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Tracking the Man-Beasts
by Nickell, JoeISBN13:
9781616144159
ISBN10:
1616144157
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Trade Paper
Pub. Date:
3/22/2011
Publisher(s):
Prometheus Books
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Summary
Takes the reader on expeditions into wilderness areas, explores historical contexts, and brings folkloric and iconographic evidence to bear on a category of mysteries as old as humanity.
Author Biography
Joe Nickell has been on the trail of man-beasts and other mysterious creatures and phenomena for four decades. Since 1995 he has been the world's only full-time, professional, science-based paranormal investigator. His careful, often innovative investigations have won him international respect in a field charged with controversy. He is the author of numerous books, including Psychic Sleuths, Looking for a Miracle, Secrets of the Supernatural, and most recently Real or Fake? Studies in Authentication and Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. See JoeNickell.com for more.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. 11 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| ôMonsterö Men | |
| Monstrosities | p. 21 |
| Human Monsters | p. 21 |
| Exhibited ôFreaksö | p. 23 |
| Real or Fake? | p. 24 |
| Dwarfs among Us | p. 27 |
| Fanciful and Real | p. 27 |
| Dwarfs at Court | p. 29 |
| The Dwarf Garden | p. 30 |
| The Real Giants | p. 35 |
| Biblical Goliaths | p. 35 |
| The Cardiff Giant | p. 36 |
| Of Fable and History | p. 38 |
| Gigantopithecus | p. 39 |
| Wild Men-Or Not | p. 43 |
| Feral Children | p. 43 |
| Wild Men of the Woods | p. 44 |
| Sideshow Savages | p. 45 |
| Neanderthal Relicts | p. 47 |
| The ôHobbitsö | p. 50 |
| Hairy Man-Beasts | |
| Yeti-The Abominable Snowman | p. 55 |
| Sightings and Encounters | p. 55 |
| The Tracks | p. 58 |
| Hillary Expedition | p. 59 |
| The Indian Yeti | p. 60 |
| The Chinese Yeti | p. 61 |
| Sasquatch/Bigfoot | p. 63 |
| The Pacific Northwest | p. 63 |
| Sasquatch | p. 66 |
| Enter ôBigfootö | p. 68 |
| Realistic Footprints | p. 73 |
| Tracking Bigsuit! | p. 77 |
| At Large | p. 77 |
| Bigfooters | p. 79 |
| The Search | p. 80 |
| Man-Beasts Range Far | p. 85 |
| Venezuela: Loys's Ape | p. 85 |
| Siberia: Frozen Sasquatch | p. 87 |
| Australia: The Yowie | p. 90 |
| India's Monkey Man | p. 94 |
| Others | p. 96 |
| The Supernaturals | |
| Werewolves-Or Weren't | p. 101 |
| Origins | p. 101 |
| Witch Mania | p. 103 |
| Investigating in Austria | p. 104 |
| On the Trail of the Loup-Garou | p. 109 |
| The French Werewolf | p. 109 |
| Beast of Gévaudan | p. 111 |
| Eastern Canada | p. 112 |
| Vincennes | p. 114 |
| Louisiana | p. 115 |
| Haiti | p. 117 |
| Of Vampirology | p. 121 |
| The Undead | p. 121 |
| Dracula et al | p. 122 |
| ôRealö Vampires | p. 123 |
| Vampire Study | p. 125 |
| Vampire Kits | p. 125 |
| Searching for Vampire Graves | p. 131 |
| New England | p. 131 |
| The Demon Vampire | p. 132 |
| On Woodstock Green | p. 134 |
| The Killing Vine | p. 136 |
| In New Orleans | p. 138 |
| Chupacabras! | p. 141 |
| From Puerto Rico to Mexico | p. 141 |
| To the United States | p. 142 |
| Investigating in Argentina | p. 145 |
| Other Supernaturals | p. 147 |
| Devil Men | p. 147 |
| Zanzibar Demon | p. 150 |
| Zombies | p. 151 |
| Extraterrestrials | |
| Alien Monster at Flatwoods | p. 159 |
| The Incident | p. 159 |
| Investigating at Flatwoods | p. 161 |
| The Flatwoods Monster | p. 162 |
| Attack of the ôLittle Green Menö | p. 167 |
| Background | p. 168 |
| Aliens? | p. 171 |
| Solution | p. 171 |
| Mothman Metamorphosis | p. 175 |
| Background | p. 175 |
| In the Field | p. 178 |
| Iconography | p. 180 |
| The Humanoids | p. 183 |
| Humanoid Giants | p. 183 |
| Alien Likeness | p. 184 |
| ôAlien Autopsyö Film | p. 187 |
| Roswell Saga | p. 189 |
| Unidentified Flying Humanoids | p. 193 |
| Sightings | p. 193 |
| Analysis | p. 194 |
| Experimentation | p. 195 |
| Manimals | |
| Hybrids | p. 199 |
| Animal-headed Humans | p. 199 |
| Human-headed Animals | p. 201 |
| Exhibited Hybrids | p. 204 |
| Merpeople | p. 207 |
| Merfolk | p. 207 |
| Seal Maidens | p. 208 |
| Fejee Mermaids | p. 209 |
| Taxidermed Fakes | p. 210 |
| Lure of Swamp Creatures | p. 213 |
| Honey Island Swamp Monster | p. 213 |
| Investigating on Site | p. 214 |
| Domain of the Monsters | p. 217 |
| Making Tracks | p. 219 |
| Other Hoaxes | p. 219 |
| Afterword | p. 223 |
| Appendix: The North American Bigfoot-Image and Myth | p. 225 |
| Habitat | p. 225 |
| Developing Iconography | p. 226 |
| Evolution into Myth | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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