{"title":"Taryn Plumb","description":"Taryn Plumb is a freelance writer based outside of Portland, Maine whose subjects have ranged from ghosts and goblins to the intricacies of finance (which subject frightens you more?). She has always had a fascination with the paranormal. She is also the author of Haunted Boston: Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends (Globe Pequot 2016).","products":[{"product_id":"new-england-ufos-sightings-abductions-and-other-strange-phenomena-paperback","title":"New England UFOs: Sightings, Abductions, and Other Strange Phenomena - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCenturies before the U.S. Air Force launched Project Blue Book or mysteries swirled around the enigmatic Area 51, the Puritans in 1639 witnessed a great light in the sky over Massachusetts. It was the first recorded sighting of an unidentified flying object. Now, sightings are so common they're not even front-page news, and the Air Force just released all the records from Project Bluebook.Despite all this, there remain sightings that cannot be easily explained. Are we being visited by another species? The Universe, it seems, is full of mystery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the strange history of UFO sightings in the region, Taryn Plumb presents the stories of sightings or events in each New England state. Many are unexplained sightings of strange objects or lights in the sky; and some tell the tales of alien encounters and even abductions. All will keep you glancing to the night sky, wondering what that was out of the corner of your eye.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51349016871135,"sku":"9781608936694","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aNrH5ovYez9781608936694.webp?v=1788850257"},{"product_id":"haunted-maine-lighthouses-paperback","title":"Haunted Maine Lighthouses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is it about lighthouses that make them bastions of spiritual activity? Built for strength and permanence, they are nonetheless vulnerable, protecting lives yet isolated and remote. Unforgiving of human frailty, these outposts inevitably become the settings for tragedy--and for the spirits that linger on at the site of their ruined hopes, their sufferings, their obsessions. \u003cbr\u003eWith its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has the second highest number of lighthouses in the country. Many of these 64 beacons are shrouded in wisps of rumor and mystery. There are ongoing strange and eerie events and occurrences that recall past violence or sadness--stranded crews who resorted to cannibalism, keepers driven to madness by unending days of blinding fog, children drowned in shipwrecks. \u003cbr\u003eAuthor Taryn Plumb explores the ghostly tales and mysteries surrounding Maine lighthouses. Some hauntings can be directly tied to a known historical event, while others seem to have no origin, yet all will enthrall you with their spookiness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51349016969439,"sku":"9781608939695","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/87oVMU-Q7D9781608939695.webp?v=1788850258"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/taryn-plumb.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}