"Presents the legend of Bigfoot, including current theories and famous encounters"--Provided by publisher.

Prepare to have your mind blown! As you explore ten of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, you'll witness a UFO encounter, search for the lost city of Atlantis, tour a haunted house, and discover the kraken's true form. Along the way, you'll use the scientific method and sharp thinking to separate fact from fiction and explain the unexplainable.

Presents a collection of odd facts, findings, and photographs and asks readers to determine whether they are true or fake. Features quizzes, color photographs, and fact boxes.

"Every mysterious fact is connected in surprising and sneaky ways. Follow a trail that slinks from facts about spy gadgets to facts about hidden toilets to facts about secret languages to facts about thieving cats. And there isn't just one trail through these facts. Sometimes your path branches, and you can choose to uncover a completely different (but still connected) part of Secret FACTopia! Where will your curiosity take you?"-- Page 4 of cover....

Did you know that a town in Spain celebrates an annual tomato fight? That British police are still searching for crooks who stole 60,000 bees from their hive? These are just a couple of the bizarre but true stories you'll find in this exciting new addition to the popular Weird But True series.

Features people who have set world records by pushing themselves to the physical limits from sword swallowers to a man who can lift over 140 pounds with his beard. Includes captioned, full color photographs of each Guinness World Record holder.

"Enter The Labyrinth of Curiosities and begin a voyage of discovery through a maze of peculiar trivia where each factoid and tidbit leads unexpectedly to the next. This unique full-color trivia book from Fay Moss-Rider is a strange and astonishing journey through history, science, pop culture, and more. What do sign language puns have to do with Shakespearean cats? How do secret languages involve infamous twins? And how are gingko trees and tidal...

Jump-start any conversation with this "witty book . . . for anyone who likes to show off random bits of knowledge at the dinner table" (Men's Journal).
Did you know that "Karaoke" is Japanese for "Empty orchestra"? Or that all snowflakes have six sides? With this collection of over 350 fascinating, little-known facts, you'll be ready to get any conversation off and running. Hand-drawn illustrations and a charming conversationalist...

Provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of world records in pop culture, sports, science, and other categories, each with a photograph.

"Discover Borneo's Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist--in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm--and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans' Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural...