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The Unidentified - Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained (Hardcover)
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The Unidentified - Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained (Hardcover)
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"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --Buzzfeed America's
favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of
the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world
where rational, scientific explanations are more available than
ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the
rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness
monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known
world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of
strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour
Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made
Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all
fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today's Illuminati
is yesterday's Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world
stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America's
wildest fringe beliefs--from the famed Mount Shasta where the
ancient race (or extra-terrestrials, or possibly both, depending on
who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam, to the museum
containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat
Shower--investigating how these theories come about, why they take
hold, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them
decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best:
curious, wry, brilliant in his analysis, yet eminently readable.
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