Paranormal Reads

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Paranormal generally refers to phenomena that are not scientifically explainable and often involve supernatural or mystical origins. It encompasses a wide range of experiences, which are typically attributed to magical or supernatural forces that go beyond that is understood by mainstream science.

Updated September 30, 2025
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They are already here : UFO culture and why we see saucers
Scoles, Sarah
Ebook
More than fifty years since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once again. But the UFO community--those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analyzing supposed flying saucers (or triangles or chevrons)--has been surprisingly skeptical. The people most invested in UFO reality were filled...

001.942 Scoles 2020

Bigfoot Files: the Missing Hikers: Bigfoot and Missing People in North America
Childress, David Hatcher
Paper Book
Does a giant hairy apelike creature roam the forests and swamps of North America? If so, this huge creature has managed to keep pretty well hidden, but is seen from time to time. Bigfoot is seen lurking in the shadows of strip malls in the Pacific Northwest and photographed walking across streams or...

001.944 Childress 2022

Monsters of the Midwest
Freeburg, Jessica
Paper Book
Read 23 chilling stories, from two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with monsters in the Midwest. A mysterious snake grows to frightening proportions. A slimy, clawed, green-scaled beast terrorizes swimmers from the bottom of a lake. Two enormous birds try...

001.944 Freeburg 2022

Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids
Loxton, Daniel
Ebook
"A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters―cryptids, as they are called―and the people who pursue them . . . entertaining and thoroughly documented." -- The Wall Street Journal   Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by...

001.944 L956 2013

Spook : science tackles the afterlife
Roach, Mary.
Paper Book
What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's thatthe million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless...

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The paranormal ranger : a Navajo investigator's search for the unexplained
Milford, Stanley, Jr.
Paper Book
*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained in Navajoland As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and...

133.1097 Milford 2024

Signs : the secret language of the universe
Jackson, Laura Lynne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. "A collection of incredible stories . . . that speak to the universe's endless capacity for...

133.9 Jackson 2019

Ghosts among us : uncovering the truth about the other side
Van Praagh, James.
Paper Book
Everyone loves a good ghost story. Perhaps the human fascination with the supernatural stems from the fact that most of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced something we couldn't quite explain. From a very young age James Van Praagh was aware of a dimension that most of us cannot see,...

133.9 V348

Paranormal : my life in pursuit of the afterlife
Moody, Raymond A.
Paper Book
The bestselling author of Life After Life, Raymond Moody, offers a stunning, myth-busting memoir of everything he has learned in a lifetime studying "the other side" and our connection to it. The grandfather of the NDE (near death experience) movement, Raymond Moody has, in the words of Dr. Larry...

133.9013 M775p 2012

UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there
Graff, Garrett M.
Paper Book
From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate, comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government's decades-long quest to solve one of...

999 Graff 2023


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