Conspiracy theories: Kennedy (JFK) assassination and, 68–70, 78–79, 82; UFOs and, 70–78, 80–81
Contact (Sagan), 197
Cook, Florence, 96–97
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 86–88, 92, 227
Corso, Philip J., 46, 73, 80
Cosmos (Sagan), 197
Cottingly Fairies, 34
CPI, 160–77, 252
Crash at Corona: A Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident (Friedman), 72
Crookes, William, 97
Crop circles, 35–36, 41
Crossing Over with John Edwards, 15
Crowley, Aleister, 115, 265
The Crucible (Miller), 11
Cryptomundo, 296
Cuban Missle Crisis, 102
Cults, 238
Curie, Marie and Pierre, 98
A Current Affair, 213
Dalis, Allen, 216, 217
Däniken, Erich von, 23, 106, 304–5, 326, 345–46
Danse Macabre (King), 103, 224
Darwin, Charles, 94–95, 100, 102, 227, 306, 323
Davies, Owen, 12, 152, 273
Davis, Andrew Jackson, 100
The Day After Roswell (Corso), 46, 73
Day of the Dead, 14
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 18, 104
Deadly Cults: Crimes of True Believers (Snow), 36, 238
DeFeo, Ronald, 25
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Sagan), 194
Demons/demonology, 115–16, 169, 248–55. See also Connecticut Paranormal Investigators; Exorcisms
Demons of the Modern World (McGrath), 45, 59, 114
De Revolutionibus (Copernicus), 86–88
Devil, 88–89, 242–43, 247, 260–61. See also Demons/demonology; Satanism
The Devil (Russell), 250
The Devil Comes to Connecticut, 179–80
Devil Hunters, 11–12, 141
The Devil Rides Out (Wheatley), 267
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo), 88
Discovery Channel, 144–50, 210, 259
Documentary-style television programs, 133–34, 137–44
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 34
The Dragons of Eden (Sagan), 197
Dream Catcher (King), 180
Drummer cycle, 32, 41–44
Dyer, Rick, 30, 39–40
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 107
Easter Island, 304
Economics of the paranormal: ghost tours, 187–90; overview, 178–81; researchers and scientists, 190–99; tourism and, 182–87
Ectoplasm, 14
Edmundson, Mark, 292, 295, 311
Edwards, John, 15, 37
Edwards, Norman, 109
Electromagnetic frequency detectors (EMF), 174–75
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP), 164, 167–68, 329
Elijah, 301–2
Elisha, 301–2
Ellis, Bill, 9, 116, 117, 122, 132, 150, 158, 185, 187, 289, 329, 343
The Emerging Brave New World, 180
EMF, 174–75
The Encyclopedia of Demons & Demonology (Guiley), 212
The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior, 16–17
Entertainment vs. paranormal, 130, 150
E.T., 178
European colonists, 56–67
European witch craze of 1560–1700, 84–93
Evans, Hilary, 86
Evil, 89, 93, 242–44, 246–55, 260–61
Evolution, 227–28
EVP, 164, 167–68, 329
Exorcisms, 116, 122–23, 162, 169, 173, 204–7, 245, 246–55
The Exorcist (Blatty), 24–25, 178, 202–10
Extraterrestrials. See UFOs
Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms (McHargue), 94
Fairfield Hills Asylum. See photo essay
Faith, origins of, 228–33, 337–38
Falwell, Jerry, 241
Farina, Dennis, 135
Fassbinder, Jim, 188
Fast Food Ghost, 185
Fawcett, Lawrence, 76, 77
Fear, 127–30, 209, 224–25
Fielding, Yvette, 135
Films/film industry, 178–79, 200–202, 224–25. See also specific films
Fingerprints of the Gods (Hancock), 305–6
Fire in the Sky, 19, 80, 200, 202, 215–24, 310
Flatwoods Monster, 23–24
Flying saucers, 17–19, 102–12, 190–91, 301–2. See also Roswell, New Mexico; UFOs
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (Jung), 302
Flying Saucers and Science, 180
Flying Saucers Have Landed (Adamski), 105
