Famous Historical Mysteries & Their Solutions

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Many famous historical events have been labelled as mysterious, sometimes allowing people to suggest that paranormal forces were involved. The events discussed here have a reasonable explanation once you examine all the available evidence using an unbiased viewpoint. You may enjoy stories of mysterious past events that defy explanation, but what if there is a reasonable explanation that no one has properly presented to you?

Even experienced investigators have difficulty defining what happened in certain cases, and investigators can prove biased. However, what would you be able to establish if you had all the available information? If you strip away theories and interpretations that people have presented, it leaves just the facts behind; that allows you to think for yourself. With the core facts presented in each account, which of the questions discussed in this book can you answer?

Was Lizzie Borden guilty? Did someone murder Marilyn Monroe? Did Meriwether Lewis commit suicide? Was Billy the Kid killed by Pat Garrett? Were paranormal forces involved in the cases of Devon’s Walking Devil, the Hammersmith Ghost, Spring-Heeled Jack, the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste, or even the 1947 Roswell Incident? What happened to Jimmy Hoffa, Ambrose Bierce, Hale Boggs, Dorothy Arnold, or Percy Fawcett? Was America’s Stonehenge built by ancient Europeans? Who made it to the Americas before Christopher Columbus? Where can we find Atlantis?

Once you can define the real facts, what can you figure out about the cases presented here? You will be surprised.

Sherman A. Meeds, Jr. lives just outside of Olympia, Washington. He grew up in Southern Oregon, joined the US Navy in 1974, and then spent just over twenty years in naval aviation. While in the US Navy, he worked with helicopter, fighter, electronic warfare, and utility squadrons and one guided missile unit. For a time, he was part of the COMFAIRWESTPAC inspection team, covering an area stretching from the African east coast to Guam in the Pacific. He went on extended cruises on the USS Enterprise, USS Coral Sea, and USS Theodore Roosevelt.

He was at the fall of Saigon in 1975. In Operation Desert Storm, he was on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. He lived in Japan for three years and for three more years in the Philippine Islands. He has traveled extensively in the Pacific. He worked in Corrections and other state agencies for ten years, followed by six years maintaining a criminal case management system for a prosecuting attorney, followed by nine years working as a contractor developing software solutions. He is married, has three children, and ten grandchildren. This is his second published book.