Title: The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
Author: Colin Dickey
Narrator: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours, 10 minutes
Like in Ghostland, Colin Dickey challenges our views on conspiracies, UFOs, and cryptids by asking not if they exist, but why do people believe or don’t believe they do. He goes over the histories of conspiracies, UFOs, and cryptids and dives deep into why some people believe.
This was an interesting book and really challenged my views on the creation of these three things, especially the racism embedded within. I was very fascinated by the racism aspect of this book because it is something I have never read about before in a cryptid/UFO book. Dickey just continues to challenge my perspectives on the creation of things and their racist undertones, which just keeps me wanting to read more from him.
I learned a lot about the origins of certain cryptids, UFOs and lost cities like Lemuria, which I had never heard of before. The biggest thing for me was that I found the first part of the book about conspiracy theories a bit boring, but that was more because it’s a topic that doesn’t really interest me. But I did understand why he started with that since parts of it came up throughout the rest of the book.
Overall, this was another fascinating book from Dickey. I look forward to reading more of his work in the future.
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