Standing proud

Dick Waters recalls moments that make the hairs stand on the back of your neck

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The celebrity mystics who captivated Europe in the interwar years

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At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring

In a recent letter (FT455:61), Tom Bryan refers to a claim by a man called Sandy Gunn that, in January 1900, he saw a mermaid. Bryan gives his source for this story as a book by the late Ronald Macdon