Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: Stories That are Bizarre, Unusual, Odd, Astonishing, and Often Incredible [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1981

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Readers Digest (July 1, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895770288
• ISBN-13: 978-0895770288
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #100 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Controversial Knowledge

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best collections I've ever read of the Unusual, March 3, 2005

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Sara Leah Miller (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: Stories That are Bizarre, Unusual, Odd, Astonishing, and Often Incredible (Hardcover)

I found this book for the first time when I was 8 years old. My family had moved into the house of my father's godmother. I was an avid reader, and searching through her masses of books I found Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, with it's red cover and pages full of surprise and adventure. From trying to decipher the mysteries of the most haunted house in the world to traveling through the jungles to discover Angkor Watt, this book to me on a journey of imagination. I loaned the book several years ago to a young friend whom I thought could use the adventure. I'm glad to be able to buy it for myself again.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Story Topics For All Interests, June 28, 2002

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J.HOT (Glen Alpine, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: Stories That are Bizarre, Unusual, Odd, Astonishing, and Often Incredible (Hardcover)

Every person who likes to read will enjoy this book. In the section about animals, there is an article about how extinct species can be brought back. They brought the Tarpan horse back by cross-breeding certain types of horses from all over the world. There's a story about freezing humans with diseases to bring them back to life in the future when a cure is found. This was written almost 30 years ago, and this still has not been mastered in our time. There's stories of hauntings, and unexplained events. It's a book with a bunch of short stories grouped in sections. Excellent reading.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, January 19, 2012

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Dobbinsmommy (Missouri, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: Stories That are Bizarre, Unusual, Odd, Astonishing, and Often Incredible (Hardcover)

I bought a used copy of this book many years ago. It has a special place on my coffee table so that I can pick it up for research. I write children's stories and find it very informative... full of great tidbits! There is something of interest for everyone in this book.
Amazon has my first children's history book The Imaginary Journeys of BJ and Dobbin.