Mrs Wakeman vs the Antichrist: And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History

✍ Scribed by Schneck, Robert Damon

• Book ID: 108412189
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 425 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698176928

✦ Synopsis

American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks.

There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:

• The man who preached good health through blood-drinking.

  • The California family driven insane by Ouija board séances, and the national panic that they ignited

    • The West Virginia town named after its resident poltergeist, who was obsessed with cutting everything into crescent shapes.

      • The Antichrist-obsessed cult leader whose disciples became brutal murderers, all in the name of saving her (and the world).

        You'll also learn about homemade guillotines, magical ape-men on Mt. St. Helens, the psychic who smuggled a crystal ball into...