FT255
Fortean Times #255 (November 2009)
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- Release date: 15 Oct 2009
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated December 2009 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan
Contents
- 44 The Secret Teacher - The long, strange life of an American guru and master of the occult
- 72 Encounters with Invizikids - Readers' accounts of quasi-corporeal companions
- 16 Witch Bottle - A reminder of ancient curses
- 30 The Tennessee Man-Fish - A 19th-century tale from the riverbank
- 32 City of Symbols - London's links to Freemasonry
Features
32 City of Symbols (Cover Story)
While Dan Brown looks for Masonic symbolism in Washington, DC, David Hambling takes us on a journey through Masonic London, a trail that includes Isaac Newton and Jack the Ripper, St Paul's Cathedral and the pyramid on Canary Wharf, conspiracy theories and occult forces...
40 MacBeth and teh Masons
Robert Guffey argues that Freemasonry not only predates the earliest written evidence of its activites, but has also influenced the whole development of Western culture from the shadows, through the embedding of hermetic symbolism in great literature...
44 The Secret Teacher
Gary Lachman examines the strange life and even stranger death of esoteric scholar Manly P Hall, one of California's longest-lived gurus.
Forum
51 Black hole revelations by Ian J Kidd
52 Driven batty by the orang bati by Dr Karl Shuker
54 Predictable problems by Steve Moore
Reports
30 Blasts from the Past - No 14. The man-fish of Tennessee by Theo Paijmans
76 Fortean Traveller - No 67. The Heksenwaag, Holland by Matt Salusbury
Strange Days
Expert claims Vinland map is genuine; tears of blood; canine castaway and feline passenger; standing broom only; squirrel pops up and dogfish drops in; yeti-like creatures spotted around the world; Blessed Virgin image in tree stump; picture postcards find families pictured; strange sexual behaviour - and much more.
- 14 Science
- 16 Archaeology
- 17 Classical Corner
- 18 Ghostwatch
- 22 Alien Zoo
- 26 Fortean Follow-ups
- 27 Strange Deaths
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
Editorial
- 02
Subscriptions
- 50
Reviews
- 57
Competition
- 65
Letters
- 69
It Happened to Me
- 72
Back Issues CD-Rom
- 75
Comic Strip
- 76
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 74
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Picture Researcher - Maria J Perez Cuervo
- Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Design Assistant - Sophie Chery
- Staff Writer/Picture Researcher/Web Editor - Jen Ogilvie
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson