Weird Stuff Happens

source: Hieronimus & Co. Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 1

Since mainstream media reports in general are frequently biased, it is necessary to do your own reading in areas important to you and to build your own personal library. Reading primary sources is especially important if your interest is becoming informed about unusual and anomalous phenomena. One of the best sources of information to come out in a long time is Jerome Clark's Unexplained! 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences and Puzzling Physical Phenomena published in 1993 by Visible Ink Press (phone: 1.800.776.6265). The 443 pages of solid research are thoroughly referenced and definitely worth the $14.95 investment.

Many of the strange creatures described in Clark's Unexplained! are also depicted in the 21st Century Radio catalogue because they have been subjects of our past programming. An alphabetical example: Alligators in Sewers, Ball Lighting, Bigfoot, Cattle Mutilations, Champ, Crop Circles, Living Dinosaurs, Ghost Lights, Hangar 18, Lake Monsters, Loch Ness Monsters, Men in Black, Mokele-Mbernbe, Mothman, Nazca Lines, Ogopogo, Onza, Pterosaur Sightings, Sea Serpents, Spontaneous Human Combustion, Thunderbirds, UFOs, Werewolves and Yeti.

What makes this such a valuable reference tool however, is the unbiased approach of its author, Jerry Clark, who asks in the introduction: Could it be possible that such bizarre beasts and entities exist? "We do not know why honest individuals in all times and places claim to see things that all evidence and logic tell us do not and cannot exist," Clark states in the introduction, but the evidence compiled on the pages of his encyclopedia show that regardless of the why, the sightings do occur.

Clark prefers to consider these anomalous encounters "...simply as curiosities that represent some of human experience's more peculiar and unclassifiable aspects.... They ought not to threaten anyone who does not need to believe late-twentieth-century science has accounted for all the interesting phenomena of mind and nature."

Monster Trading Cards

Paging through this mind-bending encyclopedia of puzzling physical phenomena made us remember that for years we've been encouraging trading card companies to produce a set of unexplained phenomena collector cards. We have devoted many radio specials to reviewing the best products in the trading card industry because we believe a good set of collectible cards can resemble a miniature encyclopedia or museum. Over the air we have reviewed several sets on UFOs and even a minor hologram set on unexplained phenomena, but none could compare with the recently released 80-card set entitled "Myth or Real" produced by American Realist Company, otherwise known as brothers Jerry and Loren Coleman. The name Loren Coleman is already well-known among Forteans and 21st Century Radio listeners. You will find him listed on page 152 of our catalogue volume 2 when we interviewed him about Mysterious America, Curious Encounters and Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti all published by Faber and Faber (phone 617.721.1427).

Only 3,000 of these marvelous "Myth or Real" sets were produced, adding collectability to usefulness for your reasons to order yours today. One subset of cards introduces the reader to the leading researchers of the bizarre such as Charles Fort, Ivan T. Sanderson, Tom Slick, Mark Chorvinsky, and the father of cryptozoology Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans.

Some of the illustrations on the cards are photographs and some are simple illustrations, but on the back of each card is a pithy explanation of the topic. They cover the Dover Demon of Massachusetts, the Lawndale Thunderbird of Illinois, Ogopogo, of Lake Okanagan in British Colombia, Werewolves of Pennsylvania, Pterodactyls of the Yucatan, Yeti, Onza, Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, Devil's Tower, Bridge Trolls and the Okapi from Zaire.


	"Weird Stuff Happens"

source: Hieronimus & Co. Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 1 Since mainstream media reports in general are frequently biased, it is necessary to do your own reading in areas important to you and to build your own personal library. Reading primary sources is especially important if your interest is becoming informed about unusual and anomalous phenomena. One of the best sources of information to come out in a long time is Jerome Clark's Unexplained! 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences and Puzzling Physical Phenomena published in 1993 by Visible Ink Press (phone: 1.800.776.6265). The 443 pages of solid research are thoroughly referenced and definitely worth the $14.95 investment. Many of the strange creatures described in Clark's Unexplained! are also depicted in the 21st Century Radio catalogue because they have been subjects of our past programming. An alphabetical example: Alligators in Sewers, Ball Lighting, Bigfoot, Cattle Mutilations, Champ, Crop Circles, Living Dinosaurs, Ghost Lights, Hangar 18, Lake Monsters, Loch Ness Monsters, Men in Black, Mokele-Mbernbe, Mothman, Nazca Lines, Ogopogo, Onza, Pterosaur Sightings, Sea Serpents, Spontaneous Human Combustion, Thunderbirds, UFOs, Werewolves and Yeti. What makes this such a valuable reference tool however, is the unbiased approach of its author, Jerry Clark, who asks in the introduction: Could it be possible that such bizarre beasts and entities exist? "We do not know why honest individuals in all times and places claim to see things that all evidence and logic tell us do not and cannot exist," Clark states in the introduction, but the evidence compiled on the pages of his encyclopedia show that regardless of the why, the sightings do occur. Clark prefers to consider these anomalous encounters "...simply as curiosities that represent some of human experience's more peculiar and unclassifiable aspects.... They ought not to threaten anyone who does not need to believe late-twentieth-century science has accounted for all the interesting phenomena of mind and nature." Monster Trading Cards Paging through this mind-bending encyclopedia of puzzling physical phenomena made us remember that for years we've been encouraging trading card companies to produce a set of unexplained phenomena collector cards. We have devoted many radio specials to reviewing the best products in the trading card industry because we believe a good set of collectible cards can resemble a miniature encyclopedia or museum. Over the air we have reviewed several sets on UFOs and even a minor hologram set on unexplained phenomena, but none could compare with the recently released 80-card set entitled "Myth or Real" produced by American Realist Company, otherwise known as brothers Jerry and Loren Coleman. The name Loren Coleman is already well-known among Forteans and 21st Century Radio listeners. You will find him listed on page 152 of our catalogue volume 2 when we interviewed him about Mysterious America, Curious Encounters and Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti all published by Faber and Faber (phone 617.721.1427). Only 3,000 of these marvelous "Myth or Real" sets were produced, adding collectability to usefulness for your reasons to order yours today. One subset of cards introduces the reader to the leading researchers of the bizarre such as Charles Fort, Ivan T. Sanderson, Tom Slick, Mark Chorvinsky, and the father of cryptozoology Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans. Some of the illustrations on the cards are photographs and some are simple illustrations, but on the back of each card is a pithy explanation of the topic. They cover the Dover Demon of Massachusetts, the Lawndale Thunderbird of Illinois, Ogopogo, of Lake Okanagan in British Colombia, Werewolves of Pennsylvania, Pterodactyls of the Yucatan, Yeti, Onza, Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, Devil's Tower, Bridge Trolls and the Okapi from Zaire.
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