Ghosts, Hauntings, and Eerie Events from America's Fields of Honor
Summing up the eerie essence of wartime scenes across America-many of which today host popular ghost tours-Haunted U.S. Battlefields is a must for students of the paranormal, Civil War buffs, and all others interested in a spine-chilling realm of military history that the history books don't dare tell.
Based on meticulous research into these tales, this volume is an encyclopedia, a field guide to the creatures that can be found in Maine and beyond. The entries have been peer reviewed by notable experts in the fields of folklore, anthropology, Native studies, and cryptozoology.
This book explores the most famous ghost stories from California's past (dating back to the 18th century) with spine-tingling details that will delight readers.
Eerie Inns, Ghoulish Guests, And Creepy Caretakers
Haunted Hotels comprises more than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings at hotels, inns, and rooming houses across America and around the world. Tom Ogden, author of four other books in the Haunted series, also provides information for readers who wish to check in and check out the spirits themselves . . . ......
What do we know about fairies? A treasure trove of newly digitised information accessed here shows that the Disney image of Tinkerbell is but a weak shorthand for the plethora of different kinds and types inhabiting the British and Irish Isles. Fairy sightings are deeply tied to local areas; even the names can be different. In, for example, ......
In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.
By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven's Gate, this book draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture.
A collection of tales from Georgia's historic past. It contains stories of phantom pirates from the coast and restless Civil War spirits from Sherman's March and Andersonville Prison.
Features stories of unexplained phenomena in Delaware, including the evil murderess Patty Cannon, the judge who was buried twice, the vengeful phantom dog of Frederica, the wizard of Belltown who sold his soul to the Devil, the Girl of the Dunes waiting on her lost love, and more.
Shows us how and why misinterpretations, deceptions, and half-truths become accepted as 'established facts', and how the public is taken in time after time - often for generations. This work takes a look at psychic mysteries and the facts behind them.
Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers
In the summer of 1980, in Wiltshire, southern England, a group of three swirled circular patterns mysteriously appeared in farmer John Scull's fields of wheat and oats. Scull blamed Army helicopters. UFO enthusiasts credited flying saucers. A local meteorologist attributed them to whirlwinds. Each year thereafter, the circles continued to appear, ......
Features experts in the fields of physical/biological science, psychology, philosophy, social science, and forensic science bringing their perspectives to controversies that affect the way we think and how we perceive reality and the natural world. This book spans the gamut of pseudoscience.
Possibly the best authoritative work on the world's mysteries. From fire walking to the prophesies of Nostradamus, this new book pares the fiction from many popular theories, and urges us to educate ourselves through critical inquiry. Jeane Dixon claims she predicted the assassination of President Kennedy, and to millions this prediction gives ......
Offers information on checking out various types of mysterious anomalies, including UFO sightings, ghost hauntings, psychic feats, and other events. This book features tactics and techniques that you can use to get at the truth. It also addresses why otherwise intelligent people often accept paranormal claims without question.
Presents thirty 'paranormal' investigations in the form of brief mystery stories. This book includes examinations of the 'mummy's curse', bigfoot, haunted stairways, the Amityville Horror, the Loch Ness monster, and poltergeists.
Evaluates many popular hypotheses about man's early history. This book presents important evidence and arguments for and against theories of a universal flood, the lost continent of Atlantis, mysterious pyramid powers, pre-Columbian voyages to America by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians, and Velikovsky's cosmic catastrophism.