Book Review by John Davis “From Holmes to Sherlock,” by Mattias Bostrom; Mysterious Press: New York Available on Amazon How did it happen? How did a series of stories about an eccentric detective from the early 1890s, published in a British magazine, come to be a world shaking modern television …
Book Review by John Davis The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President, by Christopher Lyle McIlwain, Sr.; Savas Beatie LLC: California; $32.95, hardback (available on Amazon) A more thoroughly researched true mystery you’ll never read. George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln is no marginal revisionist history. …
Article Written by John Davis At the dawn of the 20th Century Ambrose Bierce was one of the most famous writers in America. Even today, his “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is known to readers and media viewers of all ages. He wrote famously for the Hearst newspapers throughout his …
Written by John Davis Where did Patience Worth Come From? One of the greatest mysteries is with us every day. Trying to understand our own mind is virtually like exploring darkest Africa in the 19th Century. We’ve all read the books or seen movies about strange mental cases. Who …
(I had the opportunity to interview Brent Landau in 2016. The interview was posted on another website at the time, but I’m reposting it here for MW readers. Enjoy!) MW Questions Brent Landau: Author of The Revelation of the Magi A few years ago I had the chance to read …
One of the great mysteries and questions amongst the coin collecting community is ‘who was the Omega Man?’ After almost 50 years, still no one knows. In fact, no one can even say for certain if the person who produced one of the best known counterfeit coins of all time …
Article Written by Duncan Burden Hiram Abiff is, arguably, the most famous character in Freemasonry. His story not only is central to a Mason being recognized as a Master Mason, it is from the Legend of Freemasonry that all the sinister and dark imagery of the Order can be found. …
Of all the Kings and Queens of England, one of the most famous and mysterious known is King James. Following are ten interesting facts about the mysterious King James and why he has become so well known. 1)The first main reasons King James is so well known is he authorized …
By John Davis You would think that American military men held in Japanese slave labor camps, men from almost every state in America, and even a Medal of Honor Winner, would be greatly honored by the country they died for, for which they gave the last true measure of devotion. …
By Hayward Gladwin Born in 1548 in Nola, Italy, Giordano Bruno was a philosopher, mathematician, poet and all-around mystic whose life would appear as nothing less than the summary of the rich influences having emerged and spread throughout mid-Renaissance Europe. Having studied his core studies in Naples (which had included …
