New Exhibit: Roswell @ 65: Paranormal Goes Mainstream

The Lewis J. Ort Library is pleased to announce the newest exhibit in the library: “Roswell @ 65: Paranormal Goes Mainstream”.  On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record reported that the US Army had recovered a “Flying Saucer” on a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico.  It has been 65 years since this incident.  Since the purported UFO crash landing in Roswell, sightings of UFOs, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and other paranormal phenomenon have increased in number.  

The paranormal has entered popular fiction with the introduction of television shows like The Twilight Zone, In Search Of…, and The X-Files, along with movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Fire in the Sky.  Reality TV shows about the paranormal has also exploded in recent years.  We now programs on television purporting to explain and understand the paranormal with titles such as:

• Ghost Hunters
• Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files
• Finding Bigfoot 
•  Ancient Aliens
• UFO Files
• Monster Quest

This display highlights some of the resources the library offers on the subject of the paranormal.  It also provides information gathered resources from the Internet to highlight the plethora of paranormal information that can be found there.

The display is on the main floor of the library (3^rd floor) and will run through the end of July. Please contact Theresa Mastrodonato at tmmastrodonato@frostburg.edu or MaryJo Price at mprice@frostburg.edu if you have any questions about the display.