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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts & Hauntings by Tom Ogden - A unique guide to the world of the paranormal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings is a perennial favorite. Now updated, revised, and expanded with new information on ghost hunting and observing, this new edition includes new tips on gathering and recording paranormal data, and a new section devoted to "faking it" showing readers how to haunt their own houses to amuse and bewilder friends.

The Haunted Horse of Gold Hill by Calamity Jan

Why is the mysterious mustang colt circling the tombstone on the outskirts of Gold Hill, Nevada? What haunts this small, wild horse that has been sighted for over a hundred years? Twelve-year-old Paige, and her best friend, Meggie are determined to find out, but a teenage drifter named Brooks involves them in an even more perilous web of high-stakes danger and intrigue. Is this ranch hand a mustanger involved in an illegal horse smuggling operation intent on capturing the wild horses? The Ghostowners soon find out.
 

The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions by Hillary Evans - Ghost sightings happen every day throughout the world. Those who have never seen a ghost tend not to believe in their existence, but the experience of seeing a ghost certainly feels quite real. This entertaining cross-cultural guide to ghost sightings worldwide uses firsthand testimony and an illustrator's renderings to explore the great variety of ghost experiences that people have reported for thousands of years. You will, of course, read about ghosts of the dead, some of whom offer guidance and warning, but also about ghosts of the living, as well as what appear to be ghosts of the future.

Ghostly Register: A Guide to Haunted America by Arthur Myers - Sign your name-if you dare-in The Ghostly Register, a spine-tingling guide to the most fascinating documented haunts in America. Read the eerie tales of spirits, bizarre occurrences, and unexplained phenomena. You will be spellbound by the account of ghostly manifestations of a tall Stetson-wearing figure aboard the Wild Goose, John Wayne's former yacht. The strange happenings and tragic history surrounding the Toys 'R' Us store in Sunnyvale, California, and the mysterious building in Idaho from which the trapped spirit of a mummified rat makes its escape to the otherworld. The ghosts whose exploits are described herein are good people, bad people, disappointed lovers and the people who scorned them, murderers, murder victims, little old ladies, even prostitutes. Their personalities-and spooky activities-are as unforgettable as they are unsettling.

Coast to Coast Ghosts by Leslie Rule - Who can resist a good ghost story ... the kind that gives you goose bumps, makes your hair stand on end, and leaves you terrified of the dark?  Coast to Coast Ghosts:  True Stories and Hauntings Across America is filled with black-and-white photographs and real-life spine-tinglers that take you on a nationwide journey to places where the dead refuse to rest, from Seattle to San Diego and from New Orleans to Key West.  By interviewing credible witnesses, historians, and renowned parapsychologists, as well as researching forgotten library archives, author Leslie Rule has validated sighting after sighting.  This is a book that you won't soon forget ... no matter how hard you may try.

Spooky South by S.E. Schlosser - Southern folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.

More Where The Ghosts Are  By Hans Holzer - Do you want to know where the ghosts are?  See them for yourself?  Whether you're unsure, incredulous, or a true believer, renowned paranormal expert Hans Holzer will lead you on a thrilling tour of haunted locales.  In this sequel to his bestselling Where The Ghosts Are, the author/investigator takes you to even more sites inhabited by spirits that manifest in a variety of fascinating ways. Professor Hans Holzer has written over 100 books, many on psychic phenomena and has also written, produced and appeared in a number of television documentaries, including NBC's In Search Of .... 

Ghosts Among Us by Leslie Rule - Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, the stories of the supernatural in Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters will keep you riveted. Macabre and fascinating, Leslie Rule's latest book offers true-life haunting accounts of eerie visitations and paranormal experiences along with artistically shot black-and-white photographs of haunted sites. The personal firsthand reports and chilling full-length stories explore mysterious events across the country -- from Nantucket Island to San Antonio to Hollywood -- events that the reader will find hard to pass off as mere coincidences.

Haunted Heritage by Michael Norman and Beth Scott - The authors have compiled an astounding collection of American ghost stories. Based on interviews with eyewitnesses, unearthed ancient archives, overheard tales, and actual paranormal visitations and explorations. From the "Haunts of Ivy," a survey of university ghosts, to an overview of spectral lights, from revolutionary spirits in New England to beyond the grave occurrences in the Badlands, Haunted Heritage is the ghost story collection for all of North America.  New - Hardback.

20th Century Ghost Stories by Peter Haining - This outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.

Sightings --  By Susan Michaels - For the first time in print, Sightings explores a bizarre haunting in which a family is tormented by the vengeful ghost of a little girl. A terrifying story of a UFO sighting, missing time, and alien abduction, as vividly recalled by twin brothers. Documents controversial cases of spontaneous human combustion. Packed with never-before-published photographs, Sightings confronts the uncanny and proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction. Paperback- 269 pages.

Haunted Places In America by Charles A. Coulombe - Many public places around the United States have their quota of haunts, and so must share them with their public. In Haunted Places In America, Charles A. Coulombe describes some fifty places accessible to the public, which are reputed to be haunted. The hotels, historic homes, restaurants, and outside locales are each covered with concise descriptions, and illustrated with photographs. Whether you are planning a spine-tingling trip, or just psyching yourself up for Halloween, Coulombe's haunted itinerary makes for an armchair journey worth taking. Featured sites range from McCandless Hall in Huntsville, Alabama, and The Golden North Hotel in Skagway, Alaska, to Fairlawn Mansion in Superior, Wisconsin, and the Shoshone Bar in Lovell, Wyoming.

Spooky New England, by S.E. Schlosser - Thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Main, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.  Set in New England's historic towns, charming old island, and sarsely populated backwoods, the tories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder aqgain and again.  Paper-back, 197 pages. 

Western Ghosts, a compilation of ghost stories by several master story tellers. - The vast West is haunted by the great adventures and conflicts that have created ghosts or are shadowed by them.  The West, including such tragic events as ambushes, massacres, and the frontiersmen killing each other in gunfights, is an open invitation for the the arrival of restless spirits.  This book is an unexpected feast of ghost stories in the American West.

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