Other Worlds machine eisappesring into the sky. ALE the am that piece of ground were dese. He sano th nw WY bere lot into ae miss whas are you thinking? Dv you eticve shat there are other worlds owt there? Is there life i these warlds? Is it like fe on Earth? © What's out there? Space is perhaps the most exciting mystery ~ che lst big adventure ‘Governments have spent millions of pounds trying to discover its secrets So are the stories of aliens and UFOs «ruc? There have been thousands of reports from ondinary people. But space cravellers say that they have also seen UFOs, When Ape rst famous landis 21 uly 1969, c. Neil Armstrong and B saw ‘wo very larg bright lights. "They are watching, us Armstrong reported. This information was kept secret for y y- more reports of UFOs from the moon on et Aldrin S government. But there have been man crs and piloce of aeroplanes. Have UFOs and aliens visited Earth? Many people say thar they have scen n. Some people have taken photographs. Here are same of their stories hing, perhaps # person, fren another wor tous thing in the sy. perhaps fying to Earth fram another wertMywonics of he Une abnea © Mysterious visitors Socorro, New Mexico, US, 1964 Policeman Lonnie Zamora was driving homie svhen he saw a five inthe hills, Wa it a-car accident? Ashe drove nearee, he saw a barge, egg shaped ‘machine’ about five metres lang. It had four legs and no windows or doors. Two very short ‘men’ were standing by it, Zamora knew they weren't from Earth, The machine suddenly made a loud noise and left the ground. Fire poured from it, I stayed silently in the air for a few minures. Then it disappeared into the sky. When more polisemen arrived, Zamatas face was white wich feat, Troes in the afea were burning and che ground looked! strange — like glass. ‘There were four holes in the ground from the Four legs. UFO experts believe Zamora story. He was usually a very calm person, There were also other reports of « strange thing of this description in che sky that ni Valensole, France, 1965 Farmer Maurice Masse saw ewo very shore, strange ‘men’ in his ficld. They were itanding by a strange-looking machine. When he came closes, they pointed a long stick at him, A light came from it, chrowing hies tw the ground. He couldn't move. After same time he was able to-sit up. He saw the machine disappearing. into the sky. All the plants on that picce af ground were dead, ‘Afrer cis, Masse felt very tired for weeks, When UFO experts asked him, questions, they showed hien a painting ofa UFO, His face went white. “Where did you see my machine2” he asked. It was « painting of the UPO that policeman ‘Zamora saw the year before in New Mexico. The green children In che 110044 boy and a girl were found near the village of Woolpit ie England, ‘They were completely green. hey didait know where they were. They didn't speak the local language and only ate green vegetables. The boy soen died, but the girl began to cat the local food and lost her green colour. She learnt the language and talked abour her life In her world, all the people were groen. One lay, the sun became very beight and the air temperature changed, She and her bother fell asleep and then woke up in this new place. ‘expert ekspact fn) someane who knows # lot about a subject(hagees# Oho Wine © Roswell The Roswell crash happened many years age, but it is still one of the mast importance and famous of the UFO stories. People starred 10 ask questions: Have aliens really landed on Earth? Are governments hiding important information from ust Roswell began the great interest in UFOs, Hundreds of books ancl Famous films like The X-A5les have followed, Roswell isa town in the US state of New Mexico. Ie was just another small, unimportant town until July 1947. A farmet, William (Mac’) Brazel, was chocking his fickls afer a terrible storm and found many pieces of metal. He thought they were from a plane crash. So he reported the crash to the police. He also took some of the metal for them 10 look at, The police passed the information to the military. They tested the metal and made a discovery: They couldnt becak it or bun it, There wa so steangs writing on ic in a lang could understand, They decided that the metal wasn't from Earth, In their op was from a UFO. ‘The military then reported the UPO crash to the local radio seation., People were very interes area. The newspapers quickly printed ing sory and saon people everywhere knew about Roswell the military 102 “ula dniad) the people ta country who fight in wartime; mitary planer sre used for warMyaterie al she Uncapliina! But afier a few weeks, che milizary’s repoce changed, The meral in the ficld (wasnt from a UFO it was from a military plane, They immediately closed the aca, but chey continued to take chinps away. For many years alter this, che US government refused co say anything about the crash, In 1994, the military told a new story. The picees of metal weren't pants of 1 military plane, They came from special equipment for spying on the Soviet lUsion. Many penple don't helicve this scory: They think chat the goverument ing impartane information abour UFOs from us, ‘There have been many ‘tories about small aliens who were found