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Fortean Times #398 (November 2020)

Release date: 8 Oct 2020
Cover price: £4.60
Cover Image: Etienne Gilfillan
All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
Subscriptions: Fortean Times Subscription Website
Digital editions: Official App on Google, Apple --- Zinio (268+) --- Magzter (283+)

Features

32 The Peril of Moving Statues (cover story)
Alan Murdie wonders if recent outbreaks of iconoclasm across the US and UK reveal our deep-seated fears about whether statues enjoy some uncanny life of their own...

40 Dreams, Death and Spirituality
Alejandro Parra examines anomalous experiences reported by nurses concerning deathbed visions and near-death experiences, and argues that we should pay more attention to the dream life of patients approaching the end.

46 Chupacabra @ 25
Benjamin Radford revisits the first report of the chupacabra 25 years ago and reveals new details from the original eyewitness about the world's most famous cryptozoological vampire.

Series

50 Strange Statesmen - King of Canada SD Tucker

77 Peculiar Postcards - The Sheldon Duck Jan Bondeson

Forum

55 Of mystics and mellow fruitfulness by Lisa Gledhill

56 Music of the spheres by Andrew May

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Deadman's Island, impostor syndrome, Skinwalker Ranch, mystery box and more...

16 Science
18 Archæology
19 Classical Corner
20 The Conspirasphere
23 Mythconceptions
27 Alien Zoo
29 Fairies and Folklore
30 The UFO Files

Regulars

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

Masthead

Editor - David Sutton
Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
News Editor - Christopher Josiffe
Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
Book Reviews Editor - David V Barrett
Editorial Assistant - Abigail Mason
Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson

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+* Release date: 8 Oct 2020
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-* Release date: 10 Sep 2020
 * Cover price: £4.60
-* Cover Image: EG/Thanks to Arran Brown
+* Cover Image: [[Etienne Gilfillan]]
 * All header icons throughout the magazine by [[Capucine Deslouis]]
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 ===Contents===
-* 12 Berlin's wildlife crimewave
+* 37 A brief history of iconoclasm
-* 25 Metal drummer goes to Hell
+* 40 Deathbed dreams and visions
-* 42 The weird world of Charles Waterton
+* 46 The first chupacabra witness
-* 76 The spectral horse of Dirleton and other East Lothian hauntings
+* 56 Music of the spheres
 ==Features==
-Solving the Risley Silver Man Mystery (cover story)<br />'''[[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?
+The Peril of Moving Statues (cover story)<br />'''[[Alan Murdie]]''' wonders if recent outbreaks of iconoclasm across the US and UK reveal our deep-seated fears about whether statues enjoy some uncanny life of their own...
-The Weird World of Charles Waterton<br />'''[[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.
+Dreams, Death and Spirituality<br />'''[[Alejandro Parra]]''' examines anomalous experiences reported by nurses concerning deathbed visions and near-death experiences, and argues that we should pay more attention to the dream life of patients approaching the end.
-Lives of the Great Occultists<br />'''[[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...
+Chupacabra @ 25<br />'''[[Benjamin Radford]]''' revisits the first report of the chupacabra 25 years ago and reveals new details from the original eyewitness about the world's most famous cryptozoological vampire.
 ==Series==
-Blasts from the Past - The Terrible Grinning Men '''[[Theo Paijmans]]'''
+Strange Statesmen - King of Canada '''[[SD Tucker]]'''
-Peculiar Postcards - Curiosities of East Lothian '''[[Jan Bondeson]]'''
+Peculiar Postcards - The Sheldon Duck '''[[Jan Bondeson]]'''
 ==Forum==
-Covid Mary by '''[[Ted Harrison]]'''
+Of mystics and mellow fruitfulness by '''[[Lisa Gledhill]]'''
-Amityville: Fact, fiction or fake? by '''[[John Fraser]]'''
+Music of the spheres by '''[[Andrew May]]'''
 ==Strange Days==
-A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Nudist vs boar, child catcher panic, ghostly cricketers, glacier turns pink and more...
+A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Deadman's Island, impostor syndrome, Skinwalker Ranch, mystery box and more...
-* 14 Archaeology
+* 16 Science
-* 17 The Conspirasphere
+* 18 Arch&aelig;ology
-* 18 Ghostwatch
+* 19 Classical Corner
+* 20 The Conspirasphere
 * 23 Mythconceptions
-* 26 Strange Continent
+* 27 Alien Zoo
+* 29 Fairies and Folklore
 * 30 The UFO Files
 ==Regulars==
-* 02 Editorial - Not of This Earth?
+* 02 Editorial
-** Getting Copies of FT
-** Errata
-*** [[FT392]]:16 Careless wording
-*** [[FT393]]:16 Wrong TV show
-*** [[FT396]]:63 Incorrect film details
 * 59 Reviews
-* 69 Letters
+* 71 Letters
 * 78 Reader Info
 * 79 Phenomenomix
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 * Editorial Assistant - [[Abigail Mason]]
 * Resident Cartoonist - [[Hunt Emerson]]
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