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Indiana Ghost Folklore
by Tom Baker
Explore Indiana, perched on the disquieting frontier between the banal and the bizarre! Visit haunted hollows and baleful abodes of the Hoosier state's most dreadful locales. Take a ride down the banister of Culbertson Mansion, thrill to a true account of the possession of Lurrancy Vennum, splash into the murky waters beneath Lake Busco to find a real-life sea monster, and learn the twisted history of William Dudley Pelley, a man who claimed contact with beings from another world! Ride the Vincennes Airship, high above the windswept plains with the "Hartford Visitors." Indiana has witches, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, and Hairy Men galore, in this shivery exploration of the dark side of Hoosier history.
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Scary Urban Legends
by Tom Baker
Do you know what an urban legend is? They are those stories that make the rounds at high school hangouts and college dorms, camping trips and late night sleepovers, offices and water coolers as frightening tales too good to be true, and too scary to be fiction. These stories include the short and shivery legend, "The Vanishing Hitchhiker;" the macabre comedy "The Hook," and the scream-till-you-drop terror tale "Bloody Mary." Experience the horror of lurking killers, lonely ghosts, and attacks from insects that seem to come from the pit of some forgotten nightmare.
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Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City
by Ursula Bielski
Author Ursula Bielski captures 160 years of Chicago's haunted history in the first volume ever devoted to this intriguing subject. Combining lively storytelling with in-depth historical research, exclusive interviews, and insights from parapsychology, this is a unique and fascinating exploration of the region's supernatural folklore.
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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
by Deborah Blum
During the Victorian era, attempts to communicate with the dead through mediums and séances grew in popularity; they inspired a flurry of scientific activity, as researchers tried to determine whether or not spiritualism had a grounding in science. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the spiritual investigations of prominent Harvard psychologist William James, who risked his reputation attempting to use scientific methods to prove (or disprove) the existence of paranormal powers. Although many scorned the idea that scientific reasoning could be applied to mind-reading and apparitions, James found some allies; their efforts are chronicled here, in what The Washington Post calls a "lively and provocative" book.
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Haunted Closets: True Tales of the Boogeyman
by Katie Boyd
Enter the world of "The Boogeyman" who abides in closets everywhere. Learn myths from around the world. Discusses sleep disorders, portals, vortexes, doorways to the boogeyman's realm, paranormal cases, serial murderers, and the movies.
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Is Your House Haunted?: Poltergeists, Ghosts or Bad Wiring
by Debi Chestnut
A door slams shut by itself. The scent of pipe tobacco drifts through an empty room. You hear your name being called, even though you know you're home alone. It seems as if your house is being visited—or invaded—by someone or something, and you're terrified. Is there a logical explanation, or do you have a real-life ghost on your hands? This friendly beginner's guide offers reassurance and practical advice on identifying any paranormal activity that's creeping you out. Discover how to rule out any earthly explanations for strange phenomena. It includes an overview of all kinds of hauntings and ghosts, from harmless family spirits to aggressive poltergeists to malevolent demons. It also includes techniques to get rid of ghosts and guidance on when it might be necessary to call in paranormal experts.
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Weird Encounters: True Tales of Haunted Places
by Joanne Austin
Presents over seventy-five supernatural stories of hauntings from across the United States, including an Illinois inn haunted by its dead owner, and a bridge in Mississippi haunted by a serial killer and his victims.
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Ghost Hunting: A Survivor's Guide
by John Fraser
For all the thousands of hours spent by investigators in cold, dark houses, ghosts remain elusive and unproven. This book sets out to be a practical guide to show how ghost hunting can be done to best effect. Examining cases of ghost hunting in the past and present (including examples good, bad, and sometimes amusing), this guide asks if it is possible to find the answer to the age-old question of ghosts—and if so, how can progress be made on this intriguing and sometimes addictive quest? Packed with practical advice from John Fraser, the Vice Chair (Investigations) of the Ghost Club and now spontaneous case coordinator for the Society for Psychical Research, it is an essential purchase for all would-be ghost hunters. It includes advice on equipment, instructions for running an investigation, tips on locations and organizations in Great Britain, and a history of ghost hunting.
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Weird Michigan: Your Travel Guide to Michigan's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
by Linda S. Godfrey
Is it weird that the Wolverine State may never have had any wolverines in it? Big-time heroes like Charles Lindbergh and Madonna hail from here, and so does President Gerald Ford, but do they compare to superhero Captain Jackson, who strolls around town in a purple cape doing good deeds? Michigan has a great big quantity of . . . weirdness. Read about the guru of toilet paper, the Devil's Soup Bowl, a bottle house and a bottle tower, our own Bigfoot, a pickle barrel house, the world's fastest cow, a fire breather and an eyeball smoker, the Outhouse Classic, UFOs of every size and shape, crop circles, and brown goo. Just don't, no matter how tired you are, even think about sitting in the Witch's Chair. Michigan has lots of lake monsters and you are never more than six miles from an inland lake—at least that's what the state's official Web site says. But Linda will take you way beyond what the governor's office will tell you—to say nothing of what your history teacher left out of the lesson plans.
