by Joe Nickell
Eunus
exorcism
debunking
demonic possession, manifestations of
Exorcist, The (film), real life basis
extinct animals. See cryptids
extrasensory perception (ESP)
and scientific research
See also clairvoyance; mediums; pet
psychics; psychic pets; psychic
sleuths; remoteviewing
extraterrestrials
alien hybrid
crop circles
kidnapping humans. See UFO
abductions
Nazca lines
psychological rationale
faithhealing. See healers and healing
fakirs
carnivals
Subbayah Pullavar
Falk, Ruma
fantasyprone personality
Antoinette Matteson
Benny Hinn
famous cases
Joseph Smith
Shirley MacLaine
Syliva Brown
traits of
UFO abductees
Farley, James
Fate,
Feejee Mermaid
fertility rituals, voodoo
festivals
Fisher’s ghost
at Kolomenskoye
voodoo
fetus, of alien hybrid
Finley, Rush
Finucane, R.C.
Fiore, Edith
xfire
chimney effect
spontaneous human combustion
(SHC)
wick effect
fire breathing
carnivals
Houdini on
human blowtorch
method of trickery
fire eaters, carnivals
Fischer, John F.
Fisher, Frederick
debunking
sightings
“Fisher’s Ghost” (Dickens)
Fitzpatrick, Sonya
Flatwoods Monster
Florida, and El Chupacabras (the
goatsucker)
folktales
“booger” tales
supernatural legends
Fonda, Claudia
footprints. See tracks/footprints
Ford, Harlan E.
Ford, Perry
Fort, Charles
science, challenges to
fortunetelling
astrology
See also clairvoyance
Fouke Monster
FourLegged Girl From Texas
Hours,
Fowler, Lorenzo
Fowler, Orson Squire
areas of expertise of
and octagon houses
Fox, Katie
Fox, Margaret
France, Shroud of Turin
freak shows. See carnivals
Frei-Sulzer, Max
French, Chris
French Quarter, New Orleans
Friderici, Gottlieb
Frog Boy, . See also El Hoppo the
Living Frog Boy
Fuller, Buckminster, geodesic dome
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Gaddis, Vincent
gaffed (faked) freaks, carnivals
Gardner, Martin
GarzaValdez, Leoncio
Gatorman
Gef (talking mongoose)
Geller, Uri
genetic testing, of alien hybrid
geodesic dome
Germany, alien hybrid
Ghost Guide to Australia (Davis)
ghosts
Fisher’s ghost
Hyde Park Barracks haunting
of Jenolan Caves House
Marie Laveau sightings
of Moscow
in photographs
of Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral
of
sightings, explaining
of Winchester Mystery House
See also visitations, of dead
Giant Rat
giants, carnivals
Gilroy, Rex
Girl in the Fishbowl
Girl with Four Legs and Three Arms
Glapion, Christophe de
glossolalia
meaning of
See also languages, strange
goatsucker. See El Chupacabras (the
goatsucker)
Goldman, Jane
Golod, Alexander
Goodman, Linda
Good Morning, Holy Spirit (Hinn)
Gould, Rupert T.
Graff, Dale E.
Great Omi, The Zebra Man
Great Serpent Mound
Green, Bill
Gresham, William Lindsay
grisaille (monochromatic) technique
grisgris (magic charms)
Guadalupe, image of Virgin Mary
as human painting
Guscin, Mark
Haiti, and voodoo
Hall, Mark A.
Halloran, Father Walter
hallucinations
and neardeath experience
See also consciousness, altered states;
hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations; sleep paralysis
Hall, Ward
Hamad, Mjaka
HamelNoble, Karen
Haney, Sid
Harris, Martin
Hauck, Dennis William
Haunted City (Dickinson)
haunted houses
Hyde Park Barracks
Hydro Majestic Hotel
investigating
Jenolan Caves House
octagonal, Hydes’ House
Winchester Mystery House
Haunted Places: The National Directory
(Hauck)
Headless Woman
healers and healing
of animals
Benny Hinn
dangers of healers
and fantasyprone persons
Joseph Smith
Marie Laveau II
medical intuitives
naturalistic reasons for
New Age fads
Santiago de Compostela cathedral relics
shotgun technique
Healing: A Doctor in Search of a Miracle (Nolen)
Heller,John
hematite, apport trick
Henry, Asa
Herron, Alan
Hess, Bernard J.
