The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries

by Colin Wilson

  Berenson, Bernard ref 1

  Bergier, Jacques ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Berlitz, Charles ref 1

  Bermuda Triangle ref 1

  Berossus, Babylonian historian ref 1

  Berriman, A.E. ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Betterton, Thomas ref 1

  Bigfoot (“Sasquatch”) ref 1, ref 2

  Bigou, Abbé Antoine ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Billard, Bishop Félix-Arsène ref 1

  Bimini Road stones ref 1

  Black Dahlia killing (1947) ref 1

  black holes ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  black magic ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

  Black Masses ref 1, ref 2, . ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Blade Runner (film) ref 1, ref 2

  Blaker, Hugh ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Blanchefort, Bertrand de ref 1, ref 2

  Blanchefort, Marie, Marquise de, grave of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Blavatsky, Mme Helena ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10

  Blegen, Carl ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Blume, Wilhelm ref 1

  Blyth, Chay ref 1

  Bond, Frederick Bligh ref 1

  Boniface VIII, Pope ref 1

  Boniface IX, Pope ref 1

  Bonilla, José ref 1

  Bordet, Abbé ref 1

  Boston Strangler ref 1, ref 2

  Bouchard, Tom ref 1, ref 2

  Boucher, Jules ref 1

  Boudet, Abbé Henri ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Bourne, Lois ref 1

  Bowen, Charles ref 1

  Boyd, Alistair ref 1

  “brain explosion” ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  brain functions, left- and right- ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Branston, Brian ref 1

  Breasted, Prof. James Henry ref 1

  Breton, Guy ref 1, ref 2

  Briggs, Captain Benjamin Spooner ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Briggs, Captain James ref 1

  Briggs, Sarah and Sophia Matilda ref 1

  Brigham, William Tufts ref 1

  Broom, Robert ref 1

  Browne, Sir Thomas ref 1

  Bruback, Siegfried, murder of ref 1

  Brunel, Bernard ref 1

  Brunel, Isambard ref 1

  Brunton, Paul ref 1

  Buchan, John ref 1

  Buchanan, Dr Joseph Rodes ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Buckingham, Duke of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Bull, Dr Titus ref 1,ref 2

  Burckhardt, Phillip ref 1

  Burke, Edmund ref 1, ref 2

  Burke, Omar ref 1

  Burney, Sydney ref 1

  Bute, Lord ref 1

  Butler, Samuel ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Cadbury Castle (Camelot) ref 1

  Cairns, Dr John ref 1

  Calder, Professor William ref 1

  Calvé, Emma ref 1, ref 2

  Camden, William ref 1

  Camlann, Battle of ref 1

  Camp, L. Sprague de ref 1

  Campbell, Alex ref 1, ref 2

  Campbell, Edward ref 1

  Camus, Albert ref 1

  candomblé cult ref 1

  Cannon, Professor John ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Canseliet, Eugene ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  carbon 14 dating ref 1, ref 2

  Carroll, Lewis ref 1

  Carlyle, Thomas ref 1, ref 2

  Carnarvon, Lord ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Carpenter, William B. ref 1

  Carter, Howard ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Casanova ref 1

  Castellan, Thimotheus ref 1, ref 2

  Cathars ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Catherine the Great, Empress ref 1

  Cavoye, François Dauger de ref 1, ref 2

  Cayse, Edgar ref 1, ref 2

  Chabot, Charles ref 1, ref 2

  Chalou, George ref 1

  Chambers, Maurice ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Champagne, Jean-Julien ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Champollion, François ref 1, ref 2

  Chaplin twins (Freda and Greta) ref 1

  Chapman, Annie, murder of ref 1, ref 2

  Charcot, Jean-Martin ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Charles I, King of England ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Charles VII, King of France ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg ref 1

  Charles of Hesse-Cassel, Prince ref 1

  Charpentier, M. ref 1

  Charques, R.D. ref 1

  Charroux, Robert ref 1

  Chase, Dorcas ref 1

  Chase, Hon. Thomas ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Chaucer, Geoffrey ref 1