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Chasing Spirits: The Building of the Ghost Adventures Crew
by Nick Groff
The paranormal investigator and host of the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures describes his near-death experience as an eight-year-old boy, his earliest encounters with the unexplained and his documentary on spirits that helped to land him a television series.
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The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
by Rosemary Guiley
Covers the realm of ghost folklore and mythology with over six hundred entries on historical sightings, paranormal research, and supernatural hauntings.
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You Can't Scare Me!: A Guide to the Strange and Supernatural
by John Guy
From clairvoyants, prophets, and shamans to crop circles, haunted houses, and the Loch Ness monster, this ghoulish guide is packed with information on unknown phenomena and paranormal activity. With hundreds of images of monsters, UFOs, and ghost sightings, this reference of curious happenings reports stories and gives the reader the option to discriminate as fact or fiction.
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Jim Harold's Campfire: True Ghost Stories
by Jim Harold
A teenager "plays" with a Ouija board, but soon the tables are turned and the joke is on her. A mysterious nurse delivers tea to patients from beyond the grave. A deceased blues musician returns in a young woman's dreams to demand that his final record be finished. A young wife makes an unreasonable demand due to an eerie premonition and ends up saving her life and that of her puzzled spouse. America's top paranormal podcast host, Jim Harold, recounts spooky tales and shares his personal stories of the supernatural that inspired him to explore the strange side of life.
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Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night
by Gary Jansen
Growing up in Rockville Center, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother, a devoutly Catholic woman with a keen sense for the uncanny, claimed that their family house was haunted. But Jansen never found anything inexplicable in how their doorbell would sometimes ring of its own accord; or in the mysterious sounds of footsteps or breaking glass that occasionally would fill their home. Decades later, Jansen moved back into the very same house where he had once grown up to raise a family with his wife. One day in 2007, he encountered a strange physical sensation in his toddler son's bedroom. This became the first step in uncovering a frightening haunting in his home-a phenomenon that lasted an entire year and eventually included unveiling the identities of the spirits who occupied his house; discovering the chilling story of a century-old murder in his hometown; encountering mind-boggling coincidences between local history and events in his own family; and finally engaging in a climactic exorcism with the help of Mary Ann Winkowski, the real-life inspiration for TV's The Ghost Whisperer.
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Chicago's Haunt Detective: A Cop's Guide to Supernatural Chicago
by Raymond Johnson
Take a fresh look at Chicago's ghosts, legends, and psychics from the viewpoint of a retired West Chicago criminal investigator and local historian. Read favorite legends as well as little-known stories. Who was the fun-loving, hitchhiking, dance-hall phantom known as Resurrection Mary? What mysterious circumstances surround the tragic murders of Patricia and Barbara Grimes? Did Teresita Basa solve her own murder? How was a long-time Chicago city employee, who led seances out of his home, responsible for the death of a Cook County Sheriff's Deputy? Are psychics able to help law enforcement solve crimes? Read the answers to these questions and others in a fact vs. fiction supernatural investigation ...Chicago style.
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World War II Ghosts: Artifacts Can Talk
by Richard J. Kimmel
A study of paranormal archaeology and latent energy that features 52 wartime artifacts, such as an SS Totenkopf Honor Ring, a Japanese gas mask remnant and pistol, and a blood-stained certificate. Pendulum dowsing, psychometry, electronic voiceprints, and psychic intervention are used to investigate the artifacts and their amazing and haunting stories. Learn about the prisoners behind the padlock that emits an energy of death and incarceration; and a man who watched as a comrade fell in death only to take his SS ring. Read about a long-lost sole of a tortured soul; and a swastika on a gold chain that was worn as jewelry in a time of hate and prejudice.
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The Most Gruesome Hauntings of the Midwest
by Chad Lewis
Explore the Midwest's most gruesome haunted locations that are cursed by murders, tragic accidents, suicides, untimely deaths, mob hits, and serial killers. Includes the cemetery where Ed Gein dug up the bodies of deceased women, the site where Buddy Holly's plane crashed, the bloody alley where gangster John Dillinger was mowed down by the FBI, an old farmstead where a deranged mother murdered her seven children, a restaurant where an ill-fated love affair continues from the grave, and many, many more.
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Haunted Indiana
by Mark Marimen
Here are collected a sampling of the ghostly tales that are told throughout the length and breadth of Indiana. The ghost of a faceless nun, who glides silently through the empty expanse of a college hall. A nineteenth-century barn that has been converted into an elegant restaurant, yet has kept the revenant of a farmer who died there decades before. The spirit of the famous "Diana of the Dunes," who returns to her home among the Indiana Dunes from which death took her more than a half century ago. A major metropolitan highway, haunted by two beautiful female ghosts, who each met her fate along the roadway. As the slogan goes, "There's more than corn in Indiana." If the ghostly legends and tales that can be heard are to be believed, indeed there are also restless spirits that refuse to stay buried and forgotten. Don't miss the other titles in the series, Haunted Indiana 2, Haunted Indiana 3, and Haunted Indiana 4.
