- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (1 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747271690
- ISBN-13: 978-0747271697
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 870,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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John and Anne Spencer are at the forefront of research into the paranormal and have investigated bizarre and unexplained events throughout the world. Here they have gathered together hundreds of accounts of spectral phenomena to produce an all-new volume of their bestselling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS. Divided into sections according to the nature of the phenomena (including haunted objects, poltergeists and omens among many others), this new volume will also include interviews with ghosthunters about their most fascinating, and terrifying, cases.
About the Author
John and Anne Spencer have been active researchers of the paranormal for over twenty years and are involved in ghost vigils and psychic research. They are members of the Ghost Club, the Society for Psychical Research and the Association of the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It was approximately a year ago when I bought this book and was thus amazed when i stubled upon this review to see that no one had written a review about it, and thus not received the acclaim that it rightly deserves.
Once again John and Anne Spencer have written a most thought provoking and well reserched follow up to Volume 1. Once again, Volume 2 provides a wealth of information on all things that go "bump in the night", but what makes this, as well as Volume 1 special is that they report on the incidents very matter of factly. They also explain the history surrounding the hauting which makes for very poetic reading.
I have always enjoyed the scientific, and non-dramatised way that John and Anne Spencer, as well as Peter Underwood and Harry Ludlum have presented their cases. They have never tried to convince you that ghosts are real.They just present the facts and the history without the sense of self-importance that some writers have done (much to my annoyance). They have all left it up to the reader to conduct their own investigations, gather their own proof to decide whether ghosts are real or not - and as a sceptic I am grateful for that.
So, full marks go to John and Anne Spencer for a very well detailed, informative and open minded book that does not seek glory of some kind for themselves. I would definately recommend this book to anyone with an interest in ghosts for its proffesional approach that will appeal to sceptics and beleivers alike.
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Detailed Examination of Ghosts and Paranormal phenomena
17 May 2011
Format:Hardcover
John and Anne Spencer have compiled this first volume of ghost sightings, poltergeist activity, and possible evidence of paranormal phenomena. The authors contribute contribute substantially to the debate about the existence of such phenomena and put forward scientific evidence for their own theses.
In their introduction the authors deal with 'ghost busting', the science of investigating ghosts, and suggest that the first rule of 'ghost-hunters' (no-one has yet come up with a satisfactory term for the job) is discretion and understanding their witnesses-not patronizing or dismissing them.
The Spencers have divided the encyclopedia into chapters about various types of ghostly phenomena including Ghosts and visions associated with particular places, ghosts of the famous, Haunted objects, Recordings and replays, the wicked and the cruel, ghosts with a message and Doubles, bi locations, Doppelgangers and Vardogers.
Each chapter examines the phenomenon under discussion and provides myriad accounts of ghost sightings, paranormal activity and suggestive evidence of spirits.
Some of these incidences are easier to dismiss than others.
Example abound from well-intentioned malign spirits from the 7th century BC to 1991.It includes sightings of the various wives of Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln in the white House, George II and John Keats.
Cases mentioned of poltergeists include the frightening and unpleasant story of the Bell Witch in Tennessee in 1817 and the haunting of Esther Cox in Nova Scotia in 1878.
The authors explain poltergeists as usually being attached to a particular person, often a young person undergoing the trauma of adolescence, and these hauntings most often disappear in time.
The authors examine at length the science and philosophy behind the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits explaining that we live in a multi-dimensional universe. also many scholars such as Carl Jung and Donald Campbell have not been willing to easily dismiss that what we call ghosts may, at least in some cases, be very real experiences.
In their introduction the authors deal with 'ghost busting', the science of investigating ghosts, and suggest that the first rule of 'ghost-hunters' (no-one has yet come up with a satisfactory term for the job) is discretion and understanding their witnesses-not patronizing or dismissing them.
The Spencers have divided the encyclopedia into chapters about various types of ghostly phenomena including Ghosts and visions associated with particular places, ghosts of the famous, Haunted objects, Recordings and replays, the wicked and the cruel, ghosts with a message and Doubles, bi locations, Doppelgangers and Vardogers.
Each chapter examines the phenomenon under discussion and provides myriad accounts of ghost sightings, paranormal activity and suggestive evidence of spirits.
Some of these incidences are easier to dismiss than others.
Example abound from well-intentioned malign spirits from the 7th century BC to 1991.It includes sightings of the various wives of Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln in the white House, George II and John Keats.
Cases mentioned of poltergeists include the frightening and unpleasant story of the Bell Witch in Tennessee in 1817 and the haunting of Esther Cox in Nova Scotia in 1878.
The authors explain poltergeists as usually being attached to a particular person, often a young person undergoing the trauma of adolescence, and these hauntings most often disappear in time.
The authors examine at length the science and philosophy behind the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits explaining that we live in a multi-dimensional universe. also many scholars such as Carl Jung and Donald Campbell have not been willing to easily dismiss that what we call ghosts may, at least in some cases, be very real experiences.
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