Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks: The Strange Stories Behind the Urban Legends We Can't Stop Telling Each Other

Albert Jack

Penguin Adult, Aug 28, 2008 - Fiction - 320 pages

'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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks: The Strange Stories Behind the Urban Legends We Can't Stop Telling Each Other; Penguin Reference; That's bollocks!, Albert Jack
• Author: Albert Jack
• Illustrated by: Sandra Howgate
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Adult, 2008
• ISBN: 0141038519, 9780141038513
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Humor / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology