The World's Most Mysterious Objects

By Lionel Fanthorpe and Patricia Fanthorpe

Objects can carry romantic myths, embody dangerous curses, or provide links to our past. Some mysterious items, like the Hope Diamond, can still be found today, while others, like the Philosophers' Stone, have vanished into the mists of time. Gifted and sensitive psychometrists can apparently pick up an object and learn many things about its past and its previous owners. The World's Most Mysterious Objects provides a glimpse into these enigmas, exploring everything from psychic weapons and spiritual icons to alchemical experiments and strange devices. With this intriguing book, find out what secrets the world could be hiding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550024035
• ISBN13: 9781550024036
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bit of a snooze.

Contains 24 separate chapters, each 6 to 10 pages long. Some chapters are on actual things, like the Hope Diamond and the Tarot. But most of them are more of a guidebook to oddities, kind of like what you'd find on the Atlas Obscura website. Not a lot of mystery and, frankly, not a lot of solid facts about most of the subjects. The written equivalent of talking with your friends at a teenage slumber party about "scary stuff." You can almost hear someone saying, "Um, yeah, well I guess there was this statue of a big ram, and someone made up this weird poem about it. And no one knows where the ram came from." And that's it. That's the information you get. I would recommend J.W. Ocker's book, "Cursed Objects" instead.