16. Jeffrey Burton Russell, The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977), 33.
17. Russell, The Devil, 17.
18. Russell, The Devil, 27.
19. Matt Baglia, The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 84.
20. Baglia, The Rite, 111.
21. Francisco Radecki and Dominic Radecki, Tumultuous Times: The Twenty General Councils of the Catholic Church and Vatican II and Its Aftermath (Wayne, MI: St. Joseph’s Media, 2004).
22. Radecki and Radecki, Tumultuous Times, 282.
23. Paul Burnell, “Exorcisms on the Rise,” National Catholic Register, June 4, 2000.
24. Tracy Wilkinson, “Vatican Backs Exorcism Course: Church Lacks Priests to Practice Ritual,” Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2005.
25. Richard E. Gallagher, “Among the Many Counterfeits: A Case of Demonic Possession,” New Oxford Review (2008).
26. Gallagher, “Among the Many Counterfeits: A Case of Demonic Possession.”
27. Russell, The Devil, 21.
28. Russell, The Devil, 19.
29. Wilkinson, “Vatican Backs Exorcism Course.”
30. Stephano Maria Paci, “Vatican Exorcist Amorth Speaks on Satan’s Smoke,” Spero News, March 16, 2006.
31. Wilkinson, “Vatican Backs Exorcism Course.”
32. Paci, “Vatican Exorcist Amorth Speaks on Satan’s Smoke.”
33. Wilkinson, “Vatican Backs Exorcism Course.”
34. Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion, 33.
35. “How Many Wiccans Are There? Estimates for the United States and Canada,” ReligiousTolerance.org, December 28, 2009, www.religioustolerance.org/wic_nbr3.htm.
36. Baglia, The Rite.
CHAPTER 12
1. Michelle Green and Civia Tamarkin, “A Boy’s Love of Satan Ends in Murder, a Death Sentence—and Grisly Memories,” People Weekly 26, no. 154 (December 1, 1986).
2. “Members of Satanic Cult Who Confessed to Ritual Slayings Await Sentencing,” America’s Intelligence Wire, February 22, 2005.
3. Andrew Osborn, “Satanic Cult Teens ‘Sacrificed’ Victims Then Ate Them,” The Telegraph, May 24, 2010.
4. Jeffrey S. Victor, Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend (Chicago: Open Court, 1993), 142.
5. Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible (New York: Avon Books, 2005).
6. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Demons & Demonology (New York: Checkmark Books, 2009), 217.
7. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986), 219.
8. Russell, Mephistopheles, 221.
9. J. K. Huysmans and Robert Irwin, Là-Bas (Lower Depths) (London: Dedalus, 1986), 248–49.
10. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, directed by Benjamin Christensen, performed by Benjamin Christensen and Elisabeth Christensen, Aljosha Production Company, 1929, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDAAu7uEjw.
11. Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Demons & Demonology, 31.
12. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
13. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
14. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
15. Satanis: The Devil’s Mass, directed by Ray Laurent, performed by Anton LaVey, Sherpix, 1970, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHgZY75TxE.
16. Blanche Barton, “Church of Satan—A Brief History: Lucifer Rising,” Church of Satan, 2003, www.churchofsatan.com/home.html.
17. Barton, “Church of Satan.”
18. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
19. Ande Yakstis, “6000 in U.S. Worship Devil,” Alton Evening Telegraph, January 20, 1968.
20. Owen Davies, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 275.
21. Davies, Grimoires, 177.
22. Dave Smith, “Founder of First Church of Satan Believes in Showmanship,” The Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1970.
23. Smith, “Founder of First Church of Satan Believes in Showmanship.”
24. Peter Dizikes, “The Meaning of the Butterfly,” The Boston Globe, June 8, 2008.
25. Blanche Barton, “Church of Satan—A Brief History: Diabolical Endeavors,” Church of Satan, 2003, www.churchofsatan.com/home.html.
26. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
27. Joseph Campbell and Bill D. Moyers, The Power of Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1988).
28. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
29. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
30. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
31. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
32. LaVey, The Satanic Bible.
33. Diane Vera, “Who and What Is the Christian ‘God,’?” TheisticSatanism.com, theisticsatanism.com/CoAz/belief/theology.html#Xian.
34. Diane Vera, “First Serious Attempt at Building a Local In-Person Group, Beginning April 2009,” TheisticSatanism.com, theisticsatanism.com/CoAz/history.html#local.
35. Diane Vera, “Background up to 2004,” TheisticSatanism.com, theisticsatanism.com/CoAz/history.html#early.
36. Campbell and Moyers, The Power of Myth.
CHAPTER 13
1. Gettysburg Ghosts, directed by Tom Underwood, History.com, November 30, 2009, www.history.com/shows/monsterquest/videos/gettysburg-ghosts#gettysburg-ghosts.
2. Bill Ellis, Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live (Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2001), 94.
3. Kendall R. Phillips, Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005), 188.
4. Phillips, Projected Fears, 190.
5. Mark Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 5.
6. Wendy Kaminer, “American Gothic,” The American Prospect 11(26), 2000.
7. Kaminer, “American Gothic.”
8. Christine O’Donnell: I’m You, performed by Christine O’Donnell, Christine4Senate, October 4, 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGAgljengs.
9. Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Street, 119.
10. Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (New York: Forge, 2006), 95.
11. Lee Spiegel, “Seeing Red: Discovery of Red Panda Fossils in Tennessee,” The Huffington Post, August 9, 2010, www.aolnews.com/2010/08/09/exclusive-a-red-panda-in-tennessee-fossils-confirm-n-american/.
12. Spiegel, “Seeing Red.”
13. Meldrum, Sasquatch, 96.
14. Gayle Highpine, “Attitudes Toward Bigfoot in Many North American Cultures,” The Track Record, 1992, www.bigfootencounters.com/legends/highpine.htm.
15. Kathy Moskowitz, “Mayak Datat: An Archaeological Viewpoint of the Hairy Man Pictographs,” Proceedings of International Bigfoot Symposium, www.bigfootproject.org.
16. Joshua Blu Buhs, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009), 3.
17. Buhs, Bigfoot, 160.
18. Buhs, Bigfoot, 157.
19. The Legend of Boggy Creek, directed by Charles B. Pierce, performed by Willie P. Smith and John P. Hixon, P&L, 1972.
20. Buhs, Bigfoot, 164.
21. 2 Kings 2:11–12 (New International Version).
22. Carl G. Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (Princeton University Press, 1991), 101.
23. 2 Kings 2:15 (New International Version).
24. Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, trans. Aaron Thompson (Cambridge, Ontario: In Parantheses Publications, 1999).
25. Geoffrey, The History of the Kings of Britain.
26. Dan Fletcher, “Stonehenge Theories,” Time magazine, 2009.
27. John A. Keel, Our Haunted Planet (Lakeville, MN: Galde, 2002), 41.
28. “Stonehenge,” Britannia History, www.britannia.com/history/h7.html.
29. Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (New York: Berkley, 1999), 64–65.
30. Däniken, Chariots of the Gods, 82–83.
31. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (N
ew York: Three Rivers, 1995), 45.
32. James Sturcke, “Aerial Images Prove Existence of Remote Amazon Tribe,” The Guardian [London], May 30, 2008.
33. Howard Phillips Lovecraft and S. T. Joshi, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (London: Penguin, 2002), 109–10.
34. Keel, Our Haunted Planet, 129.
35. The Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction Stories, performed by George Knapp and Budd Hopkins, Abovetopsecret.com, October 1, 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFBdimN2G6o.
36. Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story (New York: Harper, 2008), 54.
37. John E. Mack, “The UFO Abduction Phenomenon: What Does It Mean for the Transformation of Human Consciousness?” Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology 1(1), 1995, www.johnemackinstitute.org.