in che area arovind the eeash in 1947 In 1995, che milicary showed a film frora the time fe was an examination of the body of a small alien orlier people dort believe chat chis is true Tor years, cxperts have trict co find out what really happened at Roswell. Buc ‘many imporrant government jrapers have disappeared, sa we will probably newer {now the uue story, ta hy military dciurs, B '® They took us away! ‘There hane been shuusande of reports of aliens taking people anso UFOs. Ave ‘hese stories true? Were the people dreaming? UFO experts believe some of the tories,c= Grher ede + In. 1961, Berry and Barney Hill were driving from Canada to New Hampshire, in she US, whem they savea light in the sey. Ir followed them until they stopped. They saw a large, yellove thing. Through a window, tey could sce serange ‘people’ inside, Mrs Hill was frightened, se het husband scarred driving agin, Then they sucldenly fale wery cise ‘The Hills woke up an hour later in a differenr pla filfey-six kilometres: away. How did they ger there? What happened in the missing hour? ‘arer, they had terrible dreams about aliens, so they (old gheir story eo the military, Doctors asked them questions. Slowly they: began to remember what happened. They were taken onta che UFO hy aliens. Alien ‘actors examined chem. ‘They also gave th dlifferene sears. Seientises ageesd thar = In 1975, Travis Wakou was working. with other men ina they saw a UFO. A gecen light pulled Travis up ino the UFO. Ie then disappeared, When Travis was fovnd five days liter, he couldn remember mything. He was much chinser aed hip arm was cut: in Navember 1989, a woman phoned the police with a strange report. Aliems were flying wich a woman in the sky.'I hen: two New Yark policemen reparred che same thing! They saw a woman ‘flying’ out ofa twelfth foot window: Theze were Title people’ flying around hes. The aliens cook her up into a UFO. The UFO chen quickly flew away: formation about che position of )ferntation was correct, 3Strange Disappearances They found an empty ship! Food. equipowens and coshes were al still here ~ bu we people, ‘nespltined disappedrancer arent mews All over the wartd. people or things have disappeared for no reason. We sill dows kmow why, © The Bermuda Triangle he Bermuda Triangle is an area of the Atlantic Ooean near the coast of Florida, ‘inthe US, This atea is famous for the disappearance of hundreds of ships and. pplanes, Stories like the two below have given experts some information about his mystery. * On 5 December 1945, five milicary planes were fying near the coast of Florida, Suddenly, the pilots didnt know where they were, One of the pilots phoned with these-words: "We seem ro be lost .. Everything is wrong... We can't be sure of anything... Our equipmenc has stopped working .. Even the ocean doesnt look right "Then the phone went dead, The planes were never seen again. More than 2 hundeed ships searched for them, bur they were never found‘Chapser 2 = Seog Dipper +a 1 June 1986, Marein Caidin was flying in good weather through a clear blue sky. Suddenly, che sky around che plane became very cloudy. Then it changed tw beighe yellow: Ie was so bright thar Caidin couldnt sec. His equipmecar ‘went crazy’ and stopped working. Above the plane, there was a hole and he could see blue sky through it. Below the plane, there was another hoke, He could see the ‘ocean at the end of it Caidin stayed calm and flow the plane for four hours. ‘When he Finally pot back into blue sky, the plane's equipmenc immediately stared working again, He looked back but he conld only see cleae blue sky. Many ships have also disappeared in the Bermud Triangle. People have tried to-explain this mystery, bur they have different opinions: = It is the perfecs place for alien activity. ~ The lose city of Adlancis pulls these ships andl planes dawn under the sea. — The weather is unusual there. ~ These ‘strange’ disappearances are ordinary accidenes, Bos if these disappearances are ordinary, why haven't searchers ever found any pieces of the planes and ships? Wy does equipment stap workdng? Why dacs the sky change eolour? (© The Mary Celeste. The Ghost Ship” ‘One of the strangest mysteries of the sea isthe disappearance of the people com the ship, the Mery Celeste, The ship lef New York on 7 November 1872. Benjamin Spooner Briggs and his faenily, anc seven odlacs men, were sailing 0 Genoa. in ely.Myer the Unexpina A British ship, the Dei Gnania, also left New York on that day: On 5 December; the Dei Grav sailed near the Mary Celeste. Was che ship having, problems? Same of the men fom the [ei Ginatia went on the Matry Celeste to find out, They found an empty ship! Food, equipment and coches were all sill there ~ bur no people. The men found Briggs’ notebook. Nothing strange was written in it, but there was no writing after 25 November, ‘Where was everyone? Why did they leave? Perhaps the other men killed Briggs. Pethaps a sea monster actacked the ship, or there was a terrible storm. why dd the ship look so tidy? People have tried to explain this mystery for over a hundred years. © Ordinary people Here are some Famous old stories of ardinary pesple who disappeared. Why did they disappear Where