The haunting of twentieth-century America
By: Joel Martin and William Birnes
Contributors: Birnes, William J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Spiritualism; Anecdotes; Popular culture; Parapsychology; Ghosts; History
Description: Reveals the influence of the paranormal on various historical events, from a UFO sighting that nearly triggered a nuclear war to the use of out-of-body clairvoyance to gather intelligence.
Notes: "A Forge Book...Forge® is a registed trademark of Tom Doherty Asscociates, LLC" -- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [452]-464).
Table of contents: title: The dark side of the paranormal: the Nazis and the occult; title: New Orleans: a haunted history; title: The age of spiritualism and predictions of disaster; title: Edgar Cayce: the sleeping psychic; title: The subconscious, relativity, surrealism, and the paranormal; title: America's search for past lives; title: All the presidents' prophets: Americans and astrology; title: Ghosts, spirits, and demons in America; title: New age, psychic dreams, and revolutions.