Did Rasputin, the mad monk of Tsarist Russia, possess supernatural
powers? Who was the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille who has gone
down in history as "The Man in the Iron Mask"? Did he possess a
priceless secret which Louis XIV desperately wanted to learn? Victorian
Britain was terrorized by a weird super-athlete known to the popular
press of those days as "Spring-heeled Jack." Was he just an eccentric
gymnast, or could he have been an alien? Who or what was the mysterious
man known as the Count of St. Germain whose abnormal powers seemed to
defy both time and space - and is he still with us today? What strange
powers of prophecy did Coinneach Odhar, the famous Brahan Seer, really
possess? Was Bérenger Sauniëre, the enigmatic Priest of
Rennes-Le-Château, one of the last guardians of a secret older than the
Sphinx? Could the sinister Aleister Crowley have been merely a pathetic
victim of self-deception and his own inflated ego, or did he really
possess magical powers? What amazing secrets did electrical engineer
Nikola Tesla control? Gurdjieff - one of the most amazing men of his
time - has never been fully understood: what was the true meaning behind
his strangely ambivalent messages? Was Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
a genius with strange paranormal powers, or merely a charlatan and a
sensation-seeker? Francis Dashwood of Medmenham Abbey, leader of a sect
of the wildest debauchees who roared their way across the eighteenth
century, was an expert in the Black Arts. All of these strange,
mysterious, and intriguing characters - and many others - are described,
examined, and analyzed in The World's Most Mysterious People.
This is a collection of remarkable and mysterious people, from all ages
and places - including our own. Some the authors have met, others were
researched carefully from reliable archives. Some are Canadian, others
are from the US, the UK, and all over the world. All are mysterious; all
are intriguing; all are worth studying. Can anyone learn to use
mysterious powers like theirs? To update what a great thinker once said:
"The proper study of people is other human beings." And the more
mysterious those human beings are, the more we shall learn from studying
them.