did they go? No one bts been able so answer these questions David Lang ‘On 23 September 1880, David Lang. a farmer, disappeared ia front of his family and fricnds. He was walking across a Geld eowands them waving ‘hello’. ‘Suddenly, he was gone, The area was searched for months bur nothing, was found, The family were very frigheened. Buc Mrs Lang refused to: move her family away until her husband was found. Seven months lace, while che was playing, theic daughuer heard her father cerying for help. She found a circle of dead grass in the place where he was seen for the last time, She screamed for her mother and Mrs Lang ran to her sdaughtct, She saw the circle of dead grass, but she couldn't hear her husband. ‘This frightened her again, and she moved her family to another town, The Vaughan children Is 1906, three young children disappeared while they were playing in a fickd near their home: Searches quickly began, but alter three days the children were suill missing: On the morning of the fourth day, a farm worker found them lying asleep on the ground, The children were clean, and they weren't hungry or frightened, but they didnt remember anything. They were very surprised that everyone was looking fae them, They could only remember waking up. For the rest of their lives, the children didnt know what happened to them during those cree days. monster mest! nha ange, oki Whang arimat 10CHAPTE o Mysterious Monsters The west morning, he ktwo kang frotprints ia the ino They were shirsysfice centimetres long and exghicen censimetres wide here are many strange living things om land and in the sea that ae sill a smystery. Sone of thean seem ia come from another time. Some arent ofien seen or photographed. But enongh people say that they burwe seen them, As a result, we want to find out more. ‘@ The Loch Ness monster fesie, the Loch Ness monster, is probably the mest famous lake monster in the world, ‘There ate Well-ksown lake monsters ia Canada, the US, Sweden, Norway, Teeland and other countries. But ‘Nessie feels like part of the family any of us because we have own about her far so long. “The first description of a monster in Loch Ness, Soorand, was mace than 400 yeurs ago. There have been many reports since then. Same of these have been honest mistakes, But ‘sometimes people have Ficd to make money fram the Nessie story: No-one has proved that « imanster really lives in Lack Ness, But some people have taken good photographs, Experts and ordinary poople have watched the lake for years. They are still trying to-explain the mystery. Many tourists come each year to tty 10 see the monster. “Nessie watcher travel to Scotland eo look for her. Since 1930, mare than 3,000 people have reported secing the Loch Ness monster. ‘The first newspaper story about Nessie was in 1933. Mrs Mackay was driving along the lake when she saw someching moving in the waver. Ik was a very large, black animal and i was moving wp and down, Her report gave a lot of information.Morin the Wacplane ‘Thea, in 19344, De Kenneth Wilson tool one af the mast fumous black and white phorographs of Nessie. There wasnt a better photograph tntil 1977. In that year, Doc Shiels took some colour phocographs of the monster while he ‘was on holiday. Some of these photos were lost or destroyed. This has often happened. People have broken or lost their cameras ~ and sometimes important photographs, coo! It’s part of dhe mystery. ‘Many sciemtiss agree that there is ‘some kind of living thing’ in the lake. This ‘thing’ is very large and has a lang neck. But no one has proved yet that a monster lives in Loch New. ® Don't go in the water! ‘You arc lying on a beautiful beach, looking ac the lovely blue water .. But whae is under the warer, deep down in that terrible black world? Some people feel that sea monsters are the most frightening ofall monsters. In Herman Metville’s book Moby Dick, a fisherman fought a long, bloody war with a terrible whale. When Steven Spiciberg’ film Jaaes was first shown, people of all ages screamed in Ginemas around che world. Bur sea monsters arcnt only in films and books, People have discovered ‘real! monsters in the seas and oceans. These are often more frightening than a monster from a story, Giant squid “The idea of a giant squid is very frightening. but people have seen them, A US miliary ship was sailing near Newfoundland, Canadi, when suddenly a very lange whae juenped out of che waccr, It was fighting wich a giant squid. The ‘whale looked about cightcen metres long, but the squid was trying, to kill i with its long arms. The squid was as big as the whale! The men on the ship were very frightened. They didnt wane to get close cnough to take phosographs. Thee giant squid are true monsters. Fe still isnt understood why chey grow so Large. The "Globster™ This is probably the most unusual monster. Ia November 1922, people on a beach in South Africa watched cwo whales fighting with a sea monster. The fight conitinued for hours. The monster sometimes jumped six metres out of the water and hit the whales with its tail. The whales won the fight and swam away. whale we én) voy large anima that swims ny the sea: takes in air heough a hole on the top of itshead fant