Author: jekyllhyde

When the Historical Fantastic Isn’t Enough: An Examination of Project Blue Book the TV Series

March 5, 2021
Visiting the Weird

Oscar De Los Santos, Ph.D. and Kelly L. Goodridge, M.A., M.F.A.                                                                 IntroductionOur essay examines the History Channel program, Project Blue Book (2019-2020).  Unlike some of the channel’s documentary offerings, Project Blue Book is a fictional drama, even though each episode stresses that the stories presented are based on real incidents ostensibly involving unidentified flying objects…

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Reviewing the Weird: Out on Foot: Nightly Patrols and Ghostly Tales of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent by Rocky Elmore

February 28, 2021
Reviewing the Weird

Reviewing the Weird: Out on Foot: Nightly Patrols and Ghostly Tales of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent by Rocky ElmoreFirst, thanks to my friend Teresa for gifting me this book.  It’s an engaging read that presents the dangers and challenges that United States Border Patrol agents face during their nightly tours walking the trails and…

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Reviewing the Weird: Passport to Magonia

February 18, 2021
Reviewing the Weird

Reviewing the Weird: Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee (1969)Sometimes younger explorers of the weird ignore older works.  “It’s outdated,” is a response I’ve heard after recommending a decades-old book on ufology or the paranormal.  I double down and stress that it’s important to look back at who carved the steps leading to Today.Such is…

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Reviewing the Weird: The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter by Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.

January 3, 2021
Reviewing the Weird

Ted Owens was a genius and a member of Mensa, but that’s not what made him impressive to some and a laughing stock to others.  Ted could control the weather and bring on droughts, floods, and hurricanes with a high degree of success.  Maybe.  Or maybe it was the “Sis” – Space Intelligences – who…

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Reviewing the Weird: Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (revised and updated edition) by Jim Marrs

November 10, 2020
Reviewing the Weird

It’s been over thirty years since the original edition of version of Crossfire appeared in 1989.  The book was a brick-sized bundle of information by veteran journalist Jim Marrs, who wrote extensively about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and other conspiracy theories in his long career.  The veteran journalist also spent decades teaching a course…

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Eyewitness to Hitler’s Escape

October 25, 2020
Visiting the Weird

Reviewing the Weird: Eyewitness to Hitler’s Escape by Peter David OrrPeter David Orr’s Eyewitness to Hitler’s Escape follows other well-researched studies which offer provocative reasons to doubt that in the waning days of World War II and with the fall of Berlin imminent, Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide and before doing so, ordered their…

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Paranoia and Pack Mentality versus Pacifism in The Day the Earth Stood Still

October 4, 2020
The Critical Weird

By Kelly L. Goodridge“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout.  There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men.  For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.  A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a…

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Reviewing the Weird: Witness to Roswell: Unmasking The Government’s Biggest Cover-Up (2009) by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt

October 4, 2020
Reviewing the Weird

The mention of Roswell today leads some to think of tin foil hats, conspiracy theory, and pop culture lore as evidenced in alien-themed tchotchkes, liquor, fashion, and science fiction shows like Roswell, which ran on The WB Television Network from 1999-2002, and Roswell, New Mexico (2019-present), which is currently showing on The CW Television Network…

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The Roswell Incident by Berlitz and Moore

September 25, 2020
Reviewing the Weird

The slim volume that started it all.Reviewing the Weird: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. MooreThis side of ghost stories, more UFO books have been published than any other Weird subject, including the John F. Kennedy assassination – and the latter is hard to top.  All kidding aside, among the library of…

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A is for Adamski

September 13, 2020
Visiting the Weird

Reviewing the Weird: “A” is for Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees by Adam Gorightly and Greg BishopYou want weird?  Look no further than “A” is for Adamski.  Here’s a taste of the characters and exploits you’ll encounter in this chronicle of the contactee movement, whose heyday stretched from the late 1940s through…

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