Mystery Hunters fans have a reason to celebrate this month, Gotcha! 18 Amazing Ways to Freak out Your Friends, a book based on the series, is now on sale. Written by David Acer (Doubting Dave) and illustrated by Stephen MacEachern, the book debunks some of the world’s oldest myths and mysteries and shows kids how they can re-create them to totally creep out their friends!

The book, complete with step-by-step magic tricks and stills from actual Mystery Hunters episodes, is published by Kids Can Press and is available in all major bookstores. It can also be purchased online at www.amazon.ca, www.chapters.indigo.ca, and on the Kids Can Press website.

The book will be available in the United States as of September 1st and can be purchased on www.amazon.com and other leading bookstores.

Mystery Hunters is currently in its fourth television season and is produced by Apartment 11 Productions in association with YTV, Discovery Network, and Discovery Kids and with the participation of the Shaw Rocket Fund.

Gotcha! 18 Amazing Ways to Freak out Your Friends

Does Bigfoot exist? Are crop circles made by aliens? Can dead bodies climb out of their graves and show up at your birthday party? Join Doubting Dave and the Mystery Hunters as they investigate some of the world’s oldest and coolest mysteries. Then learn how to re-create those mysteries YOURSELF to fool your friends!

– Make fake Big Foot prints in your own backyard
– Take phony UFO photos in your car
– Use an amazing illusion to turn yourself into a headless zombie
– Show your friends a crazy card trick that will convince them you can travel through time
– Pull a « King Midas » and turn a pencil into gold
– Freeze your BFF in her tracks with a trick that looks like hypnosis

PLUS you’ll learn how to test your ESP, snap a fake ghost photo, bend a spoon with your brain and 9 other cool feats. AND teenage Mystery Hunters Araya and Christina will answer all your questions about ghosts, aliens, psychics, hypnotists, sea monsters, Bigfoot and more! Find out the truth while you freak out your friends then you can say GOTCHA!