What if the "aliens" are not from other planets? In THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS, Mac Tonnies proposes that at least some accounts of alien visitation can be attributed to a humanoid species indigenous to the Earth, a sister race that has adapted to our numerical superiority by developing a surprisingly robust technology. At the same time, this groundbreaking work attempts to reconcile the mythological and contemporary accounts of "little people" into a coherent picture. "For too long, we've called them 'aliens, ' assuming that we represent our planet's best and brightest," writes Tonnies. "Maybe that's exactly what they want us to think."

Maine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific. Freelance writer and reporter Tom Verde first became interested in such eerie occurrences while researching first-hand encounters with ghosts for a series of public radio programs. This book recounts some of the spine-tingling tales he uncovered in his research, including: *The dagger-wielding shade who terrorized a Portland couple *The murdered Indian who revisited Means's Tavern *Famed diva Lillian Nordica, whose voice still echoes through the Farmington auditorium named in her honor *The hostile spirit who tried to frighten the tenants out of an Orrington house *Even an entire phantom ship, bound eternally for Freeport These are not fictitious creations of literary imagination. People from all walks of life-including many who were positive they would never believe in ghosts-attest to these encounters.

Step away from sunny Jersey's present day and into the sinister shadows of the past ... the island's history is filled with dark deeds and restless spirits. Collected here for the first time are stories that have endured through centuries to chill the blood. This unique anthology gathers together the most famous tales, such as the Ghost Bride and the White Lady, along with lesser-known tales, such as The Lake. Erren Michaels' and Noah Goats' skilful storytelling, along with Ryan Thomas' detailed illustrations, beautifully combine to relate these haunting tales of murder and vengeance that refuse to be forgotten.

This book discusses the theory, general principles, and energy source conditions allowing for the emergence of life in planetary systems. The author examines the material conditions found in natural hydrothermal sites, the appropriate analogs of prebiotic environments on early Earth. He provides an overview of current laboratory experiments in prebiotic materials chemistry and substantiation of a new direction for the experiments in the origin of life field. Describes thermodynamic inversion and how it relates to the living cell; Examines the current direction of experiments on prebiotic materials chemistry; Introduces and substantiates necessary conditions for the emergence of life.

Do you want to know more about the all-knowing Creator God, and why we are imperfect yet He is perfect.? Do you want to know what was going on in the mind of the Serpent when he beguiled Eve? Do you want to know how the Lord God had a begotten son when He is the Infinite Spirit and has no mate with whom to beget a son? Do you want to know why the knowledge of Good and evil was forbidden for Adam and Eve, when knowledge is normally a good thing? Do you want to know the difference between the words eternal life and everlasting life? Do you want to know why there is no hell as described by the average Christian? Do you want to know that you can communicate with God and that all your wishes are answered if the result is good for you and in His eternal plan for the salvation for the world? Can you accept the fact that your every thought, both acted upon by you and dismissed by you are known by God? Do you want to gain a glimpse into the beginning of understanding the definition of infinity? Do you want to know how the Lord God Almighty used his Law of relativity for Good instead of evil like the makers of the atomic bomb did? Do you want to know why both free will and predestination exist and are not contradictions? Do you want to know why the father of lies learned to hate liars but finally came to love himself? This book will answer these questions and more. You will have to find them, however. The book reads in places like a novel, but proves the saying "Truth is Stanger than Fictions"

What historical tragedy could possibly make a young Wallingford girl daub a wall with her own tears? What really happened to the family who encountered a UFO in Stanford-in-the-Vale?What made a Highworth Squire's ghost choose to be banished to a barrel of cider?And what does the Uffington White Horse get up to once every hundred years?The Vale of the White Horse and the beautiful countryside of South Oxfordshire is a landscape steeped in thousands of years of legends, history and mystery. Here are witches, monsters and ghosts; old legends and modern-day tales of strange encounters with the unknown. From the mildly curious to the frighteningly inexplicable, The Veiled Vale is a treasure trove of fabulous folklore and modern mysteries.

Eerie Tales Of Pine Bush is a collection of stories about some of the strange phenomena that takes place in Pine Bush in the Guilderland/Albany area of New York. Included in the collection are stories about the youthful adventures the author encountered while growing up in that intriguing area.

Do you have a secret? Do you worry that people will think you are crazy if you reveal it? Dr. Catherine P. Perry hid some secrets like that. Be inspired, entertained, and empowered as Catherine brings you along her compelling and liberating journey out of what she coined "the spiritual closet." A so-called coventional psychotherapist, Catherine Perry secretly used her psychic and metaphysical healing gifts to help her clients. That is, until a bizarre chain of events catapulted her into an archeological dig; there, she performed an autopsy of her past. She discovered a heart still beating in the child she once was. Spirits guided her to her true identity, to acknowledge and express who she is-not who society expects her to be, and to solve the mystery of why she feared being known as a psychic and mystic-one who receives direct communication from God, angels, spirits, etc. Paying attention to her intuitive and spiritual guidance led Catherine to the greatest freedom: to express herself authentically, be the authority of her truths, and never again to fear the opinions of others. Courageous Wake demonstrates the potential in all humans to grow beyond old childhood perceptions and social conditioning. The story is an elixir for the searching soul, an accelerator of personal growth, and a call to action for people to come out of whatever closets they are hiding in.

I wrote this book to challenge certain people. Who am I challenging? People who feel empty inside. Do you have anger within you and want to let it go? Are you filled with sadness but want to experience joy? Do you feel lost? Confused? Hopeless? Do you feel that life is pointless? Are you depressed? Do you feel like giving up?... If you answered yes to any of those questions, I challenge you to read this book. I'm confident my book can help you fill that emptiness that is presently inside of you and give you a new outlook on life.

"Loren Coleman is the first and last name in cryptozoology. He's blazed the trail for so many of us. Massachusetts mysteries like the Dover Demon and the Bridgewater Triangle have names because Coleman discovered and named them. His years of research gathering the cryptid sightings, physical evidence, and details of these strange creatures and legends have paid off in a big way in "Monsters of Massachusetts.""
--Jeff Belanger, author of "Weird Massachusetts"

Bizarre beasts of the Bay State featured in this volume include . . .

• Dover Demon
• Gloucester Sea Serpent
• Hockomock Swamp's Beasties
• Pukwudgees
• Bigfoot

Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, 'Boggart Ephemera', is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of 'Boggart Names' (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10,000 words). Finally, part three contains the entire 'Boggart Census' - a compendium of ground-breaking grassroots research. This census includes more than a thousand responses, totalling some 80,000 words, from older respondents in the north-west of England, to the question: 'What is a boggart?' The Boggart Sourcebook will be of interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars. It provides the three corpora on which the innovative monograph, The Boggart, is based.