Adventures in paranormal investigation / Joe Nickell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Haunted plantation -- Crop circle capers -- Rorschach icons -- Postmortem on "alien autopsy" -- Snake charming -- Abraham Lincoln's spirit writing -- Dowsing mysterious sites -- The stigmata of Lilian Bernas -- Riddle of the Crystal Skulls -- Phantom hitchhikers : thumb mystery! -- The case of the alien hand -- Hustling heaven -- Peter Popoff's "gift of knowledge" -- Haunted gas chamber -- The case of the psychic detectives -- Italy's miracle relics -- Day of the dead -- Jack the Ripper--identified? -- Ghost-town curse -- Nasca : labyrinths in the desert -- Death by extraterrestrials -- Frankenstein castle -- Intuition : the case of the unknown daughter -- Mystery painting : the shadow of the cross -- Ships of the dead -- Fortune-telling, Mexican style -- Healing spas -- Miraculous springs -- Ufos over Buffalo! -- Second sight : the phenomenon of eyeless vision -- Monsters in the lakes -- The "new" idolatry -- Psychic sleuth without a clue -- Satans step -- Undercover in Tijuana -- Legends of castles and keeps -- Alien encounters -- Return from the dead -- Riddle of the glowing statues -- The white lady of Bavaria.