The Mag: Issue 236

On sale from 1 May

The Copycat Effect -
Suicide epidemics and death pacts in the Internet age

This month, in the wake of the recent suicides of young people from Bridgend, South Wales, Jack Sargeant wonders whether some kind of "copycat effect" might be so powerful that it could induce people to end their own lives, while Loren Coleman examines the anatomy of a suicide cluster and Chris Kimberley listens to "Gloomy Sunday", a song supposedly responsible for a rash of self-killings in pre-war Hungary and beyond.

Also in this issue we travel to Brittany's Valley of No Return, draw attention to the fortean fiction of Jack Womack, tell tales of people locked in the lavatory, wonder whether there really might be tigers roaming Yorkshire, puzzle over organ transplant patients who change personalities, and challenge readers to enter our Brain of Ufology quiz.

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