Composer Richard Wagner was haunted by the number “13” all his life, President Abraham Lincoln believed in aliens and everything otherworldly, writer Nikolai Gogol was afraid of being buried alive, which, according to some sources, happened, and Mikhail Bulgakov saw prophetic dreams and often visited fortune tellers, scientist Mikhail Lomonosov tried to explain the existence of ghosts in real life, and Albert Einstein argued that time travel was possible and told his friends about his encounters with aliens... The lives of famous people are often associated with mysticism. Amazing, inexplicable and sometimes shocking facts have been collected by the author of this book from unique sources, documents and archives.