
Picture Yourself Legend Tripping : Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Backyard.
Title:
Picture Yourself Legend Tripping : Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Backyard.
Author:
Belanger, Jeff.
ISBN:
9781435456419
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Welcome to Legend Tripping -- Foul! -- Intervention Time -- Legend Tripping as a Hobby? -- Who Is "They"? -- Start with Yourself -- Chapter 2 Ghost Tripping -- Types of Ghostly Legends -- Finding a Haunt -- Experiencing the Ghost Trip -- The Vigil -- Provoking the Spirits -- The Write-Up -- So There I Was in Cincinnati -- Chapter 3 Children's Legend Tripping -- Santa Claus -- Tooth Fairy -- Easter Bunny -- Boogeyman -- Sandman -- Little People Imbibed with Magic -- Fiction? Fact? Reality? A Conversation with Children's Book Author Q. L. Pearce -- Candy Witch -- Tsk Tsk, Be Gone! -- Chapter 4 Monster Tripping -- Cryptozoology -- Thunderbird -- Mothman -- Vampires -- Giant Water Serpents -- On the Hunt for a Troll -- Analyzing Monster Evidence -- Bigfoot -- Stumbling into Bigfoot -- Zombies -- Chupacabra -- Chapter 5 Chapter UFO Tripping -- UFOs in Religious Texts -- UFOs over North America -- Close Encounter of the First Kind How Four Minutes Can Attach Itself to a Person for a Lifetime -- A Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind -- Unidentified Submersible Objects-USOs -- Starchild Skull -- Investigating the Claims -- Chapter 6 Urban Legend Tripping -- If It Pops, It Rocks -- The Hook -- Where the Hell Is My Kidney? -- Touched by an Angel -- Not Just Stories! -- March Off of the Penguins -- Death -- The Grave That Knocks Back -- Defying Gravity and Ghostly Proof! -- Chapter 7 Interviewing the Witness -- Can You Trust a Person's Memory? -- Belief Language -- Lying? Hoaxing? -- Multiple Witnesses -- For the Pros -- The Write-Up -- Chapter 8 Ancient Mystery Tripping -- America's Stonehenge -- Is This the End of the World as We Know It? -- Nazca Lines -- Bermuda Triangle -- Atlantis -- Some Ancient Site Words of Caution -- Chapter 9 Religious Tripping -- A Deal with the Devil.
Can We Really Make a Pact with the Devil? -- Cults -- Power of Prayer -- When the Saints Go Marching In -- We See Mary Everywhere! -- I Need a Miracle Every Day -- The Holy Grail -- Chapter 10 Web Tripping -- The Web Bot Project -- John Titor aka Timetravel_0 Visits Us from the Future -- Ghosts in the Machine -- It's the End of the World As We Know It, and I Feel Fine -- More Ghosts in the Machine -- Too Good to Be True Email -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Getting Started -- Tul-Pa -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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