Unexplained!

Jerome Clark

Description

Weird stuff happens! The mysteries of the unexplained examined with a critical eye of a highly-respected, prize-winning paranormal investigator.

An authoritative, intelligent, and well-reasoned examination of strange artifacts and events that have long perplexed scientists, Unexplained! Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena is an award-winning exposition of the strange and mysterious. Journey to the outer limits of science and nature and explore a wide range of unknown and enigmatic phenomena. The truth is out there, and looking for it is the real fun.

Unique in the depth of examinations, this fascinating guide delivers Spontaneous Human Combustion, Cattle Mutilations, Crop Circles, Devil’s Footprints, the Tunguska event, Wheels of Light, Giant Octopus, Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Yeti, Wildman, Alligators in Sewers, White River Monster, Black Dogs, Chupacabras, Fairies, Hairy Dwarfs, Little Green Men, Mad Gassers, Merfolk, Mothman, Thunderbirds, Werewolves, Yowie, Bermuda Triangle, Cottingley Fairy Photographs, Devil’s Sea, Hollow Earth, Jersey Devil, Martian Mummies, Noah’s Ark, Ball Lightning, Roswell, Loch Ness, Ancient Astronauts, Objects from the Sky, and more than 200 other absorbing puzzles!!

What really happened? What is the truth? Should you dismiss what you can't explain? Or should you pay attention to the startling evidence and frightening personal accounts of those involved? Learn of hoaxes, witness the creation of various modern myths, and learn of frightening personal accounts and startling historical documents. Documenting the evidence and hearing witnesses out, Jerome Clark brings an engaging narrative to the stories, objectively presents their many possible explanations, and lets the reader make his or her own judgment in this one-of-a-kind book.

Seeing Is Believing. Or Is It? Decide for yourself with Unexplained! Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena!

Sujets

• Unexplained Phenomena
• Body (disambiguation)
• Unidentified flying object
• UFO

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578594276
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

Extrait

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
erome Clark is a prize-winning author of the multi-Jvolume UFO Encyclopedia (1990–1998) and other
books, including Unnatural Phenomena (2005) and
Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other
Worlds (Visible Ink Press, 2010). A former editor of
Fate magazine, he serves on the board of the J. Allen
Hynek Center for UFO Studies. In June 2008 the
Society for Scientific Exploration, an organization of
professionals in the physical and social sciences, gave him
its Dinsdale Award for “significant contributions to the
Photograph by Carmen expansion of human understanding through the study
Ronan.
of unexplained phenomena … which have brought to
the general public comprehensive and trustworthy information presented from a
sophisticated perspective.”
Clark is also a songwriter (Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tom
T. Hall, Seldom Scene, Mary Black, and others) and a prolific writer on folk and
roots music. He pursues a wide range of interests—political, historical, and
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Strange Sightings,
Incredible Occurrences,
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3rd Edition
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CONTENTS
Foreword [vii]
Introduction [ix]
Photo Credits [xx]
Sea Serpents ...............164Mysteries … 1 Tatzelwurm................181
Dover Demon..............182Anomalous Clouds............3
Thunderbirds88Black Dogs .................10
Thylacines98Beast of Exmoor .............12
Unidentified SubmarineFalls from the Sky
Objects.................209(Inorganic Matter).........20
Water Hounds .............212
Yowie ....................218(Organic Matter) ..........31
Flying Humanoids ...........48
Hairy Dwarves ..............50
Ghost Lights................55 Curiosities … 231
Green Fireballs ..............73 Belled Buzzard..............233
Hairy Bipeds................76 Cosmic Jokers and Saucer
Almas.....................80 Critters.................243
Lake Monsters ..............99 Nazca Lines................246
Lake Worth Monster ........126 Entombed Animals..........253
Lindorms..................129 Green Children ............260
Living Dinosaurs............132 Hoop Snakes and Joint
Momo....................136 Snakes .................263
Morag50 Monstrous Serpent..........268
Pterosaur Sightings..........156 Ice Falls...................274
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Contents
Jersey Devil................280 Flight 19 ..................375
Kangaroos in America .......284 Hollow Earth ..............380
Alligators in the Sewers......286 Bermuda Triangle...........384
Mad Gassers ...............289 Jacko.....................392
Merbeings.................297 Martian Mummies and
Ringing Rocks .............318 Others .................395
Moving Coffins ............328 Devil’s Sea ................398
Onza.....................334 Mono Grande..............402
Pwdre Ser .................338 Noah’s Ark ................408
White River Monster........340 David Lang Disappearance....410
Stuart’s Monsters ...........346 Paluxy Tracks ..............414
Teleportation ..............351 Stomach Snakes and Other
Skyquakes.................356 Gastrointestinal Creatures. . 418
Wheels of Light ............359 Thunderbird Photograph .....427
Atmospheric Life Forms......430
Vulcan ...................433
Wahhoo ..................436Fables … 367
Cottingley Fairy Photographs . . 369
Oliver Lerch Disappearance...372
Index [441]
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FOREWORD
he first edition of this book appeared in 1993, the second in 1999. With this edi-Ttion the book enters the twenty-first century in considerably revised, much
expanded form. The mass of fresh material that had accumulated over a dozen years
rendered the new volume something worth doing. A good deal of what you will
read has never appeared between book covers. Some subjects—for example the
curious affair of the Belled Buzzard—have not, as far as I know, been examined
comprehensively until now.
This is not an attempt, let me be clear, to represent the broad spectrum of
anomalies and other allegedly unexplained events and experiences. Such an
effort would require many fat volumes, and it would also cover paranormal
phenomena—ESP and psychokinesis, apparitions, out-of-body and near-death
experiences—which are, frankly, outside my area of expertise (to the extent that
anyone can pretend to have “expertise” in anomalous matters). Nor does the
present volume carry over everything from its previous incarnation. Some things
simply didn’t seem worth revisiting because I felt I had said all I had to say about
them and there were no interesting new developments. Ultimately, what I have
kept and what I have added have one element in common: they interest me.
A few chapters and sidebars return more or less intact because I thought they
needed to be there to serve as a corrective to persistent misinformation regularly
peddled by cable television’s snake-oilish “true mystery” shows. (My inclination is
to think of these as the television equivalent of those ubiquitous unsourced email
forwards that peddle bald-faced lies and shameless distortions for the edification of
the naïve and otherwise readily bamboozled.) In fact, this book is intended, in part
anyway, for intelligent persons who have seen those programs—a few of which,
fairness compels me to state, rise above the generally abysmal level—and who may be
looking for something more accurate and substantive. Veterans of anomalies
literature, however, will also be exposed to information they haven’t seen until now.
In that regard, this third edition, in contrast to its predecessors, does not
include chapters on UFOs, Sasquatch, and the Loch Ness Monster. Information on
these, the most celebrated of all anomalies, exists in abundance, by which I mean
one could fill the shelves of a small library with books devoted solely to each.
Those who don’t know that literature may easily seek it elsewhere. Mostly, I have
preferred to concentrate on lesser-known, sometimes entirely obscure, mysteries
and curiosities. UFOs show up only in a very few cases exemplifying the m