Raising the Devil (Ellis), 116, 122–23
Ramirez, Richard, 119
Randi, James, 36–37
Rather, Dan, 321
Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (Olmsted), 69
Reality television, 135–36, 151–57, 330
Reed, Carmen, 211–15
Reenactment television programs, 134–35
Reformation, 88–90
Regional hauntings, 146, 340–43
Reiff, Stephanie, 203
Reisinger, Theophilus, 206
Religion: aliens and, 106, 110–11; control and power and, 86–93; Hinduism, 286–87; Islam, 329, 330–31; miracles and chaos and, 233–36; Native American beliefs vs. Christianity, 57–58, 61–65; origins of faith, 228–33; paranormal and, 7, 45, 128, 226–28, 236–37, 255–58, 343–47; satanic panic and, 114, 116–19, 263; science/scientific discoveries and, 45, 227–28, 231–33. See also Belief systems; Catholic Church; Christianity; Judaism; Protestantism
Renaissance, 84, 92–93
Repressed memory disorder (RMD), 121
The Return of the Watchers, 180
Reveal, 154–55
Rising Gods of the Modern West, 280
The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist (Baglia), 244–45
Rituale Romanum, 247, 250
Rivera, Geraldo, 27
RMD (repressed memory disorder), 121
Robertson, Pat, 241
Rogers, Mike, 216, 217, 222–23
Role-playing, 75
Romantics, 265
Rose (clairvoyant), 170–77
Rosemary’s Baby, 270
The Roswell Incident (Friedman), 72
Roswell, New Mexico, 17, 46, 70, 72–74, 77
Roth, Sid, 237–40, 250
Russell, Jeffrey Burton, 84, 250, 265
Sachs, Roberta, 121–22
Sagan, Carl, 37, 181, 194–99
Salas, Robert, 73
Salem’s Lot (King), 180
Salem witch trials, 9–11, 292
Sally Jessy Raphael, 212, 213
Samhain, 13, 129
San Francisco, California, 187–89
“Sasquatch Attack” (MonsterQuest), 137–44
Sasquatch/Bigfoot, 19–22, 30–31, 39–40, 43–44, 137–44, 295–301. See photo essay
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (Meldrum), 20, 44, 296
Sasquatch Music Festival, 21
The Satanic Bible (LaVey), 115, 264, 269–70, 272, 276–77
Satanic panic, 26–28, 112–24, 263, 293
Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), 27–28
Satanism: Connecticut Paranormal Investigators and, 166–67; on folklore, 262–69; institutionalization of, 123–24; Lavey and the Church of Satan, 269–79; McCarthyism vs., 114; in the 1970s and 1980s, 26–27, 114–17, 119; reality of, 259–61; teenage experimentation and, 146; theistic/spiritual, 279–88; World Trade Center attacks and, 312–13. See also Devil
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass, 270
The Satan Seller (Warnke), 119
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 152
Schonberg, Nicholas, 88
Schwartz, Alvin, 152
Science/scientific discoveries: democratization of expertise and, 72–73, 316–22; European witch craze and, 84–85, 91–93; hoaxes and, 52; paranormal and, 3–6, 83–84, 130–31, 314–16, 343–47; proof and, 133–34; religion and, 45, 227–28, 231–33; satanic panic and, 112–26; Spiritualism and, 94–102, 323–25; spiritual truth vs., 54; UFOs and, 71, 102–4, 106–7, 110–12. See also Social change
Science Was Wrong (Friedman), 193
Seaching for Bigfoot, 30
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 197
Seed, David, 109
Sellers, Sean, 262, 269
Sentes, Bryan, 106
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (Briggs), 234
Shamans, 32, 229–30, 236
Shea family, 1–2, 145–50
Shermer, Michael, 38
Shillings, Karen, 1
The Shining, 153, 180, 184, 185–86
Shinnecock Indians, 56–57, 179
Shook, Deborah A., 114
Shriek of the Mutilated, 300
Sidgwick, Harry, 98
Sigil of Baphomet, 272–73
Silver Bridge, 341
Silverman, Larry, 147–48
Simpson, O.J., 11, 291–92
Sioux tribe, 64–65
Sister Thedra, 105
Sitting Bull, 64
666, 265
The Skeptical Inquirer, 197
Skepticism, 46, 195–99
Smith, Dwayne, 216
Smith, Michelle, 117–18, 120
Snedeker family, 117, 169, 211–15
Snow, Robert L., 36, 238
Social change: Bigfoot and, 299–301; European witch craze of 1560–1700 and, 84–93; flying saucer invasion (1947–1976), 102–12; paranormal beliefs and, 83–84, 125–26, 311, 347–55; satanic panic (1984–1991), 112–24; Spiritualism (1850–1920), 93–102. See also Science/scientific discoveries
Society for Psychical Research, 15, 97–98
The Sociology of Religion (Weber), 228–29
Son of Sam case, 119
South Park, 57
Spears, Britney, 293
Spencer, Roy, 319
Sphinx, 304. See photo essay
Spielberg, Steven, 146, 209
Spirit Seekers, 1–2, 145–50, 151
Spiritualism, 14–16, 93–102, 323
