Podcast: Stuff You Should Know
Episode: The Alien Abduction Phenomenon of the Mid-20th Century | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Communion
Buy on Amazon"But he was a horror and science fiction writer and in '87 published the book 'Communion' which had, if you look up the cover of 'Communion', the illustration that was done by Ted Jacobs along with, you know, Strieber, because he was like this is what I saw, you got to draw this right, that is as stereotypical alien head as you could imagine on the cover of this very popular book."
Abduction
Buy on Amazon"Then, yeah, he had a book in '94 about 13 different abduction cases called 'Abduction: Human Encounters with Alien.' Uh, parentheses, BTW, I teach at Harvard. Did I mention?"
The interrupted journey
Buy on Amazon"UPI picks it up, uh, and then a guy named John G. Fuller made it into a book in 1966 called The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer. Uh, which eventually became a TV movie in 1975 called The UFO Incident, which you can watch on YouTube if you want to see a relatively young and, uh, you know, pretty, uh, in great shape James Earl Jones."