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Seriously Strange
Seriously Strange is the flagship publication of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), reimagined for a new era of discovery. Moving beyond the conventional, our refreshed incarnation embraces a bold, cinematic aesthetic inspired by the depth of National Geographic, BBC Science Focus and Fortean Times. We are a showcase for the field’s leading luminaries and deep-thinking researchers. Yet, our mission is inclusive: Seriously Strange is a welcoming home for emerging voices. Whether you are a seasoned expert or an enthusiast with a compelling theory, we provide the platform to begin your writing journey. Features, Articles, Essays, Commentaries and more.
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Summer of Strange
Summer is here
Dive into the "Summer of Strange," marking our 45th anniversary, this feature-rich edition brings focus with a comprehensive preview of the Seriously Strange Conference 2026.
Features include the mysterious 1938 Leeds Ghost Fires and the distinct Six phases of British Ufology with articles of the enigma of Alien Big Cats and Dorset’s Mystical gem, Football Meets Fate with a World Cup tie in, examining the Aaron Ramsey Curse. The REAL danger from the Paranormal, and so much more.
Fully actioned packed and available to ASSAP Members
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Seriously Strange Magazine 164
DMT Dimensions
A Seriously Strange mix of psychedelic encounters, monstrous extremes, spectral legends, Victorian terrors and more high-strangeness!
Simon Grace’s long-awaited feature: A Review of DMT in Relation to Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind – examining Dr Rick Strassman’s 1990s trials, pineal-gland DMT surges and their startling parallels with alien-abduction reports.
Cover story: Prof Rob Gandy’s Damnistics: How Dangerous Might a Sea Monster Be? – using extreme-value statistics to analyse the true maximum sizes of giant snails, sponges, walruses and squid, and what that means for cryptozoologists hunting krakens.
The Legendary Gray Man of South Carolina – heed his warning in this chilling cryptozoological classic.
Marginals spectral sentry and a Victorian Spring Heeled Jack deep-dive into the worlds of Jack.
Inside the Analytics of our changing demographics – who’s listening to the paranormal?
Rev Lionel Fanthorpe’s ever-popular President’s Piece.
Plus the launch of ASSAP’s new Specialist Advisory Panel, membership updates, book news and much more!
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Seriously Strange Issue 163
On The Prowl
A veritable Seriously Strange mix of landscape mysteries, spectral hounds, high-strangeness tech and more fortean fun!
- Simon Grace’s long-awaited *Geomantic Landscape Enhancement* – the first systematic feng shui analysis of the St Michael’s Line ley and its sacred nodes, comparing British sites with Korean and Tibetan geomantic traditions.
- Cover feature: Professor Rob Gandy investigates the great black dog haunting the roads of Beckingham, Nottinghamshire, where folklore, faith and eyewitness accounts collide.
- Debut article from actor/storyteller Dylan Knight: *Minister and the Fairies* – ghosts, folklore and historical events in the Derbyshire Dales.
- Rev Lionel Fanthorpe’s ever-popular President’s Piece.
- The tragic Convoy PQ-17 ghost fleet that still sails the Arctic mists.
- Could 5G/6G networks double as UAP anomaly detectors? Exploring the sensing frontier of next-gen telecoms.
- Sarah Pilkington on the divisive history of the Ouija board
- DIY consciousness projection and walking through walls: what you can really achieve in the garden shed this weekend (for science!).
- Plus a review of *Dark Secrets: The Esoteric Experience* and more!
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Seriously Strange Issue 162
Super Bumper Edition of 88 pages! Content-rich cover to cover filled with Features, Articles, Editorial and Specials.
Including an insight series of pieces dedicated to the topic of UAP / UFO entitled Unfiltered and Unidentified.
Highlights:
- Rick Hale: Boxing with Shadows – confronting dark entities
- Buggen Lane (Dr Mike Benburgh-Jackson): haunted history and folklore in North Wales
- The Rhyl mummified body (Sheena Aspinall-Young): 20 years hidden, deception and ghosts
- New Jersey drones (Kristian Lander): mystery wave, media panic and historical parallels
Plus:
- Calvine UFO new witness testimony
- Ben Emlyn-Jones on the coming paradigm shift in UFOlogy
- Weird Science: real research into walking through walls
- Free will & spirit interference
- Uncanny coincidences, new Seriously Strange branding, and a big Seriously Strange disclosure debate
Ghosts, UAP, fortean coincidences and cutting-edge paranormal research across 88 pages.
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Seriously Strange 161
A haunting and thought-provoking edition packed with ghosts, UFOs, strange sounds and solved mysteries.
Highlights:
The Phantom Concorde: multiple 1975 sightings of a ghostly supersonic jet over Shropshire and Essex
Neil Nixon on “lost futures” music: how certain artists channel nostalgia, folklore and the uncanny into eerie, timeless soundscapes
UFO car-stop cases: Ian Liston-Smith examines why petrol and diesel engines react differently during close encounters
The “bathroom ghost” that turned out to be a pigeon – a funny, heart-warming real-life mystery solved over tea and Victoria sponge
Plus:
Past-life regression pitfalls & false memories (Steve Bowkett)
Ghost in the machine: Sylvia Wix revisits spooky glitches in an old evolutionary video game that let living characters meet the digital dead
Full recap of the latest ASSAP Conference
Classic mix of aerial phantoms, high strangeness, UFO science and rational (and irrational) explanations.
