Books : The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files
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by: Joe Nickell, James Randi
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.94
EAN: 9780813123189
ISBN: 0813123186
Label: University Press of Kentucky
Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: April 23, 2004
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Sales Rank: 576971
Studio: University Press of Kentucky
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Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell has spent more than 30 years solving the world's most perplexing mysteries. Following 'Real-Life X-Files', 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 goat-sucking El Chupacabras and numerous other 'unexplainable' paranormal phenomena. Nickell has travelled 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 acclaim and controversy during his long career as one of the world's foremost paranormal investigators.
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Rating:  - Just what you would expect from these authors
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
Rating:  - more pseudoscience
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
Rating:  - Great book, I can't wait for more
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
Rating: - Over three dozen mysteries in supernatural X-file style
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
Rating: - Slecpticism without considering undiscovered
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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