Real Mysteries

The truth is more terrifying than fiction. Step into the darkest corners of the human mind with this chilling collection of real-life true crime cases—featuring unsolved murders, twisted serial killers, cold cases, and the most baffling criminal investigations ever recorded. Written by Dr. Cassandra Blake, a seasoned criminologist, and George Masterson, a former FBI investigator who tracked cold cases across the US, this book takes you behind the scenes of some of the most haunting and disturbing crimes in modern history.

Here’s a harrowing array of spine-chilling stories that will make your heart race nonstop. This book is full of twists and turns, dark corners, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and devilish plots that get your blood pumping. Horror Anthology contains 19 short stories of terrifying real tales of horror. With exceptional articulation and clarity, author Ann Gaiman spins dark but real tales that will make you sit on the edge of your seat.

Within this book, you will find eyewitness stories unlike anything you've heard before. You will experience the terror, the helplessness, the loss of control, and the torment felt by those who have fallen prey to the dark powers in this world - the demon possessed.

On a chilly November afternoon, six-year-old Luke Nightingale’s life changes forever. On the playground across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he encounters Daniel. Soon, the boys are hiding from dinosaurs and shooting sniper rifles. Within hours, Luke and his mother, Claire, are welcoming Daniel into their Upper East Side apartment - and their lives. Daniel and Luke are soon inseparable. With his parents divorcing, Luke takes comfort in having a near-constant playmate. But there’s something strange about Daniel, who is more than happy to bind himself to the Nightingales.

Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective.

A sweltering summer day on the Hobfield housing estate. New tenant Lisa Woodley is horrified when her cat comes home with a human foot in its mouth. The foot belongs to 16-year-old Noah Crosby, whose decomposing remains are found in a rubbish-strewn alleyway. It’s not a robbery, as the teen has an expensive gold watch, high-end trainers and a top-of-the-range mobile phone on him. Where did he get such expensive gear? A letter X is carved into Noah’s flesh. Twenty years ago this was the hallmark of a serial killer who was never caught.

Nora Grace Moon thought the toughest challenge this semester would be surviving crippling bouts of OCD, but when her deceased roommate turns up as a reanimated corpse, her world starts to collapse. Nora has an uncanny, heated connection to fellow gamer Wesley. She finds out he’s a US Marshal with real-life skills for tactical survival, not just in-game. They uncover a plot involving an ancient archeology society who will stop at nothing until they have what Nora has—an ancient artifact that will unleash a new world order of the undead.

A significant weekend in Alex Wright’s life begins with the public viewing of his warehouse renovation and ends with a cry for help from an 83-year-old woman being foreclosed and thrown out of her home. Two murders and an encounter with a ruthless Russian oligarch lead our hero into a search through Baja California for the man with the answers.

Fear. Anguish. Heartbreak. Selfless love. Ultimate sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes that’s all the time there is. Adam Manning arrives at the crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems. Neither is he. If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with love, hope, family, new and old friendships, and a mystery to keep you guessing, Stay With Me is the series collection for you. This is Book Six of the eight-part Stay With Me mystery romance novella series. Book 6 of 8.

Bizarre murders and disturbing disappearances that remain unsolved till this day! Best-selling author Hannah J. Tidy will introduce you to some of the most fascinating cases that remain unsolved and continue to perplex us to this day.

Using this book as a guide, you will break out of old ways of thinking and doing things. Your perceptions change as you begin to understand what's really going on in the world and why you are here. These channeled insights from Linda's guides along with her intuitive commentary on "how it works" in your life will reignite your soul's urge to express itself by bringing the real you out of hiding.

Aquel que lea este libro será transportado a realidades tan siniestras que podrían parecer ficción, pero son mucho más comunes de lo que algunos podrían pensar.

Federal judge Edward Lamport is no stranger to controversy and danger. Nine months into his tenure, he's received two death threats and is under the protection of US Marshals. But when he receives a plea for help from a woman with whom he had a brief romance twenty-five years earlier, he must face a peril of a different sort, one that involves his long-lost son, Carlos.

In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible. Meanwhile, Sabina finds herself not only making plans for her and Quincannon’s wedding, but also investigating both an audacious real estate scam and an abusive young man’s villainous secret.

Anthropologist and ceremonial magician Poke Runyon explains and demonstrates the authentic techniques of ancient ritual magick. Learn how to invoke angels and evoke spirits to visible appearance. Stand in the magick circle with masters of the art as they conjure the spirits of Bael and Astaroth (Baal and Astarte) to visible appearance in the dark mirror upon Solomon's Triangle.

Filius Thoreau, arch-benefit fraudster and jaunty raconteur, celebrates the silver anniversary of his induction into the world of the workshy with his candid, but not too candid, autobiography in which he celebrates the unique and sinuous path he has steered through the minefield of work-obsessed modern Britain. From the dark days of the Poll Tax through the laissez-faire nineties to the ghastly government work schemes of the new millennium, Filius has marched onwards to the sound of his own personal drummer and constructed a uniquely apologist philosophy along the way.

In 1989, country newcomer Sammy Sadler had already charted several critically acclaimed singles and was ready to release his first album when he was shot during the assassination of then Cash Box chart manager Kevin Hughes, an incident known around the world as the “Murder on Music Row”. The police had no suspects, and even though Sammy suffered a nearly fatal bullet wound, the officers kept him under suspicion during the 13-year investigation.

Julia Swann, mother of two young boys, is on the phone with her husband, Michael, when the call abruptly cuts out. It isn't until later in the evening when she discovers that something terrible has happened at Penn Station, where Michael was waiting for a train home. Julia races to New York City to look for Michael, her panicked searching interwoven with memories of meeting and falling in love with the husband she's now desperate to find.

Ever buy something second hand only to bring it home and notice odd things start to occur? After inheriting something old, did you start to feel off or watched? How about hearing or seeing things that just cannot be explained? In this anthology of paranormal stories, you will hear about the most wicked hauntings that are assumed to be caused by haunted objects.

Without Redemption was written on a number of parallel tracks that constantly intersect: First, it is the most detailed historical biography ever written about Bill Bonin, the notorious Freeway Killer responsible for murdering 22 teenage boys over ten-months in 1979-80. Second, it is a psychological roadmap which charts the evolution of Bonin’s personality from abused child to sexual predator to serial killer. This is accomplished using documents from his childhood, war service, multiple California government mental health and penal institutions, witness testimony and the expertise of ...