num_pages: 394
description: Everyone relishes a good "strange but true" story now and again, and this book has 62 of them! These are stories of phenomena and occurrences that have completely defied conventional explanation--events that have baffled scientists, stymied detectives, and intrigued ordinary mortals for hundreds of years. Some of the stories are legendary, some have taken place in our own lifetime. Is it absolutely certain that Joan of Arc died at the stake? Did the Master of Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, murder the "Cigar Girl"? Was Tchaikovsky a murder victim? Did Union soldiers kill John Wilkes Booth in 1865, or did he die 38 years later in a lodging house in Baltimore? Was martial arts superstar Bruce Lee murdered? Did Atlantis really exist? These mysteries and many more are explored in this entertaining read.
language: English
title: Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People
publisher: Barnes & Noble