The first 90 or so pages are so unsettling that when you get past that bit it feels a bit underwhelming and you have to wade through the next 100 pages before it gets really interesting again. This book had me questioning everything from childhood memories to a "sighting" I experienced when I was younger. On December 26th, 1985, Whitley Strieber was woken in his isolated cabin in upstate New York, he saw a creature in his bedroom. The 3rd (and thankfully the last) UFO that I saw hovered above my head (slightly above the 40' oak tree that I was standing next too! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

When I read it I was living in Austin which is where Whitley Streiber was living when he claims these events happened. Now either this guy is bat shit crazy and I am actually fucking normal (which is highly unlikely according to my therapist) or there are ALIENS flying around Earth taking people and doing some creepy stuff.

Then there was the Superstorm, which predicted that climate change would be much more sudden and violent than was thought in 1999 when it was published. And Whitley Strieber's riveting account of what he experienced, along with his relentless and expert pursuit of the reality behind the experience, is to this day the greatest such account ever published.

As the scientific evidence that the Turin Shroud really is a very unusual object has grown, it seems to me that a new look at Jesus, seeing him neither as a god distant from us or as an ordinary man was essential to deepening our understanding of what his teaching means, and what his life really was. Whitley comes up with a lot of different ideas about what his and others experiences could mean, what they are, and why they're happening.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.