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Fitch, Marc E.

Paranormal nation : why America needs ghosts, UFOs, and bigfoot / Marc E. Fitch. - Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013] - 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-386) and index.

Introduction -- A brief history of the paranormal in America -- Paranormal hoaxes -- The native paranormal -- The JFK assassination and the paranormal -- Social change and the paranormal -- The rise of paranormal television -- The paranormal reality -- The paranormal economy -- Based on a true story ... -- A lack of faith -- Is satanism real? -- The American Gothic -- The ghost hunter age : today's paranormal movement -- Shirley Jackson's America -- Why does the United States need ghosts, UFOs, and bigfoot? -- Cry of the banshee.

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ISBN: 9780313382062 (hardback) 0313382069 (hardback) 0313382077 (ebook) 9780313382079 (ebook)

LCCN: 2012040011

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Parapsychology--History.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural.
Aberglaube.


Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social life and customs.
USA.

LC Class. No.: BF1028.5.U6 / F58 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 130.973