Modern Mysteries of Britain: One Hundred Years of Strange Events

Modern Mysteries of Britain examines a century of reported strange events across Britain, beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to the 1980s. Its 25 chapters consider separate subjects including ghosts, phantom black dogs, UFOs, poltergeists, spontaneous human combustion and mysterious disappearances.

The coverage also includes ball lightning, alien big cats, sea monsters, phantom hitch-hikers, little people and lake creatures. Accounts of the Hexham Heads, the Loch Ness Monster and other British cases sit alongside discussions of possible explanations and competing interpretations. A chronological list of events and a county gazetteer provide useful reference material, while notes, a bibliography and index place the individual reports within a broader record of modern British mystery lore.