tsaant ac) very. very large ‘pid sk I 300 animal witha long, sott body and ter arm aChapiet 3~ Myson, “The dead monster was then pushed onto the beach by che waeer, People couldn't believe shar they saw Ir was a very large, shapeless thing, with a long neck and no head! Ie was fourteen metres long, three mewes wide and one and a half ‘metres high. No expert could name the anienal. Many people, oftcn fishermen, have reported secing these large, ugly monsters. (© Monsters that walk the Earth ‘There are monsters in mountains and wild arcas. Many people have seen monsters in China, Nepal, Russia, North America and other places thar are ‘half man and half animal’. No-one hax ever caught one. Here are the (wo most famous af these monsters. The Yert “Yeti! have walked in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and China for hundreds of years, Reports from climbers in the Himalayan mountains have described them as very tall — nearly three metres, A ‘Yeti stands like a man and bas hair all over its body. ‘tis dangerous and can attack people. Most people have scen signs of the Yer in de stiow, These have the shape of a man’s foor but are very lange. They scant be the feet of an animal. “The most famous report came from Don Whillans, a British climber, in 1970. In the mouncains of Nepal, he watched a Yeti playing in the snow by the light of the moon for about ewenty minutes. The next moming, he saw lange footprint in the snow. They were thirty-five centimetres long and cighteen centimetres wide. Bigfoor “Bigfoor’ is the American Yeu". The Native Americans" first sw the monster and named it Saxpaatch, Reports of Bigfoot havc continucd since the early 1900s, Descriptions are similar vo descriptions of the Ye ‘The most frightening story came from Albert Ostman, a Canadian, in 1924. A large, steange- looking animal picked him up and carried him for three hours. * Nitive American the firs people in North America, befire Eamopeanaatrve 3Ancient Worlds ne the yrtr ened, fr be Bue of the twomey sade chet! tare learmivg about new mysteries every day. There ave reparts of alien Activity, range new ‘monsters: unexplained stories in medicine, range dtetivity i space, I seems that the number of mysteries is growing. Or are we just more inserested? Examples of mysteries come from the early day of our life ‘ou earth © How did they do it? Stoncherege Stoncheng nthe UK, is different fro anything ofits kind in E 5,000 years. it is still standing. Bur wh la giant computer to make predic stars? This Ms stones were brought fi Kkilomettes away, £0 1,500 men had to work rope. After was it buile? Was Stonehenge used like the position of the sun, moon and the most popular opinion ‘was it built? Many of dhe heav every day for over five years. in one (predict evi! (uh 10 say thet Sermath ing mill happenpee 4 Ascene Wide experts opinion. The very large top stones fit into the smaller standing stones. This needed cools and skills thar people didn’t have at that time. Experts agrce that a higher intelligence was needed. So who built Stonehenge? No ane knows, For this reason, it is still ane of the wo The Baster Island statues ‘The island of Rapa Nui, in the Pacific Ocean, was named Easter Island when it was ‘discovered’ by Europeans on Easter Day i It is farnonis for ower 800 stone statues, called maai, The peatues are between one and ten mets tall and have similar faces, They stand by the sea, facing the land, Why did che people of Easter Island build chem? Some experts think thar the statues were the “homes af ghosts of people from the island's past. "The ghasts looked chrough the stamucs’ eyes ahd guarded the island. People buile the starues and then moved thems to anocher part of the island (ewenty-Five kilometres away) sand pur them on platforms. In the early: 1990s, forty scieneises moved fifieen of the fratues and put them on new placforms. They used modern equipment and worked every day, buc i took them four years. So how did the people of Easter Ishind move: more than 300 stares? Scicaristy have found no answers. Statue Petat ful {n} something Gn stone or metal, for exssiple that looks like a person oe animal (ghost (gaint {nba frightening. stoving thing in the shape af a erson whe hes diedMyst ofthe Uexplined © Mysteries of Egypt The Pyramids ‘The three mast famous Egyptian pyramids arc in Gira. They were built for the bodies of the pharaoh" alter they died alenost 5,000-years ago," ‘gold was put with them for the ‘next lif’, The Great F is 140 metres high and 228 metres wide ae ins widest point. King Khufu's body: 's there. People think thar the pyramid shape helped the pharaohs climb to the sky after their death. Sa bow were the pyramids built? That is still not known, ‘Scientists think that over 100,000 rien worked for more chan twenty years to build the Greae Pyramid. More than two million stones were used. The stones Were very lange and very heavy. How were they lifted to the top? * pharaohs: the his of Egy Pyramid rar (nan old stone buiting with wal: that meet zt & single polnt atthe top 6(Chaprcr 4 = Anions Ws » eis eweney metres high and mote than . etees long, The face is four metres high and each eye ix neasly wo meures long; The Sphinx