Betty and Barny Hill's original abduction experience gave us gray aliens as a race-less compromise between black and white. Bigfoot legends encode elements of racism and appropriation. Lemuria (a hypothetical disappeared continent slightly less well known than Atlantis) was originally conceived as a solution to the geographical distribution of lemurs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes gave us the term "crank".
As someone who reads a lot about these topics, I was impressed at just how often Dickey could surprise me with fun anecdotes and insights I hadn't heard before.
Colin Dickey takes on a huge topic and jumps enthusiastically from one representative example to the next with just enough information to help us understand the foundational stories, the characters involved, the data available, the resulting mythos and the underlying psychology. As a huge fan of all things paranormal, cryptozoological and Fortean, I thoroughly enjoyed The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained.
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