{"id":2583,"date":"2018-04-08T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2018-04-08T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T23:30:46","slug":"review-hunt-for-the-skinwalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hunt for the Skinwalker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a lot when I was a kid, reinforced by being pretty good at school.\u00a0 When you read all the assignments you get sent to the library to “read quietly.” Reading quietly was a treat for me – a way to explore the world from a small town.\u00a0 I read lots of stuff, including things like collections of ghost stories and UFO investigations.\u00a0 I also read histories of science and Norse mythology<\/a>.\u00a0 Don’t judge me.<\/p>\n

Hunt for the Skinwalker <\/em>would fit nicely on the bookshelf of my past next to say this charmer<\/a>.\u00a0 It purports to be a scientific investigation of a bunch of UFO\/ghost stories coming out of a Utah ranch investigated by a set of folks called the National Institute for Discovery Science<\/a>. It’s a book of common conspiracy and UFO stories and the unconvincing investigation that follows.<\/p>\n

I wound up reading it based on a mention from The Desert Oracle<\/a>.\u00a0 The Oracle is an unflinchingly weird view of art, rumors, and craziness in the western deserts. As a tour of the particular rumors that form in the desert, Skinwalker<\/em> is a fine example.\u00a0 Beyond that there’s not much here.<\/p>\n

I do have to say that “skinwalker” is a cool name for an Navajo shapeshifter.\u00a0 So, two things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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