Mind Monsters: Invaders from Inner Space?

by Jenny Randles, Randles

Academic, Scholarly, Research

Genres: Nonfiction, Cryptozoology

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1990

About the author

British author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), serving in that role from 1982 through to 1994.

Randles specializes in writing books on UFOs and paranormal phenomena. To date 50 of these have been published, ranging from her first UFOs: A British Viewpoint (1979) to Breaking the Time Barrier: The race to build the first time machine (2005). Subjects covered include crop circles, ESP, life after death, time anomalies and spontaneous human combustion.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the chapters on all kinds of monsters here. Myth monsters, water monsters (like that in Loch Ness), earth monsters, sky monsters (UFOs of course), the monster menagerie as culmination. The author comes up with interesting photos, drawings and stories. At the end I asked myself the big question. Do those monsters actually come from outer space or where? Fascinating and compelling read. Really recommended!

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full of contradictions the author entered the peak of the debunking phase suggesting the phenomenon is mostly "all in the mind", still there are several contradictions in the very text that imply something different, it is an utterly frustrating text.

[Y · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the book are case studies of UFOs, aquatic or land monsters, and other phenomena. The end sort of outlines her theory that these all may be the product of latent psychic powers creating physical effects. They may also be aliens using our psychic abilities to manifest themselves.

Premise was interesting, she was just so long winded. Cut out most of the rambling and it’d be at least a third shorter and much easier read.

[Edward · Rating 5 out of 5]

No matter what the explanation, the witness accounts in this book blew my entire mind.