Soul-baring, disturbing, mind-expanding, sometimes funny and often bursting with chutzpah, the collected thoughts, writings and experiences of the world's most famous paranormalist are compulsive reading. He paints a wry picture in Unorthadox Encounters and asks Was Hercules Poirot a Woman? He also visits a synagogue with Michael Jackson; investigates evidence of a UFO crash in Israel; exposes a Californian cult known as the Jesus Jews and explores over a hundred other topical issues and modern-day concerns, from the Internet to religion, from trash TV to mathematics