I am trying to find a book that i had when i was a child,It was about spontaneous human combustion and and ...

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strange chunks of ice that fell from the sky and just in general all kinds of oddities. I had it in paperback form and it was originally published in the late 50's early 60's and I am not quite sure of the title, I think it may have been called "Truth, stranger than fiction" or something like that. Does any one have or remember the correct title? I would like to try and find another copy of it. it was great reading! Thanks!!!

LOL I am trying to find the title of the book..........

Answer 1

check the library, under science or non-fiction., or even e-bay.

Answer 2

It sounds like it may be "Strangely Enough," a Scholastic book by C. B. Colby from around that era. I vaguely remember a story about spontaneous human combustion...they found a burned up recliner or something? I had a copy in the 1970s, but it was older. My edition had an eye on the front cover, but I believe they changed the cover with later editions. The story in the book I remember the most was called "The Whistle," about an old woman who lived out in the country, and one day a whistle came closer and closer, and she got really scared and huddled in the house till the whistle stopped. When she went out, she found her dog dead outside. Another story was the one about the boys who picked up the girl hitchhiker. They gave her a letterman jacket or sweater or something because she was cold or wet. They dropped her off in front of her house and when they later returned to the house to reclaim the sweater, they found that the girl had died several years before. When they went to the cemetery where she was buried, the sweater was folded neatly and lying on the grave. Read the reviews and see if this is the one, but remember that the covers have changed: http://www.amazon.com/Strangely-Enough-C-B-Colby/dp/0590031236/?tag=24680e-20

Here's the cover I had: http://i5.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/81/db/a273_1.JPG

Answer 3

Might it be this:

Charles Fort "The Book of the Damned."

Flying saucers, telekinesis, sudden showers of fish from the sky, poltergeists, spontaneous combustion: these are a few of the unexplained phenomena Charles Fort (1874-1932) labeled "damned," his term for mysteries ignored or dismissed by scientific orthodoxy. This volume, based on 27 years of research, explores this gray area between science and fantasy. Although branded as "irregular, whimsical, mutually exclusive, elliptical and contrary," Fort's manner of writing was admired by many notable figures, and his research and interpretations became the prototype for latter-day extraterrestrial speculations and helped promote the development of science fiction--a genre that embraces what are known today as "Fortean themes." Unabridged republication of the edition published by Boni and Liveright, Inc., New York, 1919.

see first or second link to read it on-line