Page 3 - SAMPLE The Big Book of Mysteries

Dupes and Deceptions 50 — 51
• The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• Piltdown Man
• The Rambling Rocks
InTELLIGENt AnCESTOrS
Incredible Buildings
• The Great Pyramid of Giza
• Machu Picchu
• Teotihuacán Henges and Glyphs
• Stonehenge
• The Nazca Lines Tombs and Tunnels
• The Mandrake Caves of Bavaria
• The Dome Tomb
• The Plain of Jars Lost Burial Grounds
• Queen Nefertiti
• Alexander the Great
• Genghis Khan
UnEXPLAINED OBJECTS
Understanding the ancient world
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DISAPPEARInG PLACES Countries that don’t exist
• Hy-Brasil
• Crocker Land Cities beneath the waves
• Atlantis
• Vineta
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Lost Cities
• El Dorado
• Libertatia Buried treasure
• Lost Dutchman Mine
• Oak Island
SPIRITS AND GHOStS Things That Go Bump in the Night
• Speaking to the spirits
• I see dead people!
• The Demon of Derrygonnelly Haunted Houses
• Marie Antoinette’s Ghost
• The Enfield Poltergeist We’re Going on a Witch Hunt
MIND OVER mATtER
Mass hysteria
• Deadly Dancing
• Laughter – the best medicine?
• Twitch and Shout
• What’s going on? Brain power
• Just a magic trick?
• The Placebo Effect Fire Starters
• Doctor John Irving Bentley
• The Countess Cornelia Di Bandi
• Spontaneous Human Combustion
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• The Voynich Manuscript
• The Phaistos Disc
• The Shugborough Inscription Cryptic Ciphers
• Hidden Gold
• The Lost Homing Pigeon
• The Dorabella Cipher
Curse or coincidence?
• The Hope diamond
• The Black Prince’s ruby
• The Koh-i-noor diamond
• Are these stones really cursed? Sneaky skullduggery
• Monkey Business
• All Clear?
• Sticks and Stones
Amazing Ancestors
• A two-thousand-year-old computer • An ancient power-pack?
• Taught to fly by aliens?
Glossary Index
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