Category: Visiting the Weird

Take Me to Your TV: The Evolution of Alien Invasion Programs

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los SantosIntroductionStories of invaders from outer space appeared in early pulp fiction and such radio shows as Orson Welles’s classic adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds.  As reports of flying saucers captivated the United States in the 1940s and 50s, alien invasion stories became a staple…


Take Me To Your TV: The Evolution of Alien Invasion Programs

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los SantosIntroductionStories of invaders from outer space appeared in early pulp fiction and such radio shows as Orson Welles’s classic adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds.  As reports of flying saucers captivated the United States in the 1940s and 50s, alien invasion stories became a staple…


Reviewing the Weird: Haunted Colleges & Universities of Massachusetts by Renee Mallett

Stories of haunted learning institutions abound. This isn’t surprising. Many schools are old and have complex histories. Some have seen better days and others worse. All that remain open for even a few years amass a long list of administrators, faculty, and students who come and go — and in some cases, return in spiritual…


Reviewing the Weird: Frank Edwards, Strange World and Flying Saucers – Serious Business

It’s been many decades since I first discovered Frank Edwards in a used bookstore – the kind that are all too scarce these days, with narrow low-lit aisles and paperbacks crammed floor to ceiling on unpainted wooden shelves.  While combing the paranormal section (which wasn’t labeled; I just knew where the old guy who ran…


Reviewing the Weird: Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events by Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon

Summer’s here and with the season comes America’s pastime and the boys of summer.  This is also the period when many paranormal sleuths amp up their ghost hunting.  Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon provide a surprising but solid pairing of both subjects in Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events.Tyler Lahti, CC BY 2.0…


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

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…


Eyewitness to Hitler’s Escape

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…


A is for Adamski

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…