Paranormal Reads

Ghosts! Hauntings! UFOs! Mysterious Creatures! ESP! Psychic Abilities!

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.

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The UFO book : a chronological journey from crop circles to Roswell
Greer, John Michael
Paper Book
For thousands of years people have seen strange lights and hovering shapes in the sky. From an ancient awareness that there might be creatures beyond this world to very recent disclosures of alien activity at a governmental level, speculation about unidentified flying objects--and the...

001.942 Greer 2025

The UFO experience : evidence behind close encounters, project blue book, and the search for answers
Hynek, J. Allen
Paper Book
Cited by the New York Review of Books as "the best brief for visitation," this classic study presents an analysis of UFO reports and concludes that many sightings cannot be easily dismissed.   The case against UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) has not...

001.942 Hynek 2023

They are already here : UFO culture and why we see saucers
Scoles, Sarah
Paper Book
An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery--both terrestrial and cosmic. More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once...

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

I know what I saw : modern-day encounters with monsters of new urban legend and ancient lore
Godfrey, Linda S.
Paper Book
The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people in America today relegate monsters to just that--our imaginations--we continue to be fascinated by the unknown. Linda Godfrey is one of the country's leading...

001.944 Godfrey 2019

The Wisconsin road guide to mysterious creatures
Lewis, Chad.
Paper Book

001.944 Lewis 2011

Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids
Loxton, Daniel
Paper Book
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a book from two dedicated investigators that explores and elucidates the fascinating world of...

001.944 L956 2013

The Bigfoot book : the encyclopedia of Sasquatch, yeti, and cryptid primates
Redfern, Nicholas
Paper Book
The definitive guide to Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, and other man-primates from an established author and respected expert on the unexplained and paranormal. Does a hulking, hairy, 800-pound, nine-foot-tall, elusive primate roam the woods and...

001.944 R247 2015

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...

129 R53

Ghosted! : exploring the haunting reality of paranormal encounters
Laythe, Brian
Paper Book
Reports of paranormal experiences vary tremendously, but are often associated with ghosts, haunted houses, and otherwise eerie circumstances. There exist both classic and modern texts on ghosts and haunted or possessed people, places and spaces; many discuss traditional ideas regarding such...

133 Laythe 2022

The paranormal : a guide to the unexplained
North, Anthony.
Paper Book
Do you believe in life after death? Are you convinced that there's a ghost making himself at home in your attic? If you are, get ready for this strange study of the supernatural! There is rarely smoke without fire, and paranormal happenings have been cited throughout the ages, in all cultures under...

133 N811

Real hauntings : America's true ghost stories
Holzer, Hans
Paper Book

133.1 Holzer 1995

Where the ghosts are : the ultimate guide to haunted houses
Holzer, Hans
Paper Book
In these pages, paranormal researcher Hans Holzer documents more than fifty locations where he has personally investigated ghosts, often with the assistance of a psychic. Complete with photos and details about each spectral phenomenon as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells...

133.1 Holzer 2018

Ghost hunter : the groundbreaking classic of paranormal investigation
Holzer, Hans
Paper Book
Fifty years before The Conjuring, Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, Insidious and Most Haunted, there was Hans Holzer--a man known as the "Father of the Paranormal." Holzer pioneered ghost-hunting methods still used today, and brought ghosts and...

133.1 Holzer 2014

Investigating ghosts and the spirit world
Henneberg, Susan
Paper Book
Whether or not you believe in them, the scientific investigation of ghosts is big business. Reality television shows that follow ghost hunters at work and the popularity of ghost tours in many U.S. cities prove that we are fascinated by the possibility that the dead may still be with us. This book...

133.1 H391 2015

Ghostly tales of Wisconsin
Jacobson, Ryan
Paper Book
Read 28 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Wisconsin. A place so haunted it was featured on national television, the spirits of long-dead gangsters and serial killers, and perhaps the most famous werewolf story in US history--Wisconsin...

133.1 Jacobson 2022

Ghosts : a natural history : 500 years of searching for proof
Clarke, Roger.
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice...

133.109 C556 2014

American ghost stories : true tales from all 50 states
Kozlowski, Michael A.
Paper Book
Take an eerie road trip! A chilling collection of true ghost stories spanning every state in the United States with a full range of ghostly manifestations and haunted locations! From séances to shiny graveyards, take a ghostly journey across the United States. Visit the highways and...

133.1097 Kozlowski 2024

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

Grave's End : a true ghost story
Mercado, Elaine.
Paper Book
You leave us alone; we'll leave you alone. When Elaine Mercado and her first husband bought their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1982, they had no idea that they and their two young daughters were embarking on a thirteen-year nightmare. Within a few days of moving in, Elaine and her...

133.1297 Mercado 2001

Riding with Ghosts, Angels, and the Spirits of the Dead
Russell, John
Paper Book
John Russell has been an internationally known professional psychic for almost half a century. Working with clients around the world, he also has been a featured guest on many radio shows and filmed a TV pilot for The History Channel in which he psychically explored the assassination of President...

133.8 Russell 2020

The reality of ESP : a physicist's proof of psychic phenomena
Targ, Russell.
Paper Book
On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As...

133.8 T174 2012

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

We never die : secrets of the afterlife
Fraser, Matt
Paper Book
From America's top psychic medium and the author of When Heaven Calls comes a new book that unveils the secrets of the afterlife, the truth about heaven, and why we never truly die. Psychic medium Matt Fraser, author of When Heaven Calls, is back to unpack the...

133.9013 Fraser 2022

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

The medium next door : the adventures of a real-life ghost whisperer
Hancock, Maureen.
Paper Book
The Medium Next Door is the amazing life story of spirit medium Maureen Hancock, who discovered her psychic abilities to see, hear, and speak with the dead when she was just five years old. Descended from a long line of legendary Irish mystics, Maureen was no stranger to the spiritual realm,...

133.91 H191 2011

When ghosts speak : understanding the world of earthbound spirits
Winkowski, Mary Ann.
Paper Book
In the bestselling tradition of Rosemary Altea and John Edwards comes the memoir of Mary Ann Winkowski, the real life "Ghost Whisperer" and consultant on the Top 30 CBS show "Ghost Whisperer" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Lights flicker on and off for no good...

133.91 Winkowski Winkowski 2007

Life after life : the investigation of a phenomenon-survival of bodily death
Moody, Raymond A.
Paper Book
In Life After Life Raymond Moody investigates more than one hundred case studies of people who experienced "clinical death" and were subsequently revived. First published in 1975, this classic exploration of life after death started a revolution in popular attitudes about the afterlife and...

236.2 M775L

Where the tour buses don't go : Chicago's hidden sites of the mysterious, macabre, ghostly & glamorous
Lekas, Gerry
Paper Book
This isn't your average travel book-- and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago...

977.311 Lekas 2020

UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there
Graff, Garrett M.
Paper Book
"One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history)...

999 Graff 2023


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