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Discover all the mysteries, facts, and discoveries about ghosts that are creepy-and true-in the much-anticipated companion to Mummies Exposed! Do you believe in ghosts? Whether you're a believer in things that go bump in the night or a firmly science-minded skeptic, there is compelling evidence to suggest that the veil between the living and the dead may be thinner than we think. Ghosts Unveiled! investigates spectral appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie hauntings around the world: the Vanishing Hitchhiker, the child-nabbing La Llorona, demon cats and dogs, haunted schools, and even wraiths in bathrooms! Examining eyewitness accounts from both contemporary interviews and historical records as well as physical signs of paranormal activity, this meticulously researched, well-balanced, and spine-tingling book will leave you wondering what is truly beyond the veil. The Creepy and True series explores strange phenomena, fun facts, and out of the ordinary discoveries. Read them all to uncover the creepy and true histories of mummies, ghosts, skeletons, and more!

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	29 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781647000318
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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To my sister Anne Logan German, who shall forever be Tinker
Front cover: Built in 1893, the Littlefield House in Austin, Texas, is no stranger to ghosts. There have been ghost sightings, unexplained bumps in the night, and items moved from place to place.
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ISBN 978-1-4197-4679-6 eISBN: 9781647000318
Text copyright 2020 Kerrie Logan Hollihan Edited by Howard W. Reeves Book design by Becky James
For picture credits, see this page .
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE T HE D EATHLY D OMESTICATED -G HOST D OGS AND C ATS
CHAPTER TWO G HOSTS G O TO S CHOOL
CHAPTER THREE W EIRD W RAITHS IN W HITE S PACES
CHAPTER FOUR G HOSTLY H ITCHHIKERS , B ANDITS, AND A L ADY IN W HITE
CHAPTER FIVE A T REASURE T ROVE OF G HOSTLY G UARDIANS
CHAPTER SIX F LYERS,, W HISTLERS , D OLLIES, AND A M EDIUM
CHAPTER SEVEN G HOSTS M AKE W AR
CHAPTER EIGHT G HOSTS R IDE THE R AILS
CHAPTER NINE H AUNTS IN R ED S PACES
CHAPTER TEN G HOSTS S ET S AIL
CHAPTER ELEVEN H OT S UMMERS , C HILLING G HOSTS
CHAPTER TWELVE H ARROWING C AROLING WITH H OLIDAY H AUNTS
AFTERWORD T WO M ORE S TORIES N OT FAR FROM H OME
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PICTURE CREDITS
INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS
Artist Arthur Wragg illustrated the Cornish Litany in the early 1920s.
INTRODUCTION
F ROM GHOULIES GHOSTIES AND LONG-LEGGETTY BEASTIES A ND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT G OOD L ORD, DELIVER US! - A N OLD C ORNISH PRAYER
I AIN T AFRAID OF NO GHOSTS! - G HOSTBUSTERS
Do you believe in ghosts? Agreed, ghosts are creepy.
Tune in to any number of cable channels or podcasts, and you ll discover people armed with every kind of electronic gadget searching for ghosts or ghouls or things that go bump in the night. There are well-documented accounts of ghost sightings, and many very reliable folks-like ministers, school principals, teachers, and others-supply them.
Or you might be the ghost-disbelieving kind. Lots of people think the notion of ghosts is just plain silly. They think that ghosts can all be explained by science.
Some scientists believe that seeing ghosts is simply a symptom of the brain not doing its job. Brain damage, illness, or even waking up sleep-deprived and groggy can make us see things that are not real. You can read about this in all kinds of science journals and magazines.
But, as the pages that follow will reveal, there are lots of ghosts to chase down-all around the globe. Not ghost stories, which we have aplenty, but sightings of ghosts that are based in truth, in actual events. For the people who see them, ghosts are true. Very true. The Pew Research Center, a big-time group that asks ordinary people what they think, declared in October 2015, Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults (18%) say they ve seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
In the spirit of researching this book, I reached out to people I encounter every day to ask, Do you believe in ghosts? I first started with Tia, a sixth grader who lived across the street from me and was hanging with her friend.
Do you believe in ghosts? I asked. No, Tia said without hesitation.
Her friend answered by screwing up her face and saying, Maybeeeeee.
Then almost in unison the girls exclaimed, But there s a girl in our class, and she talks to them all the time!
There you have it. To the people who see them, ghosts are quite true.
When I was thirteen years old, in 1965, my grandmother died. We lived near Chicago, and our family took a passenger train overnight to northwestern North Dakota, where Grandma was to be buried. It was a very sad time for our family, especially for my little sister, Anne, who was ten.
She was Grandma s favorite, I think; they had a very close relationship for the few years that Grandma lived near our home. Anne would stop by every day after school to say hello. Grandma loved all her grandchildren, of course, but she and Anne shared an extra bit of special understanding.

