The Night Land

aThe beginning investigator will find no better guide to professional inquiry than Robert A. Goermanas WEIRD HAPPENS Investigator Handbook. Meticulous in its organization, Goerman offers numerous checklists that will serve well to advise the beginneraand to remind the more experienced investigatorahow to conduct an effective interview and how to amass meaningful research.a aBrad Steiger, author Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places and 162 other books on the paranormal and weird aGoerman stands out as a rare mediator between the skeptics and the believers. While respectfully acknowledging the genuine strangeness of weird experiences, he does what few skeptics take the trouble to do: Encourages investigators with effective tools for doing good science and collecting real data that will stand up to scrutiny.a aBrian Dunning, www.briandunning.com/1000questions aIn WEIRD HAPPENS, Robert A. Goerman has provided an invaluable and indispensable tool for the budding paranormal investigator. Would that many popular, published authors had read this book before writing anything! It would have raised the level of discourse in this field by a huge margin.a aDavid F. Godwin, managing editor FATE