This is an excellent distillation of a classic series of books I remember looking at as a middle school aged kiddo. Perhaps because in the witchcraft book there was a picture of a naked Wiccan chick and I was thirteen. But, that's not the point. I have always liked to read about mysterious phenomenon, even when I don't believe in them like alien abductions. This condensed version makes the Time Life editors seem like geniuses, as they move from one topic to another and cover the whole gamut of weird stuff with aplomb and quickness. The pictures are great, including a couple of dozen full-paged color plates. A good book if you can pick it up cheap full of good fun. ( )