Reddit reviews Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: Stories That are Bizarre, Unusual, Odd, Astonishing, and Often Incredible
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It's probably showing some age now, but when I was a kid I loved Strange Stories, Amazing Facts. It's very much a "general mysteries of the world" book, it has short, accessible articles about subjects like the Voynicht Manuscript and supposed ghost hauntings, with lots of pictures. Nothing overly gory or violent but I think there might be a Renaissance nude painting or sculpture or two in it.
It depends on what "theory" you go with.
There's the attachment angle, but...More interesting to me personally is the idea some have advanced that "ghosts" are just some kind of echo or imprint from traumatic events.
Remember a story from one of my favorite books when I was a kid, Reader's Digest's Strange Stories, Amazing Facts about two women vacationing on the beach at Dieppe, France in 1951 who were awoken by the sounds of gunfire and men shouting.
They kept a journal, noting time and what they were hearing. Reader's Digest printed that journal side-by-side with the official timeline of the 1942 raid on Dieppe (official account was still classified in 1951). Kinda amazing how what the women heard synced with what actually was taking place during the same time span in 1942.
My grandfather had that book. I also absolutely loved it so he let me have it. Then one day in middle school I stupidly let a cute boy borrow it and he never returned it. I recently got it as a gift from a friend https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0895770288/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_23?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3W7UPGV208J4
Strange Stories, Amazing Facts?
does it have to be fiction? i love Strange Stories and Amazing facts. it's full of myths, tales of religious visions and creepy stories of devils. it has EVERYTHING you mention he likes. i poured over as a kid and i still enjoy re-reading it now. it was published in 1981 so it's a little outdated (like the science section) and it's out of print so you'd have to buy it used but i still think it's worth it.