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Haunts of the Southwest
by Linda Moffitt
Explore ghosts and mysteries across the American Southwest. Learn about the traveling rocks of Devil's Racetrack in Death Valley. Experience the spirits of criminals in the Yuma Territorial Prison, and find out the strange way one prisoner escaped. Stay the night in the St. James Hotel and encounter spirits that mingled with the likes of Jesse James and Black Jack Ketchum. Take a journey to Elizabethtown where the resident ghost was a serial killer in life, and possibly in death. Enjoy a drink in Virginia City where the dusty miner sitting next to you may just be a ghost. Find out why you may want to avoid driving on Route 491, at least when you're alone. The Southwest has haunts for you, from an old ghost town to the local corner store.
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Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead
by Joe Nickell
From the most ancient times, people have experienced apparent contact with spirits of the dead. Some have awakened to see a ghost at their bedside. Others have seemingly communicated with spirits, like the Old Testament's Witch of Endor, the spiritualists whose darkroom seances provoked scientific controversy in the last two centuries, or today's "psychic mediums," like John Edward or Sylvia Browne. Currently, equipment-laden ghost hunters stalk their quarry in haunted places—from urban houses to country graveyards—recording "anomalies" they insist cannot be explained. Putting aside purely romantic tales, The Science of Ghosts examines the actual evidence for such contact—from eyewitness accounts to mediumistic productions (such as diaphanous forms materializing in dim light), spirit photographs, ghost-detection phenomena, and even CSI-type trace evidence.
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Haunted Homeland
by Michael Norman
From a haunted castle in the wilds of Alaska to phantom clergymen in the Southwest and mysterious bouncing lights on the East Coast, this volume covers the places, the people, and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic. Michael Norman has gathered together spectral events of all kinds--apparitions of the famous like Mary Surratt, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Mad Anthony Wayne; haunted crime scenes in Chicago and along the Indiana byways; as well as banshees, poltergeists, and even a ghost named George who has become an accepted resident in a house in North Carolina. Some of these tales date back to America's early days, such as the screaming woman of Marblehead, Massachusetts, while others rise from more contemporary sources, like noted mystery writer Mary Robert Rhinehart's encounter with ghost at a house on Long Island.
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Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
by W. Scott Poole
Salem witches, frontier wilderness beasts, freak show oddities, alien invasions, Freddie Krueger. From our colonial past to the present, the monster in all its various forms has been a staple of American culture. Monsters in America uniquely brings together history and culture studies to expose the dark obsessions that have helped create our national identity. Consulting newspaper accounts, archival materials, personal papers, comic books, films, and oral histories, Poole adroitly illustrates how the creation of the monstrous "other" not only reflects society's fears but shapes actual historical behavior and becomes a cultural reminder of inhuman acts.
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Michigan's Haunted Legends and Lore
by Kristy Robinett
Journey across the State of Michigan, rich in history, to read over 40 tales of the strange, the unusual, and the haunted of centuries past. Discover the spectral cries of the lost souls under a bridge, spirits who haunt a Westland school, the beloved Civil War horse whose spirit lives on, a wrongly accused town witch, UFOs that frighten those at a Michigan farm, and Michael Jackson s elaborate gravestone gift to entertainer Jackie Wilson. Listen to the waves that crash against the stony cliffs and catch a glimpse of a grisly murder or climb the steps of Joe Louis Arena and discover why Al the Octopus is so important to Detroit's sports fans.
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Ghosts
by Gail B. Stewart
Investigates the history of the belief in ghosts, looking at the evidence and anecdotes that have historically been presented as proof of their existence, as well as recent theories by experts on what that evidence means.
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The Ghosts of Chicago: The Windy City's Most Famous Haunts
by Adam Selzer
From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the Murder Castle of H. H. Holmes and the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago’s yesteryear are still with us...and so are its ghosts. Seeking to find out what we really know about the ghastly past of this famously haunted metropolis, professional ghost hunter and historian Adam Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago’s ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town, from the Alley of Death and Mutilation to Satan’s Mile and beyond. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend—and most of the time it’s even gorier.
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Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side
by James Van Praagh
With incredible ghost stories and surprising details about how ghosts actively participate in our lives, Van Praagh challenges us to question our perceptions and shows us how we can live more fully through understanding the world of spirits. He takes us on an incredible journey into the spirit world that brings to light one of our greatest mysteries--what happens to us after we die?
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Military Ghosts
by Alan C. Wood
Following several personal sightings of ghosts, including that of a First World War pilot, Alan Wood has spent sixty years researching the occult. Military Ghosts is the result and is designed as a gazetteer of locations where military ghosts have been reported. It includes not only such well-known stories as that of Sir Francis Drake's Drum but a wide variety of stories, ranging from a patrol of ghostly Roman legionnaires to a fully-fledged reenactment of the Battle of Edgehill, and from benevolent spirits to one so terrifying that witnesses have committed suicide rather than face it, through the spirits of seventeenth-century cavaliers to the more modern ghosts of fighter pilots from the First and Second World Wars.
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