Heth, Joice
Hidden Memories: Voice and Visions from
Within (Baker)
Higgins, William
Highland Fat Boys
Hill Cumorah
Hinn, Benny
biographical information
criticismby Christian groups
healing, explanations of
performance of
“shotgun” technique
hirsute people, carnivals
Hockenberry, John
Holyfield, Dana
Holy Shroud Guild
Home for All, A (Fowler)
homeopathy, basis of
Honey Island Swamp Monster
description
discrediting
tracks of
Hopkins, Budd
Hornby, Edmund
hotair balloons, Nazca lines theory
Houdini, Harry
and Arthur Conan Doyle
on breathing fire
mediums, exposing as fakes
visit to William Davenport’s grave
at Winchester House
Hough, Joseph C
Hough, Peter
House of Blood
Household Words
Huey the Pretzel Man
Hughes, Father E. Albert
Human Blockhead
human blowtorch
methods of trickery
Human Cigarette Factory
Human ClawHammer
human oddities, of carnivals
Human Pincushion
hybridization, alien hybrid
Hyde, Erastus C, octagon house of
Hyde, Julia E., o
ctagon house of
Hyde Park Barracks haunting
explaining
sightings
Hydes’ House
octagon house
photos
Hydro Majestic Hotel
hydrotherapy
Hyman, Ray
hypnopompic/hypnagogic hallucinations
features of
of Joseph Smith
and neardeath experience
and outofbody experience
and sexual manifestations
and UFO abductions
visitations from deceased in dreams
voices, hearing
Zanzibar demons
See also sleep paralysis
hypnosis
stagehypnotists, choosing subjects
suggestiblity to
hysteria
ichthyosis, carnival alligator people
icons, weeping
of myrrh
Nicholas, II, Russian czar
illusion show, carnivals
Image of Edessa
imaginary friends
incubus,
indulgences, Catholic
In Search of
Inside Edition,
International Circus Sideshow Museum & Gallery
International Directory of Haunted Places,The (Hauck)
International Explorers Society
Iona, shroud of Christ
Isbell, William H.
Italy
Shroud of Turin
weeping effigy
Ivan the Terrible, Russian czar
ghost of
Jack O’Lantern
Jacobs, David
Jacobson, Susan
Jahoda, Gustav
Jaroff, Leon
Jeanne des Anges, stigmata of
Jefferson, Thomas, octagon house of
Jeffries, Anne
Jenolan Caves
Jenolan Caves House
Jerry Springer Show, The
Jesus
image of. See Shroud of Turin
Oviedo Cloth
relics of
Joan of Arc
John, Doctor, voodoo doctor
John Paul II
on demonic possession
Juan Diego beatification
Jordan, Charlie, remote viewing case
Jordan, Otis
Jordan, Peter
juju. See grisgris
Jung, Carl
karma, meaning of
Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation
Katie, Psychic
Keene, M. Lamar
Kelley, Ned
Kirlian photography, aura, scientific
nature of
Kolomenskoye stone
Kosok, Paul, Krantz, Grover
Kruglyakov, Edward
Kuhlman, Kathryn
Kurtz, Paul
Kushner, Harold S.
Kuvakin, Valerii
Kuznetsov, Dmitrii
Lady Wonder (telepathic horse)
Lang, John
Langrast, J.B.
languages, strange
and demonic possession
explaining
speaking in tongues
Laveau, Marie
biographical information
as fortuneteller
Marie II (daughter)
politicalsocial connections
sightings after death
tomb of
voodoo activities of
Laveau, Marie II (daughter)
as healer
tomb of
Laveaux, Charles
Layne
Learned Pig
Legend of Boggy Creek, The (film)
legends, creation of
Le Grande Zombi
Leigh, Gerri
Lemuria
Lenin, V.I., ghost of
Leona the Leopard Girl
Leonard, Gladys Osborne
Le Roy, William, Letiche
Levengood, W.C.
levitation
explaining
of spirit trumpets
Subbayah Pullavar
ley lines, meaning of
Libbera, Jean
Life Transitions Center
light orbs, of crop circles
Lily Dale (New York), octagon houses
Lily Dale Assembly
Lily Dale Mediums’ League
Lionel the Lionfaced Man
loa (spiritual entities)
Loftus, Elizabeth
Looland, George
Louisiana
New Orleans and voodoo
swamp monsters
Louis I, duke of Savoy, Shroud of Turin
loupgarou (Cajun werewolf)
lucid dreaming
meaning of
and physical/mental exhaustion
of Shirley MacLaine
and visions
Lutz, George
Lutz, Kathy
McBrien, Rev. Richard
McClintic Wildlife Management Area
McClung, David
McCrone, Walter C.
