Explores the intriguing mysteries of the sea: How were the seas formed? What gave rise to stories of mermaids, sirens, and sea monsters?

This “fast-paced, thoughtful true-crime” examines the cultural shifts of Jazz Age America through a beautiful dancer’s mysterious and scandalous death (Kirkus, starred review). In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the dancer’s barely clad body washed up on Torrey Pines beach, her party dress and possessions strewn about the sand. The scene baffled investigators, and abotched autopsy created more questions than it answered. However, the investigation revealed a scandalous secret. When a Hollywood A-lister was arrested for Fritzie’s murder, it led to the most sensational trial in San Diego’s history. Set against the backdrop of yellow journalism, Prohibition Era corruption, and a lively culture war, Mystery At The Blue Sea Cottage tells the intriguing story of a beautiful dancer, a playboy actor, a debonair doctor, and a tragic mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

Describes the history behind the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, and presents three stories in graphic novel format which illustrate true and mysterious circumstances involving ships and planes in the Triangle.

Conspiracy theories of sabotage, murder and even UFOs flourish around the greatest unsolved mysteries of aviation from the twentieth century. This account of the most intriguing loose ends from aeronautical history provides the known details of five great mysteries and the best (and most colourful) attempts to explain what might have happened. Planes disappearing out of the sky, shady dealings with Sri-Lankan businessmen, the plummeting death of the richest man in the world in 1928 and even the Kennedy family all feature in these gripping open cases. Having previously written about the Dyatlov Pass Incident and cast his detail-oriented eye over many other aviation mishaps, Keith McCloskey now turns his attention to reassessing these five mysteries –all of which occurred over water, none of them ever resolved.

In this captivating collection of stories, you are taken on a journey through the shadowy corridors of history's most perplexing mysteries. "The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries" travels the earth and spans the decades, exploring cases that have puzzled experts and mystery enthusiasts alike. Delve into the curious case of the Circleville Letters, where an entire town was gripped by fear of an unseen menace, ponder over what really happened at Area 51, and read about the haunting disappearance of the Yuba County Five, a case that defies all logical explanation. Each story is meticulously crafted, inviting readers to ponder the endless possibilities that lie just beyond the edge of the known world. Prepare to be enthralled by these tales of mystery, where history, science, and legend intertwine, creating a tapestry of the unexplained. "The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries" calls you to lose yourself in a world where the line between the known and the unknown blurs, and draws you into mysteries that have captivated minds and sparked debates for decades. The fascinating stories in this book include: The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Jack the Ripper The Voynich Manuscript The Bermuda Triangle The Dyatlov Pass Incident The Tunguska Event The Disappearance of Flight MH370 Leonardo da Vinci, the Knights Templar, and the Priory of Sion The Nazca Lines The Fate of the Roanoke Colony The Shroud of Turin The Zodiac Killer The Wow! Signal Stonehenge The Lost Colony of Paititi The Rongorongo Writing of Easter Island The Oak Island Enigma Hollywood's Dark Rose The Loch Ness Monster The Lost City of Atlantis The Location of Cleopatra's Tomb The Tale of the Smalls Lighthouse Dark Matter and Dark Energy The Taos Hum D.B. Cooper The Isdal Woman UFO Sightings The Easter Island Statues The Fate of the Roman Ninth Legion The Man in the Iron Mask The Beale Ciphers The Mary Celeste The Pioneer Anomaly The Hessdalen Lights The Placebo Effect Animal Mass Die-Offs The Mothman The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe The Bell Witch The Chupacabra The Tamam Shud Case The Authorship of Shakespeare's Works The Scream Painting Theft The Secret of Rennes-le-Château The Disappearance of the Amber Room The Princes in the Tower The Sea Peoples The Disappearance of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers

From the bestselling author of THE OUTSIDER Is the Shroud of Turin a holy relic or a clever fake? What was the coded message that made a poor French priest a millionaire, and does it prove that the crucifixion was a fraud? And what lies at the bottom of the 200-foot shaft on Oak Island, Newfoundland, where two centuries of digging have yet to unearth the buried treasure that must be there? In THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, Colin Wilson presents an astonishing variety of unsolved riddles and enduring enigmas to prove that our everyday world is stranger than we believe, wilder than we can imagine. Ranging in content from Atlantis to the Bermuda Triangle and from Kaspar Hauser to the identity of Shakespeare, Colin Wilson's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNSOLVED MYSTERIES is a comprehensive examination of the most baffling mysteries of our time.