38. Mack, “The UFO Abduction Phenomenon.”
39. Mack, “The UFO Abduction Phenomenon.”
40. Mack, “The UFO Abduction Phenomenon.”
41. Brian Eno, “Lessons in How to Lie about Iraq,” The Guardian, August 16, 2003, www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/aug/17/media.davidkelly.
42. Joshua Gunn, “The Rhetoric of Exorcism: George W. Bush and the Return of Political Demonology,” Western Journal of Communication 68(1), 2004.
43. Gunn, “The Rhetoric of Exorcism.”
CHAPTER 14
1. David W. Moore, “Three in Four Americans Believe in Paranormal,” Gallup Poll News Service, June 16, 2005, www.gallup.com/poll/16915/three-four-americans-believe-paranormal.aspx.
2. “United States of America Internet Usage and Broadband Usage Report,” Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics, www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm.
3. Brian Handwerk, “Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?” National Geographic, May 5, 2010, news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100505-science-environment-ozone-hole-25-years/.
4. David Adam, “50M Environmental Refugees by End of Decade, UN Warns,” The Guardian, October 11, 2005, www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/oct/12/naturaldisasters.climatechange1.
5. Joanna Zelman, “50 Million Environmental Refugees by 2020, Experts Predict,” The Huffington Post, February 22, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/22/environmental-refugees-50_n_826488.html.
6. Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (New York: Penguin, 1984), 71.
7. “Message from the Designers,” International Raelian Movement, 2012, www.rael.org/message.
8. “The Human Genetic Code—The Human Genome Project and Beyond,” Centre for Genetics Education, www.genetics.edu.au.
9. Associated Press, “Clonaid Chief: Baby Eve Alive in Israel,” Fox News, January 30, 2003, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77024,00.html.
10. Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (New York: Viking, 1969), 131.
11. Peter Bergen, “What Were the Causes of 9/11?” Prospect, September 24, 2006, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2006/09/whatwerethecausesof911/.
12. Bill Ellis, Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2000), 79.
13. Bergen, “What Were the Causes of 9/11?”
CHAPTER 15
1. Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (New York: Penguin, 1984), 4.
2. Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, 71.
3. Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, 1.
4. Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, 12.
5. Stephen King, Stephen King’s Danse Macabre (New York: Everest House, 1981), 168.
CHAPTER 16
1. George Noory, “The Brain & Spiritual Beliefs: Matthew Alper,” Coast to Coast AM, July 8, 2011, www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2011/08/07.
2. Christopher Balzano, Dark Woods: Cults, Crime, and the Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest (UK: Schiffer, 2007), 12–13.
3. Bill Ellis, Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), 11.
4. Bill Ellis, Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 5.
5. Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (New York: Viking Press, 1969), 181.
6. Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2008), 249.
7. Jason Colavito, The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005), 253.
8. Georgess McHargue, Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 54.
9. Allen Mandelbaum, trans., The Metamorphoses of Ovid (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993).
10. Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 245–46.
11. Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 218.
12. Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 218.
13. Colavito, The Cult of Alien Gods, 253.
14. Mandelbaum, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, 307–16.
15. Campbell, The Masks of God, 150.
16. Gayle Highpine, “Attitudes Toward Bigfoot in Many North American Cultures,” The Track Record, July 18, 1992, www.bigfootencounters.com/legends/highpine.htm.
