Download or read book Strange But True Tennessee written by Lynne L Hall and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth is stranger than fiction, and in the pages of Strange But True Tennessee, you can take an armchair tour and see for yourself the wacky wonders of the state. So sit back, read, and shake your head in amazement. You're in Strange But True Tennessee!
Download or read book Amazing Tennessee written by Theresa Jensen Lacey and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing Tennessee offers a rare glimpse into unusual people and events in Tennessee's 200-year history. Reading like the Volunteer State's own version of Ripley's Believe It or Not, this book explores hundreds of incredible stories, facts, and tidbits of human interest.
Download or read book Strange But True America written by John Hafnor and published by John Hafnor. This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.
Download or read book Strange But True written by Corrine Kenner and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over one hundred thirty short stories of actual events and includes mysterious tales of ghosts and alien encounters, time travel and out-of-body experiences, psychic warnings and miraculous healings, and guardian angels.
Download or read book Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground written by Christopher K. Coleman and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales.
Download or read book Strange But True written by Thomas Slemen and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demon in the Woods written by Charles Edwin Price and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monster fish sighted in Watauga and Boone Lakes, the so-called Wampas Cat, and a witchy horse that found a little lost girl wandering on Embreeville Mountain—these are but a few of the stories retold in this book of East Tennessee tales. Other stories include the Cherokee legends of creation and fire, a witch who drove people mad, a personal account of a miraculous cure, lost civilizations in the middle of Cherokee National Forest, and a host of death and burial superstitions.
Download or read book Strange But True Facts written by Clifford Sawhney and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many strange but true facts that we hear or read about without actual registering the unusual context. And there are other facts that we may never have even heard about.Did you know that:*There is an annual ghost mela held in Madhya Pradesh?*Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists?*Sicily is seen upside down from an Italian village?*A new Japanese jeans actually slows down ageing?*In ancient times, iron cost more than gold?*Silver can destroy 650 disease-causing bacteria?*Mahavira wasn t really the founder of Jainism?*There s a fruit that smells like shit but tastes like heaven ?*The banana could be extinct in 10 years?*There is a plant that goes searching for water?*The Puffer Fish contains a poison that is 500 times deadlier than cyanide, yet it s a delicacy in Japan?The book uncovers the latest unusual facts to amuse, amaze and enthral you, and also boost your current affairs and general knowledge.Through this plethora of strange but true facts, readers will learn a lot about India and the world s unusual past, present and future.Truly an unputdownable book!
Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting written by Keith Martin and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects true stories about eccentric car collectors, including a take of an English nobleman who buries his horde of Ferraris in an insurance scam and a woman who loved her car so much she wished to be buried in it.
Download or read book Welsh History Strange but True written by Geoff Brookes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest prehistoric burial in Europe was found in Wales. The skeleton was known as the ‘Red Lady of Paviland’ – well, until scientists discovered that it had, in fact, belonged to a man... ‘Rhodri the Great’, Wales’ first king, was killed by a Saxon army. The second King of Wales was killed by his own men... English armies usually contained Welsh bowmen. A Welsh-fired arrow could – and did – go all the way through armour, leg, saddle and horse. Welsh bowmen often used English longbows against them, firing them at point-blank range during ambushes...This book contains hundreds of ‘strange but true’ facts and anecdotes about Welsh history. Arranged into a miniature history of Wales, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest and delight readers everywhere.
Download or read book Weird But True written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you hear the one about the crook who broke into a vending machine and then left a trail of cheese curls all the way to his hideout? Or the burglar who left his wallet in an apartment he robbed, and actually went back to get it? Based on the Stupid criminals busted! column in National Geographic kids magazine, this collection of stories about stupid criminals and the ridiculous ways they give themselves away is illustrated with collage art and sprinkled with more than 150 weird-but-true facts about crime.
Download or read book The Hard to believe but true Book of Tennessee History Trivia Mystery Legend Lore More written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesser known facts on the history, legends, and lore of Tennessee.
Download or read book More Weird but true Short Stories written by Darla Fisher and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series of short story books by the author, an easy-to-read book and hard to put down. The stories are engaging and sometimes hard to believe, yet true! It is an interesting travel through the strange and occult. This author shares with us in this work some very personal happenings in her life, which are unusual. Many of us have experienced similar things but are reluctant to talk about them. How many of us have received knowledge of future events? Or we have a feeling of just "knowing" when there is no obvious reason to believe what we feel. Many of the strange happenings reflected in this book were finally confirmed. However, there are some reflected herein that have yet to be confirmed, such as the death of the author. She received knowledge about the circumstances surrounding her death. We can only wait and see if that will happen.
Download or read book Strange But True written by Sports Illustrated for Kids (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hisory of sports is full af bizarre stories. Games sometimes have totally unexpected finishes. Athletes occasionally get into oddball situations on-and off-the field. Even fanatical fans have joined in the action, with very peculiar results.
Download or read book Myths and Mysteries of Tennessee written by Susan Sawyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging, myth-busting series seeks new explanations for the ghost stories, outlaw tales, haunted places, and unsolved mysteries that shaped a state's identity.
Download or read book Bizarre Bluegrass Strange but True Kentucky Tales written by Keven McQueen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ghost towns to circus performers to mass hysteria, the Bluegrass State is no stranger to the strange. Read stories of famed President Abraham Lincoln you've never heard before. Find possible solutions to the mystery of Pearl Bryan's missing head and decipher the outrageous hoaxes involving an unsolvable puzzle and monkeys trained to perform farm work. Learn about the time when the author wrote to Charles Manson as a joke and Manson wrote back--four times. Join author Keven McQueen as he recounts some of the weirder vignettes from Kentucky lore.
