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Mysterious America is a must have!, May 26, 2007
This review is from: Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures (Paperback)
Ghost lights, Devil Monkeys, Momo, The Jersey Devil. It's all here. Our old friend Loren Coleman has cataloged and classified as many strange occurrences as anyone. A must have for anyone interested in the unexplained right here in their own backyards. My copy is already dog-eared from lunch break perusals and the lists at the index end of the book help you plan a paranormal adventure if you so desire. I will definitely keep it handy as I take my film making gear around the South! Thanks Loren, for compiling the mysterious spaces of America. Eyes In The Dark: The Sasquatch Experience
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The Hipster Spies With His Mystic Eye---NOT a collection of accounts, August 25, 2008
This review is from: Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures (Paperback)
Not a collection of UFO/Bigfoot sightings & accounts, as suggested in its summaries. Actually, a kind of travalogue, of allegedly paranormal sites. The concept seems to be: "if you're on vacation, go visit Bigfoot!"
Problem is, most of the events in the book allegedly took place 20-30 years ago. It's more like: "go visit a place where Bigfoot may or may not have taken a dump years before your birth." And others are paved over. Or have a subdivision built on top of them (so sayth Google Maps). Go stare at a parking lot...great way to spend your vacation. NOT!
BTW-- I looked on Google Maps. One of the alleged paranormal event areas now has a fried chicken stand on it. Bigfoot and the Alien Greys LOVE the Colonel's secret spices....<hee-hee> :D The Hipster gives it a Big Thumbs DOWN!
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Seeing is believing, December 24, 2011
This review is from: Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures (Paperback)
I've read a lot of books on this subject, including Bigfoot, Momo, Nessie, and Grassman, but this one takes the cake. As a person who has witnessed Bigfoot I must say I consider Loren Coleman and other cryptozoologists to be highly credible and wonderful people as they bring to light many amazing zoological discoveries that have yet to be verified by the scientific community. Coleman writes well and does a good job bringing the reality of elusive creatures to life in a professional and readable manner that is both informative and enjoyable. Many of the alleged sightings he presents in Mysterious America are some of the most important creatures sightings reported in the last century or so. These reports are very consistent in terms of the creatures' appearances, especially when it comes to Bigfoot. When I first read this book it reminded me of my own sightings I had while out of work due to an industrial accident. I was homebound and on heavy prescription pain medications. I couldn't drive or walk down the street, so all I could do was watch television and stare out of the window. After getting the finger from my neighbors during the day, I started watching at night. One night I spotted this thing that resembled a gorilla running across the yard. Then I smelled a smell like rotten eggs. The creature gave a long, blood-curdling scream and disappeared into the woods. The thing was seven feet tall and covered in dark brown hair. Later that year, I was awakened one night by the sound of someone laughing like Woody Woodpecker. Hahaha-HAA-ha, hahaha-HAA-ha, Huhuhuhuhuhu! The laugh sounded so much like Woody that I thought someone had left the television on all night. I looked out the window above the foot of my bed and saw a hairy apelike creature with a cone-shaped head and glowing red eyes staring at me... the time was around midnight and my window is a good eight feet off the ground. The creature ducked down and disappeared. As it did I heard a sound like "Pfthuuuuut!" and a substance that resembled vegetable soup mixed with chocolate pudding splattered all over the window. Once again I detected the notorious rotten egg odor. I got out of bed and ran to the window when suddenly a cinder block flew through it, shattering the glass and knocking me to the floor. Good thing I still had some pain medication left. Anyone interested in Bigfoot and other unknowns would do well to read this book. It will open your eyes to the hidden world around you that science denies but is clearly real.
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