Plates for the Paper-Back Version

First Set Of Plates

A drawing of mokele-mbembe by artist David Miller based on a description given by Congolese eye-witnesses.

Scottish farmer Ted Noble finally managed to trap the puma which had been savaging his sheep for several months.

'Bear' paw print in the snow on Hackney marshes.

Photographs of the Surrey puma are few and fuzzy.

The hands and feet of the wildman.

The Nanjing belt. The discovery of aluminium amongst the fragments suggested that the Chinese isolated the metal at least 1,500 years before western scientists.

Professor Frank J. Frost (centre) examines the Chinese anchor with two of his students.

The Great Glass Slab of Galilee. For years this astonishing example of ancient technology went unnoticed. Serving as a stand for a museum display case.

The 'giant scratchpad' of Nazca: lines, geometrical figures and drawings meticulously inscribed on the desert.

One of the frogs said to have fallen on to Mrs Vida McWilliam's garden in Bedford during a shower of rain in June 1979.

The hailstones that fell on Girard, Illinois, in 1929 were bigger than hens' eggs, but even larger 'aerial icebergs' have been recorded, including one 20ft (6m) in diameter.

'Surgeon's Photograph' as it is usually published. The close-up provides no clues for estimating the size of the 'monster'.

Part of the carcass of a giant octopus which came ashore at Santa Cruz in 1925.

In the nineteenth century the hypothesis was advanced that manatee was a possible source of the mermaid stories.

Frances and the dancing fairies. (Photograph A).

Elsie and the gnome. (Photograph B).

Frances and the leaping fairy. (Photograph C).

Elsie and the flower fairy. (Photograph D).

The 'fairy bower' (Photograph E).

The original version of the first Cottingley picture, before it was retouched and re-photographed.

The Raynham Hall 'ghost'.

Mrs Mabel Chinery's snapshot of her husband Jim. Is the old lady in the back seat her mother, who died before the picture was taken?

A Sri Lankan Kattadiya, or witch doctor, prepares to consign an evil demon trapped in a bottle to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

All that remained of Dr John Irving Bentley, Pennsylvania, December 1966.

The remains of Mrs M.H. Reeser are sifted in St Petersburg, Florida July 1951.

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