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Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition. - Review - book review
Skeptical Inquirer, March, 2001 by Kendrick Frazier
Bob Rickard and John Michell. Rough Guides, 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. 2000. ISBN 1-85828-589-5. 390 PP. Softcover, $19.95. A well-illustrated guide to the rich variety of anomalous and often bizarre phenomena that people have experienced throughout the centuries. Organized into teleportation, strange rains, wild talents, the madness of crowds, the good folk, invisibles and other assailants, the haunted planet, signs and portents, images, monsters, and living wonders.
The book combines selected chapters from the authors' two earlier books on unexplained phenomena, Phenomena and Living Wonders. Don't look for heavy skepticism here. The authors say they approach things with humility and wonder and they seek to replace suspicion with delight, pessimism with curiosity, and belief with a desire to understand. They suggest the location of truth is "not out there but in the human Imagination itself."
COPYRIGHT 2001 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group
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