Books like Charles Fort by Jim Steinmeyer

Carl Sagan’s classic work urges critical thinking, exposing the myths of pseudoscience—from witchcraft to UFOs—and arguing that scientific literacy is essential for informed, democratic decision‑making in the modern world.

Gandhi's autobiography is a profound exploration of his non-violent resistance to racism and colonialism, as well as his efforts to seek purity and truth through simple living and spiritual devotion.

In 1966, journalist John A. Keel investigates a series of eerie sightings in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, including a winged creature known as the Mothman, domestic animal mutilations, and unexplained lights that culminate in a tragedy that captures worldwide attention.

Charles Fort’s 1919 nonfiction classic collections of anomalous events—UFO sightings, strange meteorological phenomena, mythical creatures, and mysterious disappearances—establishing the field of anomalistics.

In Communion, Whitley Strieber recounts the extraordinary encounters he and his family experienced with intelligent non‑human beings in an upstate New York cabin.

Explore the hidden history of American occultism from the earliest settlers to the New Age, tracing how mystical ideas and figures—spirit mediums, religious leaders, and parapsychological movements—shaped the nation’s spiritual culture.

A tale of deception, magic, and the rise of machines in the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring the historical figure of a chess-playing automaton and its mysterious disappearance from the world of wonderment to the United States.

THE MASTER PLAN is a groundbreaking history of a little known Nazi SS archeological research institute, the Ahnenerbe, and the key role it played in the Holocaust. The Ahnenerbe was the brainchild of Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS and architect of the Final Solution, who was intensely interested in Germany’s ancient past. His intent was not only to rewrite the history of what he and others termed the “Aryan Race,” but also to use that mythic past to shape a more glorious future for Germany. While attempting to prove that Aryans were responsible for all of civilization’s greatest achievements, he also hoped to use tall, blond-haired SS men as stock to breed future generations of Germans in a racially purer mold. In the tradition of Hitler’s Willing Executioners, THE MASTER PLAN is also an expose of the work of German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be used to justify extermination, and who, in some cases, directly participated in the slaughter—many of whom resumed their academic positions at war’s end. Intensely compelling and exhaustively researched, THE MASTER PLAN is based on extensive personal interviews and previously ignored archival material.

Turner, Ted. Call Me Ted: A Personal History.

A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism in America, blending historical narrative with supernatural elements.