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Book SynopsisAmerica''s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a thought-provoking and delicoiusly unsettling (Publisher''s Weekly) tour of the country''s most persistent unexplained phenomenaIn a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures.
Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made
Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today''s Illuminati is yesterday''s Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America''s wildest fringe belie
