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The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook by author and paranormal investigator Troy Taylor not only solves the mystery of how to find ghosts, but dozens of others as well! This manual is the essential guide to conducting paranormal research, written by a real ghost hunter with years of experience in the field. This book will provide you with a step-by-step guide to conducting a paranormal investigation, plus tell you how to know if your location is really haunted. It also answers questions like:
How do you use ghost detection devices?
What is the most common type of haunting?
Why do some ghosts wear clothes?
How do you capture ghosts on film?
Are Ouija boards really dangerous?
Can ordinary audio machines really record the voices of the dead?
How do you get rid of a ghost?
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well researched and sensible advice,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook: The Essential Guide to Investigating Reports of Ghosts and Hauntings (Paperback)
The book sets out to educate the reader in the world of GhostHunting (or Ghost Research as the author prefers). The information within the book seems to be well researched and it is obvious that the author is speaking from personal experience. The book should appeal to seasoned Ghost researchers as a reference tool but seems to be focused on introducing beginners to this strange world. A great deal of the information could be seen as pure common sense - however, it is easy to overlook the basics and therefore it is useful for everything to be spelt out.This book would have earnt 5 stars were it not for one severe drawback. The book is relatively short (at 128 pages) and yet still seems to feel the need to pad out its volume by having large sections devoted to the history of parapsychological research. While there is no doubt a place for a potted history of this subject - it seems excessive to devote what amounts to half the book to this subject. A purchaser of this book is buying it for the practical advice, not the history lesson. That said, the quality of the advice in the second half of the book merits this book to be recommended to anyone interested in parapsychology - whether as a practical tool, or just out of pure theoretical interest.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (46 customer reviews) 33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you like open-minded yet still skeptical view.,
By Tommy Callanan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook: The Essential Guide to Investigating Reports of Ghosts and Hauntings (Paperback)
The Ghost-Hunters Guidebook is the premiere book on ghost hunting in the English-speaking world. It is imitated and plagiarized outright on the web, but most notably on MTV's Fear website. It's not hard to see why. It is the most complete book on the subject. Author Troy Taylor covers everything from the history of spiritualism to the late, great ghost-hunter Harry Price. This book also has the most complete ghost hunting how-to anywhereThe best thing about this book, in my opinion, is the lack of spiritual garbage that is normally attached to books like it. I think the most dangerous thing about ghost hunting is not the fact that you are searching for phantoms, spooks, and specters, as some people might tell you but rather the religious and spiritual propaganda that the "so called" experts have laced their books with. Any book, or anyone for that matter, that tells you to say a special prayer or cast a spell before you enter a graveyard, is not looking at ghost hunting from a scientific point of view. Taylor's book gives you the facts and teaches through his experience. It's straightforward and to the point, no voodoo or hoodoo. All you are going to find here is facts, history, and education about his subject. It's books like this that are going to get the scientific community to someday pay attention. The Ghost-Hunting Guidebook is a must-have for anybody who calls himself a ghost hunter, even the one that drinks chicken blood before an investigation. 52 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
best and most authoritative guide to date,
By Rosemary Ellen Guiley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook: The Essential Guide to Investigating Reports of Ghosts and Hauntings (Paperback)
As a researcher of the paranormal, I have seen many so-called handbooks and guidebooks on the subject of ghost investigation. Some are little more than ego vehicles for their authors; others are more entertaining collections of investigations stories. Troy Taylor, president and founder of the American Ghost Society, has brought a new level of professionalism to the field with "The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook," which stands as the best and most authoritative book written to date on ghost investigation. Both beginners and experienced investigators should make this book their bible. Taylor gives his readers thorough coverage of the subject: historical background; explanations of ghosts, poltergeists and hauntings; high-tech tools; photography techniques; mediumistic approaches; how to conduct sound investigations; and how to work with the media and public. Pros, cons and cautions are given careful discussion. "The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook" is the product of Taylor's own first-hand experiences in numerous investigations. Troy is a careful researcher dedicated to promoting professional, responsible research in a field vulnerable to the media's appetite for the sensational. "The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook" gives the straight savvy. The material is grounded, practical and informative. It comes as no surprise to me that Taylor's book has gained international praise, including high marks from some of England's most discerning ghost investigators. "Thoroughly recommended," says Alan Murdie, chairman of the distinguished Ghost Club of London. I couldn't agree more. -- Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of "The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits"
45 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
If you could get past the author's arrogance.....,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook: The Essential Guide to Investigating Reports of Ghosts and Hauntings (Paperback)
You might be able to find a few helpful hints for the amateur ghost hunter. However, I felt that the author was insulting to his target audience, and disdainful of others who are active in his field. Within the first three pages he calls those who investigate cemeteries "Silly", which offended me deeply. He was implying that you have to check the history of an area before investigating it, but HELLO? If it is a CEMETERY, especially an older one, chances are it is haunted, and ghost photographs can be found there. He then went on to state that people who do the majority of their ghosthunting in cemeterys were not investigators, but merely people going out there for fun being "Silly" to get shots of ghosts. I do not believe that a person has to do investigation within a home or building to prove that they are ghost investigators/ researchers. It about keeping and collecting data, not location that makes a scientist. He has filled a 140 page book with about 40 pages of the history of spiritualism, which is not what I am looking for in a ghost hunter's guide book. If I want a book on Spiritualism then I will buy one, although in my opionion it has been done to death in ghost books. Also he is repetitive, and has chapters in the book that are not very informative, as in, "Are Ouija boards dangerous?" Throughout the chapter he says, I'm not sure, I don't know, no answer at this time... Then why have it in the book at all? For being a leading professional ghostbuster, I question a lot of what he wrote down, although he does present some information that is valuable to individuals who do not have access to the Internet to find this information out for themselves from other ghost hunting websites. I was very disappointed in this book and will not buy from this author again, even though I am a ghost hunter myself and very interested in this field.
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