Curious Encounters: Phantom Trains, Spooky Spots and Other Mysterious Wonders - Softcover

Loren Coleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571125425 ISBN 13: 9780571125425

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1989

Synopsis

Explores curious wonders from California to Maine, from Canada to Mexico, and includes a list of every haunted or spooky location in every state and province in North America

About this title

From Library Journal

Loren Coleman is a disciple of Charles Fort, the tireless collector of weird newspaper clippings. Curious Encounters , a companion to his earlier Mysterious America ( LJ 11/1/83), covers the late 1970s and early 1980s. Included are accounts of sea serpents, pterodactyls, phantom trains, haunted houses, and inexplicable stone structures. An appendix lists sites in each state where strange events have been reported, such as the Casa Bodega Liquor Store, Camarillo State Hospital, and the Massachusetts Turnpike Information Center. Coleman admits that the primary mission of a Fortean is to collect data, not to analyze it, so those who expect a rigorous debunking will have to look elsewhere. However, most readers will find this book provocative and entertaining. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Marymount Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0571125425
• ISBN 13: 9780571125425
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 170