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Impossible Things: Cryptids, Ghosts, Aliens and Adventures in the Unknown
Answers to the BIG and BANANAS questions that your parents don't know!Did dinosaurs land on the moon 66-million-years before us?Is the Loch Ness monster really a ghost?Should cats be in charge of protecting countries from Earthquakes?Are imaginary friends mysteriously turning into real people?Investigate the weird, the wacky and the downright weird questions you've always wanted to know the answers too (and some you hadn't even thought of!) with podcaster and fact-detective Dan Schreiber. But be warned, when you read a book about impossible things; impossible things start happening to you too . . .Packed full of unbelievable-but-true facts and hilarious comic strips, this is the ultimate fact book for every curious child.
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254 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 18, 2024
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May 17, 2024
Hát én ezen nagyon jól szórakoztam.
És segített jobban megérteni, hogy attól, mert valaki egy tudományágban/zenében/akármiben híres attól még lehetnek bizarr hitei. A lényeg, hogy az ember maradjon a valóság talaján, de hagyjon meg egy kis részt az abszolút valószinütlennek is.
UFOk, szellemek, telepata növények, minden volt itt és egész egyszerüen lenyügözőnek találtam az összeset. Néha jó ráébredni, hogy végső soron mind emberek vagyunk és mindenkinek van egy furcsa bogara.
Illetve lehet, hogy meg kéne próbálkoznom az energiatovábbitással profi sportolóknál.
És segített jobban megérteni, hogy attól, mert valaki egy tudományágban/zenében/akármiben híres attól még lehetnek bizarr hitei. A lényeg, hogy az ember maradjon a valóság talaján, de hagyjon meg egy kis részt az abszolút valószinütlennek is.
UFOk, szellemek, telepata növények, minden volt itt és egész egyszerüen lenyügözőnek találtam az összeset. Néha jó ráébredni, hogy végső soron mind emberek vagyunk és mindenkinek van egy furcsa bogara.
Illetve lehet, hogy meg kéne próbálkoznom az energiatovábbitással profi sportolóknál.
January 6, 2026
Pretty good
November 5, 2024
How to be an impossible investigator
I love Dan Schreiber's work. I listen to every single episode of "There's No Such Thing As a Fish" podcast stretching back several years now, I also regularly listen to his other podcast "We Can Be Weirdos", while his book "The Theory of Everything Else" is among my favorites of all time.
Hence, when he wrote a new book I immediately purchased it, no matter what it is about. As it turns out, it is another incredible book that covers a wide range of bizarre and impossible questions, this time questions asked by curious children where he is answering them all with concise clarity and sufficient amount of details, but not too much that it could overwhelm them.
That's right, this is a book written for children (including me, a 500 months-old kid). And in a way this is perfect, since children have not been molded into our status-quo way of thinking, hence the questions can be pretty out-of-the-box. And that's exactly where Dan excels. It is a well written and very interesting book, complete with all the drawings and quick fact boxes to make the reading experience kinda interractive, which makes it hard to put down once we start reading it (I devoured it within 24 hours).
It covers topics such as Loch Ness monster, Unicorn, Elf in Iceland, Yeti hunting in Bhutan, and Mongolian death worm. It also discusses everything about ghosts: their ghost hunters, the most haunted places, the oldest ghost ever recorded in history - a Babylonian ghost. It talks about aliens: including the earliest record of a UFO sightings (in 1947), The Roswell incident, those who secretly live among us (like David Bowie and Elvis Presley), Stephen Hawking's scary comment about aliens, even entertaining the thought that maybe WE are the aliens that migrated to Earth from another planet.
Moreover, the book also talk bout time travel, about physic intuition, telepathy, telekinesis, learning to speak with trees and animals, about imaginary friend, immortality and its elixir of life, vampires, cursed items, on bad luck, the scenario that dinosaurs went to the moon before us, the possibility that we actually living in a Matrix, and for the love of [anything] can you please tell me who is "He Who Shall Also Not Be Named" and what was his cursed book?
