Face to Face with the Unknown : True Stories about Young People's Encounters with the Unexplained

by Steiger, Sherry Hansen

• ISBN13: 9780812543940
• ISBN10: 0812543947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-15
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

The line that divides fiction from fact is not always as clear as it may seem. Two plus two equals four, right? But what if just once two plus two equaled....five. Hard to believe? Absolutely. But for the young people whose stories are related here, that is exactly what happened. Each of them experiences something that simply could not be explained. For instance, two boys forced to spend the night in their car during a bad storm learn the next morning that an eyewitness swears he saw four burly men inside their care scare off a gang. But who were the men? The boys were alone that night. Another time, a teen on the way home from a date comes upon strange alien forms in the road ahead. He chases after them only to discover "humanoid" imprints in the grass. Not even the local sheriff can explain it. Mysterious sightings, alien encounters, guardian angles, ghostly hauntings, bizarre visitations....In dozens of stories teens relate real-life experiences with the unknown.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
ESP and Psychic Phenomena	1	(46)
The Boy Who Passed His Tests by Sleeping on His Books!	3	(3)
A Trip to the Future Saved Her Life	6	(3)
All the Boys Are Afraid of This Teenage Mindreader	9	(5)
ESP: Top Secret Research	14	(2)
The Psi Squad	16	(3)
Michael and the Stone	19	(2)
A Dictionary of Psychic Ability Terms	21	(3)
A Peek into Another Dimension?	24	(4)
Faster Than the Speed Of Light?	28	(2)
A Supernatural Hand That Saved Laura's Life	30	(7)
The Power of Prayer	37	(2)
Ouija Boards Are Not Fun and Games	39	(8)
Ghosts: Things That Go Bump in the Night, Ghosts of Fright, and Ghosts of Delight	47	(72)
Saved By a Ghost	49	(5)
The Night the Teen Idol Crashed a Pajama Party	54	(4)
The Hungry Teen Who Hitched a Ride	58	(4)
The Phantom Hitchhiker	62	(2)
The Ghost That Didn't Like Light	64	(2)
The Old Lady in Our House Has Been Dead for Forty Years!	66	(4)
Energy Imprints	70	(2)
Ghost Survey	72	(2)
What Are Ghosts?	74	(3)
Are Ghosts in the Mind of the Beholder?	77	(2)
The Student Who Was Possessed by a Portrait	79	(2)
She Found the Key to the Garden of Dreams---and a Terrible Secret	81	(8)
A Ghost Helped Them Pass Their Math Test	89	(5)
The Teenager Who Kissed a Ghost	94	(5)
The Noisy Disrespectful Ghost of Epworth	99	(5)
His House Was Spooked All His Teenage Years!	104	(5)
Alone in a Twenty-five-foot Tower with Her Dog and a Ghost	109	(3)
The Ghosts of St. Paul's Rectory	112	(2)
A Teenager Encounters the Dark Lady of the Snows	114	(5)
Angels	119	(22)
When They Were Teenagers They Were Touched by Angels	121	(9)
A Beautiful Guardian Angel in a Long White Gown	121	(1)
Saved by Her Guardian Angel	122	(1)
His Guardian Angel Appeared After a Sign in the Sky	123	(1)
An Angelic Voice Warned of Death by Lightning	124	(1)
Saved by Her Shining Lady	124	(1)
His Angel Guide Prepared Him for the Good and the Bad in Life	125	(1)
Saved from Ricocheting Bullets	126	(1)
He Was Given a Promise of a Lifetime of Guidance	127	(1)
A Mission to Achieve Scientific and Spiritual Balance	128	(1)
Angelic Love Sustained Her through Childhood Abuse	129	(1)
Angels Protect Two Students from Drug Dealers	130	(5)
An Angel Kept Him Alive Until Help Arrived	135	(3)
What About Angels?	138	(3)
Life After Death	141	(36)
It's Not Your Time!	143	(3)
His Best Friend Returned from Death to Prove That Life Is Eternal	146	(4)
His Sweetheart Appeared before Him at the Moment of Her Death	150	(3)
His High School Sweetheart Alerted Him from Another Realm	153	(6)
A Visit with Grandpa in Heaven	159	(3)
He Met His True Love in Heaven Then Found Her on Earth	162	(6)
What Are Near-death Experiences?	168	(1)
Deathbed Research	169	(8)
Very Strange Creatures	177	(28)
Bigfoot Burial Ground in Ohio?	179	(5)
Wanted---Bigfoot	184	(3)
Can Bigfoot Really Exist?	187	(2)
A Bigfoot Gave Her a Black Eye	189	(2)
Prehistoric American Giants	191	(2)
Boy Scouts Meet Bigfoot	193	(2)
Bigfoot in the Duck Blind	195	(2)
The Night a Dinosaur Came to Visit	197	(4)
Sea Monsters---A Worldwide Phenomenon	201	(4)
UFOs	205	(31)
A Giant UFO Hovers over a House in New Jersey	207	(3)
The UFO Monster That Visited West Virginia	210	(2)
The Shadow Man, Orange Balls of Light, and Little Gray Creatures	212	(5)
This Teen Took Photos That Changed His Life and Many Others!	217	(3)
Flying Jelly Bags?	220	(3)
Sightings Go Unreported Because of Fear	223	(1)
Oregon Boy Reports UFO	224	(2)
My Own Daylight Sighting	226	(2)
Strange Noise Awakens Thirteen-Year-Old	228	(2)
She Has Been Abducted Four Times Since She Was Eight!	230	(3)
How Many People Have Been Abducted?	233	(3)
UFO Theories---What Else Could They Be?	236