Don’t think for a minute that the Fouke Monster (made famous by the horror movie The Legend of Boggy Creek) was a creature unique to Boggy Creek, Arkansas, or to the early 1970s. Similar creatures have been encountered for decades from Arkansas and Oklahoma down to Texas, over to Florida and all the southern states in between. This “Southern Sasquatch” is the subject of outdoorsman Lyle Blackburn’s well-researched and entertaining new book, Beyond Boggy Creek: In Search of the Southern Sasquatch. His previous work led Fortean Times to acclaim: “Blackburn shows himself not only to be a first-rate researcher but a formidable writer.” We’ll venture that his new work is destined to be the cryptozoological book of the year.

We knew from the beginning that Eric Ouellet’s Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event would be a controversial book that would please neither UFOlogists nor parapsychologists. We were right; step on toes and people scream. But even critics like parapsychologist Renaud Evrard, in his review of the book in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, admits that “the perspective he adopts has never been discussed so extensively,” that perspective being that “social psi” is actually at the core of the UFO phenomenon. Could UFO experiences be like poltergeist events? Evrard finds that Ouellet’s “‘political sociology’ of UFO experiences and alien encounters is not really convincing. The symbolic perspective, although it remains attractive, gives him too much freedom to approximate a scientific analysis.” Meanwhile, UFOlogist Jerome Clark, who says he’s been there, done that, and moved on from such a perspective, argues in his review of the book in Fortean Times that we should stop “dragging in creaky concepts such as macro-PK, on its best days a hugely speculative notion, to explain anything [about UFOs]. And let’s keep social stresses out of it too. There are always social streeses, and there is no empirically demonstrated reason to link them to UFO sightings.” But he doesn’t entirely discount the possibility, as he ends his review with these words: “Show me real evidence that macro-PK, working selectively through ‘social stresses,’ creates UFO events, and we’ll talk.” Finally, Peter Rogerson, in his review at Magonia, calls it an “interesting book” that “certainly evoked a feeling of nostalgia in me, because I was thinking on similar lines back in 1970!” But he seems to have now rejected that view because “we certainly don’t know that psychokinesis or morphic fields or other psi processes exist.” Obviously Rogerson is not up on the parapsychological literature of the past 50 years! But if we were back in the early 1970s, he admits, “this is a book which I would have probably given a rave review.” Finally we have the opinion of David Halprin, who is neither a UFOlogist nor a parapsychologist. In his review on his blog, he finds Ouellet’s book “challenging, lucid, at times brilliant.” He doesn’t think that “all of Ouellet’s arguments are equally convincing. But all are stimulating, all are provocative. All contribute to making this book one of the most fascinating UFO books I’ve read in a long time–-a vital contribution to the understanding of the UFO as a social and psychological phenomenon.”

Remember Joshua Cutchin, the crazy guy who decided to investigate the food and drink offerings of aliens, fairies, and Sasquatch in that remarkably scholarly yet fun-to-read book  A Trojan Feast? If you do, you might wonder what could he possibly do next? Well, wonder no longer.  Just released is his new book, The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, and Monstrous Miasmas, which is equally scholarly (100 pages of endnotes and bibliography!) and probably even more fun to read, because hey, there’s something mighty smelly around here! And there is an amazing coincidence in the titling of the book, which the author details in a blog post: How a profound synchronicity led to the title of The Brimstone Deceit. The name of the game? Manipulation! Here is what our Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta, another fabulous book, thinks about Joshua’s new work: “The Brimstone Deceit can rightly be called an instant classic because it articulates a refreshingly original approach to the paranormal and more importantly, how witnesses interpret their experiences. Joshua Cutchin carefully builds his case with fascinating, startling, and entertaining accounts from throughout history to show us that when it comes to UFOs, Bigfoot, and other High Strangeness, the nose may really know what has been knocking at our doors for millennia.”

For many people, the long awaited English translation of Bernard Heuvelmans’ Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman is finally satisfying a 42-year itch, and how rewarding that has proved to be! Just how important is the case of the Minnesota Iceman to cyprtozoology? Jerome Clark, in his review in Fortean Times, finds the perfect analogy. “In one way,” he writes, “the Minnesota Iceman episode is the Roswell incident of cryptozoology: a glimpse of what at  first seemed proof of an extraordinary anomaly before the evidence was snatched away, to fade into secrecy, confusion, and endless dispute… [But] with the Minnesota Iceman, the ostensible evidence’s existence was known and studied almost immediately by zoologists. They concluded that the body encased in ice was of a recently slain hairy man with pre-modern characteristics.” Nick Redfern in his review of the book at Mysterious Universe also ranks the case as one of the most important in cryptozoology:  “…this is an excellent study of one of Cryptozoology’s biggest and most enduring enigmas: that of the Minnesota Iceman….as [Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan Sanderson] follow the trail, the pair comes across not unlike monster-hunting equivalents of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson…the story is so entertaining that you don’t actually have to be a fan of Cryptozoology, at all, to read it. Anyone and everyone with an interest in how and why people pursue enigmas will find Neanderthal to be highly engaging reading…A tale of a man-beast, models and mystery, Neanderthal is one of the most entertaining books I have read in a long time – and for many reasons!”

