These are excellent books. I love reading the stories that mainstream history has forgot, and separating the fact from fiction.

My aunt had these books when I was a child. A few years ago I found 22 of them at a used bookstore for only $20! Couldn't say no lol and I'd love to get the rest

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Def worth trying to complete the set!

I ate that stuff up when I was young, still kinda do. Fascinates me.

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@7Sabrina7

2 ай бұрын

Yup 👍

I was introduced to these books by a few classmates who wouldn't stop raving about a volume named "Phantom Encounter". So I picked a volume up, it was about these strange beasts. I couldn't stop reading, knowing full well how pseudo-sciency all these books were. It is still strange to me how these books got to a small school in India.

@NerdOutWithMe

5 жыл бұрын

Start X-Files theme music here..... lol

Dreams and dreaming . Was my favorite . You will be surprised after reading it how you can control your dreams. Also what your dreams mean.

These commercials were on all the time. Amazing

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Constantly!

@aldoparise1224

4 күн бұрын

The commercials used to scare the crap out of me.

The texture and sound of those books are so satisfying. I’m sure they were really well thought out and I wish there was a documentary about it.

My grandpa had these and gave my sister Mystic Places. I was obsessed with looking at the pictures and they creeped me out but I was glued to that book. Now I have the entire collection, and just the sight of them is pure nostalgia to me.

@NerdOutWithMe

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. They were always such fun to look through growing up.

Parents had this set when I was a kid. The Alien Encounters one terrified me.

Oh my! I only got to read three of the books (Mystic Places, Mind Over Matter and Alien Encounters) when I was 10. Now I ordered the entire set because I really enjoyed the three. Always wondered if I will enjoy the other 30. My order will be arriving between the 23rd of July and 13th of August. I am soooo excited!

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for watching :)

Found and bought the whole series last year for my brother’s birthday.

I remember finding a complete set time life books in my Dad's attic except it was 'The Library Of Curious And Unusual Facts'. I was instantly hooked. Many of the tomes were of a similar nature. Very insightful and intriguing. Moreover no matter what they published they always went through painstaking lengths to ensure they had ample sources in which to cite their materials. Later on I discovered this set and began deviling into them voraciously. I started out with "Search for the soul". Occasionally I would a few copies at various thrift stores or Goodwill. But to purchase a complete set was always out of my budgetary constraints. If you're willing to part with this magnificent lot I'd be more than willing to offer a fair bid. They'd be going to a good home and an avid fan of all things Time Life. Thanks for bringing these fascinating pieces to light they certainly deserve a place in the spotlight.

@spiritchild9101

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I didn’t know about that series, and I love to collect these oddities.

@rollingstoned125

Жыл бұрын

Did u find Jesus yet?

​ @The ATTIC DWELLERS I grew up in a overly religious family and I wasn't allowed to see these books when I was 8. I actually told a teacher about this and she was completely supportive of my curiosity about it and let me look thru her collection of the books. Explaining that they don't claim that it was true or not only exploring the possibilities. That was actually more healthy than my parents force fed beliefs upon me about a man who suffers bleeding and dead on a cross that loves me and about a living devil that would send me to hell for looking at the books. I would like to thank TIME LIFE Mysteries of the Unknown and the unbiased educator that taught me more than anyone else!

@NerdOutWithMe

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in a similar situation (No D&D and such were allowed) Thanks for watching!

@GokuMcDuck

Жыл бұрын

I miss when teachers could do that. Actually pushing knowledge. Nowadays, they are seen as perverts.

I want...........all of these books. I actually really do because I can create some awesome book ideas with some of these concepts lol. Book design and artwork was sooooo epic.

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

I'll sell them all to you for 10 bucks. Don't tell Eric.

@Elistarielle

5 жыл бұрын

I have most if not all of them. Found at local used bookstores.

@danielleguertin

4 жыл бұрын

I have the whole collection for sale

@corsetedwasteland2630

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielleguertin Do you still have it? If so, how much?

i vaguely remember these books in my parents house. they sat on a shelf for years.