Sputnik, 103
SRA, 27–28
Stack, Robert, 134–35
Stanley Hotel, 184, 185
Stanton Friedman Is Real, 191
Stealth bomber, 79
St. James Cemetery, 182
St. James Church, 182
St. Maria Gorretti, 247–55
Stonehenge, 303–4
The Story Behind the Exorcist (Travers & Reiff), 203
Strain, Kathy Moskowitz, 298–99
A Strange Harvest (Howe), 78
Strieber, Whitley, 18, 158–60, 164, 308, 309
Swampman, 21
Sweeney, Louise, 208
Syfy Channel, 151–57, 315
Symbolism, 45, 352–53
TAPS. See The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Teenage experimentation, 27, 146, 153–54, 156, 263
Television programs: documentary-style, 133–34, 137–44; history of, 131–37; hoaxes and, 34–35; popularity of, 2–3; reality programs, 135–36, 151–57, 330; reenactment style, 134–35. See also specific programs
Temple of Set, 279
Terror, 60, 103
Terrorism, 312–13, 327–31, 350
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 179, 201
Thanksgiving, 14
Theistic Satanism, 279–88
Theosophical Society, 265
The Thing from Another Planet, 18
Thomas, I.D.E., 180, 237
Thoth, 40
Tiahuanaco, 304
Totemism, 61–63, 67, 321–22, 337
Tourism, 184–87
Trance states, 275–76
The Transcendental Temptation (Kurtz), 228
Travers, Peter, 203
The Trickster and the Paranormal (Hansen), 4, 48, 50–51
Tricksters, 50–55, 337
Trotta-Smith, Susan, 211
Truth, 200–202, 321–22
Tuan, Yi-Fu, 56, 59
2001: A Space Odyssey, 306
2013: The End of Days or A New Beginning, 180
The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (Hynek), 104
UFO Files, 2, 19, 329
The UFO Incident, 218
UFOs. the ancients and, 301–13; conspiracy theories and, 70–78, 80–81; democratization of expertise and, 72–73; flying saucer invasion, 190–91; flying saucer invasion (1947–1976), 17–19, 102–12; Friedman and, 190–99; paranormal and, 51; photographs of (see photo essay). See also Alien abductions; Fire in the Sky; Roswell, New Mexico
UFOs: The Hidden Tr
uth, 164
Ultraterrestrials, 308
United States: American Gothicism, 292–95, 301, 302–3, 307–9, 311, 336–38; government conspiracies (See Conspiracy theories); Native American burial grounds, 56–67
Unsolved Mysteries, 134–35
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meaning (Brunvand), 178–79
Vatican II, 246–47, 251–52, 254
Venus Satanas, 284–85, 288
Vera, Diane, 280–83, 288
Victor, Jeffrey, 115, 117, 120, 124, 263
Violet (psychic), 147, 149
Volckman, William, 96–97
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 100–101
Wallace, Ray, 19–20, 43–44
Walnut Hill Community Church, 240–45
Walton, Travis, 80–81, 200, 215–24
Warnke, Mike, 119
War of the Worlds (Wells), 16–17, 34, 109, 132
Warren Commission, 70, 71–72
Warren, Ed and Lorraine, 26, 41–43, 145, 169, 200, 210–14
Watson, Fiona, 307
Watters, Frank, 218
“Waverly Hills Sanatorium” (Ghost Hunters), 151–57
Weber, Max, 228–29
Weber, William, 42
Welles, Orson, 16, 34, 132
Wheatley, Dennis, 267
“Where Evil Lurks” (A Haunting), 145–50
White Eagle Lodge, 99–100
Whitton, Matt, 30, 39–40
Wicca, 257, 293–94
Wildman, 298–99
The Wildman of Navidad, 300
Wilkinson, Tracy, 248
Wilson, Grant, 151–57, 315
Wilson, Jack (Wavoka), 64–65
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts (Barstow), 85
Witches, 9–11, 69, 260, 265, 292, 293–94, 312–13. See also European witch craze of 1560–1700
Witches’ sabbat. See photo essay
“The Witch Trial at Mount Holly” (Franklin), 33
Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions (Hopkins), 48
Witness to Roswell, 180
Wood-knocks, 140–41
Woodling, Bruce, 121
World of Strange Powers, 134
World’s Scariest Places, 141–42
World Trade Center attacks, 312–13, 327–31
World War I, 101–2, 323
World War II, 112, 293
Wounded Knee, 63, 64–65
X-Creatures, 138
Yeti, 19, 297
Young Goodman Brown (Hawthorne), 11, 293
Zaffis, John, 212
About the Author
MARC E. FITCH is a graduate of the Western Connecticut State University Master of Fine Arts Program. He is the author of the novel Old Boone Blood and has numerous short fiction and nonfiction publications. He works in the field of mental health and lives in Harwinton, Connecticut, with his wife and three children. He spends his free time watching horror movies and reading noir fiction. More information and links to his published works can be found at www.marcfitch.com.
Paranormal Nation Page 56
