What Really Happened?: Thirteen Forgotten Mysteries of the Past

by Harry M. Bobonich, Chris Bobonich

This is a collection of forgotten mysteries of the past -- stories of real people and events and we try to tell you what really happened. While some of these cases may be ones you've heard of, others will be new to you. A novelist walks away from her home and a troubled marriage on a cold wintry night--and is never seen again. Two thieves make their way into a Boston art museum and carry out the largest art heist in history. The paintings, which were valued at over $500 million, have never been recovered. The most famous defense lawyer of his time is on trial for bribery and chooses to defend himself. What is the verdict? A flamboyant adventurer goes searching for the City of Gold with his son and both vanish into the dark and deadly Amazon--what happened to them? How close are we to discovering extraterrestrial life--or are we alone in the universe?

Genres: Nonfiction

253 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 11, 2017

About the author

Harry M. Bobonich retired from Shippensburg University as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. He previously taught at Pennsylvania State University and Wilson College. He is the author of - Seeing Around Corners, Big Mine Run, World War II, The Great Depression and Pathfinders & Pioneers.

Reviews

[Bettye McKee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Facts and speculation

These mysteries are no longer forgotten. They have been revived in this book.

Some of the chapters are intriguing enough to hold the reader's interest while others prompt one to skim the material.

The highlight of the book for me was the portion about my favorite lawyer of all time, Earl Rogers.

[Ronnie Cramer · Rating 2 out of 5]

A decent enough list of mysteries, but reading this book is like spending the afternoon on Wikipedia.

[Ian Hastings · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written, a lot of research went into it and it starts good, but 3/4 of the way through it begins to lose traction and toward the end I felt like putting it down altogether.

[Tamara · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was pretty good in terms of reading stories, but I don't think that anyone should put a whole lot of faith in the reliability of the information provided. Not only was the book absolutely riddled with typos and grammar mistakes (which come on, that is super easy to fix), but the research done is laughable. Any author who sites Wikipedia that many times isn't really trying. So as long as you read this book as a good story and not trying to find out what actually happened you might actually enjoy it. If however you are looking for solid research about these cases or other mysteries, do not get anywhere near this book.

[Bleachedblackcat · Rating 2 out of 5]

title is a little misleading

Was an enjoyable book but the title was not 100% true. Went from stories about forgotten mysteries to the story of Japanese man who had lived in the forest for decades and then story of a son whose mom had been part of a tribe. (Which btw that dad needs to be arrested holy crap marrying a 12 year old and having three kids with her what the actual fuck dude)

[j cannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting Read

wide variety of stories with no definable conclusion but lots of suuposition
& possibilities.
Well worth a summers afternoon to postulate on what might have been or could
be.

[Diane · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a book in desperate need of an editor. There are so many misspellings and grammar mistakes that it is hard to believe any of the information contained herein. It made for some okay reading on a hot summer day, however.

[Mzfitted · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting

This book is a great collections of interesting stories throughout history from POWs to Aliens. This books examine unexplained and strange stories.

[Senona Macias · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know that these are forgotten mysteries, but I would have loved to here more information on these mysteries. I felt like we needed more closure

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few of the "mysteries" had interesting information, but overall not that much new or interesting.

[Cynthia Bermudez · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is pretty interesting. We were reading for part of our wellness book club at work. Had a few very interesting stories. Not sure if I would read again though.

[Miss Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was pretty good.