Forbes’ Top 10 Haunted Hotels, 184
Fort, Charles, 23
Foster, Lance M., 62
The Fourth Kind, 310
Fox, Margaret and Kate, 14, 93–94, 95–96, 101
Fox News, 30
Franklin, Benjamin, 33
Freedom of Information Act, 74, 76
Freetown State Forest, 341
Freud, Sigmund, 60
Friedkin, William, 202, 203, 207–8
Friedman, Stanton, 71, 72–73, 79, 190–99
Fromm, Erich, 63–64, 231, 255, 311
Fuhrman, Mark, 11
Fundamentalism, 116–19
Galileo, 87, 88, 92
Gallagher, Richard E., 249
Garton, Ray, 169, 211, 213
Gein, Ed, 201
Genocide, 61–64
Gere, Richard, 22
Gettysburg, 289–90. See photo essay
Ghost Adventures, 131
Ghost Dance Massacre, 63, 64–65
Ghost Haunters, 3, 185
Ghost hunter age, 314–16, 320–21, 324–25, 329–31, 333–34
Ghost Hunters, 151–57, 295, 315, 329
Ghosthunters (Kachuba), 15
Ghostly Drummer of Tedworth, 32
Ghostly Encounters, 3, 134
Ghosts, 51, 289–91
Ghost tours, 187–90
Ghostwatch, 17, 34–35, 136
Giese, Tideman, 88
Giffords, Gabrielle, 10
Gigantopithecus blacki, 296. See also Bigfoot/Sasquatch
Gilles de Rais, 266
Gilmore, Peter, 278
Gilson, Cy, 216, 217
Glanvill, Joseph, 32
Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist’s Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism and Redemption (Scott), 49, 249
Global warming, 318–19
The God Part of the Brain (Alper), 339–40
Gore Orphanage, 187
Gothicism, 292–95, 301, 302–3, 307–9, 311, 336–38
Gothic novels, 57, 332–38
Goulette, John, 216
Government conspiracies. See Conspiracy theories
Goya, Francisco. See photo essay
Grant, William Gonzales, 182
Grassman, 21
Gravity, 3–4
Great Pyramid, 301–2, 304. See photo essay
Greenwood, Barry J., 76, 77
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (Davies), 273
Ground Saucer Watch (GSW), 76, 216, 218
Guide to the Lake District (Martineau), 185
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, 212
Guy Fawkes Day, 14
Hacke, Louis van, 266
Hairy Man, 299, 353–54
Hajicek, Doug, 138–44
Halloween, 13–14, 127–29
Hammond, Cory, 122
Hancock, Graham, 23, 305–6
Hansen, George P., 4, 48, 50–51, 58, 177
Harder, James, 217
Haughn, Jackie, 38
The Haunted, 177, 252
Haunted corn maze, 127–30
Haunted houses, 294–95. See also The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunted Report, 148
A Haunting, 2, 134, 135, 144–50, 210, 259, 329
The Haunting in Connecticut, 145, 169, 178, 210–15
A Haunting in Georgia, 145
The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson), 321, 332
–38
Hauntings: Captain Grant’s Bed & Breakfast, 182–84; ghosts, 51, 289–91; hold ground and, 289–91; Native American burial grounds and, 56–67; regional locations and, 146, 340–43; Shea family home, 1–2; the uncanny and, 60. See also The Amityville Horror; Ghost Hunters; A Haunting; The Haunting in Connecticut
Hawes, Jason, 151–57, 315
Hawkins, Gerald, 303–4
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 11, 293
Hawthorne, William, 11
Haxan, 267
Heavy metal music, 27, 214–15
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 265, 283
Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell), 348
Hershel, John, 33
Highpine, Gayle, 298, 353–54
Hill, Betty and Barney, 18, 103, 218, 302
Hilton, Paris, 293
Hinduism, 286–87
Hines, Terence, 133–34, 136
Historical perspectives: The Amityville Horror, 25; Bigfoot/Sasquatch, 19–22; European witch craze of 1560–1700, 84–93; The Exorcist, 24–25; flying saucer invasion (1947–1976), 102–12; flying saucers/UFOs, 17–19; Halloween, 13–14; headless horsemen, 12–13; hoaxes, 32–38; Jersey Devil, 11–12; Mothman, 22–24; overview, 8–9; Salem with trials, 9–11; satanic panic, 26–28, 112–24, 263, 293; Spiritualism, 14–16, 93–102, 323–25; War of the Worlds, 16–17
