The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained (Unabridged) The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained (Unabridged)

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --Buzzfeed

America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena


In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures.

Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today's Illuminati is yesterday's Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America's wildest fringe beliefs--from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials, or possibly both, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam, to the museum containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat Shower--investigating how these theories come about, why they take hold, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious, wry, brilliant in his analysis, yet eminently readable.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
WD
Will Damron
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:10
hr min
RELEASED
2020
July 21
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
334.2
MB

Customer Reviews

rosegrlz ,

I would give it a .5 star if I could.....

Terrible-and sometimes ridiculous.

Calls people “cranks” and delusional. This book is to disprove mysterious happenings. It’s skeptical and not well read. It seems like a psychoanalysis of various people and writers. This book is really bad.

The audio quality is also bad. Sounds like a man in a can. 🙄

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