PARANORMAL JUSTICE : HAUNTINGS, CRYPTIDS, AND CURSES IN THE COURT OF LAW

The title of the book is what drew me in. I'm interested in paranormality and the justice system, both, so I wanted to see how the two could be tied together.

The book goes into the history of justice such as trial-by-combat. If you won you won and it didn't make any difference if you were the actual wrong-doer. The book also discusses spectral evidence which was infamously used during the Salem Witch Trials, resulting in the death of people who were not witches at all.

It also discusses hearsay, claims of demonic possession and satanic rituals, noting that things have changed significantly where now the focus is on actual evidence.

It discusses the ouija board and its history, the idea that books could be 'written' by people who were dead such as Mark Twain and even things like what happens if you buys a (supposedly) haunted house without the sellers letting you know it might be haunted.

On the rather absurd side it notes that Oklahoma had a bill considered where it would become legal to hunt Bigfoot.

(Let's see. With all the problems we are going through politicians can only come up with something like this?)

The book talks about Loch Ness and how it brings in $54 million a year to the local economy. (Then there's also Roswell and their alien-themed places.)