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The Mtstery Chronicles

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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

 

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