Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Science of Ghosts
Part 1: The Haunting Impulse
Chapter 1. Ghosts: A Brief History
Chapter 2. Naked Ghosts!
Chapter 3. Headless Ghosts I Have Known
Chapter 4. Experiencing the Other Side
Chapter 5. Entombed Alive!
Chapter 6. Ghostly Lore and Lure
Chapter 7. The Doctor's Ghostly Visitor: Tracking “the Girl in the Snow”
Chapter 8. Elvis Lives! Investigating the Legends and Phenomena
Chapter 9. Encountering Phantom Soldiers
Chapter 10. Conjuring Ghosts: The Haunting of Van Horn Mansion
Chapter 11. Animal Spirits
Part 2: Spirited Travels
Chapter 12. Ghost of an Alaska Murderer?
Chapter 13. Lighthouse Specters
Chapter 14. The Storied Lighthouse Ghost
Chapter 15. Pirates’ Ghosts: Aar-r-gh!
Chapter 16. An Austrian Castle Haunted by Paracelsus?
Chapter 17. Incarcerated Ghosts: Haunted Dungeons, Prisons, and Jails
Chapter 18. Convict Specters at Alcatraz
Chapter 19. Ghosts in the Mirror
Chapter 20. Haunted Dutch Mines
Chapter 21. Stage Fright: Theatrical Hauntings
Chapter 22. Worldwide Hauntings
Part 3: Communication With the Dead
Chapter 23. A Skeleton's Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism
Chapter 24. Spirit Search: William James and the SPR
Chapter 25. Ghostwritten Texts?
Chapter 26. The Séances of “Hellish Nell”: Solving the Unexplained
Chapter 27. Séance Undercover
Chapter 28. “Messages” from the 9/11 Dead
Chapter 29. Synchronicities: A Pathologist among the Spirits
Chapter 30. John Edward: Spirit Huckster
Chapter 31. The Real “Ghost Whisperer”
Chapter 32. Sylvia Browne: Does She Talk to the Dead?
Part 4: Ghost Hunting
Chapter 33. Ghost Hunting
Chapter 34. Ghost Hunters
Chapter 35. Scientific Investigations vs. Ghost Hunters
Chapter 36. Ghost Hustling in Connecticut
Chapter 37. Ghost Forensics
Chapter 38. Photoghosts: Images of the Spirit Realm?
Chapter 39. Ghostly Experiences: Magnetic Fields or Suggestibility?
Chapter 40. Ghost Hunting's Other Side
Chapter 41. Ghostly Endeavor: Ethical Issues Haunt Kentucky Press
Chapter 42. Catching Ghosts
Chapter 43. Poltergeist Attacks!
Chapter 44. Rampaging Mind: The Seaford Poltergeist Case
Afterword
Appendix: The Haunted Mind—A Glossary of Mental States, Attitudes, and Perceptions Associated with Ghostly Encounters
Notes
References
Index
Back Cover
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →