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Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries

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ISBN-10: 0028638433

ISBN-13: 9780028638430

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael Kurland

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Michael Kurland introduces the reader to mysteries of all kinds from disappearing ships in the Bermuda Triangle to unsolved crimes and secrets from the past like Stonehenge and the Turin Shroud.
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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Disappearances
Solved and Unsolved
The Mark of a Mystery
The Universal Question
I Love a Mystery
The Great Story
The Great Mystery
The Unknown vs. the Unknowable
Shakespeare's Plays
The Laws by Which the Universe Works
The Mysterious Past
A Little Help for My Friends
A Really Good Story
Disappearing Ships and Planes
De Vliegende Hollander
The Mary Celeste
The Story
Final Voyage
Fancy Free
The Inquiry
Looking at the Facts
A Couple of Possibilities
More Missing Men
The Eternal Bermuda Triangle
The Disappearing Avengers
"The Devil's Triangle"
Flight 19
Other Bermuda Triangle Mysteries
The Scorpion
Disappearing People
The Mystery of Benjamin Bathhurst
Poor Charlie Ross
The First Missing Ambrose
A Small Story: The Second Missing Ambrose
The Flying Officers
The Double Disappearances of Pauline
The Disappearing Judge
Jimmy Hoffa
The Unfound
Travelers to Nowhere
Where Went the Norse?
The Little Ice Age
Where Did They Go?
The Roanoke Colony
Ecstatic Reports
The First Indian Fights
Gone, All Gone
White's Turn
Fernandez Splits
All Gone--Again
The Mystery Persists
The Franklin Expedition
The Expedition
The Ships Disappear
The First Hints
Dragging Their Boat Behind Them
No End to the Searching
Bad Luck
People Power, Past and Present
A Mind Is a Difficult Thing to Read
What Is This Thing Called ESP?
The Case Against ESP
The Case For ESP
Anecdotal Evidence
By the Mark, Twain
Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Julia Grant
Morgan Robertson, the Unwitting Seer
Unsinkable
Speed, Passengers, and Lifeboats
And So to Sink
And Furthermore
Doctor Rhine
The Rhine Deck
Hitting the Deck
The Ganzfeld Technique
You Read My Mind
They Delved Into the Future
Predicting the Future
The Greek Oracles
Croesus and the Delphic Oracle
How to Pick an Oracle
"A Great Empire Will Be Destroyed"
The Sibylline Books
Medieval Prophecy
Merlin Predicts
St. Malachy Predicts the Popes
The List Recovered
The Listed Popes
The Last Few
The Last Bit
The Great Medieval Prophets
Mother Shipton
"Wolsey Shall Not Reach York"
The Prophetic Rhymes of Mother Shipton
The Verse She Could Do
One More Paragraph
The Added Verse
Nostradamus
The Wanderer
Obscure and in Verse
The Golden Cage
Ancient Egyptian Books
But What of the Quatrains?
What Did He Say?
You're On Your Own
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Recent Prophets
The Events at Fatima
A White Mist
A Glowing Globe
The Final Proof
The Sky Cleared
The Three Secrets
A Glimpse Into Hell
An Unknown Light
The Third Prophecy Revealed
The Doubters
Our Lady of Medjugorje
Edgar Cayce
The Sleeping Prophet
Diagnoses and Treatments
On to Atlantis
Monumental Mysteries
The Greatest Pyramid
What a Wonder
The Pyramid lnch
From Creation to the Judgment Day
A Japanese Pyramid
Very Big and Very Old
Smaller Steps
We Inherited Their Brains
The Sphinx
Older Than That
The Stars at Night
Stonehenge and All the Little Henges
Moving the Stones
Whatever For?
Gilgal Refaim
The World's Largest, Heaviest Calendar
It Stands Alone
Did Giants Walk the Earth?
Ancient Astronauts or Just Us?
The Big Questions
Beginnings and Endings
How Did the Universe Begin?
The Conceptual Framework
Great Balls of Gas
It's In the Stars
The Redder the Shift
The Balloon Analogy
The Big Bang
A Steady State
And the Winner Is
The Fate of the Universe
The Role of Gravity
The First Mystery
An Incident in the Cretaceous
The Geologic Eras
Mass Extinctions
The Age of the Dinosaur
The Crashing Asteroid
Chicxulub
Nemesis
Beneath the Waves
How It Began
The First Mention of Atlantis
And the Next Mention
Straight from the Source's Mouth
Thank You, Columbus
Ignatius T.T. Donnelly Discovers Atlantis
No Lack of Evidence
Donnelly's Facts
The Post Donnelly Seekers
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Edgar Cayce
The Santorini Connection
We Are Not Alone
They Thought They Were Alone
Most Stars Are Big Mothers
The Dance of the Planets
We Find the Big Ones
Yes, But Is There Life?
The Mix Must Be Just Right
Generations
The Fermi Paradox
Doctor Drake's Equation
The Equation of Life
Is It Intelligent or Ain't It?