has the head of King Khufu's son, King Khafie ‘The body of an animal shows how strong the king, was. Experts still cant explain how ir was built King Tutankhamen The Valley of the Kings is near the city of Luxor, in Egypt. The bodies of the most famous pharaohs were put in special rooms there. An Englishman, Howard Carter, searched for ‘years for the place where King ‘Tutankhamen's body was kept, In 1923, he found a room filled with gold and ather beautiful things. He took many things away. Bast (Canter and his team paid a tettible price for their discovery. A sign at the entrance promised death 10 the people who opened it. Caner didn't believe this. But before the year ended, rwelve of the ewenty sclentisesWere there really perfect’ civilisations thousands of years aga? Were she people beautiful and intelligent? Did they live without war? Were their lives more wonderful than se cam imagine? Or is this just our hope for « perfect world? © Lost civilizations ‘The Greek writer Plato told a story about an island in the Atlantic Ocean called Adlancis. Ic was a beautifidl place, The people were intelligent and had many interests. The land wax rich with plant and animal life. The people used their skills well, so the island was « cencre for farming and business. Theit buildings were beautiful and well built, Their kings and queens had great power in Europe and Arica. This was more than 11,000 years ago— and then the city disappeared under the sea. ‘Was there really an Atlantis? If there was, why did it disappear? Some experts agece on one islca: pethaps the story of Atlancis is really ehe story af the Greck island Santorini, People scill want vo know about Adantis. They are sill tooking for this last civilization. Shetecation /nslaiveaton/ tala group of people Whe have the same laws and ondored way ot life omer Ppssia!(n) wtrng ponition aver people; thay Mure de what thay are told 20Chapecs 4 = Anchen Whe There have also been reports abour the ancient civilization of Mu, near There are photographs of chis ‘mystery city’ under the sca. People believe have seen buildings, statues and ecudls © The Nazca Lines In Peru, very large ‘drawings’ of animals and 1,300 kilometres lines cover more than 500 square kilometres of land. These were made by the Nazca people thousands of years ugo. Scientists have travelled tia [ shapes and lines, Many of the animal shapes are as bigas wa football fields. You the ground because ¢h wve co take phor many questions abc sticky these nit sex tha care so large. So scientists raphs from the air. There are the Nazca Lines. Why are wuld the Nazca people make perfect shapes like these when they couldn't see them from the ground? Who or what were they made for? Perhaps they were uscd ve. predict the weather and the best time they so large? How sciget “es fa (ogres fod from a very tong time ago tant, Me ice OF fruit, Yat you grow for foodMind and Body ‘He wsed the power af is mine to change the shape of saetal thing like spoons, forks und key, W: Anoue that our bodies arewit just simple machines, But wht powers do cour minds Inare over our Bodice? How can an ordinary mam suddenly lift ‘cat 10 save someone life? How do people walk on fre without feeling paint? What it the mind? Science is still nat sure, © The power of the mind Uri Geller became famousin the 197M. He used the power of his mind change the shape of metal things He has shown his very unusual skills many like spoons, forks and key times. He can ‘sec’ when his eyes are covered. He in describe a picture or ‘read! a lerer. He has scoppped clocks working. Geller discover powers when he was onby old, Scientists hhe doce these things. Not everyone believes im his powers, Bur no one has proved that they aren real. il cant explain how © Nostradamus ‘Would you like to see inte the future? Do yau know anyone who has this ower? The earliest kaown pers power was Michel Nostradame, ‘Nostradamus’ (1503-65). He had reat skill ava doctor and he was very brave, When the ‘Black Death’ killed sands of people in France in the 1500s, he saved many people. Bue he wich th couldn't save his wife and children from this terrible illness. When they dig he interested in mysteries, ct che fi Jefe his home. He travelle ‘Other people soon discom the fut‘Chaes $~ Mind ndexly Nostradamus conectly peedicved many important things: che power of Hitler Germany, the Second Wald ‘War, and the deaths of some important people. He wrore of President Kennedy. ‘His death will be sudden and sad” Nostradamus even conrecaly prcslicted own death, He described exacely how he would dic. When something imposeane happens in the word, experts ail ead his predictions. Other people with this power have become famous since Nastradamus’s time, baat Nostradamus work sill interests people after 500 years © Dreams of the future: Some people have a strange fecling (aften a dream) chat something — usually bad — is going to happen in the fucure. They cant explain the feeling but they are very sure, Many jpeople have ‘seca’ terrible thingy char have happened in che world. They have knwn about them befaee they happened! A girl hal a dream about the end of the great ship, Titeni¢ on the nighe that it happencd. She saw