McDaniels, Grace
Mackenzie House
Mack, John
MacLaine, Shirley
dreamvisions of
pastlife memories of
pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
McMunn, Tony
MaGee, John Jr. See Edward, John
magnetism (mesmerism)
Mahner, Martin
Making Saints (Woodward)
manbeasts
Bigfootlike creatures
Gatorman
yowie
manimal. See manbeasts
Mannix, Dan
Man with Three Eyes
Man with Two Bodies
Man with Two Faces
Marie Laveau of New Orleans(Gandolfo)
Mark Walberg Show,
Marrakech, medina entertainers
massage, and healing
Mathis, Jim
Matteson, Antoinette
as medical intuitive
remedy product of
Matteson, Judah H.R.
May, John
Mays, Jerry
maze, Nazca lines theory
Meaden, George Terence
medical intuitives
Antoinette Matteson
Caroline Myss
Edgar Cayce
Judith Orloff
medicationinduced hallucinations
mediumistic espionage
mediums
apports trick
automatic writing
billet scam
closed eyes, seeing with
cold readings
errors, methods of covering
Houdini expose of
informationgathering methods
investigating
John Edward
pet mediums
spiritualism, growth of
spirit writing trick
trances
trumpets for spirit voices
See also clairvoyance; seances
memory
and confabulation
recreative aspects
MendezAcosta, Mario
MendezAcosta, Patricia
mental illness
and demonic possession
and fakery
Merbeings, swamp monsters
mermaids,carnivals
mesmerism
Mexico
El Chupacabras (the goatsucker)
Guadalupe, image of Virgin Mary
midgets, carnivals
midway, of carnival
Millerites
Mills, Billy
Miracle Crusade. See Benny Hinn
MiracleMongers and Their Methods
(Houdini)
miracles, at Santiago de Compostela
Cathedral of
Miriam, voodoo queen
misdirection, in magic
MissingTime (Hopkins)
Momo
moneydigging, scrying
Monster Midway (Gr
esham)
monsters
belief in, rationale for
Boggy Bayou monster
discrediting
El Chupacabras (the goatsucker)
Honey Island Swamp Monster
human explanations of
Mothman
Zanzibar demons
“Monstrum Humanum Rarissimum”
(Friderici)
Monticello, octagonal room at
Moore, Hugh
Moran, Rick
Mormons, Smith, Joseph
Moroni
Morrison, Tony
Mortado the Human Fountain
Most Diminutive Lady Samson in the
World
Mothman
investigating
local legend
sightings
Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (Coleman)
Mothman Prophesies, The (Keel)
MuleFaced Woman
Miiller, Dr. Dietmar
Mumler, WilliamH.
mummies, carnivals
Munito(talking dog)
music, produced by ghosts
Muslims, Moorishconquest of Spain
myrrh
for embalming
of weeping icons
Myss, Caroline, as medical intuitive
Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles (Howe)
Napier, John
National Spiritualist Association of Churches
Nauvoo community
Nazca lines
illustrations
recreation of
theories about
Nazca people
neardeath experience features of
and hypnopompic/hypnagogic hallucinations
physiological causes
necropolis, Spain
New Age movement
healing fads
medical intuitives
pagan ceremonies
pyramid power
sacred sites, and ley lines
Santiago de Compostela cathedral
New Orleans
Congo Square
voodoo
voodoo tours
See also Laveau, Marie
New York
burnedover district
octagon houses
Nicholas, II, Russian czar, weeping icon of
Nickell, Con
Nickell, J. Wendell
Night the DeFeos Died: Reinvestigating the Amity ville Murders, The (Osuna)
Nixon, Bob
Nolen, William A.
Nott, Julian
nuns, and stigmata
Occam’s razor
Occult Family Physician and Botanic
Guide to Health (Matteson)
octagon houses
beliefs about
in colonial era
Fowler’s promotion of
geodesic dome
Hydes’ House
photos
The Octagon (Washington,D.C.)
Old Hag
Old Melbourne Goal
Olson, Eugene E.
Oneida Community
O’Neill, Michael
One Last Hug Before I Go: The Mystery
and Meaning of Deathbed Visions
(WillsBrandon)
Operation White Crop
Opsasnik, Mark
orbs. See light orbs
Orloff, Judith, as medical intuitive
osteopathy
Ostrander, Sheila
Osuna, Rick
Otis the Frog Boy
Ouija board
and demonic possession
movement, cause of
outofbody experiences
and fantasyprone personality
hypnopompic/hypnagogic
hallucinations
neardeath experience
and remoteviewing