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MORE STRANGE HIGHWAYS

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If you like your mysteries with one foot firmly entrenched in reality, than this book is for you. No wild speculation here but merely reporting the stories as the author uncovers them with no embellishments. For those of you who gravitate towards cryptozoological mysteries you will not be disappointed as there is fresh new information found nowhere else and for the novice there is a fine section explaining what cryptozoology means and how to go about doing your own research. For those who like more of the paranormal, there is plenty here also that will arouse curiousity and questions. This book has 12 photographs with various illustrations and gives real names and places one can investigate on their own. All in all a very entertaining and informative book which I would recommend to anyone with an interest in this area.

What a research breath of fresh air. "More Strange Highways" is a superb collection of Cryptozoology investigations as well as the techniques used but the book does not stop there as it continues into many unknown regions of strange events and as the author puts it, "an investigation might go full circle --- returning to reality!"

The author's unique writing talent draws the reader in as a participant of his recently investigated reports rather than the normally dry and too often repeatedly worn-out tales one normally finds in topics of this nature. Another plus to me was that Coleman then seeked out other investigators and allows them to present their theories and research throughout the book on such issues as Bigfoot, Thunderbirds and even research observation methods.

The Chapter on "The Search for the Mysterious Black Panther" is worth the purchase alone but I also immensely enjoyed Virginia's slave wall investigation, Clara's demon rape interview, Gnomes of the night and the Bigfoot information to name but a few.

It is a book I will keep close as a reference for my own amateur investigations. I highly recommend this book to young and old alike. A must have for your personal library!

I developed an interest in the Mothman due to a planned trip to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which led to a paranormal shopping spree. At that time I bought both Strange Highways and its sequel More Strange Highways. Right now I really, really hate the Mothman.

I will start with the spelling and grammatical errors. They were peppered throughout Strange Highways, and you would think they would have solved the problem by the second book. Oh, I'm sorry. Yoo wold thank the wood shelve tat bye they secon brook. Either way, you would be wrong.

I picture Mr. Coleman hunched over a typewriter in a dimly lit room with pictures of phantom cats and thunderbirds all over the walls as he crafted these two instant classics. I think it's clear that White Chapel doesn't have anything close to an editor or proof-reader. But what is interesting is that he had three guest writers come in and make contributions to More Strange Highways (filling a 156 page book can be rather daunting when you need to hunt down a road troll), and not one word from the contributing authors was misspelled.

Coleman makes so many spelling and grammatical errors that my nose bled, and the other authors didn't have one. Coleman misspelled the name of his own son! Unless "Nick", as we outsiders would spell it, is actually "Nicjk" as cryptozoologists spell it.

Speaking of cryptozoology: The author was furious that he was labeled a cryptozoologist by other researchers. Then he had several chapters about how to be a cryptozoologist. Then he set up a committee to revolutionize the science of cryptozoology.

This strange contradiction exemplifies his entire writing style of "everyone is not only wrong, they are lying...but not me."

The only redeeming value in Strange Highways was the glimpse into the author's horrifying and psychologically crippling childhood. That wasn't brought up at all in More Strange Highways which makes the latter not only a waste of time, but a painful waste of time.

Curse you, MOTHMAN!

This book contains a strangely large amount of typos, grammar and spelling errors, and mangled English composition. I started keeping track of all the mistakes in it for my own amusement, but soon gave up in exhaustion. There is simply no excuse for any professionally produced publication to reach the public in such a state. Whitechapel Productions, have you no shame?

This book is full of fascinating stories from our nations highways. Fun and spooky. Anyone for a late night drive with a mysterious hitchiker as a companion?

Received quickly. Interesting but pretty much an abbreviated repeat of sightings from more informative books.

Jerry Coleman is not his brother, Loren. This book was sort of a disjointed account of strange things that have happened to him and his mother and other random reportings.

This book gave me the direction that was needed to reach many down to earth conclusions and at the same time balanced the possibility that some conclusions might never be realized.

I found the content of the book down right enlightening! All too often "these" authors insult your intelligence by penning tall tales without proof. Apparently only to incite the na?ve or gloat in their ability to fool the impressible. Jerry D. Coleman does not do this in any form or at any time. Coleman reports the cases and researches the information and more times than not develops the investigation in a hands on approach giving the reader real places, names and events.

In Chapter ten titled "The Silent Woods Around Us" author Gerry Bacon lays out great fundamental techniques and experienced insight for the novice Cryptozoologist. Bacon warns the amateur or the gullible to be wary not to jump to false conclusions based on partial sightings, odors or strange noises. I must admit that much of what he touched on I have been guilty of however since reading "More Strange Highways" the hikes through the woods have opened up an entirely new experience!

This book is a keeper!

Marie Myers

After being off line for a long time due to some boring medical issues, I finally have the privilege of writing my second review of this delightful sequel and companion volume to "Strange Highways". In fact, Jerry sent me my volume about a year ago personally, and together with the first book or standing alone, I could not ask for a better crypto-fest.

Without being shallow or perfunctory in any way, Jerry smoothly takes us through many recent years of his crypto research, providing actual fascinating research data to back up his easy, fluid style, and near the end, actually adds some fun recipes for "crypto cooking" for researchers who like to camp out for a cookout. Even though "More Strange Highways" is excellent as a stand-alone unit, I highly recommend buying the first one if you already haven't, and of course any future volumes, which I devoutly hope he will write and publish in the future.

Thank you, Jerry, for enlarging my vision of the magic and mystery of cryptid life once again.

I never wrote a review until I read the "thunderbirds" book by Mark Hall. I recently purchased both Jerry Coleman books, "strange highways" and "more strange highways" in hopes of getting different perspectives on thunderbirds. I noticed immediately that it seems that Jerry does get out and dig for data and I agree with his findings...the kid probably wasn't carried by the birds. That still leaves us with a mystery as to what species the bird may be. Other than that, I didn't see much of anything that really interested me in these two books. My biggest complaint and I must SCREAM it out is about witness credibility!!! How can these guys interview someone 1, 2, 3, or more times and determine that they are credibile? Furthermore, regarding the road trolls which although interesting seem coincidental, how does the fact or implied fact that the witnesses are "white socks, rednecks, and pabst blue ribbon", church going, pillars of the community make them more credible?? Consider the road trolls for example. The sightings are in the south, correct? A minister from the south says he saw one, correct? Why is he suddenly more credible than anyone else? See the review from Traveller's Rest below. This is the Bible belt and the assumption I guess is that ministers from the south don't lie. If that's the case, then ask a young southern baptist preacher if he masturbates. What happens to his credibility then? The point that I am trying to make is that from my very short experience with these type of books by these type of authors is...too much emphasis is placed on ASSUMED credibility of the witness!!! Truckers never lie, ministers never lie, and little ol' ladies in knitting circles never lie. Yeah. The big question is....do those folks see something (possibly just a glance or maybe under less than ideal lighting or under the influence of "wide-eye" pills) and perceive it to be something that is much more extravagant than it actually was??? And what's with reviewers copying reviews of other people. If it's said once, then it's probably said enuff for everyone...trav rest.