Bücher
Service
Preface to the 2001 Edition
On the Road Again...
Introduction
Chapter 1 Reflections of a Traveling American Fortean
Chapter 2 A Couple of Side Trips into the Unknown
Chapter 3 Devil Names and Fortean Places
Chapter 4 Things That Go Bump in the Bay State
Creatures aPlenty...
Chapter 5 A Case Study: The Dover Demon
Chapter 6 Teleporting Animals and Magnolia
Chapter 7 Alligators in the Sewers
Chapter 8 Giant Snakes
Chapter 9 Lake Monsters
Chapter 10 Giant Catfish
Chapter 11 Champ
Chapter 12 The Phantom Panthers
Chapter 13 Maned Mystery Cats
Chapter 14 Mystery Kangaroos and Devil Monkeys
Chapter 15 Eastern Bigfoot: Momo and Marked Hominids
Chapter 16 The North American Ape
Chapter 17 Minnesota Iceman
Phantoms Afield...
Chapter 18 The Jersey Devil
Chapter 19 Kelly's Little Men
Chapter 20 The Mad Gasser of Mattoon and His Kin
Chapter 21 The Phantom Clowns
Fireside Thinking...
Chapter 22 The Name Game
Chapter 23 Some Concluding Thoughts After Some Years "On the Trail"
The Lists...
Appendix I The American Lion
Appendix II Spook Lights
Appendix III Erratic Crocodilians and Teleporting 'Gators
Appendix IV Phantom Ships
Appendix V A Few Bedeviled Places
Appendix VI Lake and River Monsters of North America
Appendix VII A Regional Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Bestselling author and noted cryptozoologist Loren Coleman set out on the ultimate mission: to uncover the fun and intriguing phenomena that exist right here in the United States. In Mysterious America, a fun and compulsively readable guidebook to America's most popular local legends, he prepares readers for their own adventure -- where to find the unbelievable spectacles on their journey, including:
Coleman's witty insight and astonishing experiences will captivate followers of Charles Fort and just-plain-curious readers alike. For, as Coleman frankly reveals, these strange creatures and unimaginable wonders may lie just beyond your own backyard....
