Author Dr P. A. McCue joins Kate Valentine to discuss his book Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots.  Friday November 15 2013

Exam­i­na­tion of Para­nor­mal and UFO Hot Spots Dr Peter McCue

Peter worked for many years as a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist. He lives in Scot­land. His qual­i­fi­ca­tions include a Ph.D., from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow, award­ed for a the­sis on hyp­no­sis.

Peter’s inter­est in psy­chi­cal research and UFO phe­nom­e­na goes back decades. He’s the author of numer­ous arti­cles on these sub­jects (see select bib­li­og­ra­phy below) and a recent­ly pub­lished book, Zones of Strange­ness: An Exam­i­na­tion of Para­nor­mal and UFO Hot Spots. He believes that para­nor­mal phe­nom­e­na occur, and that many UFO expe­ri­ences are gen­uine­ly anom­alous. He con­tends that if we want to obtain a com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ing of our­selves and the nature of real­i­ty, these enig­mat­ic phe­nom­e­na can’t be ignored.

Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots

Over the cen­turies, there’ve been many reports, world­wide, of unex­plained phe­nom­e­na. Cer­tain areas seem to play host to a dis­pro­por­tion­ate num­ber of them, either tem­porar­i­ly or on a long-term basis. Some places acquire a rep­u­ta­tion for just one type of man­i­fes­ta­tion. Oth­ers seem to be the set­ting for a vari­ety of them – for exam­ple, cat­tle muti­la­tions, sight­ings of strange ani­mals, and UFO phe­nom­e­na.

Can the reports be believed? Are the phe­nom­e­na gen­uine­ly para­nor­mal? Do cer­tain areas real­ly see an unusu­al­ly high num­ber of anom­alous events? What’s behind the man­i­fes­ta­tions? Do they involve extra-ter­res­tri­als, crea­tures from ‘oth­er dimen­sions’, time trav­ellers, the work­ings of the human mind, or some sort of high­er intel­li­gence?

These are just some of the ques­tions that Peter address­es in Zones of Strange­ness: An Exam­i­na­tion of Para­nor­mal and UFO Hot Spots. This 560-page book cites a mass of case mate­r­i­al from the UK, the USA and else­where, and also includes foun­da­tion chap­ters that dis­cuss the­o­ries about haunt­ings, UFOs and oth­er strange phe­nom­e­na.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the book can be found at:

http://www.authorhouse.co.uk/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=343014

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ZONES-STRANGENESS-EXAMINATION/dp/1456778420

http://www.amazon.com/Zones-Strangeness-Peter-A-McCue/dp/1456778420

It’s also avail­able in PDF for­mat. See:

http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000465121/Zones-of-Strangeness.aspx

SOME RECENT ARTICLES

McCue, P. A. (2010). Ren­o­va­tion haunt­ings. Fortean Times, 268, pp. 30–35. Avail­able at: http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/4705/renovation_hauntings.html

McCue, P. A. (2011). The A75: A haunt­ed road? Para­nor­mal Review [a mag­a­zine of the Soci­ety for Psy­chi­cal Research], 59, pp. 12–15.

McCue, P. A. (2011). Mys­te­ri­ous spa­tial dis­place­ments. Para­nor­mal Review, 60, pp. 7–13.

McCue, P. A. (2012). Para­nor­mal amne­sia. Para­nor­mal Review, 61, pp. 14–20.

McCue, P. A. (2013). The alleged haunt­ing of Sand­wood Bay. Para­nor­mal Review, 65, pp. 3–9.

McCue, P. A. (2013). Mys­te­ri­ous human dis­ap­pear­ances in rur­al North Amer­i­ca. Para­nor­mal Review, 66, 3–9.

McCue, P. A. (2013). The UFO, Big­foot and para­nor­mal over­lap: What it tells us. Phe­nom­e­na Mag­a­zine, 53, pp. 7–10 (Sep­tem­ber 2013 issue). Avail­able at: http://www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk/#/back-issues/4571429617