FT332

Fortean Times #332 (October 2015)

• Release date: 17 Sep 2015
• Cover: Getty Images/Etienne Gilfillan
• Zinio version

Strange Days

In search of the Nazi ghost train, flesh-eating fiends, Mormon seer stone, France's phantom gassers, Warminster mural, rogue Masonic police, Thai ghosts, blue devil spider, Emdrive updates, herring gull hooligans - and much more.

• 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
• 14 Science: EmDrive Anomalies by David Hambling
• 16 Archaeology by Paul Devereux
  • Old Gold
  • Leaving a Mark
  • Golden Like The Sun
  • Sleeping Beauty
• 17 Classical Corner - 191: Magical Mystery Tour by Barry Baldwin
• 18 Ghostwatch: Unwelcome Developments by Alan Murdie
• 23 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
  • Ken's Alaskan Anomalies
  • A Change of Head for Anubis
  • Carl Meets the Blue Devil
• 25 Mythconceptions - 92: Bloody Steak by Mat Coward
• Fortean Follow-Ups
  • More Gulls Behaving Badly FT331:18
  • Flight MH370 FT313:4, FT327:22
  • Pirate Loot... Possibly FT328:4
  • The Big Sleep FT316:8-9, FT324:24, FT327:22
• 27 Fairies and Folklore: Inventing Browney by Simon Young
• 28 The UFO Files
  • Flyingsaucery by Andy Roberts and Dr David Clarke
    • It's a Thing
    • Much Ado About No Thing?
    • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Assembly
  • UFO Casebook: Security Alert by Jenny Randles

Contents

• 32 The Kubrick Conspiracies - Did the director of 2001 help fake the Moon landings?
• 42 The Great Alien Bake-Off - Pancakes from outer space
• 12 Creature Feature - Godzilla returns to Tokyo
• 06 Ghosts of Bangkok - Spirits and superstitions in modern Thailand
• 11 Monkeys vs the Evil Eye - Albania's cuddly guardians

Features

26 The Kubrick Conspiracies (cover story)
Cinema and conspiracy theory are no strangers, but it is unusual for such theorising to attach itself to the figure of a director - so why has Stanley Kubrick become the focus of theories involving everything from fake Moon landings to the Illuminati? Dean Ballinger argues that the answer can be found in the director's obsession with creative control.

38 Reclaiming the Mermaid
Sophia Kingshill asks whether the figure of the fish-tailed siren can be rescued from the traditional roles of victim or vamp to claim a more nuanced, and sometimes political, role in the modern world.

42 The Great Alien Bake-Off
Bread is a foodstuff rich in human history and symbolism, but it has also played a surprising role in all kinds of entity encounters over the centuries. Joshua Cutchin opens his otherworldly oven and shares a selection of fairy loaves, alien pancakes and Sasquatch crackers.

Reports

30 Blasts from the Past - No 59. The Night Doctors by Theo Paijmans

48 Strange Statesmen - No 6. Warlords of Maclantis: Lewis Spence by SD Tucker

52 Building a Fortean Library - No 3. How to do cryptozoology by The Hierophant's Apprentice

Forum

55 The laughing death by Mark Greener

56 Identical but different by Guy Lyon Playfair

58 I am Spartacus by Paul Screeton

Regulars

02 Editorial

• Fortean Food
• Modern Mad Gassers
• Erratum FT331:65 wrong publisher for DVD
• Cartoon by Martin Ross

78 Reader Info

• Special Correspondents
  • Australia - Graham Cordon (SA), Tony Healy (ACT), John Palazzi (NSW), Len Watson (Qld)
  • Canada - Brian Chapman (BC), Graham Conway (BC)
  • Cyberspace - Richard Alexander, John F Callahan, Hugh Henry, Steve Scanlon, Janet Wilson
  • England - Gail-Nina Anderson, Louise Bath, James Beckett, Claire Blamey, Peter Christie, Mat Coward, Kate Eccles, Paul Farthing, George Featherston, Paul Gallagher, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Anne Hardwick, Richard Lowke, Alexis Lykiard, Diana Lyons, Dave Malin, Nick Maloret, Valerie Martin, Tom Ruffles, Meryl Santis, Paul Screeton, Gary Stocker, Roman Suchyj, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Nick Warren, Owen Whiteoak, Bobby Zodiac
  • France - Michel Meurger
  • Germany - Ulrich Magin
  • Holland - Robin Pascoe
  • Ireland - Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Andrew Munro
  • Israel - Zvi Ron
  • New Zealand - Peter Hassall
  • Romania - Iosif Boczor
  • Scotland - Roger Musson
  • Sweden - Sven Rosen
  • Thailand - Chris Williams
  • USA - Loren Coleman (ME), Jim Conlan (CT), Myron Hoyt (ME), Greg May (FL), Dolores Phelps (TX), Jim Riecken (NY), Joseph Trainor (MA), Jeffrey Vallance (CA), Gary Yates (UT)
  • Wales - Janet Bord, Colin Bord
• Fort Sorters (who classify clippings placed in the Archives for Fortean Research)
  • Phil Baker, Rachel Carthy, Chris Josiffe, Mark Pilkington, Bob Rickard, Paul Sieveking, Ian Simmons
• Clipping Credits
  • Richard Alexander, Gerard Apps, David V Barrett, Louise Bath, James Beckett, John F Callahan, Peter Christie, Terry Colvin, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Graham Cordon, Mat Coward, Brian Duffy, JD Evans, John Evans, Rob Gandy, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Alan Gibb, Benjamin Gleisser, Hugh Henry, Colin Ings, Paul Jackson, Tony James, Rosalind Johnson, Andy Lapham, Richard Lowke, Diana Lyons, Dave Malin, Bert Gray-Malkin, Betty Gray-Malkin, Nick Maloret, Greg May, Dave McCann, Lucas J Mudskipper, Alan Murdie, John Palazzi, Jim Price, Tom Ruffles, Steve Scanlon, Paul Screeton, Jonathan Sibley, Gary Stocker, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Dave Trevor, Chris Tye, Nicholas Warren, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, Janet Wilson, Gary Yates

Masthead

• Editor - David Sutton
• Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
• Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
• Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
• Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
• Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson

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