By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos Introduction Stories 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…

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos Introduction Stories 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…

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…

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…

Oscar De Los Santos, Ph.D. and Kelly L. Goodridge, M.A., M.F.A.                                                                  Introduction Our 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…