By Nick Redfern

Two or three times a year I like to dip my toes back into the unknown and Forteana. As a kid growing up in the 80’s I loved reading books about UFOs, unknown animals, and strange places of the world. This led to a love of the X-Files and other conspiracy shows…

Nick Redfern is a prolific writer in this field, and often has interesting and honest takes on the various subjects. Here he argues that the Loch Ness Monster is not a flesh and blood “monster” (or plesiosaur) , but instead is something supernatural. This is how he ties together the millennia of weird stories about Loch Ness, Loch Morar, and places in between. Throw in stories about Aleister Crowley (who lived on Loch Ness), his spiritual descendants and a British exorcist…UFOs, high strangeness, and every weird story from the region.

I don’t find it all wholly persuasive. I am no longer eight so I know that Loch Ness is not teeming with relic dinosaurs. But if you take any area in the world and combine all of their folklore, historical odd stories, and tales from the clergy (and more colorful elements) and deduce that all strange events are supernatural… but are they?

264 Pages

3/5