The L You Say
The Truth Is Out There
Now We're Listening
Project Phoenix
The SETI League
Serendip
It's In Your Stars
The "Science" of Astrology
They Have It Down Cold
"How Did He Know?"
The Ancient Astrologers
The Astrologer-Priests
Post Hoc Ergo What?
Chaldean Astrology
The Chaldean Zodiac
Astrology in the Medieval World
The Royal Astrologers
The Learned Astrologers
The New Astrology
Hitler's Astrologers
An Astrology Primer
Jeane Dixon
The Jeane Dixon Effect
An Astrologer for the FBI
An Amazing Parallel
The Basic Rules
The Signs of the Zodiac
Character Traits
Cusps
Casting a Horoscope
The 12 Houses
Drawing the Lines
Digging Deeper into Astrology
Human Events
Well Done, Rare Old Medium
The Hydesville Sisters
Dig We Must
Leah Holds a Lecture
An Early Seance
Swedenborg, Mesmer, and Davis
Conversing with the Dead
Animal Magnetism
The Poughkeepsie Seer
The Physical Medium
Daniel Dunglas Home
The Levitating Man
To Cheat or Not to Cheat
Gurus or Charlatans?
The Count de Saint-Germain
The Mystery Grows
Life After Death
Alessandro, Conte di Cagliostro
Balsamo Becomes Cagliostro
The Fleecer Fleeced
Paris
Rasputin
The Miracles of Rasputin
The Final Miracles
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
The Kidnapping
The Ransom Note
The Evidence
The Colonels
More Notes
Jafsie to the Rescue
Condon Is Accepted
The Kidnappers Communicate
Jafsie Grows Restless
The Drop
The Body
The Old Fox
The Old Fox Rebuffed
Jafsie Rejected
A Few Bills Turn Up
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
The Trial
The Evidence Is Presented
The Conviction
Are You the Lindbergh Baby?
It's a Crime
Death to the Anarchists
The "Expert" Witnesses
A Review of the Case
The New Orleans Axeman
The Axeman Cometh
Polish Grocer or Spy?
Broad-Jumping to Conclusions
One Victim Is Saved
A Dark, Tall, Heavy-Set Man
Rosie Changes Her Story
The Jazz Lover
The Next Few Chops
The Murder of Mumfre
The Sam Sheppard Case
The Bushy-Haired Man
The "Surgical Instrument"
Dr. Kirk's Version
The Ohio Courts Vacillate
Did Lizzie Borden Take an Axe?
The Borden Family
The Crime
"Father is dead"
There Is Another
The Investigation
Clues and Suspects Galore
Just the Facts
The Borden Burglary
The Trial
A Burning Question
The Lawyers Fight It Out
The Unanswered Questions
The Mysterious Mata Hari
Mata Hari's Story
Margaretha's Story
The Dance Begins
The Lovers
The Offer
To Spy or Not to Spy
Mistaken Identity
In Madrid On Her Own
A German Conquest
A Chance Meeting
Back to Paris and Disaster
Arrested
The Intercepts
Mata Hari--the Myths
Inhuman Events
Saucers That Fly
What the Ancients Saw
Ezekiel
The Pharaoh Sees a Circle of Fire
The Great Pearl
The Prefect
Flying Silver Cigars
Alex Hamilton Loses a Cow
Space Ship Hits Windmill
The Very First Flying Saucers
Kenneth Arnold Sees Skipping Saucers
The Mysterious Death of Captain Thomas Mantell
The UFO Blitz
The Air Force Investigates
Flying Saucers Over the Capital
Project Blue Book
The Robertson Committee
Bye-Bye, Blue Book
The Roswell Incident
The Air Force Takes a Look
Meanwhile, Back at Headquarters
Roswell Rekindled
The Plot Thickens
Articles of Faith
A Different Truth
Roswell Reading
The Body Is the Evidence
Majestic-12
A Closer Look
Other Questions
The Continuing Story
Those Who Got Carried Away
The Interrupted Journey of Betty and Barney Hill
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Enter the Air Force
Two of Our Hours Are Missing
Examined by Aliens
The Abductee Parade
At the Sound of My Voice
Try to Remember
The True UFO
Unanswered Questions
The Undead and the Inhuman
Vampires
By Their Names Shall You Know Them
The Lamia
Welcome, Vampire
Arnold's Story
Arnold Wanders in Death
Buried Secrets
Werewolves? Here Wolves!
The Miraculous Salve
A Horrible Illness
Real Live Ghouls
Ed Gein
Jeffrey Dahmer
The Crypto-Zoo
Cryptids
Leviathans in the Lakes
The Loch Ness Monster
Lake Serpents of North America
Lake Monsters in Scandinavia
The Rest of the World
The Tasmanian Tiger and Other Big Cats
Missing Links
Yeti
Bigfoot
The Patterson Picture
Bigfeet Elsewhere
Chupacabra
Examining the Unknown
Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
Why the Fuss?
Why Not Shakespeare?
And Besides
Sir Francis Bacon
The Cipher
The Earl of Oxford
Christopher Marlowe
Dead Is Dead--or Is It?
The Case for Will
Appendixes
Glossary
Astrological Information
The Signs of the Zodiac
The Qualities Attributed to the Signs of the Zodiac
The Planets and What They Represent
The 12 Houses and What They Represent
Reporting UFOs
Divination Techniques
Selected Bibliography
General
Archaeology and Crypto-Archaeology
Astrology
Atlantis
Mata Hari
Prophecy
Shakespeare Authorship
Spiritualism
Strange Happenings
UFOs
Index