FT417

Fortean Times #417 (April 2022)

Release date: 24 Mar 2022
Cover price: £4.80
Cover Illustration: Etienne Gilfillan; with thanks to Michael Dinan; bear illustration Quinton Winter
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Features

32 The Mysteries of Lookout Mountain (cover story)
In the heart of Hollywood, a top-secret military-run movie studio may have been brainwashing 1960s counterculture. Brian J Robb examines the mysteries of Lookout Mountain Laboratory, involving film stars, alien autopsies, and rock music.

42 The Strange Death of Hanna Twynnoy
Helen Harrison tells the tragic story of Hanna Twynnoy, the first person in Britain to be killed by a tiger, and examines the long history of menageries and collections of exotic animals in Europe.

46 Twentieth Century Tales, Part One
Paul Sieveking presents some of the strangest newspaper stories from the first half of the 20th century, including a Welsh poltergeist, a Somerset sea serpent, an electric boy and "Jack the Snipper" on the prowl in Boston...

Series

74 Fortean Traveller - Searching for St Aldhelm Steve Marshall

77 Peculiar Postcards - The Cullen Caveman Jan Bondeson

Forum

53 They want to believe Nigel Watson

54 The Almasty fingernail mystery solved Ulrich Magin

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Mumsnet goatman, Welsh UFOs, animal attacks, earliest ball lightning and more...

12 Archæology
14 Classical Corner
18 Ghostwatch
21 The Conspirasphere
22 Alien Zoo
30 The UFO Files

Regulars

02 Editorial
57 Reviews
67 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
Production Manager - Lee Boyman

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