All in all, it is such a fun book to read. It is the kind of book that teaches us to take things lighter, to accept that some things are still unexplainable, to not be a skeptic and instead to be open minded for all possibilities, even towards the ideas and imaginations that are just almost impossible. Afterall, a lot of things that are parts of our normal lives today were once considered as impossible, like refrigerator, the flying machine that we all now called airplanes, or purchasing Dan's book on a Kindle app on my phone and completed reading it while being stuck on a taxi in a traffic jam in Jakarta - all done without visiting any physical bookstore. Explain that to your great great great grandfather.
I love Dan Schreiber's work. I listen to every single episode of "There's No Such Thing As a Fish" podcast stretching back several years now, I also regularly listen to his other podcast "We Can Be Weirdos", while his book "The Theory of Everything Else" is among my favorites of all time.
Hence, when he wrote a new book I immediately purchased it, no matter what it is about. As it turns out, it is another incredible book that covers a wide range of bizarre and impossible questions, this time questions asked by curious children where he is answering them all with concise clarity and sufficient amount of details, but not too much that it could overwhelm them.
That's right, this is a book written for children (including me, a 500 months-old kid). And in a way this is perfect, since children have not been molded into our status-quo way of thinking, hence the questions can be pretty out-of-the-box. And that's exactly where Dan excels. It is a well written and very interesting book, complete with all the drawings and quick fact boxes to make the reading experience kinda interractive, which makes it hard to put down once we start reading it (I devoured it within 24 hours).
It covers topics such as Loch Ness monster, Unicorn, Elf in Iceland, Yeti hunting in Bhutan, and Mongolian death worm. It also discusses everything about ghosts: their ghost hunters, the most haunted places, the oldest ghost ever recorded in history - a Babylonian ghost. It talks about aliens: including the earliest record of a UFO sightings (in 1947), The Roswell incident, those who secretly live among us (like David Bowie and Elvis Presley), Stephen Hawking's scary comment about aliens, even entertaining the thought that maybe WE are the aliens that migrated to Earth from another planet.
Moreover, the book also talk bout time travel, about physic intuition, telepathy, telekinesis, learning to speak with trees and animals, about imaginary friend, immortality and its elixir of life, vampires, cursed items, on bad luck, the scenario that dinosaurs went to the moon before us, the possibility that we actually living in a Matrix, and for the love of [anything] can you please tell me who is "He Who Shall Also Not Be Named" and what was his cursed book?
All in all, it is such a fun book to read. It is the kind of book that teaches us to take things lighter, to accept that some things are still unexplainable, to not be a skeptic and instead to be open minded for all possibilities, even towards the ideas and imaginations that are just almost impossible. Afterall, a lot of things that are parts of our normal lives today were once considered as impossible, like refrigerator, the flying machine that we all now called airplanes, or purchasing Dan's book on a Kindle app on my phone and completed reading it while being stuck on a taxi in a traffic jam in Jakarta - all done without visiting any physical bookstore. Explain that to your great great great grandfather.
July 18, 2024
Can't wait till my kid is old enough for this, but as a grown dude I loved reading it for myself!
Dan has pivoted very well to a children's book and delivers his signature madness in a tone that I think speaks to and will capture the target audiences imaginations.
As I'm sure many others will end up saying, I would have died to have this book as a child and would have read it cover to cover many, many times.
Dan has pivoted very well to a children's book and delivers his signature madness in a tone that I think speaks to and will capture the target audiences imaginations.
As I'm sure many others will end up saying, I would have died to have this book as a child and would have read it cover to cover many, many times.
July 20, 2024
This quirky little book intruduces wild ideas that may have truth in them, takes a good look at the mysterious and the supernatural, tries to apply science to the most bizarre of facts - plus it's very entertaining. It illustrates how important endless curiosity and interest in life is, and how no rumour, urban legend or supernatural story is too crazy to give it at least a benefit of the doubt. This book was lots of fun.
September 3, 2024
Such a great book! I'm not a kid (nor do I have one) but this was still super enjoyable. Felt like reading an episode of We Can Be Weirdos, and there are lots of familiar stories in there from the podcast.
July 17, 2024
Highly recommend for curious kids. An excellent read from start to finish.
July 30, 2024
A bit too childlike for me. Not what i was expecting
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