a Jarge ship with many people on it. Suddenly, she hhcanf a loud scream and one end of che ship went up into the air. The ship then disappeared quickly into the sea. Ocean travel was dangerous in those ddays, but how can we explain stodies like hers + In 1979, David Booth had the same deearw night after night. In his dream, he saw « plane crashing und buening near buildings. He told poaple about hhis dream, bur he couldn't give them the time or place. The next day, a plane crashed at Chicago Airport and everyone on the plate wai killed. * The night before the artacks om New York in September 2001, « woman dream that she meta friend in New York, He was crying and pointing 10 ewe tall buildings. They were burning, The next morning, the attacks happened. %perio dhe Ueland + John Snell lived in Poole, in England. On holiday, he paid a woman to look into his Furuse. She told him, “You will die om your forty-fitth birthday.’ He ‘wasnt frightened because he didnt believe her. For owenty years, he worked Jong hours and enjoyed drinking. But as his forty-fifth birthday came neares, the started to worry, He stopped drinking, On his birthday, be refused to go ‘out. The next day, he read a local newspaper report about the death of John Snell of Poole on his fory-fifth birthday. The woman was right and wrong. “There were ro John Sells living in Poole. The other John Snell died! ® Body mysteries Some af these stories show the power of the mind over the body, Quhers show frightening dhings that have happened to people's bodies, AU! are mysteries. Fire! How can a person suddenly start burning for no reason? There have been many terriblc examples of this. The person is burnt to death very quickly, bur nothing: around them is burnt, Jacqueline Firzsimmon. a seveateen-year-old student, was walking down the college stairs with two friends when she suddenly starved burning. Three pcople tried to stop the fire, but i¢ was too fast. She died in minutes, Firemen and police could find no reason for the fire or why it-wax 0 suxlden, The Ligh woman In April 1934, a young waman from Pirano ie aly began to have a very strange problem. When she was sleeping, a blu light came fram het body. When she woke up, itdisappeared. Her famsily called in seiemtists, The scientists watched her sleeping for a week, but they couldnt explain it. After three weeks, the blue light disappeared and. never rerurned.while people w the bu many ataries like this. A Tibetan seligioas mar, Milan the air! Jhed, he ‘flew’ our rough an open Adin i ay Fire walking ‘We have heard stories for many years about religious men ‘walking on fire, In 1935, this was tested For the first time; An Indian man, Kuda Bisx, walked over a fire. The firc's temperature was 300°C, but his feet w burnt and he felc no pain Scientises watched and it was filmed. Scientists now aggee that this is an example of the power af the mind over the body. this photo a fire-walleer in Sri Lanka walks calmly ac Up, up and away ‘Some people are able to lift themselves off the ground and ip. Mos in are abvoes religions] stay in the air with ne he people. The most famous story from Europe is of an Englisin Danicd Douglas Home. In 1868, 2 thind-floor window. He then flew back Jow in anothe Asian counties hav swableed incHarren Ghosts and Past Lives ‘She finally surned towards him, aad she hued wo face Hescreamed and var avssy D pow lien in phones? Cam peop realy return a ie om Earth after death? © Ghost houses Or id large house was built next co Borkey Church, aca dhe cown of Buey i Bdmunas, The howse became famous because many srange thingy happened there. Thete were noises. Things Rew through the ait Some people fearh Pason walking through the house. Ghosts wee seen. The most famous ghost Wasa young woman; her ghost was often sen In 1928, Lionel and Marianne Foyste immediately hated the dark, ugly building. Soon after they moved in, frightening things began to happen. W1 ‘messages to Marianne on the walls, Photographs were taken. Local Pouple didn't believe Marianne's stories, but more than 2,000 inpsterious things were reported during the Foystets five-year stay When the house was destroyed ina fire in 1939, that seemed to-be the end af the story, Then local people began vo talk abou Strange things happening in Borley hutch, In 1974, the BBC filmed Borley Church, They put sound ‘They heard loud noises: people foonsteps. Bur the door didn oe. All the the church was-destayed, One night, ewo of the BBC Rlmmakers sw the ghost of thc young woman in the garden, They watched her for twelve minutes! Denny Densham from the BBC said, ‘Teani explain what Tve-scen at Botley.Since the BBC visit, many more mysterious things have happened at Batley ‘Church. You can visic the church on your next trip nd iF you are brave enough! A house in Norfolk, England, is famous for the ghost called ‘the Brown Lady". She was first seen in 1835, very latc ac night, She wore a beautiful brown adress and her face shone with light. But she had no eyes ~ only two black n 1936, ewo photographers from Couséry Life magazine came to take raphs af the house. They saw the Brown Lady maving up the stairs. They tened, bur they took this famous photograph. It is