Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. team up on this unprecedented and intellectually vibrant new framing of inexplicable events and experiences.Rather than merely document the anomalous, these authors - one, the man who popularised alien abduction and, the other, a renowned scholar and "renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies" (The New York Times) - deliver a fast-paced and exhilarating study of why the supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction, but a vital and authentic aspect of life.Their suggestion? That all kinds of "impossible" things, from extra-dimensional beings to bilocation to bumps in the night are not impossible at all - rather, they are a part of our natural world. But this natural world is immeasurably more weird, more wonderful and probably more populated than we have so far imagined with our current categories and cultures, which are what really make these things seem "impossible."THE SUPER NATURAL considers that the natural world is actually