The mystery chronicles : more real-life X-files

Nickell, Joe. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0813123186 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xvii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mystery of the Nazca lines -- The fiery specter -- The exorcist : the case behind the movie -- The "goatsucker" attack -- Undercover among the spirits : investigating Camp Chesterfield -- Alien hybrid? -- Image of Guadalupe : myth-perception -- Human blowtorch -- Remotely viewed? : the Charlie Jordan case -- Amityville : the horror of it all -- Sideshow! : investigating carnival oddities and illusions -- "Mothman" solved! investigating the site -- Relics of the headless saint -- Circular reasoning : crop circles and their "orbs" of light -- Zanzibar demon -- Winchester mystery house -- Voodoo in New Orleans -- Secrets of the voodoo tomb -- A case of "SHC" demystified -- Tracking the swamp monsters -- John Edward : talking to the dead? -- Scandals and follies of the "holy shroud" -- "Pyramid power" in Russia -- Diagnosing the "medical intuitives" -- Alien abductions as sleep-related phenomena -- "Visitations" : after-death contacts -- The sacred cloth of Oviedo -- A typical Aries? -- The case of the psychic shamus : do psychics really help solve crimes? -- The pagan stone -- Benny Hinn : healer or hypnotist? -- Australia's convict ghosts -- Psychic pets and pet psychics -- Cryptids "down under" -- Joseph Smith : a matter of visions -- In search of Fisher's ghost -- Ghostly portents in Moscow -- Mystique of the octagon houses -- Weeping icons -- Spiritualist's grave -- Incredible stories : Charles Fort and his followers.