Mysteries of the Unexplained - Reader's Digest

Close in importance to the basic human needs for food, shelter, and companionship comes the urge to create an orderly world governed by dependable rules and to develop a reassuring structure of beliefs. This urge, since the beginning of recorded time, has provided a receptive audience for seers, scholars, scientists, and experts of every persuasion. There has never been, nor is there likely to be, a shortage of authorities ready to find reasonable explanations for all observed phenomena and to provide solutions for the mysteries of the universe.

And yet there are events that seem to say that our rules, our beliefs, even our common sense, may sometimes let us down.

In the past, men and women believed that the world around them had a miraculous dimension-that angels and demons were real, that prayers were efficacious, that man had a special place in the universe. Today fewer and fewer people believe in such a world. For many, existence has become something defined by politics, economics, and discoveries made in laboratories. And yet an instinct for the unknown persists, and a conviction also that not everything in our lives can be cut and dried by the statisticians, controlled in the halls of government, or defined in a test tube.

Unearthly fates
Monsters and more
Beyond the walls of time
In the realm of miracles
The unsuitable sky
Ghosts
Cryptids
Unexplained phenomena
And much more!
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