
Science of Ghosts
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a Science of Ghosts
- Part 1: The Haunting Impulse
- Chapter 1. Ghosts: A Brief History
- Chapter 2. Naked Ghosts!
- Chapter 3. Headless Ghosts I Have Known
- Chapter 4. Experiencing the Other Side
- Chapter 5. Entombed Alive!
- Chapter 6. Ghostly Lore and Lure
- Chapter 7. The Doctor's Ghostly Visitor: Tracking "the Girl in the Snow"
- Chapter 8. Elvis Lives! Investigating the Legends and Phenomena
- Chapter 9. Encountering Phantom Soldiers
- Chapter 10. Conjuring Ghosts: The Haunting of Van Horn Mansion
- Chapter 11. Animal Spirits
- Part 2: Spirited Travels
- Chapter 12. Ghost of an Alaska Murderer?
- Chapter 13. Lighthouse Specters
- Chapter 14. The Storied Lighthouse Ghost
- Chapter 15. Pirates' Ghosts: Aar-r-gh!
- Chapter 16. An Austrian Castle Haunted by Paracelsus?
- Chapter 17. Incarcerated Ghosts: Haunted Dungeons, Prisons, and Jails
- Chapter 18. Convict Specters at Alcatraz
- Chapter 19. Ghosts in the Mirror
- Chapter 20. Haunted Dutch Mines
- Chapter 21. Stage Fright: Theatrical Hauntings
- Chapter 22. Worldwide Hauntings
- Part 3: Communication With the Dead
- Chapter 23. A Skeleton's Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism
- Chapter 24. Spirit Search: William James and the SPR
- Chapter 25. Ghostwritten Texts?
- Chapter 26. The Séances of "Hellish Nell": Solving the Unexplained
- Chapter 27. Séance Undercover
- Chapter 28. "Messages" from the 9/11 Dead
- Chapter 29. Synchronicities: A Pathologist among the Spirits
- Chapter 30. John Edward: Spirit Huckster
- Chapter 31. The Real "Ghost Whisperer"
- Chapter 32. Sylvia Browne: Does She Talk to the Dead?
- Part 4: Ghost Hunting
- Chapter 33. Ghost Hunting
- Chapter 34. Ghost Hunters
- Chapter 35. Scientific Investigations vs. Ghost Hunters
- Chapter 36. Ghost Hustling in Connecticut
- Chapter 37. Ghost Forensics
- Chapter 38. Photoghosts: Images of the Spirit Realm?
- Chapter 39. Ghostly Experiences: Magnetic Fields or Suggestibility?
- Chapter 40. Ghost Hunting's Other Side
- Chapter 41. Ghostly Endeavor: Ethical Issues Haunt Kentucky Press
- Chapter 42. Catching Ghosts
- Chapter 43. Poltergeist Attacks!
- Chapter 44. Rampaging Mind: The Seaford Poltergeist Case
- Afterword
- Appendix: The Haunted Mind-A Glossary of Mental States, Attitudes, and Perceptions Associated with Ghostly Encounters
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
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