Book Reviews Perceptions Magazine, August 2026
In The Pines:
True Stories of Mystery, Mayhem, and Monsters in Maine
By Nomar Slevik
Foreword by Acadia After Dark
Bionic Bigfoot Independent Creators
February 17, 2026, 215 pages, Paperback, US $20.00
ISBN: 9798268265132
Reviewed by Brent Raynes
If you’ve read any of Nomar Slevik’s previous books, like Humanoid Encounters, UFOs Over Maine, Granite Skies, and perhaps several other volumes he has written, then you already know about his entertaining and professional writing skills and his impressive research and boots on the ground investigative abilities to unearth some of the most high strange reports. And as a life-long Maine resident, Nomar concentrates an especially revealing spotlight on that state’s deep, dark, and chilling mysteries that abound there.
Interested in ghosts, hauntings, UFOs, orbs, crop circles, little people, cryptid encounters, spontaneous human combustion – all of the classic unexplained enigmas that provide genuine chills and thrills? In The Pines has all of that and more, and Nomar is a straight shooter who presents the accurate details and backgrounds that he uncovers in all of the stories he delves into. “The stories in this book happened,” Nomar writes. “Or at least, they happened as much as events beyond explanation can ever be measured or verified. What matters to me is that they unfolded right here in Maine. And once you know that, it’s hard to look at this place the same way again. Maine has always been strange. This book is proof of that.”
