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Three Men Seeking Monsters by Nick Redfern Paraview Pocket Books, New York, NY, 2004 softcover, 264 pages, price $14 |
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Nick Redfern is a British author of books on UFOs such as A Covert
Agenda. Presently he lives in Texas. This book is a
first person account of his paranormal encounters in the Summer of 2001
in Great Britain. Prior to his marriage and immigration to the
United States, two of his friends, also paranormal investigators,
decided to treat Redfern to a six week trip in England in search of
paranormal events. In many ways this book reminds me of John
Keel's The Mothman Prophecies and Christopher O'Brien's The
Mysterious Valley. Both are personal accounts of journeys into
the strange. Redfern's book does have some humor in it which other
books like this don't have. Britain has more than its share of haunted areas where strange creatures have been seen. They range from big hairy creatures like the North American Bigfoot to giant cats resembling lions, lake monsters such as Nessie in Scotland. Redfern leans toward the paranormal theory for these creatures. He does not believe they are simply undiscovered animals like the African gorilla which wasn't discovered by Europeans until the nineteenth century. He makes a very convincing case. Rendlesham Forest, the scene of a famous UFO encounter involving American servicemen in England is mentioned on page 174. It seems this area has a reputation for strange happenings other than UFOs. Redfern feels UFOs are also paranormal and that no one will ever prove their existence as solid objects from another planet. Redfer also links paranormal events with ancient earthworks in Britain. Our local UFO group has seen a connection with American mounds and UFO sightings and crop formations. I recommend this book. It's both entertaining, humorous, scary and enlightening. |