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Fortean Times #408 (August 2021)

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Contents

  • 20 Was John McAfee 'Epsteined'?
  • 23 Nessie sculpture appears down under
  • 32 How Liberace returned to Earth in a banana-shaped UFO
  • 46 The Costwold Olimpicks

Features

32 Space Liberace (cover story)
In 1989, a small town in Alabama experienced a UFO flap - but when a British tabloid newspaper suggested that the late entertainer Liberace had descended from a banana-shaped UFO, things got a lot weirder. Jeffrey Vallace explores the emergence of a cosmic archetype: "Space Liberace".

40 In the Wake of Morag, Part Two
In the concluding extract from his long-delayed memoir, Australian cryptozoologist Tony Healy looks back to the summer of 1979, when he spent four months on a Scottish lake monster safari. This time, he meets the Hermit of Loch Morar and has a possible close encounter with Morag...

46 Bold Dover
Pun intended, says Rob Gandy, as he tells the story of the Cotswold 'Olimpick' Games and the 17th century English Catholic whose inclusive vision launched this odd sporting festival.

Series

52 Strange Statesmen - Revolution Number Nine SD Tucker

77 Peculiar Postcards - The Tintagel Sea Serpent of 1907 Jan Bondeson

Forum

57 Seeing is believing... or is it? Mark Greener

58 Unknown forces Brett Taylor

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Pentagon UFO report, Brood X, Ghostly bailiffs, weird auctions, and more...

  • 12 Archæology
  • 16 Ghostwatch
  • 20 Conspirasphere
  • 24 Alien Zoo
  • 29 Fairies and Folklore
  • 30 The UFO Files

Regulars

  • 02 Editorial
  • 61 Reviews
  • 71 Letters
  • 78 Reader Info
  • 79 Phenomenomix
  • 80 Strange Deaths

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