History Channel, 137–44, 279
History of the Kings of Britain (Monmouth), 303
Hitchcock, Alfred, 203, 209, 295
Hitler, Adolf, 17, 240, 243, 250
Hoaxing: beliefs and, 43–50; defined, 31; history of, 32–38; motivation for, 39–43; tricksters and, 50–55
Holocaust, 10
Holy ground, 289–91
Home, D.D., 97, 101
Honeycombe, Gordon, 132
Hoover, J. Edgar, 74, 75
Hopkins, Budd, 48, 220–21, 309
Horror films, 224–25
Hotel Coronado, 184
Houdini, Harry, 15
Howe, Linda Moulton, 78
Hudson, Melissa, 284–85
Human Genome Project, 322–26
Hussein, Saddam, 47–48
Huysmans, J.K., 265–66
Hynek, J. Allen, 70–71, 104–5, 108, 192
Imagination, 44–45
In a Dark Place, 211–14
Infant sacrifice, 312
Inherit the Wind, 131
Inspiration Network, 237
Internet, 316–22
Invasion from 2500, 109
Invocation of My Demon Brother, 270
Iran-Contra hearings, 78, 113
Iraq War, 47–48, 312
Irving, Washington, 12–13
Is It Real?, 19, 131, 133, 300
Islam, 329, 330–31
It’s Supernatural, 237–40
Jackson, Peter, 138
Jackson, Shirley, 321, 332–38
Japanese-American internments, 10, 293
Jaws, 209–10
Jeremiah Johnson, 57
Jersey Devil, 11–12
John Paul II, 247
Johnson, Judy, 120
Johnson, Lyndon, 69–70, 79
Jones, James Earl, 218
Jones, Jim, 87–88
Judaism, 237–40, 260, 354
Jung, Carl, 242, 302, 310
Kachuba, John, 15–16, 185
Kali, 286–87
Kaminer, Wendy, 293
Kaplan, Stephen, 26, 42–43
Keel, John, 22–23, 308, 341
Kennedy (JFK) assassination, 68–70, 72, 78–79, 82
Kennedy, John F., 68, 69–70. See also Kennedy (JFK) assassination
Kennedy, Robert, 70
King, Stephen, 60, 103, 108, 180, 184, 224, 328, 354
Kkapsner, Celestine, 206
Klass, Philip J., 80–81, 192
Klein, Donald, 308
Koch, Kurt E., 116
Kubrick, Stanley, 153, 306
Kurtz, Paul, 228, 231
Kurzweil, Ray, 350
Là-Bas (Huysmans), 265
Lampert, Vince, 257
Landau, Jon, 202
Landscapes of Fear (Tuan), 59
Larry King Live, 191
LaVey, Anton, 115, 264, 267, 269–79, 282–83, 287–88
LeBar, James, 248
Lee, Charles Alfred, 96
Leeds, Mrs., 11
The Legend of Boggy Creek, 300
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving), 12–13
Leuter, Laura K., 141
Levi, Eliphas, 273
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 61
Linney, Laura, 22
Lizzie Borden House, 184, 291
Lohan, Lindsay, 293
Lovecraft, H.P., 307
Lowe, Alan and Angela, 1–2, 147–49, 151
Lowe, V., 1–2
LSD, 82, 222
Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Russell), 84
Lutz, George, 25–26, 41–43, 179
MacFarlane, Kathleen “Kee,” 120
Mack, John, 308–11
Majestic 12, 74, 77
Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), 86, 93, 260, 265
Mansfield, Jayne, 275
Manson, Charles, 115
Martin, Dorothy, 105
Martineau, Harriet, 185
Mary Ellen, the Voodoo Queen of San Francisco, 188–89
Matamoros Mexican murders, 119
Mather, Increase, 10, 28
Matsumoto, Ted and Carol, 182–84
Maury Povitch, 213
Mayan calendar, 304
McCarthyism, 10, 69, 293
McGrath, Malcolm, 45, 59, 114, 117, 121
McHargue, Georgess, 94
McKenna, Robert, 162, 169, 173
McMartin Preschool Trials, 27–28, 113, 120–21
Media: democratization of expertise and, 72–73, 316–22; hoaxing and, 33–35; truth and, 321–22. See also Internet; Radio broadcasts; Television programs
Mediums, 14–15, 96–99. See also Spiritualism
Meldrum, Jeff, 20, 44, 296. See photo essay
Men in Black, 22
Messianic Ministries, 237
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, 347, 351
Michel, Anneliese, 246
Michelle Remembers, 27, 117–18
