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Fortean Times #328 (June 2015)

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Strange Days

Captain Kidd's treasure, Challenger conspiracy, four-year old's Hollywood past life, Martian mushroom cloud, haunted highways, worm falls, possession conference, desperate journeys, samurai ghost boots - and much more.

Contents

  • 32 The Old Man of Halsall Moss - Out there... is Lancashire's very own phantom hitchhiker
  • 26 Desperate Journeys - Tales of survival against the odds
  • 48 Mugabe and the Magic Boulder - Weirdness and witchcraft in Zimbabwe
  • 10 Enter the Dragon - 'Naga corpse' found in fishing pond
  • 08 Second Run - Oklahoma boy's past life in Hollywood

Features

32 The Old Man of Halsall Moss (cover story)
In 1990, we ran an account of a classic phantom hitchhiker case from Lancashire - but it turns out that it was just one of many strange encounters in the same area. This year, Rob Gandy revisited Halsall Moss to find that its lonely roads are as haunted as ever...

40 Wild Talent: Lowry, Fort and Magic
Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is one of the 20th century's greatest novels, although the crucial influence of Charles Fort on its author's life and work is seldom mentioned. Ruth Clydesdale sets the record straight.

44 Rest in Pieces
We usually think of death as the end of the story, but sometimes it's the start of a whole new one. Bess Lovejoy has been chronicling the curious fates of famous corpses; here she relates the post-mortem adventures of some of the 20th century's key political figures

Reports

48 Strange Statesmen - No 2. Mugabe and the Magic Boulder: Robert Mugabe by SD Tucker

75 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 39. Elizabeth Lyska, the Russian Giantess by Jan Bondeson

76 Fortean Traveller - No 100. Lycia, Turkey by Ulrich Magin

Forum

53 My big fat Neolithic wedding by Steve Marshall

54 TE Lawrence's last ride by Tom Heywood

Regulars

02 Editorial

  • Reopening the case files
    • Uncanny Encounters
    • Enfield on Screen
  • Cartoon by Martin Ross

57 Reviews

  • BOOKS
    • The Andreasson Affair by Raymond E Fowler - ISBN 9781601633460 - Bob Rickard
    • Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke - ISBN 9781601633477 - Jerome Clark
    • The John Michell Reader selected and introduced by Joscelyn Godwin - ISBN 9781620554159 - Steve Marshall
    • Scientology: The Cult of Greed by Jon Atack - ISBN 9781505490121 - David V Barrett
    • Greenglow & The Search for Gravity Control by Ronald Evans - ISBN 9781784620233 - Andrew May
    • Haunted Ireland by Tarquin Blake - ISBN 9781848892231 - Val Stevenson
  • FILM & DVD
    • Avengers: Age of Ultron - director Joss Whedon, US 2015 - David Sutton
    • Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films - Director Mick Hartley, Australia/US/Israel/UK 2014 - Daniel King
    • The Tribe - Director Miroslave Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine/Netherlands 2014 - Fohnjang Ghebdinga
    • The Reverend's Review by Reverend Peter Laws
    • Freaks - Director Todd Browning, US 1932
    • Shorts
    • Bad Land: Road to Fury - Signature Entertainment - Richmond Clements
    • Halo: Nightfall - Anchor Bay Entertainment - Brian J Robb
    • Harlock Space Pirate - Manga Entertainment - Brian J Robb

69 Letters

79 Phenomenomix

80 Strange Deaths

78 Reader Info

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