Monsters Among Us Linda S. Godfrey

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• Linda S. Godfrey

• Paperback: 368 pages

• Publisher: Perigee (29 Sept. 2016)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0399176241

• ISBN-13: 978-0399176241

• Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 2.4 x 20.9 cm

This meticulously researched and thrilling exploration of the otherworldly will challenge your idea of reality. Mysterious wolf-people, sentient mists, and UFOs…if you've ever heard a curious bump in the night, caught a glimpse of a strange-looking someone (or something) out of the corner of your eye, or seen an unusual craft dart across the sky before it vanishes without a trace, there's only one person to call: Linda S. Godfrey. An expert in strange creatures and lore, she has offered reporting on bigfoots, werewolves, strange energy forms, and other bizarre beings for years. 

Godfrey will enthrall even skeptics as she leads you through the mystical, legendary, and scientific angles of these creatures and the myths that surround them. Within these pages, you will encounter: 

- First-hand testimony of a terrifying transformation from woman to beast (during a church service, no less) 

- The Lost Lizard People of Los Angeles 

- A growling, phantomlike home invader

- Wolfmen who walk on two legs 

- People stalked by invisible predators 

Delivering a broad mix of modern-day and historical sightings, and supported by Godfrey's interviews with eyewitnesses, Monsters Among Us is essential reading for anyone hunting for the real accounts behind their childhood campfire stories.

Now if the book cover and that cover blurb has not given you a clue what this book is all about then I give up.

I received this book on Saturday and started to read it Monday (yesterday) and finished it at 01:00 hrs this morning.

As I have gotten older I have cast aside the books that provide just stories but nothing in the way of solid evidence.  Un-named witness in an un-named town has me flick past those pages quickly. That written I need to point out two things:

(1)  the witness should always have their privacy protected and in...over 45 years (45...years!!) no one has ever had that protection threatened: even those who say they "don't mind" I keep their names private.  Therefore, coming across pseudonyms and so on may get tedious to some but it is essential and there is plenty of that anonymity in this book.  It annoys people but...live with it.

(2)  running all over the place looking into "silly monster" reports or waiting about in the dark for "something to happen".  Been there.  Done that. And as detailed in this book; things rarely turn up. I know people often ask why I refer to the times I have done this and nothing happened.  Well, as in this book, it lets the reader know that it is not all high adrenaline-fulled chasing across fields and falling face first into cow pats.  

It is not a glamorous life. There, kids, that's the truth! Makes for some interesting reading, though.

Now, as far as I am concerned Bigfoot (collective "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch" -I hate the usage of "Bigfoots") is possibly a large, scientifically unrecognised primate.  I do not think that it can cloak itself, mind-speak or do any of the other things that have been claimed.  But are those people who claim to see and then report this all nuts or liars?

As Godfrey points out, these questions polarise the Bigfoot community and resulted in "The woo-woo" term coming into usage.  

Unless it is a misidentified Bigfoot then I find it hard to accept Dog-man.  And there are certainly some strange reports in this book -The VIP Werewolf of Orange is one that comes to mind and another is Pennsylvania Glow-Stick Dogman.  I think everyone knows by now that I sit up when the word "monster" is uttered!

But there is far, far more in this book.  We hear a little about Skinwalker Ranch, about portals and windows into other dimensions, UFOs, strange coloured mists, cattle mutilations, the man lifted by invisible entities who carried him to a field while discussing what to do to him -it is all here and.  John Turner's 1967 encounter with a stone throwing Bigfoot and sighting of a group of Bigfoot as he was escaping is noteworthy.

Covering every report or series of events in this book is pointless because you need to read it first hand and make up your own mind.

There is a very good reason why I would recommend this book and that is because it pulls together reports that we might not read or hear about otherwise.  Reports the more 'scientific based' Bigfoot investigators would throw out and never mention.  It does not matter one bit what I think or believe. I may be completely off-track and as I keep saying: the more bizarre the claim the more evidence is needed.  That is often something that cannot happen because of time between seeing and reporting or the nature of the phenomenon involved. 

To me this was like discovering those John A. Keel books as a younger man. Strange Creatures From Time And Space is, as folk should know, a book I consider to be a classic of its type.  I believe that Monsters Among Us is a good successor to Keel's work.  It is the first Godfrey book I've read so it will be interesting to see what her others are like.

I'm meandering too much. Buy the book and enjoy a good read -it may prepare you!