Fortean Times (September 2009)

Polliwog precipitation; grisly impalings and amazing survivals; lost items return from the sea - or a buffalo dung pile; great apes show their tricks; heavenly visions; a confusing traffic sign, and a man too stoned to remember he'd never been married - and much more.14 KONSPIRACY KORNER 24 ABC DIARY16 FORTEAN FOLLOW-UPS 26 NECROLOG18 ARCHEOLOGY 27 STRANGE DEATHS19 CLASSICAL CORNER COVER STORY30 THE BERWYN MOUNTAIN UFO CRASHExtraterrestrial spacecraft, alien bodies, military retrieval teams, earth tremors, meteorites and the Men In Black - it might sound like Roswell, but this incredible story took place in North Wales in 1974. ANDY ROBERTS attempts to separate fact from fiction to establish what really happened in the Berwyn Mountains 35 years ago.36 HOAX! PART 3In the final part of their article, PETER BROOKESMITH and ROB IRVING examine the dynamics of deception and hoaxing as an art form.42 PYGMY PACHYDERMSElephants are the world's largest land animals, but many people claim that there are some rather smaller ones outthere too. MATT SALUSBURY weighs the evidence for and against the existence of pygmy elephants.53 A glitch in time by Gail-Nina Anderson 54 The virtual afterlife by Mikita Brottman28 BLASTS FROM THE PASTNo. 12. Curious Corpses by Peter Hassall49 FORTEAN TIMES DICTIONARY OF THE DAMNED No. 28. Ghosts and hauntings, Part 474 FORTEAN TRAVELLERNo. 66. Toro Muerto petroglyphs, Peru by Mike Jay02 EDITORIAL 69 LETTERS52 SUBSCRIPTIONS 78 READER INFO56 BACK ISSUES CD-ROM 79 PHENOMENOMIX57 REVIEWS 80 TALES FROM THE VAULT