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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.94
EAN: 9780813123189
ISBN: 0813123186
Label: The University Press of Kentucky
Manufacturer: The University Press of Kentucky
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: April 23, 2004
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Studio: The University Press of Kentucky
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Foreword by James Randi.
Haunted houses, alien hybrids, psychic pets, and carnival oddities are just a few of the phenomena that inhabit the shadowy corners of the unexplained. After thirty years of paranormal investigation, acclaimed author and detective Joe Nickell opens his mystery files once again to reveal the truth behind supposedly inexplicable occurrences. Continuing what his popular Real Life X-Files started, Nickells new casebook examines the Shroud of Turin, the Mothman enigma, crop circles, alien abductions, and numerous other perplexing mysteries.
Undaunted by fiery specters, headless saints, or weeping icons, Nickell has traveled extensively to investigate the worlds greatest mysteries and con artists. He has gone undercover to illuminate the tricks of those who pretend to communicate with the dead, accompanied a Cajun guide into a Louisiana swamp in search of a fabled monster, and gained an audience with a voodoo queen.
Nickell incorporates his personal experiences with other investigators findings to explore how these intriguing myths have developed. Addressing the theoretical debate behind each case, Nickell clarifies previous speculation and uses evidence to explain phenomena that have baffled the scientific community and the general public for decades.
While Nickell tackles the many theories surrounding these X-files, such as the Nazca Lines, the Amityville Horror, and the Winchester Mystery House, he does not automatically deny the possibility of the paranormal. As an investigator, Nickell employs a comprehensive approach sensitive to both the paranormalist and skeptic.
Nickells investigative skills have won him both acclaim and controversy during his long career as one of the worlds foremost paranormal investigators. Using a hands-on approach and the scientific method, he now examines more than three dozen intriguing mysteries in The Mystery Chronicles.
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Arch-skeptic Joe Nickell has returned with yet another collection of stories and eye-witness accounts about various alleged supernatural and paranormal phenomena. Alleged, because as far as Mr. Nickell is concerned, they're all just hoaxes, misunderstandings, or simply misinterpretations of natural phenomena. And it's a large collection, to say the least. Crop circles, Chupacabras, various mediums and psychics, alien abductions, the Guadalupe painting, Amityville, Voodoo, the Shroud of Turin, crying ... Read More
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One again, Joe Nickell demonstrates his unflappable penchant for "debunking through ignorance." Case in point: his chapter on Our Lady of Guadalupe, an image of supposed miraculous origin hailing from 1531 Mexico. Although scientists have written for eons about how the painting shows no understructure, no outline, no paintlike materials, no fading of either artwork or underlying fabric, etc., Nickell casually dismisses the whole affair as "a sixteenth-century painting done with sixteenth-century techniques." ... Read More
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For anybody who likes reading Joe's "Investigative Files" column in Skeptical Inquirer magazine (the I only reason I read it), this book is a much better investment than a subscription. I can't wait for the next volume.
Contents of this book:
1) Mystery of the Nazca Lines
2) The Fiery Specter
3) The Exorcist: The Case Behind the Movie
4) The "Goatsucker" Attack
5) Undercover Among the Spirits: Investigating Camp Chesterfield
6) Alien Hybrid?
7) Image ... Read More
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Self-taught paranormal investigator Joe Nickell's new book The Mystery Chronicles is sub-titled "More Real Life X-Files" with good reason: it includes over three dozen mysteries in supernatural X-file style, with powerful documentation of solutions and focus on some of Nickell's most significant cases, from crop circles to New Orleans voodoo. There are scientific explanations for seemingly paranormal happenings: Nickell's inquires expose these underlying truths, while his background as a scientific researcher exposing ... Read More
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Joe Nickell is a very interesting character and has, without doubt, a lot of experience in investigation and trickery. He is the perfect sceptic. He also has assumedly a lot a friends in science, who are able to disprove several of his mentioned "alleged supernatural occurrences". So some of the chapters are very interesting and and the solutions he provides are looking plausible (i.e. Nazca Lines). It is fun reading these chapters.
In other cases his attempts to explain the reader, that something is indeed ... Read More
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