Tales of alien abductions, miraculous relics, and haunted
castles have attracted believers and skeptics across the globe for
centuries. Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell tackles the world's
most seemingly inexplicable myths in Adventures in Paranormal
Investigation.
With four decades of experience in the field, Nickell employs
skepticism and scientific analysis to pull truth from the mires of
false evidence and trickery that surround both old and new legends
and mysteries. Unlike authors who engage in hype and sensationalism
in order to foster or debunk myths, Nickell approaches each case
with a rational and scientific approach intended to find the truth.
Occam's Razor -- all things being equal, the simplest solution is
the best one -- is a principal instrument in his investigative
toolbox, as well as the belief that it is the claimant's
responsibility to provide the extraordinary proof required in such
extraordinary cases.
Adventures in Paranormal Investigation features Nickell's
on-site explorations in unusual phenomena. Among the forty unique
cases, Nickell examines mysteries ranging from snake charmers who
purport to hold influence over the reptiles, to the Holocaust
victims who reportedly haunt a gas chamber in Dachau, to Lake
Simcoe's resident lake monster Igopogo in Canada. In addition to
the case studies, Nickell analyzes how the propensity to fantasize
can affect human perceptions of and belief in paranormal activity
and how his personal experience with the paranormal was altered
when intuition led to the discovery of a daughter he didn't know
existed.
More than just another myth-busting text, Adventures in
Paranormal Investigation brings together reason and scientific
analyses to explain both the phenomena and the role of human
perception therein, establishing Nickell as the foremost paranormal
investigator of our time.
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