title: The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena 2 (Rough Guide Reference)
author: John Michell
description: Both established figures in the field. John Michell''s book - ''View over Atlantis'' was the cult read of the 1970''s. Bob Rickard is editor of the Fortean Times, and the two co-wrote the earlier incarnations of this book, Phenomena and Living Wonders.
zlib_text: _The Forbidden Zone:_ An area around an extremely energetic object which
  normally cannot—and must not—be entered. But once it is entered, then time,
  movement, all events stop, everything changes. Within such a forbidden zone
  lies a state beyond mere destruction. It is a condition of chaos, absolute
  derangement.—William N. Holmes, Ph.D. "Large-Scale Transitions and Quantum
  Derangements," _The Journal of the Physical World_
  
  
  ## One
  
  
  
  
  
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  To the middle of a perfect summer afternoon came a long, trembling scream.
  Because it was so faint, Brian Kelly feared at first that it was a memory. It
  could have been, certainly. His young and pregnant wife, who was lying in the
  grass beside him, didn't seem to hear it. He would have looked to his dog for
  reaction, but she was off on a wild chase after a rabbit.
  
  
  
  
  
  The scream died away. He sat up and gazed out across the wide view. Perhaps he
  would see a column of smoke from a burning house, or a wrecked car on a
  roadside. But Oscola seemed q