OMG this is insane! I used to have all these books but hadn't thought about them in decades. Then in January I was in someone's office and they had a few on the shelf. Now you guys come out with this great video. It must be a sign! I will never forget opening the cardboard box that they came in each month with pure joy and wonder as to what topic the next one will be. My big take away from this series was "Astral Projection" which is a technique you can do to project your spirit somewhere while your physical body was somewhere else like your bedroom. Your spirit could see what was happening in real time wherever you sent it. Now it is called Skype, lol. Anyway, I tried so hard to train myself to be able to do this but never succeeded until later in life when I toked up on a nice big fat spliff. Now I am am effing Astral Projection master, LOL!

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Is THAT why you guys call yourself ... Guru meditation?!?! (I'll see myself out)

@TheGuruMeditation

6 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Good guess, but it was actually the message you got when the Amiga crashed. Here is the history of it kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqqE0KmbXcfVlKw.html

Even back then the whole collection would have cost well over $430 or around $1000 in todays money.

Good one guys and a nice adolescent memory for me. Well, that and I wish I had those books!

Awesome seeing fellow collectors! Great score! Just so you know they also released about 15 novels that were bound and black and had the same silver type. I've got almost a complete collection and the missing maybe about 5 of them. They just look cool on a self man. Keep up the good work!

@NerdOutWithMe

5 жыл бұрын

Now Eric will have to get the 15 novels. LOL. Thanks for watching. :)

this was the 80s version, the 70s ones were called "the supernatural" i think as a competator the very famous danburry press late 60s "man myth and magic". if you like these, those are essential. There is also "mysteries of mind space and time" which may be 90s time life. Psychic Voyages is pulled directly from the earlier "the supernatural" series which has a much darker tone and pentagrams on the back covers.

@spiritchild9101

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the supernatural series is uncensored and much darker. Upside down pentagram on the back with baphomet.

The commercials scared the shit out of me when they came out in the late 80s early 90s.

I scored 27 of the 33 volumes of MotU for just $20 at a flea market. And they're in excellent condition!

My Dad got these and I loved them. My Mom also thought they were letting the devil in. So, they were banished to the garage where I used to sneak out to read them for hours on end. They were in the garage right up until my fathers death a few years ago and I couldn't get to them before my brother tossed them! Boy, was a I mad...

@NerdOutWithMe

2 жыл бұрын

Ugh! Can't imagine tossing all those!

Hello from Canada! : ) Thanks for reviewing these! I have the whole set (except for Alien Encounters) and have been lugging them around for years. They are nice as you dont have to read them cover to cover, and if your feeling lazy, you could just look at the cool pictures. I had a few Enchanted World editions too. Thanks for reminding me of these. Ill have to dig them out again lol Cheers!

@NerdOutWithMe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and thanks for popping in!

They made a NEW version of this book in 2014 in paperback called "Mysteries of the Unknown:Inside the world of the strange and unexplained"...basically it's all 33 older books combined into one new book. Not sure if anyone else has read both the originals and the newer versions to compare them in more in depth yet.

@GokuMcDuck

Жыл бұрын

Seems to be souless, right?

I had a few. Mystic Places, mysterious creatures were my favorites. My ex kept them. Now I feel like buying them again.

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

They are fun to look through, especially years later!

We had a number of those books growing up. I loved reading them. It was good fun.

we had a few ofthese when i was growing up. great for bathroom reading

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Fir perfectly in the bathroom book holder.

Long shot here, i remember reading a book like that when i was a kid, do any of them specifically have pages that have topics like Roswell(area 51), loch ness, walking on hot coals(something related to mind over matter), stone henge, those were the topics i remembered reading....been on the hunt for that book for the longest time....i only had one and i remember the topics were not so related

@NerdOutWithMe

2 жыл бұрын

Def has stuff about Stonehenge and Roswell. As for what book.... if Eric goes through them one day soon I will let you know!

These were great when I was 10.

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they def were fun to look through when we were kids.

I just remember one commercial about a dude getting zapped with blue electricity from stone henge. Even as a kid I was like: nawwww, but maybe?

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! Totally forgot about that!

@mrmccranky

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! As a kid I was all “that’s not real!!! But on the other hand...”

I had been looking for these books and really want it as a collection. Love it. Are you selling them? lol

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

No. LOL. But Eric found them for reasonably cheap on Ebay. Thanks for watching!