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Seriously Strange Issue 160
Would you like to be a bigger part of ASSAP? If you are aged 18 or over, and have been a member of ASSAP for at least one year, then you can stand for election to fulfil one of the three director’s roles or many Exec positons within ASSAP.
Seriously Strange Magazine Issue 159
There can be only one subject for this issues editorial: the tragic death of our Vice Chairman Robert Moore
Seriously Strange Magazine Issue 158
I am delighted to say ASSAP has been able to give several small research grants over the last couple of years, and they genuinely helped individual researchers to make progress and continue to work
Seriously Strange Magazine Issue 157
So what is new in the world of paranormal research? Some of our North American colleagues are looking at putting together a sister group across the Atlantic; drop me a line if interested and I will put you in touch.
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 156
Featured inside this issue: Phantom Wall Writing, Sensory Hauntings, The Per Lane Incident, updates on ASSAP Training and Events plus more...
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 155
Inside this issue we feature Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe looking into the mystery of Boudicca. Mark Davey asks the question 'Where have all the serious investigators gone?', Dave Salter explores The Mother of Ghosts, Gayle Fidler looks at the Magical retirement of the Beast and the Earl.....plus much more.
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 154
Inside this issue go in search of Bigfoot with Jackie Tonks. Ian Topham walks Hadrian's Wall and reports on local ghosts and legends along the way. Richard Freeman writes about Magalania - the lizard of Oz....and much more!
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 153
Inside Issue 153 we take a look at Guidance notes for Investigators of spontaneous cases by Steven Parsons, we get to know a bit more about ASSAP members, Andy & Nick. ASSAP's President, Lional Fanthorpe and his wife take a look at the legend surrounding the Glastonbury automatic writing mystery....and much more!
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 152
Take a look inside Seriously Strange - Issue 152, featuring articles on Borley Revisited by Chris Myer and Norie Miles, Native American UFO Star-people by Sean Casteel. Alexandra Holtzer asks 'Which one is Witch?', Daniel Allen Kelley looks into Pellucid sleep and dreaming....and much more!
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 151
Inside Issue 151 includes articles on Nikola Tesler, UFO contactee by Sean Casteel, Gavin Fox writes on Fear the Reaper: THe real world dangers of modern paranomal investigations. Chis Howley looks at whether Woodchester Manion is haunted....and much more!
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 150
In issue 150 of Winter 2016: The human pendulum spirit communication of ideomoor response? More to read: Mysteries on The Isles of Wight, Thermodynamics, Macroscopic paranormal, The Bell Witch Poltergeist, etc.
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 149
Spring 2016, issue 149 of Seriously Strange Magazine beholds articles on ASSAP's 35th Anniversary Event, Anges Finne - Edinburgh's most prolific witch, Mysterious Appearances, find out who Aleister Crowley was and lots more...
Seriously Strange Magazine - Issue 148
Inside this issue Robert Moore takes a look back at Seriously Unidentified - ASSAP's UFO Conference. We also have articles by Paula Dempsey on Fortean London: Animal Ghosts, Chris Jensen Romer looks at Photographic Ghosts and also at The Vanishing House.
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 146
In issue 146 Winter 2014/Spring 2015 you can read interesting articles on Yeti, Psychic Vampires, a quick lesson in making the most of FOIA requests and many more...
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 145
The ghost tunnels of the high angle battery - Portland Bill, Dorset, giants & Ogres, Science and the Paranormal and many other interesting stories in issue 145, Summer 2014
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 144
Hunting Ghosts without the Gadgets, Military Mysteries, Vampires and the paranormal and more articles in issue 144, Autumn 2013
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 143
Bigfoot in Indiana? Ghosts in the recycle bin, The Mystery of Springheeled Jack, and many more to read in issue 143, Summer 2013
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 142
Language of the Angels? Also inside issue 142, Spring 2013: Part 2 Poltergeist? A statement of events, The death of William Rufus Magic or Murder?, Tribute to Archie Roy, Project Albion and many more....
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 141
The trouble with Skeptics, What, Poltergeist? And more f.i. a Christmas Ghost story you can find in issue 141 of Seriously Strange winter 2012
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 140
Haunting Hotspots..... Find out in issue 140 of Autumn 2012, more articles like The Mysteries of Castle Acre in Norfolk and how about a paranormal Crossword puzzle?
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 139
The disappearance of Dr. Dick, Fieldwork Research Techniques - assumption-led vs evidence-led, using EMF meter in the dark, UFO Trail and many more articles, you can read it all in issue 139, Summer 2012.
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 138
2012 Spring, issue 138 of Seriously Strange Magazine beholds the following articles: The many haunts of Mary Blandy, ghost photo's, an adventure in time, how to hunt monsters (part 4), EMFs and spirit mediumship, EMFs and paranormal phenomena and many more.
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 137
Winter 2011, issue 137 on The Ghost Laser Grid and many more interesting articles as f.i. K2 meter review, numerology, spiritual tools and methods, investigation CCTV, how to hunt monsters (part 3), spirit mediumship, crop circles etc.
Seriously Strange Magazine - issue 136
ASSAP turns 30 in style, read all about the conference of 10th September 2011 in Seriously Strange issue no. 136