This book was actually pretty damn fun, fascinating, and perfect for an inquisitive younger reader. 🏫

It is broken up into the following ten stories...

-- AN ENCOUNTER WITH ALIENS 👽
-- THE HAUNTED MANSION (my fave) 👻
-- THE SEARCH FOR LOST WORLDS 🏰
-- THE STAR OF DEEP BEGINNING 🌟
-- WHEN THE DEAD RETURN 💃
-- AMAZING POWERS OF THE MIND 👵
-- THE SECRETS OF AN ANCIENT TOMB 🏯
-- LOST AT SEA 🚢
-- THE MYSTERY OF DEAD MOUNT AIN 💀
-- MONSTERS OF THE DEEP 🌊

It is visually a pleasure to look through with colorful graphics and interesting fonts. 🎨 Each story (from around the world) has a summary of events, facts, history, and what really may have been at play. 🌌 The stories are short and easy to read and not bogged down with details that would make a young reader's interest wane. 👍 I can see this book being perfect for any elementary school-aged child who loves mysterious stories and science. 🎒

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you NetGalley!

My two kids and I LOVED this book. I'm a sucker for mysteries and strange crap msyelf... but this was brilliant for young readers!

I loved both the concept and the execution of this book. It's a fascinating and very well presented look at various strange phenomena - alien abductions, ghosts, zombies, monsters of various kinds, the lost city of Atlantis, telepathy and telekinesis (Uri Geller included - remember him?), and so on, over ten chapters. The evidence for and against is presented and analysed in an interesting, straightforward and kid-friendly way, encouraging readers to use a scientific approach, with the delightful illustrations adding a great deal of value.

These apparently unexplainable (or are they?) mysteries exert an enduring fascination for both children and adults, and the book would make a great addition to many libraries and home bookshelves, encouraging a balanced, questioning and critical approach. I'll definitely be sharing it with my daughter.

If you have a kid around 9-13 that is interested in the macabre or unexplained this is a great book for them. It does a really good job giving all the details into lots of popular modern myths and legends. The illustrations fit the tone well as well.