Brad Steiger - Real Nightmares (Book 2): True Unexplained Phenomena and Tales of the Unknown

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A real nightmare occurs when you experience a frightening encounter with something strange and unknown, and you know without question that you are not asleep, that you are not dreaming. You know with every ounce of your being that the chilling encounter is real.

I first experienced real nightmares when I was a child. Today, my sister and I attribute our insomnia to the ghostly visitors that walked through our bedrooms nearly every night and kept us awake. Our farmhouse was built on the site of the old stagecoach stop, and it seemed that some other-worldly passengers were still trying to catch the last stage out of this dimension. It didnt help when our parents tore the old house down and built a new home on the same site. Our spirit companions still appeared as shadows moving about the house and amused themselves by knocking on the walls, stomping about with heavy feet, and opening and closing doors. Growing up with real nightmares on a regular basis prepared me for the nights in my adulthood when I would investigate haunted houses with a team of paranormal researchers and encounter a wide variety of other-worldly beings.

For the past five decades, I have been devoted to exploring and examining unusual, unexplainable, and otherwise strange occurrences. In addition to in-field research, I have collected chilling tales of the strange and unknown for many years. My first published works appeared in national publications when I was a twenty-year-old college senior. I wrote a number of stories and articles on the weird, the paranormal, and the mysterious for a wide variety of mystery and mens magazines. While I was a high school and college English teacher, I wrote numerous short stories for such magazines as Fantastic, Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine, The Saint, Exploring the Unknown, and Fate. My first book was Monsters, Maidens, and Mayhem: A Pictorial History of the Hollywood Monster Movie, followed by the sequel, Master Movie Monsters, later that same year. Next was a collection of my articles on the paranormal published as Ghosts, Ghouls, and Other Peculiar People. I finally left teaching and became a full-time paranormal researcher and writer.

I have been fortunate that my books and articles have struck a responsive chord with both fans and critics. My editing of Project Bluebook was hailed by Omni magazine as one of the best UFO books of the century. I was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame for my work with UFO contactees, abductees, and past life regression, and I received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena Conference.

My good fortune brightened even more when I began a friendship and a working relationship with Sherry Hansen, who had worked closely with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the official scientific advisor for the U.S. Air Forces twenty-year study of UFOs. In the latter years of his life, and until his death, Sherry served as his publicist at his nonprofit UFO research organization in Phoenix. Sherry co-wrote the Real Aliens and Real Miracles books with me.

Since childhood, Sherry was intrigued by the enigmas of humankinds prehistory, the mysteries of lost civilizations, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. In the 1960s, Sherry co-created and produced the highly acclaimed Celebrate Life multi-media awareness program, which was performed around the country for colleges, business organizations, and churches. She achieved a national reputation as a resource consultant and speaker in the field of stress management, as well as in many other areas in her spectrum of interests.

For many years, Sherry actively studied the dynamic interaction between the body, mind, and spirit, as well as the effects of environment and technology on health and wellness. Sherry has studied with Indian gurus, healers from several cultures, and shamans from various Native American tribes, including Rolling Thunder and the Hopi Chief Grandfather David.

In the early 1970s Sherry founded The Butterfly Center for Transformation, a nonprofit school dealing with alternative approaches to healing and learning, as well as explorations of life after death, ghosts, secret technologies, UFOs, conspiracies, prophecy, power of prayer, exorcism, spirit contact, and reincarnation.

Sherry was honored to be included in The World Whos Who of Women, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England; 2,000 Notable American Women, American Biographical Institute; Five Hundred Leaders of InfluenceTwentieth Century Achievement Award (on permanent display in the U.S. Library of Congress); and Whos Who of Professional and Business Women.

Sherry is a former magazine editor and served as a creative director and writer for many advertising agencies. While she was in advertising, Sherry wrote over a thousand ads that were used for print (brochure, newspaper, magazine, logos). She also wrote commercials for radio and television, many of which she directed.

Sherry and I married in 1987, and for the next fifteen years we lectured and conducted seminars on our combined research into the paranormal, UFOs, and mysterious phenomena throughout the United States and overseas. A number of reviewers have referred to us as the original Mulder and Scully and suggested that we had well established our own X-Files long before the television series began. We were featured in twenty-two episodes of the television series Could It Be a Miracle?, and together some of our television appearances and specials include: The Joan Rivers Show, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, Hollywood Insider,