Index
Adamski, George, 105, 107
Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization (APRO), 216–18
Alien abductions, 18–19, 48, 103, 158–59, 215–24, 302, 308–11. See also UFOs
All Saints Eve/Day, 13–14
Alper, Matthew, 339–40
Alvarez, Jose, 37
Amantini, Candido, 245
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 71
The Amityville Conspiracy (Kaplan), 42
The Amityville Horror (Anson), 25, 41–43, 56–57, 150, 178–79, 200–201, 210
Amityville Horror house, 211. See photo essay
Amorth, Gabriele, 251–52
Andersson, Pia, 112
Anger, Kenneth, 270
Ann Marie (psychic), 38
Anomalos Publishing, 180
Anson, Jay, 25, 41–42, 150, 179
APRO, 216–18
Area 51, 73
Arnold, Kenneth, 17, 102
Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World, 132–33, 134
Astronomical calendars, 303–4
The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), 151–57, 291
Atom bomb, 79, 102, 106, 110
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew, 13
Baglia, Matt, 245
Bailey, Bob, 247–55
Baker, Bob, 161–77
Balzano, Christopher, 341
Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt, 13, 129
Banshees, 356. See photo essay
Barstow, Anne Llewellyn, 85, 91
Bartholomew, Robert, 86
Barton, Blanche, 284
BBC, 34–35
Beasts of Satan, 262
Belief language, 150, 158
Belief systems, 44–50, 75, 263–64, 330–31. See also Religion
Bergen, Peter, 328
Bergland, Renée L., 57, 58
Big Foot Daze, 21
Bigfoot Presents, 21, 300
Bigfoot/Sasquatch, 19–22, 30–31, 39–40, 43–44, 137–44, 295–301. See photo essay
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend (Buhs), 299
Bin Laden, Osama, 331
Biscardi, Tom, 30–31
Blackbear, Brandi, 293–94
Black helicopters, 78, 80
Black Masses, 113–16, 264–68, 272
Black Pope, 269–79
The Blair Witch Project, 202
Blatty, William Peter, 25, 204–6, 208
Blavatsky, Madame, 265
Book of Honorius, 273
Books/book industry, 180–81
Borden, Andrew and Abby, 291
Borden, Lizzie, 184, 291–92
Bowdern, Father, 204
Bower, Doug, 35–36, 41
Braun, Bennett, 121–22
Briggs, John, 234
The Brothers Karamazov, 242–43
Brunvand, Jan Harold,
178
Buell, Ryan, 252
Buhs, Joshua Blu, 21, 299, 300
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 196
Burke, Elijah, 154
Burnell, Pat, 248
Bush, George W., 47, 328
Caitlin, 52–54
Calver, Clive, 240–45, 250
Campbell, Joseph, 60, 343, 348, 354
Captain Grant’s Bed & Breakfast, 182–84
Carlos, The Entity, 37
Carrie (King), 180
Cases of Conscience (Mather), 10–11
Cashier Rose (Boullan), 266
Catholic Church: changes in, 245–47; exorcism and, 204–7, 247–55; Protestantism vs., 231, 241; Reformation and, 89–90; witchcraft and, 86, 92. See also Christianity; Religion
Cattle mutilations, 78
CBS Evening News, 321
Celts, 13, 129
Cemetery 17, 182
Center for Skeptical Inquiry, 197
Chaos science, 234–36
Chariots of the Gods (Däniken), 106, 304–5, 326
Children’s Institute International, 120
Chorley, David, 35–36, 41
Christianity: book publishing and, 180–81; Connecticut Paranormal Investigators and, 163, 166–67; devil and, 89, 260; evil and, 242–44; Halloween and, 13–14; Islam and, 329; Native American belief systems and, 57–58, 61–65; paranormal and, 226; Reformation and, 88–90; Satanism and, 264, 268–69, 287; Spiritualism and, 95–96; withcraft and, 93. See also Catholic Church; Religion
Christiansen, Benjamin, 266
Church of Azazel, 280–83
Church of Satan, 115, 269–79
The Church of Satan (Barton), 284
CIA, 75, 78
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), 76
Clarke, Arthur C., 132–33, 306
Clark, Jerome, 105
Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience (Fawcett & Greenwood), 76
Cloning, 325–26
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 19, 108, 310
Cochran, Ross Michael, 114
Cognitive dissonance, 36, 46–47, 87
Colavito, Jason, 346
Cold War, 102, 103, 107–10, 112
Colonists, 61
The Coming of Fairies (Doyle), 34
Communion (Strieber), 18, 158–59, 308
Condon Committee, 17, 105, 110, 111, 112
Condon, Edward, 70
Condon Report, 70–72
Connecticut Paranormal Investigators (CPI), 160–77, 252
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