onc of the bese ghost. Since this time nobody has seen the Brown Lady in the house. Did the photo frighten her awiy! ® Around the world Every country bas fimous ghosts and ghost stories. Same countries bave similar ghosts but wish different memes. De you have any of these ghosts in your country? India An acherdis the ghost of a linte giel who lives in the mountains. She comes inco the villages at night to make the children sick. Children wear pieces of red cotton round their necks to proeect chem from the acheri. In many Europ people abo wear red co protect themselves fram bad glsoses. BIMytsen of the Uineapinel Japan Japan has many ghosts, The burzéuri is the ‘ghost of fear Ix lives in dark forests and looks like a shaking old man or woman, often with one eye, The birnbure jumps on a persons back, The person suddenly feels very cold and dies of fear, ‘The faceless woman) was first seen in Tokyo hundreds of years apo. A man ‘home one night when he ving. He tried to help her, bbut she couldn't stop érying. She finally turned cowards him, and she had no face. He screamed and ran away. He ran until he saw an old man on the road. He told him about the woman’ Face. “Was it like this? atked the ald man as he curmed round. He, to0, had no face! Germany The word poltenscomes from German and means ‘noisy ghost. Huwdoes a Shoat become pokespst? Pehaps if prsom dicsin 2 rerrble wi thei ghowt stays angry after heie death. A poltrgeat stay ina mani office in Germany for a year, destroyed! Furninure, thew things. eure lights on and off url owed pceancs round thewalls. I alo mack hundreds of expensive telephone calls. l'sperts discover that icwas angey with a secretary, When she moved way the activity stopped The Muslim world ‘The 2a'is known in Muslim counties. It ica man-hating ghost. Ir comes house and makes a wife crazy, Ava result, she shours ut her husband all che There is only one way to send the cr away, The husband must be very kind te his wife and give her expensive presents! ves house, they welcome the in che cooker. The demerit looks after the: house. But if ‘will burn your house down. A rwsalta is the ghost of « young woman who-has died in wares, Reulbérare beautiful, with long grees bait. They live im lakes and sivers and secredly help poor, hard-working fishermen.(Chapt 6 = we and Das Les © Past lives Have you ever thought, Tve been wo this place before, or T've already moet this person?’ Here are seme staries of people soho lived complete lives in other times. Beidey Murphy Virginia Tighe was che wife of a businessman in Wisconsin, in the US. But this wasait her only life. One hundred years before, she was a young Irish woman called Bridey Murphy. Virginias story is one of the most Famous in the world, ‘Why have so many experts believed her? Virginia mever travelled and knew nothing about Ireland, but she knew maety Important things abous Bridey's life and town: the language, che names of local shops and people, the typc of maney| even popular songs. Experts have checked Virginia’s story for over thirty years. They haver't proved thac it isn trac. Shuenti Devi Shand Devi was born in 1926 in Dells, India, When she was four years alll, she began eo calk:abour her “other life! asa wife and mother in che town of Mathura, ‘She said things like, “This was my husband's favourite food.’ She remembered many things abou her life in Machura, Her husband wore glasses and had a ches shop. She died when she had her second baby. Arnine years old, Shanti remembered hher husbands name: Pandit Kedarnath Chaube, Shanti: parents wrote to hien and invited hinv to thele bouse. Shanti knew him immediately. She then wanted 00 o back to her old home. Family and friends wene with hes. When they arrived in Mathura, sho saw her busband’s brother. She immediately knew who he was. She found her old house without help. She knew where her bedroom was, She found some of her things there. Pandit agreed thar they were hers. Shane: story interested ‘people all ever the work! Maliotmna Gandhi invited her to his home, Bhat Shani always missed her fiest life and never married. She died sad and lonely. The Pollock children In 1957, sadness came to the Pollack family of Hexham, England, The only chiloen, rwo sincors, were killed by a cat. The Pollocks found happiness again when Mes Pollock had move childeea — rwo more giels. But something was ‘range about these children. They knew all abour their dead sister’ lives. They knew about their school, their friends and even their toys. When the girls were alder. their parents sometimes found them crying, When cats drove quickly slong the road, they screamed, All of this stopped when the girls became older. After that, they coukda't remember any of it, Eaperts still cant say why these things happened to the Pollock children. Bcare Earth Mysteries Siucldeniy fall offre covered. aj Tontenitocornan SE rer lace, "Te hart st 00m great mystrics. Science has sill nor explained many of the strange things that have happened to our weather, land and animale © Crop circles nthe arly 1980s, strange thinga searted happening on English fam, ‘There ‘were many reports of lange circles im ficids. Czops were flattens, but they were stil