Stories And Accounts Of Some Of The Most Strange And Intriguing Unexplained Phenomena There are things that occur in this world- and have happened right through the whole of the human experience- for which there has never been a rational explanation. Remember, explanations are just temporary, going on and off in response to fads and fashions. However, the happenings they are supposed to explain carry on as mysteriously as ever. Yet mysterious phenomena are also to a certain extent influenced by imagination. For instance, clusters of living toads and hibernating swallows impressed into rocks, regularly recorded by naturalists, seem to have died out. Mariners, these days, hardly ever witness sea monsters and giant octopuses. Rings of dancing fairies, once a common folklore belief, are now rare. To make up for these temporary losses, other kinds of weird and unexplained phenomena have come up in this modern age- UFO sightings, mutilations of cattle and horses, the phenomenon of crop circles etc. Having said that, the standard mysteries, those which have perplexed humanity from the very beginning, continue to do so. Strange creatures and things fall, at times slowly, from rather unknown sources; people walk over glowing trenches of hot coals, encounter monsters in mountains and lakes and are subject to strange coincidences...
These are quick little blurbs about mysterious phenomena. This time we look at werewolves, loch ness, people immune to fire or who react to electricity in a weird way, raining fish and frogs, the possiblility of people transporting from one location to another, and experiences with time travel. What I like about these stories is that they just tell what was reported, there is no speculation of opinions, it just interesting situations that people have claimed to experience. Think fringe science, and it just fun.
This book was a quick read that I really enjoyed. While I may not believe a lot of what was written it certainly gave me plenty to think about. The only drawback is poor proof reading.