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Marc Hartzman

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ABC News has called Marc Hartzman "one of America's leading connoisseurs of the bizarre" and George Noory from Coast to Coast AM said he's "as bizarre as Robert Ripley." Hartzman considers both high praise since his passion for the unusual started with Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the annual Guinness World Records books during his youth.

In addition to his books about UFOs, ghosts, Mars, Oliver Cromwell's embalmed head, weird things on eBay, sideshow performers, and unorthodox messages from God, Hartzman has written for Mental Floss, HuffPost, AOL Weird News, All That's Interesting, The Morbid Anatomy Online Journal, and Bizarre magazine. He's discussed oddities on CNN, MSNBC, Ripley’s Radio, History Channel’s The UnXplained, Xploration O ...more

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	American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers 3.90 avg rating — 586 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural 3.54 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies 3.77 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet 3.75 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2020 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir 3.58 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Made Me Do It: True Stories of the Worst Advice the Lord Has Ever Given His Followers 3.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Found on eBay: 100 Genuinely Bizarre Items from the World's Online Yard Sale 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Talking Dead: A Collection of Messages from Beyond the Veil, 1850s to 1920s 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anti-Social Network: A Place For All The Thoughts, Ideas and Plans You Don’t Want To Share 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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For this Bride, Death Wasn’t a Dealbreaker

The Stark County Democrat (Canton, OH), January 3, 1902.

Spiritualism enjoyed great popularity around the turn of the century. Not only were the living talking to the dead, but in some cases, they were even marrying them. In January 1902, a 45-year-old woman in Detroit, Mrs. Sarah Williams, was wedded to the spirit of Theodore Comstock, once a wealthy miller.

According to newspaper reports, Comstock

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The History and Records of the Elephant Club; Comp. from Authentic Documents Now in Possession of the Zoological Society. By Knight Russ Ockside, M. D. [Pseud.] and Q. K. 1856 [Leather Bound]

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Marc Hartzman and 17 other people liked Mara's review of Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural: "I would describe this as a coffee table kind of book which wasn't quite what I was hoping for, but there were some interesting nuggets along the way. I think for this kind of book, more illustrations and call outs would have made it stronger"
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Marc Hartzman rated a book it was amazing The Mal-Observation Report: The Possibilities of Mal-Observation and Lapse of Memory from a Practical Point of View and Mr. Davey's Imitations by ... Sometimes Attributed to Spirit Agency by Hodgson Richard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marc Hartzman is currently reading The History and Records of the Elephant Club; Comp. from Authentic Documents Now in Possession of the Zoological Society. By Knight Russ Ockside, M. D. [Pseud.] and Q. K. 1856 [Leather Bound] by Edward Fitch Underhill	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Marc Hartzman and 1 other person liked Roberta Curtis's review of To the Hilt: A Sword Swallower's History of Sword Swallowing: "What an interesting and fascinating book! I thought sword swallowing was just a magic trick, but as I started reading, I realized that it is very real and very dangerous! So many incredible stories from over 80 past and present sword swallowers, and " Read more of this review »
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Marc Hartzman rated a book it was amazing Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“had I been able to speak, it would have afforded me a chance to help him understand God’s ways and set him on a proper path. Instead, I rested upon the man’s cold, dry hand; his blasphemy had invited a thin layer of death to creep upon him. For it was clear that a part of his soul was already dead.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

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“Thunderstorms oft spurred these sorts of suppositions. “Maybe God is bursting with tears and he’s flickering lights in His invisible bedroom”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

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“Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.”
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