  Cheshire, Group Captain Leonard ref 1

  Chesterfield, Lord ref 1

  Chesterton, G.K. ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Chevalier, Fr. Ulysse ref 1, ref 2

  “Chicken Freak” ref 1

  Choiseul, Duc de ref 1, ref 2

  Christie, Agatha, disappearance of ref 1

  Christie, Colonel Archibald ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Christopher, Joseph C. (Buffalo Slasher) ref 1, ref 2

  Chua, Dr José ref 1, ref 2

  Chua, Remy ref 1, ref 2

  Churchill, Winston ref 1, ref 2

  clairvoyance ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Clarence, Duke of ref 1, ref 2

  Clark, Sir Kenneth, ref 1

  Clarke, Arthur C. ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Clarke, Mrs Thomazina ref 1

  Clay, Henry ref 1

  Clement V, Pope ref 1

  Cleveland Torso murders ref 1

  Cloudsley-Thompson, Dr John L. ref 1

  “Cock Lane” ghost ref 1

  Coe, Dr Mayne R. ref 1

  Colbert, Jean-Baptiste ref 1, ref 2

  Collie, Professor Norman ref 1

  Collin, Rodney ref 1, ref 2

  Colot, Jacques ref 1

  Columbus, Christopher ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Combermere, Lord ref 1

  Condon, Edward U. ref 1

  Constantine, Emperor ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Cook, Captain James ref 1

  Cooper, Joe ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Cooper-Oakley, Mrs ref 1, ref 2

  Corbett, Jim ref 1

  Corliss, William ref 1

  Cornford, Professor Christopher ref 1

  corpus callosum ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Cottam, Dennis ref 1

  Cottingley fairies ref 1

  Cowell, James ref 1, ref 2

  Cox, Esther ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Cox, Lieutenant Grimani ref 1

  Crabtree, Adam ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Cramer, Captain Ralph S. ref 1

  Croiset, Gerard ref 1

  Crook, Alice Margaret ref 1, ref 2

  Crook, Annie ref 1, ref 2

  crop circles ref 1

  Crowe, Mrs Catherine ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Crowley, Aleister ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Crucifixion ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Crusaders ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  cryptography ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  CSICOP ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Cuntze, Johannes ref 1, ref 2

  Curran, Pearl ref 1

  cybernetics ref 1

  Dagobert II, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Dalton, John ref 1

  Däniken, Erich von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11

  D’Arcis, Peter, Bishop of Troyes ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dark, Sidney ref 1

  Dart, Professor Raymond ref 1

  Darwin, Charles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11

  Daskalos (Spyros Sathi) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dauger, Eustache ref 1

  Dauger, Louis ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Daumer, Geor
g Friedrich ref 1, ref 2

  d’Avalos, Costanza ref 1

  Davenant, Sir William ref 1

  Davies, Squadron Leader Lester ref 1

  Davies, Morgan ref 1, ref 2

  Davis, Barney ref 1

  Davis, Theodore ref 1, ref 2

  Dawson, Charles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dead Sea Scrolls ref 1

  Debussy, Claude ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Dee, Dr John ref 1, ref 2

  Defoe, Daniel ref 1, ref 2

  Dei Gratia, ship ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Delage, Professor Yves ref 1, ref 2

  Della Porta, Giovanni Battista ref 1

  Delroy, Arthur ref 1

  Democritus ref 1

  Denarnaud, Marie ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Denton, William ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Derby, William Stanley, Earl of ref 1, ref 2

  Densham, Peter ref 1, ref 2

  Deschamps, Emile ref 1

  desecration of tombs ref 1

  Despensers ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Deveau, Oliver ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  devil’s footprints ref 1, ref 2

  Dick, Philip K. ref 1

  Dickens, Charles ref 1

  Didier, Alexis and Adolphe ref 1

  Dieterlen, Germaine ref 1

  Dietrich, Marlene ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dingwall, Eric J. ref 1

  dinosaurs ref 1, ref 2

  Dinsdale, Tim ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Dogon, and Sirius B mythology ref 1

