INTO THE STRANGE by Warren Smith

A well loved copy of an especially entertaining entry in Smith's line of Forteana. Sea serpents, ghosts, visions, and general weirdos make for a pleasant paranormal potpourri. UFO contactee Paul Villa Jr. is on hand to tell us the Saucer People don't particularly care if we blow ourselves to Kingdom Come with the Bomb! Dr. Robert Menzies hooks a mystery monster that bends his iron out right straight!

One of Paul Villa's "startlingly realistic" UFO photos

A 1978 issue of Boy's Life featuring Dr. Menzies' experience

Italian strongman Agostino Colli is a medical wonder, with two hearts and six fingers. Sadly there isn't much out there on the world wide web about Mr. Colli, besides this Getty stock photo and some archived news articles. Some more "computer minds" and savants are also sprinkled throughout.

Smith reuses the grisly ghost ship Marlborough from Steiger's The Unknown, which Steiger had taken from Frank Edwards. The Tunguska Blast, also previously written up by Edwards, is here, as is a Mystery Airship sighting from 1896 and more star jelly, sourced from Fate magazine.

Popular Library, 1968