The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (118 page)

Nickell, Steven
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Nicoll, Professor Allardyce
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Niven, David
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Noderskiold, A.E.
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Norkot, Arthur
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Norkot, Joan
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Norkot, Mary
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North, Lord
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Northfleet poltergeist
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Noyes, Alfred
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nuclear explosions
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Nuremberg Trials
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Oakley, Dr Kenneth
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occultism
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Odell, Robin
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Odyssey
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Oera Linda Book
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Ogburn, Charlton
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Ohnesorg, Benno
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Ohtsuki, Yoshihiko
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Okeman, Agnes and John
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Olcott, Judge
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“Old Jeffrey” (poltergeist)
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Omand, Rev. Donald
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O’Neill, Mrs Jane
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Onslow, Colonel George
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Orderson, Rev. Thomas
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d’Orléans, Gaston Duc
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Orlov, Count Alexei
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Oronteus Finaeus map
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“Ossian” (James MacPherson)
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Oesterreich, T.K.
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Ostman, Albert
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Osty, Dr Eugene
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Ottema, Dr J.O.
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Ouija board
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Ouspensky, P.D.
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Owen, Dr G.
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Owen, Dr Orville W.
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Owen, Sir Richard
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Oxford, Edward de Vere, Earl of
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Padfield, Susan
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Pagenstecher, Dr Gustav
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Paige, Louis Adrien de
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Paine, Thomas
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Palenque tablet (Mexico)
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Paleologue, Maurice
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Palestinian hijackers
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Paley, Bruce
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Palmerston, Lord
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Paole, Arnold
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paranormal
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see also
poltergeists; possession

Parker, Captain Gilman C.
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Parsons, Elizabeth and Richard
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Pash, Florence
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Pater, Walter
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Patrick, St
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Patterson, Roger
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Paul, Saint
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Paul, Tsar
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Pauli, Wolfgang
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Pauwels, Louis
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Payne, Daniel
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Pearce, Charles E.
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Pecora, Dr David
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Pedachenko, Alexander
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Pellegrino, Cardinal
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“People of the Secret”
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Pepys, Samuel
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Peter the Great, Tsar
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“phantom drummer of Tedworth”
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“phantom menagerie”
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Phelps, Rev. Eliakim, and family
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“Philadelphia experiment”
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Philip the Fair (le Bel), King of France
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philosopher’s stone
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Philostratus
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Pia, Secondo
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Picknett, Lynn
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Piltdown man
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Piper, Mrs Leonore
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Piri Re’is map
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Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham
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Plantard de Saint-Clair, Pierre
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Plato
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Playfair, Guy Lyon
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Plogojowitz, Peter
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Podmore, Frank
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Poe, Edgar Allan
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Polanyi, Michael
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Polillo, Florence (“Flo”), murder of
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Polk, Bishop Leonidas
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poltergeists
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Pomeroy, Jesse
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Pompadour, Mme de
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Pontefract poltergeist
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Ponto, Jürgen, murder of
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Pontoppidan, Bishop
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Popper, Sir Karl
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Porshnev, Professor Boris
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portolans
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possession
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Poussin, Nicolas
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Powell, Lieut-Colonel Arthur E.
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precognition
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Priestley, J.B.
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Prince, Clive
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Prince, Dr Morton
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Prince, Dr Walter Franklin
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Priory of Sion
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(passim)
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Pritchard, Diane and family
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Project Blue Book
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Proll, Astrid
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Proll, Thorwald
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Pronin, Dr Alexander
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Proust, Marcel
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“psychic invasion”
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psychokinesis
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psychometry
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Ptolemy
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Puharich, Andrija
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Pulitzer, Dr Henry F.
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Pushkin, Alexander
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Putnam, James
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Puységur, Armand de Chastenet, Marquis de
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Pylos, King Nestor’s palace
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Quartermaine, Helen
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Quicherat, Jules
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Radclyffe, Charles
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Raglan, Lord
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Raight, Dr Joseph
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Ramapithecus
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Randi, James
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Rankin, Capt. Sir Hugh and Lady
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rape/sexual assaults
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Raphael
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Raposo, Francisco
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Raspe, Jan-Carl
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Rasputin, Grigoriy
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Ratcliffe Highway murders (1811)
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Reagan, President Ronald
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Reedy, William Marion
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reincarnation
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Reeser, Mrs Mary
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Reich, Wilhelm
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Reinach, Professor Salomon
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Rennes-le-Château, mystery of
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