Ghost Sightings: Eyewitness Accounts of Paranormal Activity

by Brian Innes

Overview

From haunted houses to phantom ships, ghostly phenomena are everywhere! This intriguing guide looks at dozens of cases—and offers some scientific and parapsychological explanations for these sightings.
 
Malign spirits and gentle ghosts, apparitions, wraiths, spooky urban myths, and more: Ghost Sightings examines all these phenomena throughout history and across the globe. Some cases are famous, others less well known, but they’re all riveting. Each entry chronicles the date, location, and what occurred, and offers a historical context and analytical assessment of the event. Extensive appendices provide additional information, including the role of ghosts in the world’s religions, out-of-body and near-death experiences, and modern theories on ghosts from such figures as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Illustrated with 100 black-and-white photographs, Ghost Sightings explores a subject that has fascinated, amazed, and terrified people from time immemorial.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782747352
Publisher:	Amber Books
Publication date:	02/05/2019
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,018,354
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Brian Innes trained as a scientist and worked as a biochemical researcher before turning to writing. He published a large number of articles and books on forensic science. He died in 2014.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 Ghosts of Centuries Past 8

Chapter 2 Ghosts of the 19th Century 30

Chapter 3 Haunted Houses 42

Chapter 4 Gentle Ghosts 78

Chapter 5 Some Malign Presence 106

Chapter 6 Apparitions and Wraiths 128

Chapter 7 Animals and Non-Living Apparitions 140

Chapter 8 Mischievous Spirits 156

Chapter 9 The Vanishing Hitchhiker & Other Urban Myths 186

Appendices 198

1 Ghosts: The Primitive View

2 Spirits and the Spirit World

3 Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences

4 Automatic Art from Beyond the Grave

5 Ghosts: Towards an Explanation

6 Ghosts in Fiction