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Title:
Minnesota mysteries : a history of unexplained wonders, eccentric characters, preposterous claims & baffling occurrences in the land of ten thousand lakes / Ben Welter.
ISBN:
9781626193628
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Publication Information:
Charleston ; London : The History Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
A woman in man's clothes: September 1883 -- "Little Georgia Magnet" astounds Hudson: October 1890 -- Lost in a Minneapolis sewer: December 1890 -- How to read tea leaves: August 1896 -- Minnetonka's up-to-date hermit: August 1897 -- A frightful cemetery: November 1899 -- Quite a puzzler: November 1904 -- The mysterious Mr. Sly: September 1906 -- A nun kidnapped: June 1907 -- A sea lion escapes: June 1907 -- A baffling gender switch: July 1907 -- "Psychic Wonder" astonishes Minneapolis: January 1909 -- Last red squirrel haunts Loring Park: April 1909 -- Quickest adoption on record: September 1909 -- Spanish fraud letters flood state: February 1910 -- Clairvoyant in court on vagrancy charge: September 1911 -- A Dinkey man's sad story: October 1912 -- A surgical "cure" for criminal tendencies: June 1901-September 1925 -- Who cut Mary's hair?: January 1915 -- Tonka Bay's "Man of mystery": May 1916 -- House of secret chambers: December 1916 -- Married by hypnosis: January 1921 -- 137-year-old Indian dies: February 1922 -- A tall order: September 1924 -- The Ape-Man of Rose Hill: January 1925 -- Baby on (running) board: August 1926 -- U girls have longer arms: March 1935 -- New Runestone found: August 1949 -- Muskie fever: July 1955 -- The D.B. Cooper hijacking: November 1971 -- About the author.
Summary:
"Discover some of the most captivating mysteries in Minnesota history, from a sea lion on the lam to a clairvoyant in the courtroom to the tale of a Titanic survivor"-- Provided by publisher.

"A history of unexplained mysteries in Minnesota that date back to 1899"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
ocn860753830
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