Since earliest times, public fascination and popular imagination have focused on phenomena known as "supernatural". But, as the authors write in the introduction to this book, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; when mysteries and coincidences seem too remarkable to be true - it's probably because they are not! Utilising their experiences as professional crime solvers, Nickell and Fischer examine such classic enigmas as the haunting of Mackenzie House (in which a rebel statesman is said to tread noisily upon the stairs of his home); the question of the "Crystal Skull"; the case of "The Two Will Wests" (two prison inmates with the same name, identical features, and similar fingerprints); plus bleeding doors, phantom pictures, restless coffins, disappearing footprints, human fireballs, and miraculous portraits - a fascinating panoply of mind-bogglers, riddles, and ambiguities.
199 pages
Cloth ISBN 0-87975-461-3
Paper ISBN 0-87975-685-3
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