Unsolved: Exploring the World's Strangest Mysteries

by John Pinkney

Genres: Paranormal, Mystery, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Supernatural

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

JOHN PINKNEY is a bestselling Australian author, screenwriter and journalist.

*His newest ebook is the novel Grave Injustice: An Afterlife Odyssey.

This dark, pacy science fiction thriller draws on John's career-long research into the paranormal - and the strange phenomena that may occur beyond the barriers of death.
Over the years, he has spoken to numerous people who clinically died and were then resuscitated - returning to describe landscapes and events of breathtaking beauty. The testimonies of these returnees from the brink inspired John to write Grave Injustice.
The narrative extends far beyond NDEs (near-death experiences.) It's set in Sydney and tropical Queensland; describing human love, courage and sacrifice, both earthly and transcendental.
Ranged against the young lovers are a corporate cell of scientifically accomplished soul-thieves,who draw their ideas from Dante's nine circles of Hell.
Terrifyingly, the novel portrays brutal conflict between good and evil. And it's hard, for a host of reasons, to predict which will prevail.


John Pinkney's other ebooks include Haunted: the Ghosts that Share Our World...Australia's Strangest Mysteries #1 and #2...A Paranormal File: An Australian Investigator's Casebook...The Mary Celeste Syndrome...Alien Airships Over Old America...Thirst: an Inheritance of Evil...The Girl Who Touched Infinity...The Key and the Fountain.
John's original screenplay Thirst, directed by Rod Hardy and produced by Anthony I. Ginnane won Best Horror
Film prize at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. His 3-act drama, The Face in the Mirror, was co-awarded Best Stage Play in the General Motors/Elizabethan Theatre Trust competition.
He has written several hundred drama episodes for TV - and his paperbooks, including such titles as Great Australian Mysteries 1 & 2, Haunted, Unexplained and Unsolved have been numerously reprinted. His 3-volume Mazeworld series has appeared in USA and UK and in translation through Europe. His logic puzzle books Think!, Think Again! and Wordgames have also been published internationally.
For many years John was a prominent writer with Australia's Age newspaper, subsequently moving his column, Pinkney Place to Rupert Murdoch's national daily The Australian. Here he covered the century's most extraordinary UFO case: the disappearance without trace of young pilot Frederick Valentich, after radioing Flight Services that he was being 'orbited' by a gigantic craft. [full story and photographs are in A Paranormal File.]
John has had a lifelong interest in the unsolved and unexplained. His fascination with the unknown took its most practical form when, with lawyer-friend Peter Norris, he co-founded the organization known today as VUFORS - the Victorian UFO Research Society. John and Peter collaborated to host the weekly radio series The Truth Behind UFOs and Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Over the years John Pinkney's broadcasts and columns have attracted a large mail from listeners and readers describing their brushes with the bizarre. Readers of his books continue the input.

Reviews

[Alayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was interesting and I would have given it 3 and a half stars if I could. Some fascinating stories which couldn't be explained, like spontaneous human combustion or foretelling events in the future. Worth reading if you are interested in scientifically inexplicable phenomena.

[Keybo Taheri · Rating 2 out of 5]

got sick of it donated it got too trashy with the alien and ghost stuff. I have read other books by same Australian author that were good so it just makes 2 stars imo.

[Leighah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that a lot of the stories were ones I hadnt heard of before

[Bridget · Rating 2 out of 5]

eh. interesting but not captivating.

[Tina Hall · Rating 3 out of 5]

a few that I had not heard of.

[Kirsti · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book filled with stories of unsolved mysteries. The Author deals with the subject matter expertly; there were times I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise and I would nervously turn to make sure there was nothing behind me. Most of the stories are things I've heard about before, but that is simply because I've always had a love for these kinds of books. It is a love my father passed on, there was always books about mysteries, especially Australian ones, around the house. They make for good conversation too, tales of ghosts especially.

Set out with small stories, first hand accounts and wonderfully described, this book is a delight for fans of the mysterious!

[Kassy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was reading this book as something to pass the time, and while it certainly did that, sometimes I found myself a little bored with how the 'stories' were structured out. I am not saying I did not find the book interesting, I certainly did. I just felt at times it seemed to kind of 'flag out'. But having said that, I think you should decide for yourself if you want to read this book, it does have a great line up of strange unsolved events, and is highly likely to get many minds thinking and exploring the greater possibilities of the world and the universe.

[Jacqui · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some truly interesting and unexplained phenomenon. If you believe in fate, aliens or clairvoyants this book is for you. It's almost too good to be true.

[Robbie Sellars · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plenty of weird mysteries to get you thinking. Mostly very short stories. Got a bit bogged down in alien stories for a while, but in general a thought provoking and enjoyable read.