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SIR PATRICK
MOORE
AND
THE FLYING
SAUCERS
FROM MARS
SWEDISH BONE SHAKER
THE WOMAN WHO HAD SEX WITH SKELETONS
THE WILD DOG OF ENNERDALE
A SHEEP-KILLING BEAST IN THE LAKES
TOTAL RECALL SYNDROM
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THE PEOPLE WHO REMEMBER EVERYTHING
THE WORLD’S
WEIRDEST
NEWS STORIES
PHANTOM HITCHHIKERS • SCOTTISH MERMAIDS • CANNIBAL FISHERMEN • CEMETERY DOGS
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FAKE FOOTPRINTS, DODGY
DNA AND THE SEARCH FOR
THE SIBERIAN SNOWMAN
THE BIGFOOT OF
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
IS AN APEMAN STALKING
THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND?
NEW-AGE WILDMAN
SASQUATCH AND THE ANCIENT
MASTERS OF LEMURIA
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strange days
contents
The woman who had sex with skeletons; Siberian ishing
trip ends in cannibalism; the people who remember every-
thing; phantom hitchhikers; Ritual Abuse in Cornwall; the
Bigfoot of Tunbridge Wells – and much more.
14 SCIENCE
17 MYTHCONCEPTIONS
18 GHOSTWATCH
22 ARCHæOLOGY
23 CLASSICAL CORNER
24 NECROLOG
25 STRANGE DEATHS
26 THE UFO FILES
the world of strange phenomena
features
cover story
30 snoWman’s land
For many years, research into Russia’s hairy hominids
was frowned upon by the Soviet authorities, but now all
that has changed, as EDWARD CRABTREE reports from
the Russian Federation, where a new appetite for the
unexplained has seen the yeti’s rehabilitation.
35 Watching the Fur Fly
Are reports of Siberian Snowmen all that they seem, asks
veteran Bigfooter LOREN COLEMAN – and what should we
make of recent claims of giant footprints, Yeti hairs and
DNA sequencing coming out of Russia?
42 cemetery dogs
greyfriars Bobby wasn’t the only canine to keep a celebrated graveside vigil
36 the Wild dog oF ennerdale
In 1810, something deadly arrived in the Lake District
and started killing sheep in a gruesome fashion. CRISPIN
ANDREWS suggests that the fells were being stalked by a
creature that was hungry and a long way from home....
42 cemetery dogs
Greyfriars Bobby was by no means the only canine with
a reputation for keeping vigil at his dead master’s grave.
JAN BONDESON looks at the forgotten career of Médor,
the Dog of the Louvre, and other cemetery dogs.
reports
18 spooks and ale
Why British ghosts prefer beer to spirits
26 sir patrick and the saucers
the late astronomer’s own uFo hoax
28
Blasts From the past
No. 43. Was Bigfoot an ancient Lemurian?
by Ulrich Magin
72
Fortean traveller
No. 83. The Enigma of Çatalhöyük
by Dr Robert M Schoch
76
stories From the illustrated police neWs
No. 19. The Scottish Giant
by Jan Bondeson
forum
51
The end of a ishy tale
by Alison and Gordon Rutter
52
The Imaginal College
by Simon Wilson
regulars
78 READER INFO
79 PHENOMENOMIX
80 TALES FROM THE VAULT
02 EDITORIAL
50 SUBSCRIPTIONS
67 LETTERS
72 the enigma oF Çatalhöyük
lost civilisations and the last ice age
76 the scottish giant
the larger than life William campbell
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bigfootery or tomfoolery?
from russia to tunbridge wells
Recent months have seen a lurry of manimal
news, with some astonishing claims being made
about Yeti hair samples, the sequencing of Big-
foot DNA and the presence of an eight-foot-tall
hairy monster with glowing red eyes in the gen-
teel Kentish town of Tunbridge Wells.The ‘Tun-
bridge Wells Bigfoot’ seems to have arisen out
of a process of Chinese
Whispers, as Neil Arnold
explains (pp16-17),
although he also points
out that this isn’t the only
example of an apeman
being sighted in the
Garden of England.
Edward Crabtree
writes from Tatarstan on
the post-Soviet Russian
Federation’s newfound
enthusiasm (backed by
politicians, including
Vladimir Putin) for its
manimals (pp30-34), while
veteran Bigfoot authority
Loren Coleman takes a
critical look at the way
new research from Russia
has been touted, leaked
and argued over online
through the new social
media (p35).
As Loren reports, it
would seem that much of
the ‘research’ emerging
from Russia concerning
the ‘Siberian Snowman’
– including video, footprints and hair samples – is
being manipulated in the interests of bringing
Western Bigfoot researchers and, more impor-
tantly, tourists to the region. Our good friend
Sharon Hill (over at doubtfulnews.com) has
alerted us to the latest shenanigans in Siberia.
Not content with launching a ‘Yeti Day’, the
Kemerovo region is now planning a Yeti holiday
resort according to a recent press release: “A
village dedicated to the mysterious Bigfoot, or
Yeti, will appear at the mountain ski resort of
Sheregesh in South Siberia. Adjoining one of the
hotel compounds will be a Yeti-park with a sepa-
rate house for the relict hominid… ‘Visitors will
be able to see Bigfoot with their own eyes and
even communicate with it,’ deputy head of the
Sheregesh administration Igor Idimeshev told
the
Voice of Russia
.
‘We will organise a Yeti-park with a museum
where natural proofs of Bigfoot’s existence will
be exhibited such as trees arch-woven by Yeti, and
lots of other things. ’”
A Yeti park next to a ski resort? Haven’t these
people ever seen
Snowbeast
?
fawltean towers?
Some of you may have been wondering what hap-
pened to the ‘Letters from Cambodia’ series by
our one-time staffer Jen Ogilvie, in which, having
run away to Cambodia to seek her fortune, she
explored the country’s history, religious beliefs
and odder traditions. Well, it seems that since
late last year she has had very little time for
researching and writing, having been involved in
setting up some kind of bed and breakfast estab-
lishment for travellers to the country! We wish
her well in this surprising venture – but can’t
help wondering whether
she is fully prepared for
her future fame as the
female Basil Fawlty of
South East Asia. More
news from Cambodia as
we get it…
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Horror writer and some-
time FT contributor
Steve Volk wrote in to
correct an error in Alan
Murdie’s column: “James
Herbert's parapsycholo-
gist is called David Ash,
not ‘James Ash’ per
your Ghostwatch article.
David Ash featured in
the novels
Haunted
,
The
Ghosts of Sleath
and
Ash
,
whereas I have it on good
authority that the BBC
television adaptation of
The Secret of Crickley Hall
featured a parapsycholo-
gist called ‘Gordon Pyke’
(I didn't watch it myself).”
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