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The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century
The Unexplained Great Mysteries of the 20th Century Author:Jenny Randles We have just witnessed the most mysterious century that our planet has ever known. Strange things are all around us. In the darkest oceans and inky lakes monsters are lurking. On land fantastic energies cause objects to move, car engines to fail and phantom shapes to fill haunted zones where the extraordinary bounds. In the sky peculiar lights s... more »treak above and alien visitors pay intimate attention towards humankind. Nowhere is safe.
We name such apparitions, seeking to distance ourselves from the mystique. We call them ghosts, earthlights, poltergeists, Yetis, Bigfoot, UFOs, aliens. But they stubbonly refuse to succumb to the march of scientific progress. Rationalists from Darwin onwards have sought in vain to turn the paranormal into the merely normal. Yet even in these days of technilogical wonders -- from the microchip to the spaceship -- there are unsolved mysteries impenetrable to the greatest minds on earth.
In the future this century might well be known as the age of the supernatural. Now, through this book, you can relive it year by year. Among the gripping phenomena featured here are: riddles of lost aviators and seamen, puzzles of spontaneous human combustion and orgone energy, the discovery of dinosaurs living in Africa, near death experiences, and accounts of alien contact from earth orbit. Fully illustrated with 100 photographs, many in colour, this is a fascinating, fast-flowing review of twentieth-century history at its most strange, exactly as it happened. « less