Author(s)

    • Jack, Albert
    • Howgate, Sandra

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Phantom hitchhikers and decoy ducks : the strange stories behind the urban legends we can't stop telling each other

Albert Jack ; illustrator, Sandra Howgate

(Penguin books, . Penguin reference/language)(Penguin reference books)

Penguin, 2008

  • : pbk

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That's bollocks!

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Originally published in hardback as: That's bollocks! 2006

Includes index

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Description

'Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Was Sir Winston Churchill really a Druid? Did Charlie Chaplin lose a lookalike competition? Did The Who's drummer Keith Moon drive his Rolls Royce into a swimming pool? The man with the answers is Albert Jack...' - Daily Express From Walt Disney's frozen head to the kidnap of JFK's brain, Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. But this is more than just a collection of urban legends, it is also a detective story. Exploring the real events behind conspiracy theories, the exaggerations of history and the assumptions of old wives' tales, Albert Jack shows us that the truth can definitely be stranger than fiction...

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