In this Book
- The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
With a foreword by James Randi Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell has spent more than thirty years solving the world's most perplexing mysteries. This new casebook reveals the secrets of the Winchester Mystery House, the giant Nazca drawings of Peru, the Shroud of Turin, the "Mothman" enigma, the Amityville Horror house, the vicious goatsucking El Chupacabras, and numerous other "unexplainable" paranormal phenomena. Nickell has traveled far and wide to solve cases, which include a weeping icon in Russia, the elusive Bigfoot-like "yowie" in Australia, the reputed power of a headless saint in Spain, and an "alien hybrid" in Germany. He has gone undercover—often in disguise—to reveal the tricks of those who pretend to talk to the dead, accompanied a Cajun guide into a Louisiana swamp in search of a fabled monster, and gained an audience with a voodoo queen. Superstar psychic medium John Edward, pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick, evangelist and healer Benny Hinn, and many other well-known figures have found themselves under Nickell's careful scrutiny. The Mystery Chronicles examines more than three dozen intriguing mysteries. Nickell uses a hands-on approach and the scientific method to steer between the extremes of mystery mongering and debunking. His investigative skills have won him both acclaim and controversy during his long career as one of the world's foremost paranormal investigators.
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xi-xii
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. xv-xvii
- 1 Mystery of the Nazca Lines
- pp. 1-9
- 2 The Fiery Specter
- pp. 10-13
- 4 The "Goatsucker" Attack
- pp. 28-30
- 6 Alien Hybird?
- pp. 46-50
- 8 Human Blowtorch
- pp. 56-60
- 10 Amityville: The Horror of It All
- pp. 73-77
- 13 Relics of the Headless Saint
- pp. 100-114
- 15 Zanzibar Demon
- pp. 124-127
- 16 Winchester Mystery House
- pp. 128-139
- 17 Voodoo in New Orleans
- pp. 140-151
- 18 Secrets of the Voodoo Tomb
- pp. 152-161
- 19 A Case of "SHC" Demystified
- pp. 162-164
- 20 Tracking the Swamp Monsters
- pp. 165-175
- 21 John Edward: Talking to the Dead?
- pp. 176-186
- 22 Scandals and Follies of the "Holy Shroud"
- pp. 187-199
- 23 "Pyramid Power" in Russia
- pp. 200-206
- 24 Diagnosing the "Medical Intuitives"
- pp. 207-217
- 26 "Visitations": After-Death Contacts
- pp. 228-240
- 27 The Sacred Cloth of Oviedo
- pp. 241-247
- 28 A Typical Aries?
- pp. 248-251
- 30 The Pagan Stone
- pp. 258-260
- 31 Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
- pp. 261-270
- 32 Australia's Convict Ghosts
- pp. 271-276
- 33 Psychic Pets and Pet Psychics
- pp. 277-288
- 34 Cryptids "Down under"
- pp. 289-295
- 35 Joseph Smith: A Matter of Visions
- pp. 296-303
- 36 In Search of Fisher's Ghost
- pp. 304-310
- 37 Ghostly Portents in Moscow
- pp. 311-314
- 38 Mystique of the Octagon Houses
- pp. 315-323
- 39 Weeping Icons
- pp. 324-330
- 40 Spiritualist's Grave
- pp. 331-334