Book description
As a former private investigator and forensic writer, Joe Nickell has
spent much of his career identifying forged documents, working
undercover to infiltrate theft rings, and investigating questioned
deaths. Now he turns his considerable investigative skill toward the
paranormal, researching the most well-known and mysterious phenomena all
over the world-spontaneous human combustion, UFO visitations, auras,
electronic poltergeists, and many, many more-with an eye toward solving
these mysteries rather than promoting or dismissing them. Real-Life
X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal examines the cases of over forty
paranormal mysteries. Using a hands-on approach, Nickell visits the
scene of the so-called unexplainable activity whenever possible and
attempts to physically duplicate the miraculous. Whether he's inflicting
stigmata on himself or recreating the liquefying blood of Saint
Januarius, Nickell does whatever necessary to eliminate the probable
before considering the supernatural. What is left is that much more
fascinating. Nickell reports on familiar legends from American history
such as the supernatural events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's death and
the supposed crash landing of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, New
Mexico. He closely examines claims of the miraculous, from rose petals
bearing the likeness of Jesus to photographs of a “golden door” to
heaven. Controversial mysteries such as clairvoyance and “spirit
painting,” haunted places, and freaks of nature are just a few of the
many topics covered. Suspenseful, engrossing, funny, and grounded in
scientific methodology, Real-Life X-Files provides real explanations for
the “paranormal” activities that have intrigued human beings for
centuries.
