UNSOLVED MYSTERIES Reading and discussion fer intermediate - level Sirdunla GEORGE P McCALLUM Nelson‘Thomas Nelson and Sone Lid NNolson House Mayfield Road Walton-on-Thames Surrey KTI2 5PL_UK 51 York Place Esinburgh BHI aD UK ‘Thomas Nelson (Hong Kong) Lid “Toppan Bulcing 10/F 224 Westlands Road Quarry Bay Hong Kong © George P McCallum 1980 Fist published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Lid 1880 ISBN 0-7.555807-3, NPN 9876543 ‘AI rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with alten permission or in accordance withthe provsions of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988, oF under the terms of any cence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Cour Road, London, WiP SHE ‘Any person who does any unauthorised actin relation to tis publication may be lable to criminal prosecution ang civil claims for damages Printed in Hong Kong ‘Acknowledgements Photographs “The publisher would Ike to thank the folowing for kind permission to reproduce copyright photographs: Fonald Grant, page 10; the Mansell Collection, page 75; Tony Stone Associates, page 20; Columbia Pictures, page 46. Mustrations Gabriele Morton, cover, David Sawyers, pages 5, 25, 90, 95, lan Fouls and Associates, page 4.Contents Page Introduction 4 1 THE LOCH NESS MONSTER. real or imaginary? 5 2 ATLANTIS: is it only a legend? 10 3. THE MARY CELESTE: why did the people on board disappear? 15 4 STONEHENGE: what was its purpose? 20 5 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFOs) are there such things? 25 6 THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN: man or animal? 30 7 LIZZIE BORDEN: did she murder her parents? 35 8 THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: sis ita triangle of death? 4 9 AMBROSE BIERCE: what happened to him? 6 10 ANASTASIA: ‘was she really the Tsar’s daughter? 50 Index of vocabulary and phrasal verbs 56