Be prepared for one hell of a ride on this paranormal rollercoaster. The Hunt for the Skinwalker is the account of a ranch located in Utah with about every type of paranormal activity you can think of. Right from the start there is an encounter with what seems like some type of lycanesque creature that sheds blasts from a rifle like nothing.  The activity continues with poltergeists, orbs, UFOs, bigfoot-like creatures, portals to other dimensions, cattle mutilations, and even some possible cryptids. All this insane activity would eventually drive the Gorman family off their ranch and bring in NIDS, the National Institute for Discovery Science.

George Knapp, the investigative reporter who broke the story of Area 51 employee Bob Lazar, was the only reporter allowed onto the ranch to document the investigation by NIDS. Colm Kelleher, a research scientist and author, spent hundreds of days on the ranch leading the investigation. One of the theories they began to develop was the idea of alternate dimensions and portals. And who better to reference than Michio Kaku on human perspective. 

“Let’s say that a ten-lane superhighway is being built next to an anthill,” Kaku says. “The question is: would the ants even know what a ten-lane superhighway is, or what it’s used for, or how to communicate with the workers who are just feet away? And the answer is no…If there is [another] civilization in our backyard, in the Milky Way galaxy, would we even know it’s presence? …There’s a good chance that we, like ants in the anthill,would not understand or be able to make sense of a ten-lane superhighway next door.”

My only problems with the book is, why no photographs and why so little of the scientific data? First, not even one single little pic? I mean come on, all this activity and no one caught anything? And second, when I read science in the title I assume I’ll get some data to back up the accounts. But sadly, that never really happens. None the less, it’s still a paranormal thrill ride that ultimately generates the usual, more questions than answers.