Mysteries and Science: Exploring Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, the end of the world, and other weird things

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Mysteries and Science: Exploring Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, the end of the world, and other weird things</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="skepticism for kids, critical thinking for kids"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_style/style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_style/printstyle.css" media="print"/> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />  <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body><br /> <div class="container"> <div class="header"> <div class="logo"> <img src="_images/logo_01.png" alt="Skeptic's Dictionary for Kids" width="270" height="60" /> <br /> </div> <div class="slogan"><img src="_images/slogan_01.png" alt="Learn what scientists say about aliens, Bigfoot, fortune tellers, ghosts, monsters, UFOs, and other strange things." width="362" height="70" /></div> </div> <div class="menu"> <ul> <li></li><li><a href="http://sd4kids.skepdic.com/recent.html">What's New</a></li> <li><a href="http://sd4kids.skepdic.com/feedback.html">Questions or Comments</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="left"> <h2> Sciency websites</h2> <ul class="nav_1"> <li><a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/">Kitchen Science Experiments</a> <br /> <span class="small">(from the Naked Scientists) </span></li> <li><a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html">Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brain?</a></li> <li><a href="http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/">Kids.Net.AU</a><br /> <span class="small">Encyclopedia</span></li> <li><a href="http://www.amnh.org/">American Museum of Natural History</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.skeptiseum.org/">THE SKEPTISEUM </a><br /> <span class="small">The Skeptical Museum of the Paranormal</span></li> <li><a href="sciencywebs.html">More Sciency Websites</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="it"> <p align="right"><span class="quote">True science begins and ends in wonder.</span><br /> --Abraham Maslow</p> <p align="left"><strong><span class="style2"><a href="http://skepdic.com/sciencemysteries.html"><img src="graphics/coverlulu2thumbnail.jpg" alt="cover" border="0" class="floatLeft" /></a>Paperback and eBook</span> versions of <em>Mysteries and Science</em> are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Lulu. 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Mysteries and Science: Exploring Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, the end of the world, and other weird things