| Description |
412 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-398) and index. |
| Summary |
Visiting sites around the world, the author examines the evidence for contact with the dead from eyewitness accounts, photographs, ghost phenomena, and trace evidence and provides his conclusions. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 THE HAUNTING IMPULSE -- ch. 1 Ghosts: A Brief History -- ch. 2 Naked Ghosts! -- ch. 3 Headless Ghosts I Have Known -- ch. 4 Experiencing the Other Side -- ch. 5 Entombed Alive! -- ch. 6 Ghostly Lore and Lure -- ch. 7 The Doctor's Ghostly Visitor: Tracking "the Girl in the Snow" -- ch. 8 Elvis Lives! Investigating the Legends and Phenomena -- ch. 9 Encountering Phantom Soldiers -- ch. 10 Conjuring Ghosts: The Haunting of Van Horn Mansion -- ch. 11 Animal Spirits -- pt. 2 SPIRITED TRAVELS -- ch. 12 Ghost of an Alaska Murderer? -- ch. 13 Lighthouse Specters -- ch. 14 The Storied Lighthouse Ghost -- ch. 15 Pirates' Ghosts: Aar-r-gh! -- ch. 16 An Austrian Castle Haunted by Paracelsus? -- ch. 17 Incarcerated Ghosts: Haunted Dungeons, Prisons, and Jails -- ch. 18 Convict Specters at Alcatraz -- ch. 19 Ghosts in the Mirror -- ch. 20 Haunted Dutch Mines -- ch. 21 Stage Fright: Theatrical Hauntings -- ch. 22 Worldwide Hauntings -- pt. 3 COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD -- ch. 23 A Skeleton's Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism -- ch. 24 Spirit Search: William James and the SPR -- ch. 25 Ghostwritten Texts? -- ch. 26 The Seances of "Hellish Nell": Solving the Unexplained -- ch. 27 Seance Undercover -- ch. 28 "Messages" from the 9/11 Dead -- ch. 29 Synchronicities: A Pathologist among the Spirits -- ch. 30 John Edward: Spirit Huckster -- ch. 31 The Real "Ghost Whisperer" -- ch. 32 Sylvia Browne: Does She Talk to the Dead? -- pt. 4 GHOST HUNTING -- ch. 33 Ghost Hunting -- ch. 34 Ghost Hunters -- ch. 35 Scientific Investigations vs. Ghost Hunters -- ch. 36 Ghost Hustling in Connecticut -- ch. 37 Ghost Forensics -- ch. 38 Photoghosts: Images of the Spirit Realm? -- ch. 39 Ghostly Experiences: Magnetic Fields or Suggestibility? -- ch. 40 Ghost Hunting's Other Side -- ch. 41 Ghostly Endeavor: Ethical Issues Haunt Kentucky Press -- ch. 42 Catching Ghosts -- ch. 43 Poltergeist Attacks! -- ch. 44 Rampaging Mind: The Seaford Poltergeist Case. |
| Subject |
Ghosts.
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| ISBN |
9781616145859 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1616145854 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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