Are aliens among us?In this collection, “The Road to Strange” takes you straight into the heart of one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the alien presence on Earth.Open the pages to 40 compelling eyewitness accounts, many never-before published, attesting to personal encounters with alien beings and their craft. The stories come from all over the world and from witnesses in all walks of life – people just like you. Every story is followed by an insightful commentary that ex...

THEY SAY UFOS AND THE PARANORMAL ARE REAL!Some of humanity's biggest mysteries, including the paranormal, UFOs, and the possibility of alien life on Earth, continue to intrigue!Some of us never experience any of these anomalies, while others experience them throughout our lives, more than once, and even repeatedly. What are we to make of not one but many of these strange, mystifying experiences?We can think of these people as "serial paranormal ...

It is the next book in my True Travel Tales series. I have collected so many fascinating stories of traveling, transiting, and hitchhiking the world's highways and byways, from tales of overland travel by cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, tuk-tuks, and yes, even by camels and elephants: one might say on conveyances from "cars to camels!"Indeed, suppose you consider the variety of ways travelers travel and transit overland. In that case, you will very well appreci...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects flying saucer (UFO) reports as well as all sorts of alleged variant human / space alien interactions in between among the nearly 2,000 interviews that Michael has conducted at home and during his travels over the last five decades, the period often referred to in UFO circles as the so-called "Modern Era."Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange book series include spooky a...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects déjà vu, time-slips, and other space-time portal experiences among the nearly 2,000 interviews that Michael has conducted at home and during his travels over the last four decades.Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange book series include spooky accounts of space and time interactions, most of these things are not likely to happen to you. But you never know. In this book, you'll ...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects synchronicity experiences among the nearly 2,000 interviews that Michael has conducted at home and during his travels over the last four decades.Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange book series typically include spooky accounts of space and time interactions, most of these things are not likely to happen to you. But you never know. In this book, you'll read plenty of examples o...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects Bigfoot and Sasquatch reports, as well as alleged variants of cryptid types, among the nearly 2,000 interviews that Michael has conducted at home and during his travels over the last five decades.Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange book series include a variety of spooky accounts of supposed Bigfoot-Human interactions, most of these sorts of encounters are not likely to happen...

THIS SERIES:True Travel TalesOver the last five decades, I've interviewed nearly 2,000 world travelers and adventurers. I am weaving the best of their almost 10,000 fantastic tales into a psychology of travel as revealed by these very telling stories. I've encountered these travelers on planes, trains, buses, ships, tours, safaris, as well as in campgrounds, bars, cafes, restaurants, and pubs. These courageous travelers have freely shared with me t...

In Macumba and Other Rites, I have broadened the concept of "Macumba" to include the many seeming variations of Macumba (and the like) Rites.And whereas some of these stories are potentially a little scary, many are the stuff of profound memories and even hint at purposeful efforts on the part of consciousness to be recognized, acknowledged, and even remembered.Some of the accounts featured in this book are tales from times long gone. Many Mac...

It is the next book in The Road to Strange series. It collects ghostly accounts among the nearly 2,000 interviews with people Michael has conducted at home and in his travels over the last four decades.Although the typical stories collected in The Road to Strange series include spooky accounts of ghosts and hauntings, mostly, these things will not likely happen to you. But you never know. In this book, you'll read plenty of examples of the extraordinary va...

Travel Tales: The Best of 10,000 Stories Vol 1No collection of 10,000 or so travel stories, vignettes, or parts thereof that were shared with me by nearly 2,000 world travelers whom I've interviewed across the Globe over five decades would ever be complete without gathering them together into one place of simply the best of the best travel tales.In Vol 1, (Chapters 1 thru 6) travelers' tales include the numerous incredible accounts...

Travel Tales: Close Calls & Great Escapes Volume 1 is the first of a two-book companion set in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel tales of danger in your travels and managing to just barely escape. It is a collection of the fearful and dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers, but mostly these will not happen to you. You'll read examples the real, raw fear and very unsettling occasions that may pop up now and again in your trave...