World Atlas of Mysteries Hardcover – February 1, 1978

I bought this copy to replace an older edition that collapsed. Watch Ancient Aliens o the History channel and you'll find that many of their subjects are covered in this volume, some with materials the TV production ignored.

Lots of absolute gems of information for the macabre and obscure thinkers

I've been hunting for a decent copy of this book since childhood, as this was a book I used to regularly sneak off with when visiting my two uncles (who were huge fans of the paranormal)."The World Atlas of Mysteries" by Francis Hitching was my go-to book long before Arthur C. Clarke did his TV series / book treatment, covering a lot of the same ground such as UFOs, spontaneous human combustion, Bigfoot, ancient weird artefacts etc.It's that rare beast, something that almost feels like an academic text on subjects that belong way outside academia. Written with an authoritative but never dry or unexciting voice, it's still as amazing re-reading this as it was initially discovering it nestling in a book case all those years ago.Well worth hunting down if you love this type of stuff, or just want a good old fashioned book about strange phenomena.