  Dolezal, Frank ref 1

  Donnelly, Ignatius ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  D’Onston Stevenson, Roslyn ref 1, ref 2

  Dorland, Frank ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dörpfeld, Wilhelm ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dostoyevsky, Fedor ref 1

  Douglas, Admiral Charles ref 1

  dowsing ref 1, ref 2

  Doyle, Adrian Conan ref 1

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Dracula ref 1, ref 2

  Draper, Sir William ref 1

  Drayton, Michael ref 1, ref 2

  Drenckmann, Gunter von, murder of ref 1

  Druidism ref 1, ref 2

  Druitt, Montague John ref 1, ref 2

  Drummond, Lieutenant Edgar ref 1

  Drury, William ref 1

  Du Maurier, George ref 1

  Ducat, James ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dugdale, Sir William ref 1

  Duke, Thomas ref 1

  Dulcert Portolano ref 1

  Dumas, Alexandre ref 1, ref 2

  Duncan, George ref 1

  Dunne, J.W. ref 1, ref 2

  Dupont, Jonas ref 1

  Dupreyat, Father André ref 1

  Duvivier, Maurice ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Dyall, Valentine ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  earthquakes ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  “Easter Annals”, Welsh ref 1

  East Island statues ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  d’Eaubonne, Françoise ref 1, ref 2

  Eddington, Sir Arthur ref 1

  Eddowes, Catherine, murder of ref 1

  Eddy, Mary Baker ref 1

  Edward II, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Edward III, King ref 1, ref 2

  Edwards, John ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Eilean More, mystery of ref 1

  Einstein, Albert ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Elizabeth, Empress of Russia ref 1, ref 2

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Ellison, Harlan ref 1

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo ref 1

  Enrie, Giuseppe ref 1

  Ensslin, Gudrun ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Entebbe hijacking ref 1

  Eoanthropus dawsoni (Dawson’s dawn man) ref 1

  Epic of Gilgamesh, Assyrian ref 1, ref 2

  Epplen, Detective Lee ref 1

  Eratosthenes ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  ESP (extrasensory perception) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Essenes (Nazoreans) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Essex, Earl of ref 1, ref 2

  Euripides ref 1

  Evans, Arthur ref 1

  Everett, Charles ref 1

  Everett III, Hugh ref 1

  Excalibur (Arthur’s sword) ref 1

  existentialism ref 1

  fairies ref 1

  Fanthorpe, Patricia and Lionel ref 1

  Farson, Daniel ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Fawcett, Colonel Percy H. ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination of ref 1

  Feuerbach, Anselm Ritter von ref 1, ref 2

  Fiddes, Dr F.S. ref 1

  Fido, Martin ref 1

  Fischer, John ref 1

  Fisher, Joe ref 1, ref 2

  Fitter, Richard ref 1

  Fitzpatrick, Thaddeus ref 1

  Flamel, Nicolas ref 1

  Flammarion, Camille ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Flem-Ath, Rand ref 1, ref 2

  flying saucers see UFOs

  Fodor, Nandor ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Folgerhaiter, Giuseppe ref 1

  Fontes, Dr Olavo ref 1

  Forman, Joan ref 1, ref 2

  Forrer, Emile ref 1

  Fort, Charles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Forthunny, Pascal ref 1, ref 2

  Foster, Dr David ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Fouquet, Louis ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Fouquet, Nicolas ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Fowler, Clara ref 1

  Fox poltergeist ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Fradin family ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Fraley, Oscar ref 1, ref 2

  France, Anatole ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Francis I, King of France ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Francis, Sir Philip ref 1

  Franck, Professor J. ref 1

  François de Paris, Deacon ref 1, ref 2

  Frazer, Captain James ref 1

  Frazer, Robert ref 1

  Frederick the Great, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Freemasonry ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

