Writer: Dr Karl P.N. Shuker
Publisher: Carlton Book
Year: 1998
Pages: 224
Size: 29cm x 24cm
Price: Not available
ISBN 1-85868-186-3
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Cover page: Yes, I know. It says 'Creepy' |
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Back Cover: Just a simple explanation
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This is one of my all time favorite books (I have lot of favorites,FYI). This book listed down all the "unexplained" phenomenal that happened including myths, ghost stories and mysteries. Some of the stories already been solved by modern science but many of them still remain as unexplained.
Below is the images of this book's contents. There are stories in here were common to us but many of them were rare. To make this book sound even more amazing, the stories in here actually have been collected, documented and researched by the writer himself. He has Dr. before his name, and his intentions for this book was to documented every reported strange phenomenal in the world in one book, find scientific explanation for them and open opportunities for future research to any phenomenal that were failed to be explained before.
All the unexplained phenomenal are separated into different parts of the world and divided into 7 chapters. Take a tour at the images below and the simple explanation I derived from the book just for you!
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Great Britain and Ireland: Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII(picture) |
Royal ghost are famous at Britain. The lists of ghosts including Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and George III. Picture above is Anne Boleyn who was executed on 19 May. On the anniversary of her execution for every year, the sight of her ghost has been reported appeared at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, headless, her head in her lap inside the coach drawn by four headless horses.
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Continental Europe: The Shroud of Turin (picture) |
The Shroud of Turin is actually the piece of sheet containing the blurred vision of unidentified man imprinted to it. The picture above is the image of the man on the sheet. There are people who believe the man is Jesus himself and the sheet is the one that was used to wrapped his body after he died.
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The Middle East and Africa: Pygmy elephant(picture) |
The Pygmy elephant was quiet common in the old time. Many of them have been reported seen in many part of the world. However, this elephant was fully grown adult and not juvenile even though their height was only 2 meters when standing.
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Asia: Common in India, not so common to the West |
Levitating is common to Asia and easily accepted here but not by Western. The Western eager to find the explanation for it but it still uncover even now.
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North America: Skull of Giant? |
They were many stories of gigantic people, but do they really exist? and how big actually they were?... The skull above was the remaining of the Lovelock Cave, Nevada. Most of the bones from the site were actually destroyed but there was a skull with related bones succeed to be kept at Museum in Winnemucca, Nevada.
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Mesoamerica and South America: The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica |
The perfectly spherical shaped stones that were found in Costa Rica in 1930s. The sizes were varied but the huge one up to 2.5 meters across and weighing more than 16 tonnes.
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Australasia and Oceania: Sea monster |
I think the picture above is so famous. I, myself have seen it countless time in the internet and of course I'm not buying any of the stories they told. However, in this book, the story of this picture was explained and it sound like the sea monster in the picture was actually exist.