Miller, Arthur, 11
Miracles, 229–31, 233–36
Misery (King), 180
Missing Times (Hopkins), 221–22
Mitchell, Tammi, 38
Mompesson household, 32
Monmouth, Geoffrey, 303
MonsterQuest, 2, 20, 133, 137–44, 300, 329
Moore, William L., 80
Most Haunted, 2, 15, 135–36, 329
Mothman, 22–24, 341. See photo essay
The Mothman Prophecies (Keel), 22–23, 308
Multiple personality disorder (MPD), 121, 123
Mumler, William, 34
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), 76
Mysterious Universe, 134
Mythology, 326, 343–47
Nanni, Gabriele, 253
Nathan, Debbie, 117
National Enquirer, 216, 218, 223
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 17
National Security Agency, 77, 78
The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects (Bergland), 57
Native American burial grounds, 56–67
Native American Graves Protection and Repartriation Act (1990), 57
Native American Paranormal, 62
Nazca Lines, 304
Nephilim, 237
Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012, 180
New Age, 99–100, 115, 227, 237–38, 239–40, 255, 257
New Dominion Pictures, 145, 148, 150
New Page Books, 180
Nickell, Joe, 213
Nicola, Father, 207
Nightmare on Main Street (Edmundson), 292
Nightstalker case, 119
9/11 attacks, 312–13, 327–31
9/11 Commission, 71
N
orth, Oliver, 78
Nuclear bases, 73
Nuclear weapons, 79, 102, 106, 110
Obama, Barack, 331
O’Brien, Tim, 54
O’Donnell, Christine, 10, 294, 312
Old Hag, 158
Olmsted, Kathryn S., 69
The Omega Conspiracy (Thomas), 180, 237
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 3, 94–95, 227
Orbs, 165–66, 170–77
Order of the White Wolf, 284
Osbourne, Ozzy, 115, 214
Ostension, 9, 132, 136, 263
Ouija boards, 2, 15, 147, 149, 163
Our Haunted Planet (Keel), 308
Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior (Evans & Bartholomew), 86
Overlook Hotel, 185–86
Ozark River Valley, 146
Ozone hole, 318
Painted Rock, 299
Pal, George, 109
Palin, Sarah, 10
Palladino, Eusapia, 98–99, 101–2
Palmer, Susan, 106
Paranormal: belief systems and, 44–50; current beliefs in, 28–29, 314–16; definition and overview, 3; entertainment and, 130, 150; fear and, 127–30; Human Genome Project and, 322–26; Internet and, 316–22; need for, 347–55; religion and, 7, 45, 128, 226–28, 236–37, 255–58, 343–47; World Trade Center attacks and, 312–13, 327–31
Paranormal State, 3, 15, 252, 295, 329
Paranormal Warriors of Saint Michael, 253
Parapsychology Institute of Ameria, 26
Parkinson, Michael, 34, 136
Parks, John G., 336
Pazder, Lawrence, 117–18, 120
Pazuzu, 208
Pearl Harbor Conspiracy, 68
Peck, Scott M., 49–50, 249
Pentecostalism, 116
Peterson, Kenneth, 216, 217
Pet Semetary, 57
Phillips, Kendall, 18, 290
Phillips, Mark, 312
Photography, 34
Pierce, Steve, 216
Places of mystery and legend, 146, 340–43
Poltergeist, 146
Pomona, 14
Pop culture, 3, 5, 57
The Population Bomb, 319
Primitive landscapes, 59–60
Principles, Revelations, and Voice (Davis), 100
Project Blue Book, 70–71
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture (Phillips), 18, 290
Prometheus Publishers, 197
Protestantism, 231, 241
Protestant Reformation, 89–90
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Hines), 133
Psychic Network, 37–38
Psychics, 37–38
Psycho, 203, 209–10, 295
Psychoanalysis and Religion (Fromm), 63, 231
Psycho-structure, 32–33
Psychotherapy, 113, 117–18, 119–24
Punderson Manor, 186–87
Queen Anne Hotel, 187–89
Radio broadcasts, 34, 131–32. See also War of the Worlds
Raelians, 321–22, 325–26
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