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Opere di Colm A. Kelleher

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OMG This book couldn't end soon enough. It was SUCH a slog. If you're looking for the actual rigorous science testing, data, and methodology to back up all the bigfoot and UFO sightings at this little ranch in Utah DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH! There is literally none of that!! It's a bunch of he said, she said weird sightings of paranormal activity. And it's not just at this ranch; the author feels the need to bring up cases all over the US and that does nothing to add to the story. I guess he's just trying to prove weird shit happens all over?! Stupid, long, repetitive. God I wish the aliens would beam this author up into their UFO.… (altro)
 
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ecataldi | 4 altre recensioni | Oct 17, 2023 |
What a massive, steaming pile of crap.

For a book that pushes the agenda of investigating the paranormal with extreme scientific rigor, and presenting those, the first sentence of the book opens with the writer extrapolating thoughts of people. The Gormans' are presented as perfect humans. Mr. Gorman has perfect eyesight, is an expert marksman and tracker, etc, etc.

Every witness is totally credible, not a crackpot in the bunch. Every single event, typically witnessed by only one or two people, is accepted as fact.

And the scientific rigor? Yeah, good luck finding that in this book. You get a bunch of non-connected stories to warm you up for the next happening at the Gorman ranch, and then it's all blown off as this is the first and the last time we witnessed this. I saw no true evidence of any scientific rigor, only mention of many recording and measuring devices.

And the last few chapters are just laugh out loud funny.

A massive disappointment. Not worth the paper it's printed on.
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TobinElliott | 4 altre recensioni | Sep 3, 2021 |
The Hunt for the Skinwalker by Colm Kelleher, Ph. D and George Knapp was a bizarre and silly book posing as a story of scientific research into some strange occurrences on a ranch in Utah. I choose this book to read for a challenge as I was under the illusion that it was about the legendary Bigfoot, and although Bigfoot was indeed mentioned, so were witches, aliens, were-creatures, ghosts and a Navajo Skinwalker.

These strange events included vanishing and mutilated cattle, the appearance of strange creatures, disappearing objects, unexplained lights, and flying orbs. A research team lead by Colm Kelleher spent hundreds of days and nights at the ranch and investigative journalist George Knapp was allowed to witness and document the team’s work. Unfortunately, the resulting book read more like a titillating tale of unexplained phenomena than a scientific report. I find it laughable that the book has the subtitle of “Science Confronts the Unexplained” as I got the distinctive feeling that this is an effort by the authors to embellish upon the events in order to make money.

Although the book opens with the author whining about the loss of respect both he and Colm Kelleher have experienced because they made the effort to look into these events. I think perhaps the loss of respect may actually be because the book is silly, the writing sloppy, and instead of scientific research, the end result is a piece of delusional weirdness based on here-say and folklore.
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DeltaQueen50 | 4 altre recensioni | Jun 2, 2020 |
I just couldn't finish this - good luck if you can. It had a great start and interesting initial stories but then just got wilder and wilder, and wow, talk about flowery writing (and reading... that narrator really has strong "ghost story" foo). Using "science" in the title was a bit disingenuous - it kinda sorta started out using testing and science-like activities but then veered full on into the "that couldn't be the answer so don't test it" narratives. Full of "just missed it"s and "didn't have my camera"s and, quite honestly, if *I* were in a scary place at night, I would TURN ON THE LIGHTS!… (altro)
 
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marshapetry | 4 altre recensioni | Nov 20, 2019 |

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