Paranormal Phenomena
Recommended Reading
Must-have books for your paranormal library:

General:

Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience by Rosemary Ellen Guiley – "An invaluable resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the mystery of alternate realities. With more than 500 cross-referenced entries."

Unexplained! by Jerome Clark – "Cattle mutilations, green fireballs, spontaneous human combustion, hairy bipeds – some say these and other strange occurrences are figments of the witnesses' imagination. Should you dismiss what you can't explain? Unexplained! is an award-winning exposition of the mysterious, drawing from first-hand accounts and featuring more than 100 illustrations." Read review.

Ghosts and Hauntings:

Ghost Hunter's Favorite Cases by Hans Holzer – The compilation documents more than sixty of Dr. Holzer's most fascinating and uncanny true stories. These gripping tales of American psychic experiences cover a wide range of Hans Holzer's ventures in that shadowy area between death and life..."

The Paranormal Investigator's Handbook edited by Valerie Hope & Maurice Townsend – "A practical introduction to many unexplained phenomena – from ghosts and poltergeists to ley lines and out-of-body experiences. Gives an informed overview of the current methods of research used by real-life investigators.

Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places by Brad Steiger – "The culmination of Steiger's 50 years of paranormal research, Real Ghosts is a bold telling of true ghost stories and first-person encounters. It is also a comprehensive classification of the spirit world touching on time travel and parallel universes, presenting the full range of ghostly manifestations and haunted locations. Read review.

The World's Most Haunted Places by Jeff Belanger – "Explores the history, folklore, and legends behind some of the world's most fascinating ghostly points of interest. Ghostvillage.com's founder, Jeff Belanger, speaks with witnesses, psychics, and ghost hunters who tell their stories and share their research on haunted places around the world.

Life After Death:

The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death by Gary E. Schwartz – Risking his academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked well-known mediums to become part of a series of experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. This riveting narrative, with electrifying transcripts, documents stringently monitored experiments in which mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues. Here are the results that awed sitters and researchers alike." Read review.

Monsters and Weird Creatures:

Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs – "Award-winning journalist Jim Marrs has uncovered compelling new evidence that alien life forms have not only visited our planet in the past, but are among us right now."

The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings by John A Keel – "From the upper Nile to the lower Ganges, from the roof of the world in Tibet to remote hamlets in West Virginia and Kentucky, John A. Keel has been on the trail of weird creatures and strange phenomena." He describes many of these creatures in this classic book.

The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel – "West Virginia, 1966. For 13 months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare that culminates in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community."

Time Travel / Other Dimensions / Physics:

The Field by Lynne McTaggart – "During the past few decades, science has begun to prove what ancient myth and religion has always espoused: that there may be such a thing as a life force. Frontier scientists all over the globe have produced extraordinary evidence to show that an energy field – the Zero Point Field – connects everything in the universe, and we ourselves are part of this vast dynamic cobweb of energy exchange."

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot – "This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains not only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near-death experiences, 'lucid' dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and mireaculous healings."

Time Storms by Jenny Randles – "In this groundbreaking study, a leading expert in unexplained phenomena examines dozens of cases from around the world that share extraordinary similarities. Witnesses have encountered a strange energy cloud that provokes a series of physical effects – including the loss of hours, even days, of real time." Read review.