We have just released the ebook edition of one of our biggest and best books, UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry by Michael Swords, Robert Powell, et al. It’s available from Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, and more.

We have also released the ebook edition of our newest book, More Encounters with Star People: Urban American Indians Tell Their Stories by Ardy Sixkiller Clark.

And available for the first time this month as laminated hardcover editions are Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History by Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough from Amazon or Barnes & Noble; and A Manifestation of Monsters: Examining The (Un)usual Suspects by Karl Shuker, also from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. These hardcover editions will only be available for a limited time, so get yours now.

Professor Ardy Sixkiller Clarke’s new book, More Encounters with Star People: Urban American Indians Tell Their Stories, is an eagerly awaited follow-up to her bestselling first book, Encounters with Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians. But unlike the first book, this one features the stories of American Indians who live off the reservation. And unlike almost all other books of UFO sightings, Clarke experience of interviewing the witness becomes part of the story. In the process she becomes part UFO investigator, part journalist, part therapist, and part friend. The result is an authenticity that is unequaled in the UFO literature. Don’t miss it!

Finally! It’s here: Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman by Bernard Heuvelmans. It’s taken 42 years for the only full-length story of the Minnesota Iceman to appear in English. That’s rather curious since the Minnesota Iceman is the most popular topic in the field next to the Patterson Bigfoot film. And Heuvelmans’ book about the frozen corpse of an extremely hairy man-like creature being exhibited in the Midwest in the late 1960s/early 1970s is a riveting read. The zoologist’s detailed inquiry into the origin of the specimen triggered a bizarre adventure involving the FBI, the Smithsonian, the Mafia, the Vietnam War, drug smuggling, Hollywood, and a secretive millionaire, giving much of the account the flavor of a detective story. We have Paul LeBlond to thank for translating the book, Philippe Marlin at Editions de l’Oeil du Sphinx for permission to publish this translation, and Loren Coleman for writing an amazing afterword that fills in the story from 1974 to 2016.

We normally don’t boast (well, yes we do), but it’s well-recognized that Anomalist Books publishes some of the most important works of UFO research in the world. Our latest, Return to Magonia, by Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, has been receiving high praise lately. About their investigations of cases in UFO history, folklorist Thomas E. Bullard says, in his review of the book in the Journal of Scientific Exploration: “This book is not intellectual candy to feed favorite beliefs or a sounding board for speculative theories. What this book is, is a work of serious scholarship. Seldom are such deep research, careful analysis, and stringent arguments found in the UFO literature, and Return to Magonia is exemplary both in the … research goals it undertakes and its success in carrying them out….This is fine work through and through, and exemplary of UFO research at its best.” Equally enthusiastic is the historian known as “Dr. Beachcombing,” who in his bizarre history blog review of the book says: “The book is a lot more than just a series of x-files cases….Chris and Martin have bottled the Fortean formula. Here is a natural science murder mystery: let’s solve it, or better still let’s fail to solve it an interesting way, leaving some flashes of the numinous on the horizon. There is also perhaps a hint of the underdog. The book was written by two part time researchers who pack more punch than many university teams in their use of astronomy, meteorology and the wealth of archive material on the internet…. What a fantastic book!”

Name one of the most influential paranormal books of the past 40 years? We think many would agree that it’s Mysteries of Time and Space by Brad Steiger, which is why we have reprinted the book with a new introduction by the now-famous author looking back on that 66th book of his. This classic book certainly influenced Nick Redfern, who writes in Mysterious Universe, that “Brad’s book opened my mind to a wide-range of enigmas – and ultimately played a significant role in spurring me on to do my own investigations and, eventually, writings, too.” Nick insists that his love for the book is not an exercise in nostalgia: “It’s still relevant today.” Brent Raynes, of Alternative Perceptions, echoes that sentiment: “There’s nothing obsolete, passé, or ‘old hat’ about Mysteries of Time and Space. It continues to stand as a thought-provoking landmark classic…” But what do new readers think of the book, you wonder? Brian Allan of Phenomena Magazine is one who had never read the book before, and he writes: “This book is erudite, impeccably researched and vitally, totally accessible…go buy it because it’s an opportunity not to be missed.” Do you have your copy yet?

We are proud to present one of the most impressive examples of UFO research in a long, long time: Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History by Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough (with a foreword by Jacques Vallee). Using modern resources and tools, the authors have dissected more than 20 fascinating UFO cases from the last 500 years–all of them occurring before June of 1947. These are not mere reprints of stories from newspapers and other sources, but in-depth investigations into the who, what, where, and how of some truly remarkable sightings. It turns out that UFOs in history are as intriguing, as entertaining, and often as baffling as UFOs sightings are today.