Loch Ness, The Marie Celeste and the Chase Vault
If you like spine-tingling mysteries and chilling tales of terror!!! then this may, or may not be the right book for you. It’s called Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World’s Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved.
I wouldn’t necessarily say solved. Or at least not all of them. But the approach Albert Jack has taken in these cases has been what I would describe as the perfect fortean approach. He has begun from the starting point that these are mysteries (instead of the “what a load of nonsense! I’m not wasting my time with this” line which in itself isn’t particularly scientific in approach), attempted to find out more about them, and then where possible has provided a sensible, rational explanation for them.
For me, this is where the fun lies. It’s like a great detective story, trying to puzzle out what actually happened to these things you’ve vaguely half-heard about.
In some cases, such as the Chase Vault story, he has been unable to find a rational explanation that seems feasible. In which case he’s come down on the ‘unsolved’ side, rather than assuming supernatural forces have been at work (But have they? Whoooo! There’s also the theory that the whole thing was a Masonic hoax). He’s been only too happy to debunk the Bermuda triangle, you can probably guess his conclusions on Nessie (found in the chapter “The Great Loch Ness Con Trick”), but he comes up with the best — by which I mean sensible and practical — conclusion to the real Mary Celeste mystery (as opposed to the Marie Celeste which was the name of the boat in the fictionalised account of the tale which added a lot of things).
With around 30 mysteries detailed, including many quirky stories I’d never heard before, such as that of D. B. Cooper, all in nice short chapters, this is the ideal ‘toilet book’ stocking filler. I’m presuming you all know — or can work out — what I mean by that, but for anyone who’s missed the idea, let’s just say you could read the book in a series of visits…
…it’s not to expensive, it’s a little bit different, and best of all, you can probably get it for less that a cooking reminder magnet would cost you.
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HI i find what you’ve written interesting, but the part about the Marie Celeste is not true, it is a real ship, and is usually thought to be the Mary Celeste, only the mary celeste is said to still float about today awaiting another crew while the Marie Celeste sunk to the bottom of the sea near the coast of portarico.
good work thou.
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