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by Brad Steiger 
A good collection of borderland phenomena
It is quite probable that Atlantis did indeed exist in some form or other. This hypothesis is the central axis on which Brad Steiger places his accounts, which are ultimately more important to the book than is the idea of that lost continent. The author uses the idea that Atlantis sank some time in the remote past as the central point for a number of chapters only slightly connected to the lost continent: the idea that our world was visited in ancient times by extraterrestrials; the fact that UFOs have bases beneath the oceans; the Bermuda Triangle; the hollow earth, inhabited by beings intent upon guiding human history; and Springheel Jack, among other mysteries. The author gathers these pieces together and creates a sort of collage of Atlantis of them. Any of these topics are interesting in their own right, and Steiger does not prove that they are in fact related to Atlantis. This book is less a proof of the existence of Atlantis than it is a guide to research on those and other phenomena listed above, offering the suggestion that they might be connected to that and other lost continents. Whatever the problem might be with the structure of his books, Steiger always manages to find the most bizarre examples of outer limits phenomena; his collections will be invaluable for future researchers, since he gathers information that would be difficult to find otherwise, singly or gathered together. His chapter on benign masters and horrible monsters living beneath the surface of the earth is my personal favorite: I look forward to my next spelunking expedition as an opportunity to look for traces of these fascinating entities. Despite the fact that this book is held together by only the slightest of theoretical constructs, it is nonetheless enjoyable reading, and offers several possible interpretations of those mysteries which still haunt our world, and which mainstream science has not been able to solve. This book does not depend on evidence to make its point; rather, it precedes on the premise that the reader already accepts the existence of Atlantis, UFOs, vile vortices, and related phenomena. Recommended for those readers already convinced of the existence, past or present, of Atlantis, or for those seeking information about outer limits phenomena related, however tangentially, to lost continents. |
