The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia has spawned many imitators. This edition brings together some entertaining and informative of these. It contains lists written specially for each country, and aims to have something for everyone.

Following a plane crash, Conway, a British consul, his deputy, a missionary and an American financer find themselves in the enigmatic snow-capped mountains of uncharted Tibet. Here they discover a seemingly perfect hidden community where they are welcomed.

Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan'. Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us'. The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in the eleven-year-old girl. Is it possible that a demonic force is present in the child?

Exploring the past with hi-tech tools of modern archaeology, geology and astronomy, Hancock exposes an eerie network of connections between Egyptian pyramids, Andean temples, spherical geometry, and astro-navigation. He makes claim for a lost civilization that flourished during the last ice age.