{"id":1323,"date":"2012-09-19T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2012-09-19T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:57:03","slug":"a-refreshingly-different-and-highly-thought-provoking-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"A Refreshingly Different and Highly Thought-Provoking Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/witnesses1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-thumbnail wp-image-1140\" title=\"witnesses\" src=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/witnesses1-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The intersection of historical mysteries and psychic powers holds a special fascination for us. That&#8217;s why we published Edward Olshaker&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=68\">Witnesses to the Unsolved: Prominent Psychic Detectives and Mediums Explore Our Most Haunting Mysteries<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. In his <a href=\"http:\/\/nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/witnesses-to-unsolved.html\">recent review<\/a>, Nick Redfern described the book&#8217;s premise: &#8220;Olshaker&#8217;s work is a study of psychics who have used their skills and talents to try and resolve a number of deaths, all high-profile, many shrouded in deep mystery, and a great deal&#8230;linked to swirling conspiracy, cover-up, and political intrigue.&#8221; The author, he continues, &#8220;carefully offers the cases, data, victims and investigators and\u2014when that is all done\u2014succeeds in making a strong case that the conclusions of the various psychics&#8230;should not\u2014and indeed, cannot\u2014be dismissed. <em>Something<\/em> weird and significant does appear to be going on.&#8221; In sum, Redfern calls it &#8220;a refreshingly different, informative, open-minded and highly thought-provoking book.&#8221; \u00a0Tom Ruffles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spr.ac.uk\/main\/publication\/witnesses-unsolved-prominent-psychic-detectives-and-mediums-explore-our-most-haunting-my\">Society for Physical Research<\/a> was a little more reserved in his praise for the book, criticizing the author-journalist for being &#8221; vague on the protocols he employed with the psychic detectives&#8230;&#8221; Ruffles also found it &#8220;frustrating that no-one says &#8216;yes, so-and-so did it,&#8217; or provides information on previously unknown suspects, even though the verdicts of the psychic detectives are often some distance from the accepted versions of events.&#8221; Nevertheless Ruffles concludes his review with high praise for the book: &#8220;Olshaker has made a fascinating attempt to apply psychic abilities to some intractable mysteries of recent years, and has definitely highlighted very strange goings-on, whatever the explanation. He and his collaborators are to be applauded for their efforts, and this book should be read by anybody interested in psychic detection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intersection of historical mysteries and psychic powers holds a special fascination for us. That&#8217;s why we published Edward Olshaker&#8217;s\u00a0Witnesses to the Unsolved: Prominent Psychic Detectives and Mediums Explore Our Most Haunting Mysteries. In his recent review, Nick Redfern described the book&#8217;s premise: &#8220;Olshaker&#8217;s work is a study of psychics who have used their skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witnesses-to-the-unsovled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}