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Chronicles the lives transformed by encounters with the ghosts and supernatural hauntings through disquieting testimonials, enlightening research, and informative historical accounts.

Bringing forth the spirits, touching on near-death experiences and parallel universes, and presenting the full range of ghostly manifestations, Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms pulls back the curtains on the hidden and frightening world of supernatural spirits, malevolent phantoms, menacing beings, paranormal encounters, spectral apparitions, threatening poltergeists, and sinister hauntings.

Thrown into the middle of the action, master storyteller, Brad Steiger shares true accounts of ghostly encounters in the ancient world; horrors and hauntings in the forests and fields; possessed houses and homes; night terrors, poltergeists, and malevolent spirits; speaking to spirits; near-death experiences and out-of-body visits; visitations from dead loved ones; and much, much more. Nearly 300 hair-raising tales found everywhere, including ...

The devil rider of Chisholm Hollow

The ghosts of Sandy’s Restaurant, Ventura, CA

The exorcism of Joan Crawford’s former house

A ghostly encounter at Beverly Hill’s Greystone Mansion

How to identify a poltergeist

Shamanic spirit guides

The medium Daniel Dunglas’s Home and his clients Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mark Twain, Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie, Tolstoy, and other notables

The Bell Witch legend

The Jersey Devil that haunts the Pine Barrens

Building on his decades of research into the paranormal, mystical, and supernatural, Brad Steiger brings the history, theories, and influences of these mysterious visitors to life. Tracing the perplexing and lasting effects of these ghostly beings, he looks at the scars left and the fallout on the people who’ve lived through a host of alarming, horrifying—and horrifyingly real—encounters.
The Manifestation of an Angelic Comforter

Rev. Maurice Elliott and Irene H. Elliott state that they were present at the bedside of a dying woman when an angel-comforter appeared to stand near her and say, “I have come to take you home.”

According to the minister and his wife, three other angels and the images of many of the dying woman’s deceased friends and relatives were then seen to join the angel-comforter. A white, hazy mist rose above the woman, hovered there for a few moments, and eventually congealed to take on perfect human form.

After the soul-body had been released from its physical shell, the woman’s spirit left in the company of the angels and those dear ones who had already become residents of a higher dimension.

Deathbed Research of Rev. W. Bennett Palmer

During the course of his extended research into reports of deathbed visions, Rev. W. Bennett Palmer commented that in the typical account a bedside witness sees a mist or a cloudlike vapor emerging from the mouth or head of the dying man or woman. The vaporous substance soon takes on a human form, which is generally a duplicate of the living person—only in most cases any present deformities or injuries are partially or wholly absent. Angels or spirits of deceased loved ones are often reported standing ready to accompany the newly freed spirit form to move to higher dimensions of light.

In numerous reports, the immediate process of death is not witnessed, but the deceased is seen leaving the earth plane for the higher world, most often accompanied by angelic beings. Frequently, such spirit and angel leave-taking is witnessed ascending upward, but this seems to be a mode of disappearance, rather than an indication that Heaven is in any particular spatial area.

“A fact often noted in connection with deathbed visions is that they are quite different from a patient’s delirium and are coherent, rational, and, on reflection, apparently real,” Rev. Palmer said. “It has also been observed that visions of the dying are different from visions of those who only think themselves to be dying, such as those undergoing a near-death experience. However, visions of the dying are similar to those who claim to have been outside their bodies during altered states of consciousness.

“Revelations concerning the nature of the future life which are received in deathbed visions seem to be regarded with favor by all churches, and no stigma attaches itself to the deathbed visionary experience,” Rev. Palmer continued. “Persons having deathbed visions often claim to have seen the dead—or what is so regarded—and to have had them reveal knowledge of events which could not be known in any normal way. Frequently, the person having a deathbed vision claims to see a person in spirit who is not known to be dead. Later, investigation proves that the person was deceased at the time of the visitation.

“Another aspect of deathbed visions,” Rev. Palmer concluded, “involves visions of angels and other Holy Figures seen by other persons in the presence of the dying.”

Bill W. told Rev. Palmer that he saw the spirit of his brother as it was disengaging itself from the dying body. The cloudlike vapor took on human shape, clapped its hands for joy, then passed upward through the ceiling in the company of an angel.

Jerry C. of Denver, Colorado, said that at the time of death of his ten-year-old son, he saw the child’s spirit leaving the body as a luminous cloud and rise upward toward the ceiling.

In Rev. Palmer’s church in New Port Richey, Florida, two members of the congregation, Mr. and Mrs. S., who were very ill, had been placed in separate rooms in their home to insure periods of peace and uninterrupted sleep for both of them. One afternoon, as Mr. S. back against the pillows of his bed, he saw the form of his wife pass through the wall of his room, wave her hand in farewell, and rise upward in the company of an angel.

In two or three minutes, the nurse came into his room and informed him that Mrs. S. had passed away. “I know,” he said, blinking back the tears. “She had enough of this desperate struggle to maintain life. She came to say good-bye and to ask me to join her with the angels.”

Mr. S. died two days later.

