The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena · From Bizarre Biology to Inexplicable Astronomy (Mammoth Books) by Bainton, Roy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Copyright Contents Introduction: E=mc² or Not? Part 1: The Age of Unreason 16

Faith v. Facts One Truth or Two? Measuring a Circle: Who Made Us? Beyond the Bible: Non-Christian Creationism Bugs from Space When Worlds Collide The Hindu View The Great Spirit: Native America Top Gun Meets Saturday Night Fever

Part 2: Hot Chestnuts – UFOs 45

Loving the Alien A Brief History of UFOs Biblical UFOs Hover – You’re on Camera … Mysterious Airships, November 1896 Cowboys, Aliens … and Zeppelins The Los Angeles Invasion, February 1942 Tulagi, The Solomon Islands, 12 August 1942 Foo Fighters and Ghost Rockets, 1944–6 The Coming of the Pie Plates, June 1947 The Summer of 1947 UFDs – Unidentified Flying Doughnuts: The Strange Case of the Maury Island Affair, July 1947 Enter “The Men in Black” Men in Black II Facts and Fabrications: What Made New Mexico Famous The Roswell Story 1: The Basic Chronology The Roswell Story 2: Alien Autopsy Quick! Get the Kodak! The McMinnville, Oregon, Photos The UFO Collision Mystery The Real X-Files They’re on the Ground! Face to Face with the Men From Space: The Anomalous Life of George Adamski An Uncanny Epilogue … Little Green Men … Evolving Aliens and Other Entities The Zamora Sighting UFOs and the Military: The “Official” Projects Alien Abductions Shooting Stars: Celebrities and UFOs

Robbie Williams Dan Aykroyd Dwight Schultz Billy Ray Cyrus Sammy Hagar John Lennon Elvis Presley Jackie Gleason Jimi Hendrix Walter Cronkite David Bowie

Digging Deeper: Close Encounters of the Dangerous Kind Fliege Heil! The Nazis and UFOs Dreamland: Area 51

Part 3: Beyond the Veil

Life after Death

Science v. Quackery Near-Death Experiences Heaven and Hell Reported Experiences

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Sixth Sense Spiritualism: Not as Old as You Think …

The Fox Sisters Henry Slade Daniel Dunglas Home Florence Cook

Is There Anybody There? A Night with the Spirits How to Be a Medium Spiritualists, Witchcraft and the Bible TV Psychics: Most Not Haunted Away with the Fairies: Houdini v. Holmes Medium Rare: The Search for Real Psychics

Psychics and Mediums: What’s the Difference? The Psychic Barber Rosemary the Celtic Lady™ Doris Stokes Michelle Whitedove Psychics for Sale

“Everything from bowels to bereavement”: Power, Politics, Personalities and Psychics In the Arms of the Angels: Help from the Heavenly Host

Heavenly Mechanics

Back from the Dead: Ghosts and Other Restless Spirits

Part 4: Inexplicable Astronomy

Copy That, Capcom Dark Matter Mars or Bust? The St Valentine’s Day Marsacre … “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it”: A Quartet of Mystery Moons Inner and Outer Limits The Goldilocks Zone

Part 5: Bizarre Biology

Rubbernecks Rule, OK? The Elusive Nessie Van Gölü Canavar1, the Lake Van Monster Mokele-mbembe “Champ”, The Lake Champlain Monster Ogopogo and Caddy Big Pussy or Lurking Lynx? Cheshire Cats The Beast of Exmoor Bigfoot and Yeti: Hairy Relatives? Hidden Horrors: Mothman, the Tatzelwurm and the Goat Sucker

Part 6: Shiver Me Timbers! Maritime Mysteries

Deathly Drifters The Mary Celeste The Flying Dutchman The Unsinkable Titanic The Mummy Takes a Trip Triangles in the Fog: Bermuda, Rhubarb and the Great Lakes Vile Vortices Don’t Believe the Hype

Dead Horses in the Doldrums

Fo’c’sle Frighteners The Octavius The Pamir The Port Pirie The Mystery of the Marlborough Death Ship: The Curious Case of the Ourang Medan Brunel’s Folly: The Cursed Great Eastern Anatomy of a Classic: Ghost Boat – UB-65 The Dark Ocean The Mystery of Eilean Mor Vanishing Act: The Philadelphia Experiment

Part 7: Panic and Paranoia

Scared Witless The Zombie Bug SARS: The Conspiracy Virus Folk Devils and Moral Panic: Satanic Abuse

Part 8: Combing the Fringe: Fun, Fort and Fine Entertainment – A Miscellany of Mysteries

Bizarre Archaeology

The Acámbaro Figures The Riddle of the Dropa Stones The Horned Human Skull The Map of the Creator The Aluminium Wedge of Aiud The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone The Piri Reis Map Giants of America The Kensington Runestone The Shroud of Turin: Christ or Leonardo?

Skullduggery

Bones of Contention (and Other Body Parts …)

Himmler’s Holy Lance

The Holy Lance: A Chronology The Holy Lance: More than One Destiny?

Urban Legend Goes Underground: A Victorian Railway Mystery The Laughter of the Gods

Crystal Balls Coincidence and Synchronicity Citadel of Secrets: The Mystery of Edward Leedskalnin

Epilogue: Through the Revolving Door Select Bibliography Index

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