From the best-selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo. Albert Jack’s Mysterious World is a collection of the world’s most famous and puzzling mysteries. What really happened to the Mary Celeste? Who killed Marilyn Monroe? Where is Bigfoot? Could
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The fourth of August 1962 seemed an ordinary Saturday in the life of Marilyn Monroe, in so far as her life could be called ‘ordinary’ at this stage, the world-famous actress now beset by depression and paranoia. Despite daily therapy with her personal psychiatrist Dr Ralph Greenson, who lived nearby, Marilyn’s anxiety attacks and bouts
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Try to See It from My Angle: The Bermuda Triangle – What is it about this infamous stretch of ocean (and sky) that causes ships and planes to vanish without a trace? At ten past two in the afternoon of 5 December 1945, five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers took off from the naval air station
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The famous bandleader vanished without trace en route to entertain Allied troops in 1944, but what happened to him? At the end of the 1930s, just as the Second World War was breaking out in Europe, Glen Miller’s band introduced America to the new, unique style of brass-band music they had been working on for
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The Mysterious Death of Robert Maxwell. Who finally stopped the bouncing Czech? The extraordinary life and death of Robert Maxwell. In 1940, Jan Ludvik Hoch did what many young Jews in Eastern Europe were doing at that time, and ran away to England to fight the Nazis. The seventeen-year-old refugee then fought his way from
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Our Lady of Fatima. The visions of the Virgin Mary seen by three Portuguese peasant children and the three secrets entrusted to them. On 13 July 1917, three children were startled to find a mysterious figure approaching them as they tended their flock of sheep in pastureland near Fatima in Portugal. Lucia dos Santos and
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The hunt is still on for Bigfoot: What made the oversized tracks found in Bluff Creek, California, and other parts of America? A giant ape or just a big jape? In 1924, a group of miners working in the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington were startled to see a huge simian creature
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The Paul McCartney Death Mystery – Did the famous ex-Beatle really die in a car crash back in 1966? On 12 October 1969, Tom Zarski rang the ‘Uncle’ Russ Gibb’s radio show on WKNR-FM in Dearborn, Michigan, and announced that Paul McCartney had been killed in an accident in November 1966 and the Beatles had
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The Mysterious Death of God’s Own Banker – Did Roberto Calvi, head of a bank with close connections to the Vatican, take his own life or was there a more sinister reason why he was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge? Early in the morning of 18 June 1982, in a scene redolent of a real-life Da
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The US National Archives is set to release thousands of documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that had previously been withheld from the public. With 3,810 documents already released in July, thousands more are set to come out. According to the National Archives, 88% of the files pertaining to JFK’s 1963
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