issues and have been making reasonable progress. The reviews are passed to the FT website staff who are working on adding them to the Reviews section of the front page which will hopefully both give the website...

Do the beings created, while exhibiting some degree of intelligence and sentience, have souls? If this is the case then it could be that we are the Tulpas of some older being which escaped their control and grew in number. Should this indeed be possible then what is to stop the Tulpas having...

Perhaps they were bought by the CIA to arrange another mass grave discovery to "prove" that some regeime or other is in need of overthrowing. There is always a need for "smoking guns" on the open market... I've said too much already. thanks Uncle Bulgaria

With a vacuum cleaner. The contents are then taken to the air conditioning units in the Houses of Parliment and emptied to make sure the politicians never have a peaceful nights sleep. That will make up for all the snuffling and grunting that they get up to at night on the common. Bloody...

I certainly am. It is amazing the stuff people leave behind on Wimbledon Common these days - assorted garments, 486 laptops, reels of film from alien autopsies, sacrificial goats, dreamcatchers and even the odd murder victim. All is put to good use in the burrow. ;) You see, if it was not...

I'm intregued by the possibilities if many people believe in variations of the same deity. Some may believe God ( for arguements sake ) to be a harsh but loving master while others may believe God to be a bit of a chilled out, loving and forgiving kind of being. What happens with the...

Re: spooks about Imagining this is enough to put you off having a "tommy tank" even in the privacy of your own bedroom! What a scary though that everything you do could have an audience! thanks Uncle Bulgaria

Hello there TVQ, a very well made point. Do gods exist if no-one believes in them? How can we be sure? If everyone follows their own "flavour" of religeon and there is more and more cross-fertilisation of belief then will the god not then become more representative of those who created it...

Hello all, I was watching the BBC series of "The Human Body" last week and recall the episode that covers the brain. In this they drew the comparison between the human brain and a colony of ants. In both the individual components ( the ants or the part of the brain dealing with memory for...

Ever heard of bukkake? This involves the "recipient" typically kneeling on the floor while a succession of men bring themselves to the point of issue either all over the recipient or into their mouth ( bowls and/or funnels can be used ) until the recipient has drained the entire queue of men...

Hello all, on the subject of alternative fuels there is one large scale operation that I know of. In Brazil there is a widespread use of cars that run on alchohol produced from processing sugar cane which is farmed in a massive scale there ( for the world sugar industry as well ). Many cars...

Let's see, China were against the US war in Iraq and were hard hit. My collegue says Canada was also against the war and was hard it. If this pans out then we can expect to see more cases in France, Germany and Russia... With all the Americans either staying at home because of bankrupt...

Hello all, I have had an experience with the Lady Bulgaria which I would classify as female ejaculation. I have seen a number of, err, educational productions on this subject such as the Rainwoman series and several films by the researcher, Sarah Jane Hamilton so know some of the supposed...

What happens when you are travelling at near light speed and you switch on your torch? . The light travels at the same speed for the observer because their frame of reference will slow down ( time dilation ). To the stationary observer it still moves at the speed of light ( it just appears...

prizes will be awarded for most money raised, among other achievements. The mind boggles! Give 'em deep heat to use - that should make them smart. Uncle Bulgaria

Tubeworms are bordering on a Wonder: http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/microbes/riftiasym.html They are a lifeform that does not need sunlight to live, unlike almost every other lifeform on Earth ( at least at some point in its life ), have no obvious way of getting to new living...

That is an interesting theory and has some credibility since concrete was invented by the Romans, so the technology has been around for a very long time. However, I think it is very easy to tell the difference between cut stone and an amalgam like cement/contrete so it would have been picked...

Perhaps I am not the kind of customer they are looking for as I don't articularly relish paying big bucks for a polyp slice from Regan or a brain slice from Stalin. There are some very weird people out there who pay for this stuff. thanks Uncle Bulgaria

Maybe she will even loose the job over this. Not much chance of a golden handshake under the circumstances. ;) thanks Uncle Bulgaria

HP Lovecraft compilations - I've never been the same since. I was afraid to go to sleep every time I saw those books, but I never stopped reading them ;-) thanks Uncle Bulgaria

Hello all, I see the relatives of the dead from this flight are being allowed to hear the tape from the flight data recorder although it does not provide any worthwhile evidence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1936000/1936741.stm Although sounds of a struggle can be...

I recall watching a program about this a while ago where they explained about fossilised bones ( I think it was Time Team in the UK ). What happens is the body gets stuck in mud or sand and is covered ( which prevents scavangers from eating them ) and then the mud/sand prevents oxygen from...

Space 1999, the episode where they come across loads of adrift spaceships and go looking for something in them only to find some sort of giant squid thing that pulls them into its mouth and spits out a compressed bloack of bones. Eeeuugh! As a 10 year old that freaked me out. thanks...

Hello there Annasdottir, you say What I meant was, a great many Americans seem to believe ill of their government - the body that is supposed to look after them You mean the same government that brought them the Watergate Scandal, the Lewinski Scandal, Gulf War Syndrome, bombing of civilians in...

Hello there Annasdottir, you say ...the question should be why do people disbelieve all this quite compelling evidence - why do they want to believe that the Americans would deliberately kill their own people, blow up their own buildings?? The evidence is not compelling, otherwise more...

Yeah, but those two were also incredible liars as well. Henry claimed he could put 100,000 miles on a car in a month. Um, do the math. 100,000 miles 30 days x 24 hours = 720 hour per month average speed ( not stopping or fuel or sleep ) = 139mph. It could have been fun watching them try...

Personally I wouldn't want to bed a hobbit, too small! I always thought the fact that they had such big feet was indicative of something... Maybe it is just the Freudian in me trying to get out. thanks Uncle Bulgaria ( Size 12 paws and proud of them )

Hmmm, lets see: suddenly the picture disappeared and was replaced by a very grainy and jumpt image of a city absolutely teeming with people, there appeared to be many raised transparent tubes between buildings carrying people about the skyscape, and architecture of a very unusual type, with...

This one is doing the rounds at work now - it will have hit all 1300 by the end of the day I bet. You can hear the squeals and yelps once they realise what it is - then the embarassed giggle... thanks Uncle Bulgaria

Hello there p.younger, make sure you are viewing it in your internet browser and not through something like Photo Editor otherwise it won't make sense. Look closely at the back left of the picture - take some time to search it thuroughly and you'll see what we mean. thanks Uncle Bulgaria