Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places by Brad Steiger

It is written in the tradition of Camille Flammarion's 'The Unknown' Charles Lindley's 'Lord Halifax's Ghost Book', and Catherine Crowe's 'Night Side of Nature', in that it employs a heady mash of personal accounts, interviews, review and summary of existing literature, apocrypha, legend, folklore, controversial or disputed cases, textbook foundational paranormal cases,and new cases from the 1950's- 1990's. This is an ambitious survey book of hauntings, poltergeists, spiritualism, mediumship, spirit photography and paranormal phenomena that generally fit into a ghost or spirit-related category. Plus, Real Ghosts provides several appendices, including a full bibliography, selected filmography, a list of North American localities heavily populated by ghosts, and a special section on ghost hunters, researchers, and general resources. More than 125 illustrations grace the pages, many of them from private collections. You'll also learn how to perform a cleansing ritual to rid your home of unwanted spectral visitors.

*Speaking to Spirits: The Mystery of Mediumshipĭid you know that ghosts still haunt Ohio's State Reformatory, otherwise known as Shawshank? Or that the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is home to some of the most famous ghosts in the world? With Real Ghosts, you'll discover that Abe Lincoln regularly consulted 'spooks' and mediums, Rudolph Valentino haunts his old mansion, and the ghosts of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Katharine Howard, Jane Seymour, Elizabeth I, and King George III all still haunt some of England's most famous castles. *Battlefields Where Phantom Armies Eternally Wage War *Haunted Churches, Cemeteries, and Burial Grounds

A major work sure to be heralded by paranormal enthusiasts (whatever their corporeal state), Real Ghosts is organized into 30 topical chapters, including: It is also a comprehensive classification of the spirit world touching on time travel and parallel universes, presenting the full range of ghostly manifestations and haunted locations. The culmination of Steiger's 50 years of paranormal research, Real Ghosts is a bold telling of true ghost stories and first-person encounters. Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places is a defining work on spirit phenomena.

Master ghost hunter and best-selling author Brad Steiger invites you to join him as he explores the many dark and nightmarish pathways leading to this shadowy world of spirits and hauntings. Ancient philosophers suggested that the appearance of spirits is evidence that we are part of a larger community of intelligences, a universe of interrelated species, both physical and nonphysical.

Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places by Brad Steiger