Paranormal America
Subtitle: ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture
By: Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph Baker
Contributors: Mencken, Frederick Carson, 1964-; Baker, Joseph
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780814791349; 9780814791356; 9780814786420
Subjects: Parapsychology; Curiosities and wonders
Description: "Paranormal America provides the definitive portrait of Americans who believe in or have experienced such phenomena as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic phenomena, astrology, and the power of mediums. Unlike many books on teh paranormal, this volume does not focus on proving or disproving the paranormal, but rather on understanding the people who believe and how those beliefs shape their lives." -- cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The house of 150 ghosts; title: The truth is within; title: The truth is out there : paranormal beliefs and experiences; title: Round trip to hell in a flying saucer?; title: Paranormal subcultures; title: Paranormal people; title: Darkness and light; title: Out on a limb.