Jason Offutt Books in Order

Jason Offutt investigates reported hauntings across Missouri, from a mysterious roadside light to a former jail and the Governor’s Mansion. His accounts combine skeptical inquiry with practical visiting information for readers interested in exploring these locations themselves.

Offutt investigates haunted places across Missouri, combining local history with eyewitness accounts and ghost lore. The guide focuses on places readers can visit, from historic buildings to public sites associated with unexplained sounds, sightings, and encounters.

Jason Offutt investigates reports of shadowy human figures through eyewitness interviews and discussions of scientific, religious and metaphysical explanations. The book considers what witnesses call shadow people while exploring the uncertainty surrounding these unsettling experiences.

This collection presents forty-three accounts of reported paranormal activity across Missouri, from alleged Bigfoot encounters to haunted buildings and UFO stories. It combines local settings and witness claims in a tour of the state's supernatural folklore.

Jason Offutt collects reported paranormal encounters from within one hundred miles of his home. Accounts involving ghosts, alleged time travel, unusual creatures and other unexplained experiences explore how people interpret strangeness in otherwise familiar places.

Offutt takes a road trip from northwest Missouri to Fort Frances, Ontario, in search of beer and regional curiosities. His humorous travelogue follows the history, oddities, and encounters that turn a northern journey into an extended beer run.

Deever Dickson’s ordinary routines include an unusual attraction to strangers at funerals. Meeting Marissa seems to offer a romantic connection, but a friend’s death at a science fiction convention threatens to complicate their developing relationship.

This parody survival guide treats monsters as practical problems that can be solved with objects around the house. Offutt offers comic advice for confronting zombies, sinister clowns, and other threats without relying on specialized equipment.

Born into a Missouri farming family, Ella Ewing grew to an extraordinary height and became a circus attraction. This biography follows her public career, her connections to home, and the kindness remembered alongside her unusual fame.

An antidepressant triggers a zombie outbreak, forcing waitress Nikki Holleran to flee with an unlikely group of survivors. Their escape intersects with a dangerous woman’s plans as the living become as threatening as the dead.

From a Missouri farm to a nationwide chain of stores, J. C. Penney built a business around work and fair dealing. This biography introduces young readers to his partnerships, treatment of customers and employees, and charitable commitments.

Twelve horror stories uncover the darkness beneath ordinary lives and small towns. A recurring unsolved murder, an uneasy witness, and a child’s discovery about Santa are among the encounters that turn familiar settings into places of danger.

Four survivors of the zombie outbreak head toward Mayday, Kentucky, hoping its promised refuge is real. After surviving an attempt on their lives in Nebraska, they face another road trip through an America overrun by danger.

After a bouncer punches a physicist who promptly disappears, reality begins changing around him. A haunted-house owner and a baker join the effort to stop a dimension-hopping experiment before its consequences grow even stranger.

As a child, Thomas Cavanaugh follows a fairy into a cornfield and encounters a threat to two worlds. Years later, troubled memories and two former fellow psychiatric patients pull him back toward the danger he barely understands.

When a boy returns unchanged after disappearing into another world, a series of murders raises suspicions about his supernatural powers. Thomas Cavanaugh and his allies must confront the dark magic behind the deaths before their own world is consumed.