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Fortean Times #421 (August 2022)

• Release date: 14 July 2022
• Cover price: £4.95
• Cover Illustration: Etienne Gilfillan; Thanks to Mike Dash for his nautical knowledge and Lucas Martins for his help with the modelling
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Contents

• 10 Toads in trees
• 18 TE Lawrence's ghosts
• 36 Sunspots, solar flares and the Carrington Event
• 52 The Atlantis Bookshop at 100

Features

30 Driven Mad by the Great Sea Serpent (cover story)
Charles Paxton uncovers the eventful life of a Victorian merchant captain, world-be murderer, cryptozoological monomaniac, evangelist, inventor and hero.

36 A Storm on the Sun
David Hambling looks at the surprising history of sunspots and solar storms, examines the heated arguments about their nature and influence, and considers the likelihood that the next Carrington Event will have cataclysmic results here on Earth...

42 A Warning to the Fortean
Rob Gandy is back on the weirdness beat in Lincolnshire, where he finds that sometimes real-life events can morph into local supernatural folklore...

Series

46 Strange Statesmen - Triangles of Terror Trilogy, Side One SD Tucker

69 Peculiar Postcards - Nita, the Hypnotised and Suspended Lady Jan Bondeson

Forum

51 The Cup, the cortege and the curse Claire Davy

52 Atlantis at 100 Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Jubilee UAP, signals from space, Amarillo entity, resurrections and more...

• 12 Archæology
• 19 Classical Corner
• 16 Science
• 18 Ghostwatch
• 26 The Conspirasphere
• 30 The UFO Files

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 55 Reviews
• 63 Letters
• 70 Reader Info
• 71 Phenomenomix
• 72 Strange Deaths

Masthead

• Editor - David Sutton
• Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
• Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
• News Editor - Ian Simmons
• Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
• Book Reviews Editor - David V Barrett
• Editorial Assistant - Abigail Mason
• Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson
• Production Manager - Lee Boyman
• Advertising - Ben Lorton

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