Jackie Gleason and the Paranormal
FATE magazine January 1954
Did you know that Jackie Gleason comedian, television star, and motion picture actor of international acclaim, was a collector of paranormal books, journals, magazines, and publications. He had collected over 1,700 volumes on a broad and ecclectic interest in the paranormal.
The Jackie Gleason Collection includes approximately 1,700 volumes of books, journals, proceedings, pamphlets, and publications in the field of parapsychology, and a lesser quantity of titles relating to the entertainment industry. The Gleason Collection includes both scholarly and popular works published in the United States and abroad. Within the field of parapsychology, the collection offers materials on such topics as: witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception (ESP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reincarnation, mysticism, spiritualism, mental telepathy, the occult, ghosts, clairvoyance, cosmology, demons, hypnosis, life after death, mediums, psychical research, voodooism, and others.
His wife Marilyn donated his entire collection to the University of Miami Library, Coral Gables, FL in 1988.
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Is that the standard fire-walking costume?