Today’s stories are always running off to lands where dinosaurs still survive and warring factions of ape-men menace young adventurers. But in 1912, such tales were a little hard to come by. Enter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, professional ghost hunter and creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Extraordinary Adventure 83 There is an interesting thing about school in that there are some teachers who will do anything they can to get you to read. They surmise that if the stories were shorter they might hold your interest. Also it makes them easier to teach because you only have to spend 1 or [...]

Big Thunder Mountain bills itself as the wildest ride in the wilderness, and Walt Disney Imagineers have cooked up a rip-roaring adventure in the hearts of Frontierlands around the globe. Hang on to all them personal belongings now.

Extraordinary Adventure 85 I’ll give number 85 this: It’s bloody. I’ll also give it this: It’s gory. Put ‘em together and what’ve you got? Bibbidi-bobbidi-Braveheart. Blood and gore is one thing of course, but Braveheart is much more. It’s sweeping, epic, romantic and swashbuckling, romantic and bloody and gory. Braveheart may actually make a list [...]

Survivor is the mother of all reality shows. This desert island scenario from producer Mark Burnett and host Jeff Probst is a thousand times more terrifying than anything Gilligan had to face. Here the cannibals are you own tribemates, and what’s worse, you have to wear a bathing suit on national TV.