Oddities - A Book Of Unexplained Facts: Lieut.-Commander Rupert T. Gould, R.N.

The first edition of this book came out in 1928, and as a result of 'much correspondence' and further research, the author released this updated edition in 1944. Contents in this volume: The Devil's Hoofmarks: A series of strange footmarks in the snow appeared in Devonshire in 1855; The Vault At Barbados - also known as the moving coffins of Barbados; The Ships Seen On The Ice: Ships from a polar expedition believed lost in 1845 are spotted years later; The Berbalangs of Cagyan Sulu: Tales of zombies in the Philippines in 1896; Orffyreus' Wheel: Did Orffyreus invent a perpetual motion machine in 1717? Crosse's Acari: A new species of insects allegedly created by the reanimation of dead matter; The Auroras And Other Doubtful Islands: Islands that had been recognised and charted for centuries - yet they don't exist...; Mersenne's Numbers:Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, gave his name to Mersenne primes in the 17th century - prime numbers that are one less than a power of two; The Wizard of Mauritius: In the late 1700s Bottineau could predict, with accuracy, which ships would soon be arriving; The Planet Vulcan: Is there another planet between Mercury and the Sun? Nostradamus: The French scholar and mystic predicted a great many things that came true yet sceptics will point at those which haven't come true - to which the the believers retort, 'Yet...' Having written his quatrains in a mix of Latin, Greek, French with a touch of English tossed in. It being entirely possible that the quatrains were torn in half by Nostradamus so that the first two lines may have little to do with the last two, the world has not yet heard the last of him. While at least one of these 'Oddities' has now been solved - the moving coffins of Barbados - the others remain unexplained to this day. With photographs and sketches.