THE GREAT ALIEN BAKE-OFF CANNIBAL ROUND-UP FLESH-EATING FIENDS IN THE HEADLINES IDENTICAL BUT DIFFERENT THE SEARCH FOR TWIN TELEPATHY PANCAKES FROM SPACE AND SASQUATCH CRACKERS FACT OR FOLKLORE? TRACKING THE WISCONSIN GOATMAN THE THE WORLD OF STRANGE PHENOMENA WWW.FORTEANTIMES.COM SHOPPING MALL UFO • GHOSTS OF THAILAND • GALLIC GASSERS • MORMON SEER STONE WORLD’S FORTEAN TIMES 332 WEIRDES THE WORLD OF STRANGE PHENOMENA WWW.FORTEANTIMES.COM NEWS T FT332 OCTOBER 2015 £4.25 THE KUBRICK CONSPIRACIES • MODERN MERMAIDS • THE GREAT ALIEN The Kubrick Conspiracies FROM FAKE MOON LANDINGS TO ILLUMINATI MIND CONTROL WARLORDS OF MACLANTIS BA SCOTTISH NATIONALISM'S KE-OFF • GHOSTS OF THAILAND • UNDERSEA KINGDOM THOROUGHLY MODERN MERMAIDS WA SEDUCTIVE SIRENS RLORDS OF MACLANTIS • CANNIBAL NEWS OR FISH-TAILED FEMINISTS? OCTOBER 2015 WHEN THE SKULL STRIKES YOU’LL SCREAM! PETER PATRICK CUSHING WYMARK AND CHRISTOPHER LEE SPECIAL EDITION DUAL FORMAT AVAILABLE THIS OCTOBER SPECIAL EDITION DUAL FORMAT AVAILABLE THIS SEPTEMBER available from www.eurekavideo.co.uk Fortean Times 332 strange days In search of the Nazi ghost train, fl esh-eating fi ends, Mormon seer stone, France’s phantom gassers, Warminster mural, rogue Masonic police, Thai ghosts, blue devil spider, CONTENTS Emdrive updates, herring gull hooligans – and much more. 05 THE CONSPIRASPHERE 18 GHOSTWATCH 14 SCIENCE 23 ALIEN ZOO the world of strange phenomena 16 ARCHAEOLOGY 25 MYTHCONCEPTIONS 17 CLASSICAL CORNER 28 THE UFO FILES features COVER STORY 32 THE KUBRICK CONSPIRACIES Cinema and conspiracy theory are no strangers, but it is unusual for such theorising to attach itself to the fi gure of a director – so why has Stanley Kubrick become the focus of theories involving everything from fake Moon landings to the Illuminati? DEAN BALLINGER argues that the answer can UILAR / AFP / GETTY IMAGES be found in the director’s obsession with creative control. AG 38 UNLOCKING THE CAGE JULIO CESAR SOPHIA KINGSHILL asks whether the fi gure of the fi sh-tailed 32 THE KUBRICK CONSPIRACIES Did the director of 2001 help fake the Moon landings? siren can be rescued from the traditional roles of victim or vamp to claim a more nuanced, and sometimes political, role in the modern world. 42 THE GREAT ALIEN BAKE-OFF Bread is a foodstuff rich in human history and symbolism, but it has also played a surprising role in all kinds of entity encounters over the centuries. JOSHUA CUTCHIN opens his otherwordly oven and shares a selection of fairy loaves, alien pancakes and Sasquatch crackers. reports 30 BLASTS FROM THE PAST No 59. The Night Doctors 48 STRANGE STATESMEN No 6. Warlords of Maclantis 52 BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY No 3. 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