FT404
Fortean Times #404 (April 2021)
- Release date: 25 Mar 2021
- Cover price: £4.80
- Cover Illustration: Etienne Gilfillan; Photos and clippings courtesy Shirley Hitchings; Burnt Paper: Jacob Guide/Flickr; Silver Key: Photo by Tom Joseph on Unsplash
- All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
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Contents
- 23 The art of alien encounters
- 24 The Battersea Poltergeist
- 38 The hidden side of the Prado
- 56 Salvador Dalí's Perpignan portal
Features
24 The Battersea Poltergeist (cover story)
Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe takes a fresh look at a case that has baffled investigators for decades. In 1956, a normal family home at 63 Wycliffe Road, Battersea, became the centre of an astonishing and frequently terrifying array of phenomena focused on a 15-year-old girl called Shirley Hitchings...
38 The Hidden Side of the Prado
Clive Prince travelled to Madrid for a personal tour of the Prado Museum with novelist Javier Sierra in which they explored the links between artistic practice and esoteric meanings from Da Vinci to Dalí.
44 Giants In The Earth
Did fallen angels once disobey God, descend to Earth and mate with mortal women to produce a race of gigantic beings? Ted Harrison explores our fascination with the mysterious Nephilim of the Bible - monsters, myths or visiting aliens?
Series
50 Strange Statesmen - One foot in the grave SD Tucker
76 Peculiar Postcards - A Leipzig lion hunt Jan Bondeson
Forum
55 Extraordinary claims Andrew May
56 Of paintings and portals Dean Ballinger
Strange Days
A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Signals from space, mosaic mystery, Marilyn Monroe's ghost, and much more...
- 11 Classical Corner
- 12 Archæology
- 14 Science
- 16 Ghostwatch
- 20 Alien Zoo
- 22 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