History Magazine / ForteanTimes

* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Either via "normal" synchronicity or because [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories some people are messing with our minds]].

* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories; (''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' creator Creator/RobertAntonWilson was a frequent contributor)

* WorldOfWeirdness: We live in one.

* SuspiciouslyStealthyPredator: The Alien Big Cats suspected to be resident in Great Britain, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, which are frequently glimpsed but never definitively proven.

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: the lurid and sensationalist imitator ''[[MagazineDecay Bizarre]]'', that focused on the sexual, violent or generally sensationalist aspects of Forteana with lots of pictures and less words. Embarrassingly, it was released by the same publisher.

* WalkingTechbane: People who can fritz electrics just by being in the same room. FT broke the story of Jaqueline Priestman, who says she's gone through dozens of various appliances, and causes TV sets to change channels just by passing near. She was found to have ten times the usual amount of electricity in her body. The magazine also speculated on how some people can cause street lights to blow just by walking underneath them.

* SpeciesLostAndFound: FT likes this aspect of cryptozoology. For instance, it has covered the possibility that the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) might not be as extinct as people think it is.

* FlyingSaucer: A regular forum for UFO theorists and investigators, principally British, who tend to be more pragmatic than American theorists.

* TheReptilians: A favorite topic. Creator/DavidIcke and his beliefs have been covered, discussed and debunked. But as always, the reasons ''why'' people like Icke believe what they believe is far more fascinating.

* {{Creepypasta}}: A recurring theme concerns how much classical childrens' TV content of TheSixties and TheSeventies had a weird, disconcerting, Fortean dimension that had almost completely died out of childrens' TV by TheEighties.

* SpeciesLostAndFound: FT likes this aspect of cryptozoology. It has covered the possibility that the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) might not be as extinct as people think it is.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: No two tales of haunting and apparitions are completely alike, and theories abound. FT collects and catalogs.

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* AlienFairFolk: One of Hunt Emerson's "Phenomenomix" comic strips dealt with a bunch of fairies leaving their mound to terrorise a lone traveller. A young rebellious fairy spent the strip moaning about how dull and routine the procedure had become, before in the final panel sneaking off to a secluded dungeon to work on his "fairy chariot"... a stereotypical FlyingSaucer.

* TheConspiracyTheorist: The magazine drily catalogs the latest instances of WildMassGuessing by them.

* SpeciesLostAndFound: FT likes this aspect of cryptozology. It has covered the possibility that the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) might not be as extinct as people think it is.

* ArkhamsRazor: while holding to the sensible point of view that OccamsRazor is generally the right approach to take in evaluating evidence, FT is keen to point out that Arkham's Razor should not be scorned and may, in some circumstances, at least be more entertaining and maybe even potentially useful.

* BlackBeadEyes: The panic about "[[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/blackeyed.asp Black-Eyed Children]]" who are weird and sinister and not all they seem to be. The magazine has explored this phenomena which is on the borderline of being an [[UrbanLegends Urban Myth]], noting that these sinister entities are said to approach isolated people, claiming to be children in distress needing help, but who radiate malevolence and sinister intent. They are often drawn/depicted with the classic Black Bead Eyes and depictions of them can be very sinister-looking indeed. A far cry from cuteness, humour or whimsy.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: the BEK (Black Eyed Children) as above.

* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: The magazine drily catalogues the latest instances of WildMassGuessing;

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: They've toned it down a bit recently and hopefully listened to reader criticism. Experimenting with different styles of font and background colour is all very well and in the eyes of a keen designer, probably a lot more fulfilling than that boring unimaginative black-type-on-white-page, but what got lost in the enthusiasm was that it still has to be ''readable''. Combinations like red or yellow type on black background could make the pages horribly hard to read. FT went trough a phase of things like this.

* TheReptilians: A favorite topic. Creator/DavidIcke and his beliefs have been covered, discussed and debunked. But as always the reasons ''why'' people like Icke believe what they believe is far more fascinating.
* SandWorm: The Olgoi-Khorkhoi (Mongolian Death Worm), a legendary beast said to inhabit the Gobi Desert, is a 2-5 foot long worm capable of spitting acid and able to electrocute prey. FT regularly covers Mongolia to summarise the latest reported sightings and seeks to evaluate the evidence, using cryptozoologists who have made expeditions here as a sort of "roving reporter".
* ScienceIsWrong: Not necessarily. But FT might take the view that science as we have it is ''incomplete'' and anamalous phenomena are a clear sign of things going on that we haven't even begun to properly investigate yet.

* ScullySyndrome: Frequently {{lampshaded}} and questioned.

* TearsOfBlood: Forteana has its religious dimesion, and FT reports on occurences of statues and devotional icons whoch are seen to bleed, as well as the phenomenon of "stigmata" among devout believers, whose feet and palms bleed just where Christ is reputed to have been nailed to the cross. FT is not exclusively Christian: related events in other religions, such as Hindu devotional statues of gods which sweat milk, are also covered.

* {{Creepypasta}: A recurring theme concerns how much classical childrens' TV content of TheSixties and TheSeventies had a weird, disconcerting, Fortean dimension that had almost completely died out of childrens' TV by TheEighties.

* {{Creepypasta}]: A recurring theme concerns how much classical childrens' TV content of TheSixties and TheSeventies had a weird, disconcerting, Fortean dimension that had almost completely died out of childrens' TV by TheEighties.

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: the lurid and sensationalist imitator ''Bizarre'', that focused on the sexual, violent or generally sensationalist aspects of Forteana with lots of pictures and less words. Embarrassingly, it was released by the same publisher.

* Bizarre deaths ( the regular ''Strange Deaths'' column is a popular feature);

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: they've toned it down a bit recently and hopefully listened to reader criticism. Experimenting with different styles of font and background colour is all very well and in the eyes of a keen designer, probably a lot more fulfilling than that boring unimaginative black-type-on-white-page, but what got lost in the enthusiasm was that it still has to be ''readable''. Combinations like red or yellow type on black background could make the pages horribly hard to read. FT went trough a phase of things like this.

* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: The magazine drily catalogues the latest instances of WildMassGuessing;

* WeirdnessMagnet: Some people and places are naturally strange. Like the one corner of the north of England that has seen as many UFO sightings as the rest of the country put together.