  Frei, Dr Max ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Frere, Richard ref 1, ref 2

  Freud, Sigmund ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12

  Friedman, William F. ref 1

  Friso ref 1

  Fulcanelli, and alchemy ref 1

  Fuller, Grahame ref 1

  Fuller, Jean Overton ref 1

  Gaddis, Vincent ref 1, ref 2

  Galanopoulos, Prof. Angelos ref 1, ref 2

  Galland, Adolf ref 1

  Gardner, Edward L. ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Gardner, Martin ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Garrick, David ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Gaute, J.H.H. ref 1

  Gaveston, Piers ref 1, ref 2

  Geller, Uri ref 1, ref 2

  Geoffrey of Monmouth ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

  Geoffrey de St Omer ref 1

  Geoffrey de Charney ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  George III, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  ghosts ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9

  see also poltergeists

  Gibbon, Edward ref 1

  Gifford, John ref 1

  Gildas, St ref 1, ref 2

  Gilles de Rais ref 1

  Gimlin, Bob ref 1

  Giocondo, Francesco del ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Giocondo, Lisa del see Mona Lisa

  Giraldus Cambrensis ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Gladstone, William Ewart ref 1, ref 2

  Glastonbury Abbey ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Glozel mystery ref 1

  Gmelig-Meyling, Dono ref 1

  Goddard, Mrs Thomasina ref 1, ref 2

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sp; Godfrey de Bouillon ref 1

  Golding, William ref 1

  Gooch, Stan ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Goodrich, Norma Lorre ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Göring, Hermann ref 1, ref 2

  Gould, Commander Rupert ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Graffer, Franz ref 1

  Grafton, Duke of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Graham, Barbara ref 1

  Granby, Marquis of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Grandier, Urbain ref 1, ref 2

  Grant, Joan ref 1

  Grasse, J. ref 1, ref 2

  Graves, Robert ref 1, ref 2

  Gray, Affleck ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Gray, Hugh ref 1, ref 2

  Great Pyramid ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Great Siberian Explosion ref 1

  Green, John ref 1

  Greene, Graham ref 1

  Greenstreet, James ref 1

  Gregory, Anita ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Gregory, Lady Augusta ref 1, ref 2

  Grenville, George ref 1, ref 2

  Griaule, Marcel ref 1, ref 2

  Griffiths, Frances ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Grimble, Arthur ref 1

  Grosse, Maurice ref 1

  Guibourg, Abbé ref 1

  Guinevere, Queen ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Gull, Sir William ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Gurdjieff, George ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

  Hadji Ahmed map ref 1, ref 2

  Haggard, Rider ref 1, ref 2

  Hall, Professor Barry ref 1

  Hall, John ref 1, ref 2

  hallucinations ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10

  Hamilton, Duke of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Hammerstein, Wally von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Hammond, Norman ref 1

  Hansen, Carl ref 1

  Hapgood, Professor Charles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

  Harmening suicide ref 1, ref 2

  Harris, Melvin ref 1

  Harrison, Michael ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Harry, Muchalat ref 1

  Hart, Joseph C. ref 1

  Harvey, Frank ref 1

  Harvey, Justice ref 1, ref 2

  Hastings, Warren ref 1, ref 2

  Hathaway, Anne ref 1

  Hauser, Kaspar ref 1

  Haushofer, Dr Albrecht ref 1, ref 2

  Haushofer, Professor Karl ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Hausset, Mme du ref 1

  Hawkes, Gerald ref 1

  Hawthorne, Nathanie ref 1

  Haynes, Lieutenant Don ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Hayward, Arthur L. ref 1

  Hayward, Dr ref 1

  Hearst, Patty, kidnapping of ref 1

  Helbronner, André ref 1, ref 2

  Hemingway, Ernest ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Henry II, King ref 1

  Henry III, King ref 1

  Henry, Captain Don ref 1

  Henry of Blois, Abbot of Glastonbury ref 1

  Hermes Trismegistos ref 1, ref 2