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Have you
ever seen a ghost? If you haven't-hold onto your seat! Do
you want to be baffled, bewildered and befuddled? Here you'll find
mysteries that have perplexed people for centuries and may never be
solved-strange tales of odd animals and monsters, incredible miracles,
peculiar appearances and unexplained disappearances. Are your nerves strong
enough? Read on and find out. Amazing?
Yes! In-Flight
Disaster In January
1969, a squadron of ducks, flying over the country of St. Marys,
Maryland, appeared to crash into an invisible barrier. No one
heard or saw the strange accident, but hundreds of birds fell to the
ground. They had suffered broken bones and extensive
bleeding. Examination of the dead birds proved that these injuries
had been caused before the birds hit the ground. They must have
hit something in mid-air--but what? R-Rated
Ghost The Cauld
(Cold) Lad is the ghost of Hylton Castle in England. Thought to be
the ghost of stable boy who was killed in the castle, he is rather an
unusual phantom-he appears naked! Horse in
the Lake Patrick
Canning was standing on the shore of Lake Shanakeever in County Galway,
Ireland, one day in 1955. He saw a white horse on the shore and
walked towards it to take a closer look. The horse seemed to have
an unusually long neck, but apart from that it seemed ordinary. As
he approached, the creature plunged into the lake and disappeared
beneath the surface. several other people have seen a white
horse plunging into Lake Shanakeever, and no one has ever explained
these mysterious occurrences. The
Haunted Elevator In 1969,
the elevator in a large hotel in Wales began to move by itself. It
would rise from the ground floor and go up to the second floor. At
first, repairmen thought it must have been an electrical fault, but when
the electricity was tuned off the lift still moved! it even moved
when the cables had been cut! Falling
Frogs Early one
morning in May 1981, the inhabitants of the village of Narplion in
southern Greece were surprised to see frogs falling from the sky.
thusands of small African frogs rained down on the village and their
croaking drove the villagers to distraction. Meteorologist in
Athens explained the shower of frogs by saying that they must have been
sucked up from African marshes by a whirlwind that carried them across
the sea to Greece. This was not the only occasion that Greece
experienced a strange rainfall. In 200 A.D. it rained fish for
three days! The
Siamese Werewolf In 1960,
Harold M. Young, owner of the Chiengmai Zoo in Thailand, was hunting in
the Lahu Mountains when he heard there was a taw-a Siamese werewolf--in
the local village. he had heard stories of taws in the past, but
this was the closest he had ever come to seeing one. On night,
a scream was heard in one of the village huts. Mr. Young ran to
the hut. Inside, He saw a strange wolf-like animal gnawing at the
neck of one of the villagers. He fired at the beast, but only
managed to graze the side of its body. The creature fled into the
jungle. next
morning, Young took some of the villagers with him to follow the trail
of blood left by the wounded beast. They tracked it into the
jungle and then, much to their surprise, back into the village once
again. The trail of blood led them to a hut where they found a man
lying wounded-with a bullet in his side. Grey Man
of Macdhui At least two people are
said to have died of fright when they encountered the "Grey Man of
Macdhui." The appearance of this specter on the highest
mountain in the Cairngorms in Scotland is often accompanied by the sound
of pounding hooves. he sometimes shouts at people in a loud and
terrifying voice and chases people who run away from him. Footprints on the Ice In 1924 James Rennie and a
French Canadian trapper were out hunting when they noticed strange
footprints on a frozen lake. The trapper warned Rennie of
impending danger; he was convinced that the footprints belonged to the
Wyndygo, a monster said to live in the Himalayan Mountains Rennie paid no attention
to the trapper's warnings and began to cross the frozen lake. he
was about half a mile from shore when new footprints began to
appear. Something invisible seemed to be moving towards Rennie
over the frozen lake. The tracks were getting closer and closer,
but there was not a creature in sight! Soon the footprints reached
Rennie. Suddenly, he was hit in the face by a cold splash of
water. Then the tracks continued their strange journey across the
lake. Cast the Lead, Sir! In the early years of this
century, a sailor on the ship HMS Society was drowned. A few
nights later the captain was woken up by the sailor's ghost.
"Cast the lead, sir!" said the apparition. Then it
vanished. When the captain did as he
had been instructed, he found that his shop was off course and sailing
in only 36 feet of water! The ghost's warning had prevented the
shop from running aground. Guardian of the Bomber In 1977, the Lincoln
bomber RF398 was taken to the RAF Aerospace Museum hangar for
repairs. It was not long before the men working on the plane began
seeing a mysterious airman. He was always either in the hangar or
standing on the wing of the plane, dressed in a leather jacket and white
polo-necked sweater--a style popular with early aviators. They
knew that he wasn't a member of the crew or the administration and no
one ever was able to get close enough to speak with him. After a while, the men
came to the conclusion that the airman was a phantom who was protecting
both the plane and the men who were working on it. One engineer
fell backwards from the wing 15 feet onto the concrete floor - but was
completely uninjured. Another man walked into the sharp edge of a
propeller and was also unhurt. Strange whistling was heard, and on
a cold day, when there were icicles hanging from the roof, it was so
cozy inside the plane that the men didn't even have to wear coats.
The repairmen never discovered who their strange protector had been, but
they were glad he was there, all the same. Footprint in Blood On Christmas Eve,
1684, William Blatt's family was at home in Yorkshire, England, when they
saw William walking up the staircase towards the main bedroom. They
were surprised, because William Blatt was supposed to be in London at the
time. Blatt's wife and children
ran after him, but when they got to the top of the staircase, there was no
one there. All that could be seen was a single footprint on the
floor--it was of fresh blood! William Ballt had, in fact, been
cruelly murdered that very evening--in London. The Haunted Bolero For the play, The Queen Came
By, at the Duke of York Theatre in London, actress Thora Hird had to wear
a long dress topped with an embroidered velvet bolero jacket.
Whenever she wore it, however, she experienced a choking sensation.
Her understudy underwent the same sensation when she wore it, as did the
stage manager and the director's wife. The jacket proved to be
quite a problem. Three mediums were called in, but to no
avail. Three member of the cast were asked to try the jacket on, and
two of them felt as if they were being choked by it too. After some research into the
history of the jacket, a Victorian original, it was discovered that the
owner had been throttled to death by her lover while wearing it. She
had hunted the garment ever since. Killer Bus In the spring of 1933 a man
was driving along St. Mark's Road in London, when he saw a double-decker
bus careening towards him. It was too late to avoid a collision--the
bus had appeared from nowhere and all the car driver could do was to slam
on his brakes and await the impact. But nothing happened. When
the driver opened his eyes, the bus was nowhere in sight! That was not the first time
the mysterious bus was sighted. On one occasion, a driver swerved to
avoid a bus that was out of control and actually crashed his car into one
of the houses on the street. But when he turned back to look again,
the bus had disappeared. Several other sightings of
the ghost bus were reported and a number of accidents occurred on the same
street. Luckily, none of the drivers were seriously injured--until
Monday, June 11, 1933, when two cars crashed head-on, killing one of the
drivers. After this fatal accident, the ghost bus disappeared
forever--perhaps satisfied that it had claimed at least one victim. All stories
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