There are the great unwashed in the world with living - stories that refuse human imagination and expand our idea of what the human experience is like . And there are some hoi polloi whose stories cross out of reality and into what take a lot like a science fiction or fantasy epic . Take a look at the most antic tales that people have sell as memoirs .
10 . Communion , by Whitley Strieber
This memoir by famous science fiction author Whitley Strieber ( after made into a film with Christopher Walken ) is about how Strieber was kidnapped and – yes – anally probed by unknown as a child . As an adult , he has to carry on with the fearful memories these experience evoke , and puzzle out whether he was snatch by two dissimilar groups of aliens with different finish . Plus , it ’s potential they ’re back now for his boy . To this day Strieber importune that Communion is a memoir , despite the fact that it translate precisely like one of his science fiction novel .
9 . Misha : A Memoire of the Holocaust Years , by Monique de Wael
There are a perturbing number of false memoirs about the holocaust , but this one resist out . Not only does its writer , ‘ Misha , ’ claim to have fit on 1,900 naut mi journeying across Europe during war time , but she claim to have lived with a coterie of wolves . The phantasy implications in a magical relationship to animal are powerful there .
8 . In His Image : The Cloning of a Man , by David Rorvik
approximate what this one ’s about . Published in 1978 , the author still take that this Holy Scripture is truthful .
7 . Anna and the King of Siam , by Various People
This is not so much a single story as a suite of slightly dissimilar stories in a shared fancy cosmos . The original fib , ground on the diaries of Anna Leonowens , are not entirely undisputed themselves . Leonowens was in the process of shedding her comfortable - but - not - upper - class background when she was at court . She was known to exaggerate certain facts , while keeping conveniently quiet about others . When Margaret Landon wrote a novel based on the diaries , she added love stories , and strange customs , and a despotical bent to the tycoon . When the film and then the musical amount out , the disparity uprise – and the films were actually banned in Thailand for their inaccuracy . The overall universe establish to the great fantasy or sci - fi concept of a exclusive individual visit a unknown and hostile demesne which expect no resemblance to anything in reality .
6 . Mutant Message Down Under , by Marlo Morgan
A strange tribe , a farsighted journey , phantasmagoric and supernatural occurrence and a spiritual awakening ; these are the ingredients for many a fantasy inspirational novel . They ’re also Marlo Morgan ’s travels with “ The Real People , ” an primal tribe , across the Australian desert . The fact that no one has ever find oneself evidence for this kinship group , and that the Dumbartung Aboriginal Organisation has vocally dismiss the Word of God as patronizing fabrication , puncture the poignancy of this memoir . It has since been reclassify as fiction , and the author has written a sequel .
5 . The works of Karl May , by Karl May
This German author went to his grave claiming he had had the risky venture described in his books . This would have been hard , considering he write under figure such as , Capitan Ramon Diaz de la Escosura , Emma Pollmer , Prinz Muhamel Lautréamont , and most famously Old Shatterhand . Old Shatterhand was supposedly the name he gravel when he passed an ‘ Apache test ’ that consist of tying him to a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and leaving him with one manus free to fight down off an flak . He did , with one slug . Ah , the glories of fabrication . Karl May wove fiction and spirit interchangeably , telling fantastic tales of his heroics in Asia , America , Africa , and Europe . He also changed his reported faith when write for sure journals , and added a imitation doctor’s degree when he needed to . His whole kit and boodle became a sort of serialized scifi series , in which a protagonist locomote to many different worlds and be many different lives by changing office . His genuine life was n’t as fluid . When he did travel to Asia , he had several nervous breakdown when reality shatter his fancy .
4 . place of origin of the Deep , by Joan Lowell
A unseasoned woman is ripped from her well-fixed life sentence and taken in by a no - frill rogue trader . She is raised by his rag - tag crew , see fantastic things , makes acquaintance with particular animate being , and at last must shed her childhood and become an independent woman by breaking aside from her condition and strike out on her own . Or , she spend a little over a year on a ship off the coast of California . Joan Lowell ’s 1929 memoir draw her animation from early childhood to the age of 17 on a trading ship that roamed the world . She arise up with an all - male gang , only seeing cleaning lady when the ship come into harbour . At last , just as thing may get metaphorically incestuous , the ship burns down . She jumps from the burning vessel and drown to a Modern island shore , with a family of kittens on her back . I do n’t care that it ’s phony – it ’s a effective floor .
3 . Jihad!:The Secret War in Afghanistan , by Tom Carew
This book , published in September of 2001 , became an instant bestseller after 9/11 . The generator was a former mercenary named Philip Sessarego who took the name of Tom Carew , and take to be a former SAS member who carry behind - the - scenes surgical process in Afghanistan in the 1980s . His talking about training camps and intercept Russian arms shipments could easily have made for a series of adherence novels . At first no one wonder his story , mayhap because Sessarego faked his own death in the 1990s to avoid paying child accompaniment . But eventually a BBC reporter unmasked Carew as Sessaro , a merc who tried to be an SAS member , but failed the forcible endurance test twice . There was no evidence that he take part in any of the operations he write about , though he had been part of several covert operations as a soldier of fortune . When his fraud was revealed , he moved to Belgium and experience in a garage while working as a dead body safety machine at landing strip clubs . In a sick twist , he died of carbon monoxide inspiration in his garage home , and was n’t discover for months . Police identified him using DNA sampling .
2 . Abel Fosdyk ’s account , by Someone
In 1872 , the Mary Celeste was discover in the Atlantic . The ship was in good stipulation , with the canvas up , and sailing for Gibraltar . With no crew . One lifeboat was miss , but otherwise there was no indication that anything was wrong with the ship . It was a great mystery until Abel Fosdyk ’s memoir was published in Strand Magazine in 1917 . According to ‘ Fosdyk , ’ the bunch of the Mary Celeste all managed to hold up the early conceivable version of Shark Night 3D. Everyone on plank was endure on a specially - made pack of cards to watch a swim race , when suddenly vicious sharks ate the swimmers ! And then the deck collapsed and the sharks ate the spectators ! as luck would have it , Fosdyk somehow was chuck out from the bloodied waters , acres on a piece of the deck of cards , and float unscathed to Africa . fathom plausible , proper ? You wo n’t be surprised to see there was no Fosdyk on the ship ’s manifest .
1 . Jay ’s Journal , by Beatrice Sparks
What simulated memoir ingathering is consummate without a piddling Satanism ? Jay ’s Journal is the journal of a depressed youth who fall in with a Satanic cult . While some memoirs only dig into the depravity of the cult , this one make for in a full - on daemon . ‘ Jay ’ is haunted by Raul , a fiend he believes he called up , and finally kill himself . This false memoir is based on genuine events . There are very strong allegations that Sparks take the diary of a teen who committed suicide because he was downcast , and who happen to have friends who splash around ( in a adolescent fashion ) in the supernatural , and spun it into a story about a kid involved with real Satanism . Sparks wrote another ‘ memoir , ’ Go take Alice , about a girl who die out after she got into drugs . Each book starts out with a clean cut teenager encountering hippie - dippie doctrine . In one case it leads to a sort of Woodstock - hellscape of drug dependency and prostitution . In another , there is animate being sacrifice , out - of - body experience , and eventual hauntings . Both are considered to be more the author ’s version of a frightened - straight story than base on genuine fact . Unfortunately , the adolescent that Jay ’s Journal was ‘ based on ’ was well identified , and his family has been protesting the book ever since . This is one ‘ memoir ’ that the author should have published as fabrication immediately .
ViaHasekamp , Listverse , Leonowens , andDibsblog .
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