Grandma didn t smile much for pictures, the author recalls. The author, her grandmother Bertha Johnson, and her sister, Anne.
After we returned home from Grandma s funeral, our mom had a visitor stop by. I heard Mama tell her friend how sad Anne had been about Grandma s death. Mama had noticed how my sister had lingered at the cemetery to watch from afar as Grandma s casket was lowered into the ground.
It wasn t until we were both grown up, with kids of our own, that Anne told me a secret. Not long after Grandma died, she had visited Anne in the middle of the night.
She was patting my left lower leg. The covers were up, and she was sitting on the end of the bed, Anne remembered.
Anne says she woke up. She could feel Grandma s form as she sat there.
I m okay, Tinkie, Grandma said to her. You don t need to worry about me. Tinkie was her pet name for my sister.
Anne is a straight-talking, sensible woman. To this day, she insists that Grandma s visit was real:
Thinking back on my experience, I don t recall ever considering Grandma as a ghost or a spirit. She appeared as a live person, just her. I didn t think of the experience as being unusual at the time. It wasn t until I told others that the word ghost or spirit was used.
There s no end to what you can learn about ghosts. Let this book be your beginning.
Before we start, it might be helpful to learn a few synonyms for a ghost. There are specters , for instance, which make spectral appearances, and apparitions that appear. Haunt is a word used as both subject and verb, but haint might be new to you. (It s a ghost, BTW.)
If you are German, a ghost is ein Geist, and in Spain it s un fantasma . In French that would be un fant me . Which ties back to English, right? Phantoms are ghosts, too. Words have family histories, just as people do!
One more vocabulary word you probably know but might not know why: Often when we watch shows or videos about ghosts, hosts of paranormal investigators are swarming around. They are armed with high-tech electronics to detect signs, sounds, or smells that indicate ghosts are present. Paranormal means not explainable scientifically. It first showed up in print in about 1905. Para has its roots in ancient Greek, meaning by the side of, beside, by, past, or beyond. You already know what normal means.
BTW. As I edited this book and added this last paragraph, I couldn t get my keyboard to type quotation marks around paranormal. I went back and tried to make that fix, and I could not. Weird!!!!

In 1888, a book entitled Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry describes a banshee as an attendant fairy that follows the old families . . . and wails before a death. To this day, folks fear her animal-like howls and screams.
FACTLET
A GHOST BY ANY OTHER NAME . . .
In the nineteenth century, an author in England named Michael Aislabie Denham (1801-1859) collected many pieces of folklore-old stories that people, poor or rich, liked to tell. Many spoke of ghosts that haunted this or that building or piece of ground. In fact, any place in England that had a bit of history was likely to be haunted.
England s history reaches back thousands of years, so that s a gigantic number of spots open to ghosts. Denham claimed, There was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost.
HE SPELLED OUT EVERY NAME ONE HEARD THAT REFERRED TO GHOST AND FAIRY NAMES:
Boggles, Bloody Bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kita-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tompokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bullbeggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puck