FT408
Fortean Times #408 (August 2021)
- Release date: 15 July 2021
- Cover price: £4.80
- Cover Illustration: Etienne Gilfillan
- All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
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Contents
- 20 Was John McAfee 'Epsteined'?
- 23 Nessie sculpture appears down under
- 32 How Liberace returned to Earth in a banana-shaped UFO
- 46 The Costwold Olimpicks
Features
32 Space Liberace (cover story)
In 1989, a small town in Alabama experienced a UFO flap - but when a British tabloid newspaper suggested that the late entertainer Liberace had descended from a banana-shaped UFO, things got a lot weirder. Jeffrey Vallace explores the emergence of a cosmic archetype: "Space Liberace".
40 In the Wake of Morag, Part Two
In the concluding extract from his long-delayed memoir, Australian cryptozoologist Tony Healy looks back to the summer of 1979, when he spent four months on a Scottish lake monster safari. This time, he meets the Hermit of Loch Morar and has a possible close encounter with Morag...
46 Bold Dover
Pun intended, says Rob Gandy, as he tells the story of the Cotswold 'Olimpick' Games and the 17th century English Catholic whose inclusive vision launched this odd sporting festival.
Series
52 Strange Statesmen - Revolution Number Nine SD Tucker
77 Peculiar Postcards - The Tintagel Sea Serpent of 1907 Jan Bondeson
Forum
57 Seeing is believing... or is it? Mark Greener
58 Unknown forces Brett Taylor
Strange Days
A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Pentagon UFO report, Brood X, Ghostly bailiffs, weird auctions, and more...
- 12 Archæology
- 16 Ghostwatch
- 20 Conspirasphere
- 24 Alien Zoo
- 29 Fairies and Folklore
- 30 The UFO Files
Regulars
- 02 Editorial
- 61 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 - Ian Simmons
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Book Reviews Editor - David V Barrett
- Editorial Assistant - Abigail Mason
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson
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