''Nick Redfern is the Brit with a knack for ferreting out all the dope on outrageous subjects.''--Jim Marrs, best-selling author of Alien Agenda Just in time for that most mysterious and macabre of all nights--Halloween, of course--Nick Redfern unleashes ''The World's Weirdest Places,'' his latest darkly entertaining supernatural title. In its mysterious pages, you will find Redfern's personal top 25 paranormal-themed locales, and the strange, amazing, and diabolical things that lurk within them. From the legendary Loch Ness, Scotland, to the slopes of Mount Shasta, California; from the dark depths of the Solomon Islands to the heart of the Kremlin; and from the magical landscape of Sedona, Arizona, to the turbulent waters of the Devil's Sea of Japan, ''The World's Weirdest Places'' reveals the sheer astonishing scale of strangeness that dominates our planet. Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts, vampires, UFOs, lake monsters, strange energies, enigmatic vortexes, werewolves, and terrifying demons are just some of the bizarre things that populate these parts of our planet, which provoke as much fascination and intrigue as they do fear and horror.