Poltergeist! A New Investigation Into Destructive Haunting
Including "The Cage - Witches Prison" St Osyth
Published on 31. July 2020
296 pages
978-1-78904-398-3 (ISBN)
Description
There are few factual books written about poltergeist phenomena, John's Fraser's Poltergeist! A New Investigation Into Destructive Haunting fills that void, advancing and updating Colin Wilson's work Poltergeist!, this study's namesake from over 38 years ago. Fraser takes readers on a journey from the Borley Rectory to the Isle of Man, and grounds his readers in an historical overview of 'Poltergeist phenomena'. He examines where such events overlap with other paranormal investigations of 'apparitional' ghosts. What do they have in common, what do they differ? To answer this, Fraser looks to new research on paranormal events, never before published in book form. Fraser contends, perhaps controversially, that ghost sightings are and always will be ambiguous and near-impossible to prove, that only Poltergeist phenomena can be empirically verified.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
1,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78904-398-3 (9781789043983)
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John Fraser
Poltergeist! A New Investigation Into Destructive Haunting
Including 'The Cage - Witches Prison' St Osyth
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Person
John Fraser is currently a member of the Spontaneous Cases Committee and the Council of the Society for Psychical Research. He has previously been Vice Chair (Investigations) of The Ghost Club (founded in 1862), and joined the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena in its founding year. He is the author of Ghost Hunting - A Survivor's Guide (History Press 2010) and he has written articles for the Fortean Times and other magazines. John lives in Croydon, UK.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Poltergeists - The only provable spontaneous form of the 'paranormal'?
- Chapter 2: A Brief and (Slightly) Alternative History to Our Subject
- Chapter 3: Is Poltergeist Phenomena Rare?
- Chapter 4: One Phenomenon in Various Forms?
- Chapter 5: Object Movement - the Sign of an Active Poltergeist?
- Chapter 6: Is Rapping Phenomena Communication with Something Intelligent?
- Chapter 7: The Mixed-Up World of the 'Intermediate' Case!
- Chapter 8: From Without or From Within?
- Chapter 9: Fiction and Fakes - Ethics and Protocol
- Chapter 10: Glimpses into the Future!
- Endnotes
- References
- Index of Main Case Reviews and Research Breakthroughs
