Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved
FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really get away with it? Is Bigfoot a big fake? Are ETs just BS? If you’re tired of scratching...
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FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really get away with it? Is Bigfoot a big fake? Are ETs just BS? If you’re tired of scratching your head over persistent puzzlers like these, mystery-buster Albert Jack has the cure for your quizzical itch. He’s gone hunting for the truth behind more than thirty of the most famous and baffling conundrums in history. Did a conspiracy or a calamity kill Marilyn Monroe? Is the Bermuda Triangle a tropical tall tale? Was a dead Paul McCartney replaced by a doppelgänger? How did Edgar Allan Poe meet his doom?In quick-witted entries on each enigmatic topic, Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs offers answers certain to surprise, enlighten, amuse, and perhaps disappoint true believers. But Albert Jack never fails to fascinate and entertain as he spills the beans about the odd, the eerie, and the (no longer) unexplained.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781588368690 (1588368696)
Publish date: March 10th 2009
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Edition language: English
Another book from the Weird Stuff genre. And, thank God, another one that's mostly skeptical. It's fairly well-written, and presents an interesting array of mysteries. There's a mix of paranormal and regular crime, everything from Loch Ness to D. B. Cooper. Some of them are indeed solved, and some a...
If you watch the History Channel with any regularity, don't bother with this book. The author's attempts at humor just come across as snarky and mean.