Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five-Year Journey in Search of the Unknown

by Nick Redfern

Book Overview

For centuries, people across the world have had a fascination with monsters and strange creatures. They marvel at the tales and legends of the Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest; of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas; of the infamous and diabolical Moth-Man of West Virginia; of fire-breathing dragons; and of those dark denizens of the deep: lake monsters and sea serpents. But do such creatures really exist? Can it be true that our planet is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564149765
• ISBN13: 9781564149763
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: New Page Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Fun book

Let me start off by saying iv never read one of these books eventhough i am a fan of the field. This book was a really fun read i truely enjoyed it. if your looking for a good cryptozoolgy book this is it.

An Excellent Book

Nick Redfern is one of the very best, not too mention most prolific, writers about the paranormal. During the past 5 years, Redfern had been on a quest in the unknown and his latest book chronicles that quest. This very well written book is a most entertaining literary experience. This is a book that will hold your attention to the point where you will find it very hard to but this book down. This book spells out just what it takes to be a monster hunter and an adventurer into the unknown. This book by Nick Redfern comes highly recommended.

Entertaining!

Entertaining and fun to read. I highly recommend this book. Rose Pressey Author of My Haunted Family.

Keep 'em coming, Nick!!!

I'm glad Nick Redfern is so prolific - in his case, quantity DOES equal quality. Although I would find all the time he spends at airports almost as scary as the monsters he hunts - this book isn't JUST scary. It's cool to read about the relationships between so many other authors in this field whose books I've also read. But the main reason to buy this book is because it is full of personally investigated scary and weird accounts.

One Man Stalking Monsters...Still

Nick Redfern is back, with yet ANOTHER book. I have asked him how he churns out book after book, attends festival after festival, speaking engagement after speaking engagement, runs multiple blog sites, writes articles for several magazines (simultaneously it seems), and answers e-mails by the ton...almost on a 24/7 basis. And this doesn't COUNT "meditating" in the pub with beer, Jack Daniels and Coca Cola, rum and coke (cola), tequila, and whatever. OR time spent glued to a television screen watching DVD cannibal zombie movies, OR listening intently to punk rock music (a Ramones freak to the core). In answer to such a question I get back, basically, "I get up early and manage my time". Indeed!And as this book makes clearly evident, a great deal of that time is spent in airports and on airplanes, going hither, thither, and yon. And when not there, in hotels and motels...and more pubs and bars....and jouncing around in jeeps in potholed backcountries...getting "tourista"...and seeing and hearing things that can curl your toes. If you've read the wild & wooly "Three Men Seeking Monsters", be advised that this is the sequel: "Part Two", if you prefer. This picks up where "Three Men" left off; with Our Hero coming to America and leaving "Old Blighty" (and Jon Downes and Richard "Fighting Girls Monthly" Freeman) behind. Settling in Texas, what does our Man In Black undertake to do? Why the same sort of thing, of course! Hunt monsters! He goes into the Big Thicket country with Rob Riggs and sees ghostlights on legendary Bragg Road. He visits the site of a famous Texas "Goat Man" incident of 1969 and finds surprising evidence that said satyric rascal (or perhaps a descendant....you KNOW how prolific goats are!!!)might still be around!!!! He journeys into a "heart of darkness" in Puerto Rico, the El Yunque rainforest, and absorbs tales of blood sucking chupacabras while encountering bloodsucking mosquitoes. He also gets to hear that the investigation might be "hampered" by the presence of wild, biting, HIV-infected monkeys and/or rabies-infected bats. Makes a man crave a Bacardi or a Jose Cuervo just to think about such things! Back in Texas he hears a dandy werewolf tale (though actually perhaps a dogman or manwolf tale) from the early 1930s, finds out from the internet that he is an evil UFO disinformation agent of the U.S. intelligence community who works to discredit the alien presence at Roswell (this because he wrote "Body Snatchers In the Desert", which offered a non-alien scenario for Roswell based on leaked information from "shadowy" sources...AND because he is an obvious "Man In Black" whose obvious and persistent wearing of such clothes mark him absolutely as one of "them"...I guess all the Greenwich Village beatniks of the fifties were Feds, too). He further finds himself "Public Enemy Number One" at virtually every UFO conference he attends. He also discovers he has a Royal Air Force background (presumably in intelligence and disinforma