At haunted sites, paranormal investigators seek extraordinary experiences that shape their worldviews and their relationships with others. Paranormal investigators represent a widespread shift in Western religious and scientific ideologies as they explore questions of spirituality, debate theories of the afterlife, and attempt to document the existence of supernatural phenomena.

Also known as ghost hunting groups, these teams use both scientific and metaphysical tools to investigate various types of reportedly haunted locations. This dissertation explores the formation, interaction, and identity of paranormal research teams in Western society. The world seems to grow stranger by the day, so take a look back and see just how strange it was a generation ago. These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more. Hopefully, this will prove more nostalgic than off-putting. They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident. This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. Author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, Fort was a master cataloguer of the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre which the scientific establishment of his day chose to ignore and ridicule. Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) was as fascinating a man as one could hope to find.

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