This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Tintagel in Cornwall that led actress Kate Winslet t
The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings
โ Scribed by Haining, Peter
- Publisher
- Constable Robinson
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0762433965
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โฆ Synopsis
Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword: I am a Researcher of the Supernatural; 1. A Century of Hauntings: Chronology for 1900-2000; 2. The Ghost Hunters: Fifty Authentic Supernatural Experiences; 3. Phantoms in the Sky: Ghostly Pilots, Aircraft and Haunted Airfields; 4. Encounters With The Unknown: Eyewitness Stories by Journalists; 5. Haunted Stars: Show Business and the Supernatural; 6. Supernatural Tales: True Ghost Stories by Famous Authors; 7. Phantom Lovers: Sexual Encounters with Ghosts; 8. What Are Ghosts?: The Theories of the Experts.;This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Tintagel in Cornwall that led actress Kate Winslet to pull out of buying the property. It covers the full spectrum of credible hauntings, from poltergeists (the noisy, dangerous and frightening spirits that are usually associated with pubescent girls, like the Bell Witch), to phantoms (like the & I & Afrits & /I & of Saudi Arabia) and seduction spirits (suc.
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