Ghosts of the Air

by M ケイディン, Martin Caidin, Caidin Martin

Book Overview

Bizarre accounts of the supernatural from the pilots who lived to tell about them! back cover This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435101847
• ISBN13: 9781435101845
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

great read!

If you like airplanes and/or "X Files" type stories, you will love this book. I don't even care if he made it all up, this book is great. Now Mr. Caidin is presumeably a ghost himself, maybe he will give some wayward pilot something to write about :) I could think of worse people to haunt my airplane.

A great book to read late at night...

Excellent book dealing with aerial hauntings, phantom aircraft, and unusual sightings made by pilots. Very entertaining (the one "ringer" story reported in the previous review notwithstanding). Very disappointed to hear the follow up was never completed. If you enjoy true stories of unusual events, with a emphasis on aircraft and the pilots who flew them, this is the book for you.

Fascinating, authoritative tales of aerial hauntings

This is a book that should appeal greatly to those interested in the paranormal as well as those captivated by aviation. The author writes in an engaging, personalized manner, and he bends over backward to defend the stories he relates as well as the integrity of his contributors. He does not try to explain the unexplainable; he merely presents each tale the way it happened, often using the very words of the person involved. Throughout, the author's great love for flying and for the men and women involved in aviation is openly apparent. Caidin's qualifications as a pilot and aviation expert are almost unequalled; he has flown countless aircraft of all sorts in his life, he has written well over a hundred books on aviation, and he is well known in aviation circles. The fact that he himself cites a number of personal examples of impossible things that happened to him while in flight lends great authority to his role as compiler of the truths of others. Some of the stories are truly fascinating: a plane disappears for ten minutes on approach to Miami and everyone on board "loses" ten minutes; military aircraft fly hundreds of miles back to base and actually land with a dead pilot or no crew whatsoever; three flight crews return to base and are debriefed from a mission in which, it is soon discovered, all planes and crew were lost; pilots encounter planes from an entirely different era which then disappear; ghostly apparitions and sounds are encountered on military bases and airfields, etc. Every tale is fascinating; more importantly, each tale is verifed to the extent possible. Caidin tells us that the vast majority of the stories he collected were rejected; only the stories he could research intensively and authoritatively prove as having happened in the ways they were described to him made the final cut. He stands by these unexplainable stories and the brave men and women who had the courage to reveal truths many had never revealed before to another soul. As the author often points out, the events and experiences detailed here could not possibly have happened, yet they did happen.

Absolutely unique

One of the best books available on any kind of haunting...primarily because it is _thoroughly_ documented. Mr Caidin bases his stories on eyewitness accounts and official military records (none of those "I knew a guy whose second cousin knew the guy this happened to....")His 'take' on the Bermuda Triangle is particularly interesting. I had the honor to be acquainted with Mr Caidin; he was intelligent, opinionated, and as skeptical as anyone I've ever met. The fact that _he_ wrote this book makes the stories within all the more convincing!

Fascinating...Haunting...

One of the best books I have ever read. The X-Files will have a run for their money if ever a series was made about this book... The "other side of the story", the "mysteries" and the hauntings that were experienced by the men in their flying machines as told by one of the greatest writers of aviation. The accounts of the pilots will make you wonder...."Is it possible??? Is it true???? Read the book and judge for yourself....