FT393

Fortean Times #393 (June 2020)

Release date: 21 May 2020
Cover price: £4.60
Cover Image: Etienne Gilfillan
Coronavirus: Getty Images
All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
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Features

34 Beaky Blinders: In Search of the Plague Doctor (cover story)
The ominous figure of the plague doctor, with his long robes and bird-like mask, seems an appropriate icon for our pandemic-riven times - but what was his historical reality? Jonathan Ferguson traces the macabre medic's evolution and revival.

42 The Parallax View
A lot of people are opposed to globalisation, but would they go so far as to insist that our planet is actually pancake-shaped? Gordon Rutter wonders why the Flat Earth theory has made a comeback - and meets one of its modern proponents.

46 "Lifted Up From the Earth"
In the Gospels, Christ is transported to a 'high place' by a mysterious adversary. Bob Rickard examines an alternative life of Jesus in the context of a magical mid-air battle.

Reports

52 Building a Fortean Library - Invizikids The Hierophant's Apprentice

76 Fortean Traveller - Tales from the Fairy Field Fiona Maher

Forum

55 Little green man by Paul Devereux

56 This house is not haunted by Ryan Shirlow

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: vampire panics, 5G conspiracies, Humberside monster, living ghosts and more...

05 The Conspirasphere
16 Science
18 Ghostwatch
23 Mythconceptions
24 Alien Zoo
32 The UFO Files

Regulars

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

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