growing. The circles had beautiful shapes inside. The firs eeap crclew were ‘en of sinall firms. They didnt become well known uneil later in the 1980. ‘Whes tore crop circles were seen, scientists were called in, They were very facerested in the heautitil shapes, The shapes wererie simple, Some experts though that perhaps they were made by an ‘unknown intelligence’ ~ by alin. ‘Many of the circles were found near ancient places lite Seonchenge. This added to the interes in aliens, But other scicntsis disgyeed. They thought they were made by strange winds,(apse? Ha Meats By the end of the 1980s, crop circles ‘were very Famous. But were they made by aliens or winds, or were people just playing ‘games! Some people thought that the shapes wwere an ancient language. They ‘read predictions in the circles, In 1990, many more crop circles were with some of the most beausiful shapes. People from ‘other countries came to England to see them, Filmmakers waited in ficlds t night and tried to film te circle-making. Bur they were never able to sce it — only the finished circles. Crop ctcles wene a ‘bigger mystery than ever. Who was making them? How were they making them? And why? {mn 1990, ic was discovered that ordinary peaple weie making some of the itcles. Tivo of these people were artiste, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. Their ireles were called the ‘Doug and Dave’ cincles. Exports wanted so be sure thar Prople really could make these. £15,000 was offered to the person who could make the best crop clscle. Some beatiful shapes were prociace. This proved ‘hac ordinary people could make crop circles. Many experts lose interest then, Bur every year, new crop circles are seen, Many ‘crop ciscle makers’ cantt explain some of these now shapes. They arco perfect — too difficult ro draw: on paper. How can someone make these beatiful shapes in the short summer night? Why hasn't anyone ever scen a person making 4 ceap circle The mystery continues, ‘© Other, In some ofthe stranger Earch meystries surprising tings fall rom the sey or cone wit of the ground, Sometimes shere is a sudden unexplainable change ix the weather: There are many more sovies like these, but not many antavet! Tes raining! * In 1985, im Texas, small fish fell into a man’s back garden. When he went ‘outside, hundreds more living fish fll owt of the shy ”Myer of the Unexplainad * “Thousands of frogs fell during heavy storms in Biemingham, England in 1954, in Canet-Plage, France in 1977 and in Arkansas, US in 1973, * In Englind in 1987, sand rained from the sky four times. Scientists tested the wand, They discovered rat it was froin the Sahara Animals in stone bh 1960 workers wese brealting stones when they found small frogs inside ~ some living and some dead. One scientist said, “They've probably heen in the racls fe thousands of years, Sonic of their mouths have grown shut.” People ‘uk sev their heares moving theough their thin skins. Scientists cant explain why some of che frogs were sill live In Pome OAM ILE aes a Russian plane, above she Frightened passengers Ic chen broke into two parts formed i ball again and suddealy disappeared. Ghost lights arc moving balls of light char change colour They are onky seen away from cities. They disappear if you ge near them. Many people they are ghosts. They are only seen in places where people have dicd in cerible ways. Repons of these strange tights have come from Beizain, che US and Japan. Weather changes ~ At7.30 a.m. on 7 July 1987, the temperature in the American town of Greensburg, Kansas went up 11°C én ten minutes — fom 24°C t0 39°C, No cone has found a reason for this. * In March 1978, workers in a field in Frunce heard a very lowd noise andl ‘the earth shook. The noise came from the next field. They ran ta the field aed found a very large hole in the ground. Ia the hole was 2 25-kilo plece of ice. The ice stayed in one piece for an hour, © The Siberian In the carly morning of 30 June 1908, a very large ball of fire came from the sky and hic she Tunguska river valley in Siberia. In seconds, cverydhing for simy five kilometres was destroyed. Farmer Sceyei Semenov was eighty kilometres away, bur he saw a very large light in the sky and fete tesrible heat, [e almost buene his shirt off his back. Suddenly, a very large ball of fite cowcred most af the sey, ‘Then everything went black. {100 thrall green ania thet lives near water; frogs hae lng og Yer haretng athe Tunguska valley a the it believe There were mo living trees was reported hrown inta the ait, Scientists have pppened For almost ahi st Earth mysteries their eyes, Dead ‘coal or plants af any kind. that people seventy ki tried the world’s uska river was boiling hot. Late: co find out why thi Ws all. a mystery Some scientists think Tunguska happened as a result of a ‘black hole’. Black holes are formed han our sun sary that are much large breaks, [n les than star is pressed anti Whar b of the Earthis socond, it ppens then? Some experts think that black les are the reaseus for « da Triangle. ‘One thing is sure: black holes ae the g rest mystery off space an. bout our world. Bur as we je questions, Many things about this world We are discovering moe and more wwe have