@yellowcard5736

4 жыл бұрын

@@NerdOutWithMe alright, man lol

I loved this series as a kid/teen! I was a bookworm and mom was a librarian, so I spend a lot of time in a corner of the library. Today, I have 15 of the books (and a dozen of the The Enchanted World books). I don't think I'll get more, and honestly could probably do to get rid of a couple of them, but probably won't. In rough order my favorite five would be Mysterious Creatures, The UFO Phenomenon, Visions and Prophecies, Hauntings, and Mystic Places. I also own the complete set of a non-Time-Life sister series, The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind, Space, and Time, which is the various articles of a British paranormal-focussed magazine collected into 26 books. This is not as well-researched as MotU, with some outright fabrications getting articles (The Angels of Mons, the Picnic at Hanging Rock). Still, it does also have a lot of little mysteries that none of the MotU books I read never covered, and I honestly think MMST is the /entertaining/ of the two series. I don't really believe in any of this stuff, but I'm really INTO it, and WANT to believe, if that makes sense.

@NerdOutWithMe

3 жыл бұрын

Def makes sense to us. We are in the same boat. That's why we love these books as well!

My mom has all these books and they’ve always creeped me out

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

Def a bit creepy

I saw the books at the library when I was browsing around.

We have the complete set and was about to give them away for free then found this. Funny. Feel like I ought to keep them. Ours are unused.

@NerdOutWithMe

6 жыл бұрын

Def worth holding on to.

@42flyingphish

4 жыл бұрын

Have you decided to keep them. If so you have a great time with them. Otherwise you have an interested party

@Roaming50

4 жыл бұрын

matthew Ameel we gave them away.

This is awesome I was born in 1980 and reading my dad's books at the age of 10 trying to meditate and have an outer body EXPERIENCE 😂💖

@NerdOutWithMe

5 жыл бұрын

Lol. That's amazing.

Called the number and a man answers and says “I’ve been waiting for your call….are you ready to order?”

They're beautifully designed books, regardless of how you feel about these topics (I own two books of the series).

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. That's why we collected them all!

@GokuMcDuck

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, I miss the quality of the 80s and 90s.

bought by old ladies, enjoyed by heavy metal teens.

I had 3 books back then

I still have this collection and they're right.......they weigh a fucking ton!

Got the whole set, and still do. I feel they were, to me, training manuals, for nearly 20 years, MANY weird and amazing things happened near and on my property, from weird lights chased by military aircraft, to moving CUBES of fog (it moved from the fog cloud and left a cube shaped hole or cut in the mass, I kid you not), to voices in my house, and feeling a presence in my home. Remember....FEAR is the true enemy....not the unknown.

Read the book.

@NerdOutWithMe

5 жыл бұрын

That line is permanently burnt into my brain. - Tig

I always loved reading these books especially the ones about cryptozoology, when I was a kid I loved that stuff, but the legends are still fascinating even if I no longer believe in them.

@NerdOutWithMe

3 жыл бұрын

100% agree!

7:58 - Is that Julianne Moore?

@NerdOutWithMe

2 ай бұрын

Indeeeeed

_PLEASE_ upload copies.

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean, make episodes on each individual book?

@youtoober2013

4 жыл бұрын

@@NerdOutWithMe No, no, of course not. -Each _page._ In all seriousness, anything! I'm designing a video game. I remembered those books vaguely and looked them up. I can't afford the shipping to Canada, but really wish I could explore them more. I'll share any video with contents of them included. Fun to watch you get giddy over them like I would still. Thumbs up.

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

@@youtoober2013 Oh cool. Well, with Halloween coming and all, we prob should at least go through some of them and show them off.

I have 31 out of 33

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet!

I found the entire set of 33 in mint condition for 100 cash. i said ill never see this again so trigger pulled.

@NerdOutWithMe

Жыл бұрын

Oh hell yeah!

You call them bullshit but yet you wont sell them...you obviously value them.

@NerdOutWithMe

4 жыл бұрын

Eric loves this set of books, but he also knows most of the stuff inside of them is bullshit.

You'd be better off reading The Secret Doctrine by Madam Blavatski

These guys are atheists. I know this because I'm using my "psychic powers."