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Fortean Times #397 (October 2020)

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Contents

  • 12 Berlin's wildlife crimewave
  • 25 Metal drummer goes to Hell
  • 42 The weird world of Charles Waterton
  • 76 The spectral horse of Dirleton and other East Lothian hauntings

Features

36 Solving the Risley Silver Man Mystery (cover story)
Glen Vaudrey reopens the file on one of the most baffling close encounters of the 1970s, when a witness reported seeing a seven-foot-tall 'silver man' walking through a fence at a secret British nuclear reactor site - but was this an alien invasion or something else?

42 The Weird World of Charles Waterton
Susan Marsh tells the story of eccentric explorer and naturalist Charles Waterton, whose curious career embraced both a pioneering concern with conservation and an obsession with creating hybrid creatures through his own unique form of taxidermy.

50 Lives of the Great Occultists
Kevin Jackson & Hunt Emerson have celebrated many key figures in the history of the occult in the pages of FT. Here they look back on a 10-year journey through the humorous side of the Hermetic Tradition...

Series

32 Blasts from the Past - The Terrible Grinning Men Theo Paijmans

76 Peculiar Postcards - Curiosities of East Lothian Jan Bondeson

Forum

55 Covid Mary by Ted Harrison

56 Amityville: Fact, fiction or fake? by John Fraser

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Nudist vs boar, child catcher panic, ghostly cricketers, glacier turns pink and more...

  • 14 Archaeology
  • 17 The Conspirasphere
  • 18 Ghostwatch
  • 23 Mythconceptions
  • 26 Strange Continent
  • 30 The UFO Files

Regulars

  • 02 Editorial - Not of This Earth?
    • Getting Copies of FT
    • Errata
      • FT392:16 Careless wording
      • FT393:16 Wrong TV show
      • FT396:63 Incorrect film details
  • 59 Reviews
  • 69 Letters
  • 78 Reader Info
  • 79 Phenomenomix
  • 80 Strange Deaths

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