A wise person once said that the truth is stranger than fiction, and it is. For things happen in the real world that match and even exceed the weirdness of the tales brought to us by writer of fictitious tales of disbelief and horror. The accounts you will read about have no known causes, nor any known answers, thus, they are classified as "unknowns". The unknown can be incredibly frightening. It can also be incredibly interesting. The unknown is full of mysteries and mysterious people, places, things and events that we would be hard pressed to imagine ever having existed. From incredible people with incredible abilities to mysterious monsters and supernatural happenings, odd things abound in the unknown. In this book you will read about the restless dead. Corpses and coffins that had an odd habit of wondering around, and even some that came back to life! You will read of weird dwellings that have ghostly markings on them that cannot be removed, and others that oozed water, fire and even human blood! You will see that the teleportation of people, cars and planes had actually taken place. That it has come to pass on many occasions where people and planes disappeared right before the eyes of shocked onlookers. We will hear of frightening happenings like day turning to night, planes that land having been ravaged by unknown supernatural forces. We will hear about weird prehistoric artifacts that have n business even existing. In the pages ahead we will meet people who breathed fire, attracted metal like magnets, gave off electrical shocks like a live wire, who could perform great feats of strength, people with telepathy, that receive messages from the dead, read with their fingers, produce pictures on undeveloped film with their eyes, have dreams that come true to their and other benefits/tragedy, even those who seemed to have lived before and remember their past lives. We will see that people can spontaneous burst into flames and be incinerated without harming the surrounding flammable items. We will meet people who had dreams predicting great disasters with incredible accuracy and detail. As we will see, humans are not the only creatures that inhabit the unknown. We will meet animals that could predict the future, help locate dead humans from great distances by answering question. We will see encounter with strange creature that according to science do not and cannot exist but have been reported by reliable people. These include encounters and abductions by Giant Birds. Encounters with Cryptids like Sea Monster and Lake Monsters, two legged creatures of the woods, swamps known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Lizard man, and even the Jersey Devil and the Moth Man. You will even read about the all to frequent odd occurrences of showers from the sky of blood, tissue, muscles, organs, fruits, vegetables, grains, candy, bugs, fish, reptiles, amphibians, rocks and icebergs. All of these oddity will help you come to understand that that strange, unexplainable things happen quite frequently, and always to those who least expect it. These strange phenomena defy all logic, reason and all preconceived notions of scientist, researchers and every day people like you and me.
About the Author: Carmen McLaren was born and has lived in Troy, New York (the Home of Uncle Sam) for 45 years. After surviving a near fatal stroke in 2009, he decided to spends more time in pursuit of his first love, writing about all things paranormal and historical. His works about the paranormal include the 352 page UFO Conspiracy (which MUFON journal editor Roger Marsh described as a book "that could easily be incorporated as standard reading for Ufology 101 at a university level") and Real Life Science Fiction - True Accounts of Mysterious Happenings covering a multitude of weird but true happenings. His historical pieces about the unique history of his beloved hometown of Troy, New York could be read in a series of articles published by the Troy Record newspaper. Carmen is an alumnus of Union College in Schenectady, New York (Cum Laude 1993), Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York (High Honors Graduate 1990) and a proud "Brother's Boy" having graduated from the Christian Brother/US Army JROTC run La Salle institute in Troy, New York in 1987.