Category: Unexplained and Just Plain Crazy
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Psychic Healing from the 1970s
The Psychic Frontiers of Medicine Schul 1977 For those of you that like your health advice with a side of spooky, this is your book. Check out some of the claims on the back of the book. My particular favorite is sex energy to achieve “elevated states of consciousness.” I…
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Alien Hair
Hair of the Alien DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction Chalker 2005 Not gonna lie, I love this kind of stuff. I confess that I have had moments when I watched Ancient Aliens. (Of course, it was strictly as background noise.) Who wouldn’t want to look at a…
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Get Ready for Your Alien Date!
Preparing for Contact: A Metamorphosis of Consciousness Royal and Priest 1993 I am all about the books on Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts, and other assorted weirdness. They are a lot of fun and they generally circulate pretty well. This one got me because of the cover. Who doesn’t love the romance…
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Brainwashing for fun and profit!
Brainwashing is a Cinch! Maratta 1966 Of course I am interested in any book that would allow me to bend people to my will. (The longer I am in this profession, I realize that I really want to be a librarian dictator.) Our author defines brainwashing as substituting one belief…
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The End is Near
Hide! Blackschleger 1959 I better read this book quickly. Evidently the end is near – or not so near, since it is 2017. (Although there has been a plague of insanity in the USA that makes me wonder.) Our guy Blackschleger has the world figured out. He has so many…
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Prepare for the Apocalypse
Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization’s End Joseph 2007 These are always fun books after the fact. Here we are, five years later, and civilization is still hanging in there. By a thread, probably, but we’re still here! Look, libraries can absolutely buy these books. I don’t have any…
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