When Mrs. Ernestine Tamayo entered the sickroom to bring her husband his newspaper, she saw a large, oval light emerging from his head. The illuminated oval floated toward the window, hovered a moment, then was met by a lovely angelic figure. Within seconds, both the oval of light and the angel had vanished.

“I knew that Miles was dead even before I reached my husband’s bedside,” she told Rev. Palmer. “I had seen his angel guide come to take him home.”

His many years of research led Rev. Palmer to record that people who are about to transcend the physical shell often mention a final boundary. After the dying persons have passed that line of demarcation, they cannot return to their physical bodies. In fact, they are sometimes turned back before they can reach it again.

The environment and the scenery described in deathbed visions may be said to be much like the scenery of Earth, only it becomes more beautiful as the spirit progresses. Eventually, the environment becomes ineffable, incapable of description in human terms or in earthly comprehension.

In instances wherein it appears that one has achieved a glimpse into Heaven, the forms of deceased relatives and friends, as well as esteemed or saintly figures, are often seen. Angels are frequently described in the company of deceased loved ones. The angels may come to sing heavenly music, to summon the soul from the dying body, or to accompany the newly released spirit to the other world. Most of the men and women who have perceived spiritual deathbed comforters are able to describe the beings in great detail, including their eyes, hair, apparel, and other attributes and accouterments.
Introduction

1. 50,000 YEARS OF GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS

2. ENTITIES THAT HAUNT FORESTS, FIELDS, AND STREAMS

3. VISITATIONS BY MALEVOLENT SPIRITS

4. NIGHT TERRORS THAT SHAKE THE PSYCHE

5. HOUSES THAT ARE POSSESSED

6. POLTERGEISTS: TEENAGERS AND THE SUPERNATURAL

7. GUARDING AGAINST SPIRIT PARASITES

8. ARE FAIRIES NATURE BEINGS, WOODLAND GHOSTS, OR SOMETHING IN BETWEEN?

9. HEAVENLY BEINGS, SPIRIT GUIDES, AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL TEACHERS

10. GHOSTLY VISITATION BY LOVED ONES FROM THE OTHER SIDE

11. NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES AND THE SPIRIT WORLD

12. NEVER BECOME FRIENDLY WITH PHANTOMS

13. HAUNTED HOTELS WHERE SOME GUESTS NEVER LEAVE

14. ENCOUNTERING GHOSTS IN RESTORED SCENES FROM THE PAST

15. MEN AND WOMEN WHO COMMUNICATE WITH SPIRITS

16. CLASSIC HAUNTINGS AND GHOST ENCOUNTERS THAT STILL INTRIGUE

17. TULPAS AND OUT-OF-BODY PROJECTIONS: CREATE YOUR OWN GHOSTS

18. WHAT IS A GHOST—REALLY?

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

Unexplained Phenomena

Reference

Body (disambiguation)

Spirituality

Supernatural

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Publié par	Visible Ink Press
Date de parution	01 septembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781578596843
Langue	English
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C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Photo Sources
Introduction
50,000 Years of Ghostly Encounters
Entities That Haunt Forests, Fields, and Streams
Visitations by Malevolent Spirits
Night Terrors That Shake the Psyche
Possessed Houses
Poltergeists-Teenagers and the Supernatural
Guarding against Spirit Parasites
What Is the Nature of Fairies?
Heavenly Beings, Spirit Guides, and Multidimensional Teachers
Ghostly Visitation by Loved Ones
Near-Death Experiences and The Spirit World
Never Become Friendly with Phantoms
Haunted Hotels Where Some Guests Never Leave
Encountering Ghosts in Restored Scenes of the Past
People Who Communicate with Ghosts
Classic Hauntings and Ghost Encounters
Tulpas and Out-of-Body Projections
What Is a Ghost-Really?
Further Reading
Index
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
O ver the past fifty years, I have had the privilege of meeting a number of paranormal researchers who are as devoted to exploring the Unknown and the various dimensions of Time and Space as I. I was honored when the following pioneers of the paraphysical contributed their thoughts and insights to this book:
Paul Dale Roberts and his wife, Deanna, Brian Allen, Theo Paijmans, Paul and Ben Eno, Richard Senate, Dr. Jack Hiller, Jerome Clark, Dr. C. Norman Shealy, Willam Kern, Paul Bartholomew, Robert A. Goerman, Rita Gallagher, Nick Redfern, Dr. P.M.H. Atwater, Jeff Belanger, Jim Harold, Brent Raynes, Wanda Sue Parrott, Joseph P. Warren, Stephen Wagner, Mark Lienweber, Timothy Green Beckley, Anita Stapleton, David J. Pitkin, Scott Corrales, Barry Conrad, Barry Taft, James Neff, and Clarisa Bernhardt.
A special thank you to Bill Oliver and Ricardo Pustanio for their magnificent artwork capturing the haunted vibration for this book, and to Dan Wolfman for his photos.
I wish also to express my gratitude to my publisher, Roger J necke for his unfailing support for this and previous works, to my editor Kevin Hile for his professional skills and courtesy, and to my agent Agnes Birnbaum for decades of skillful guidance. And most of all to my ever-supportive wife, Sherry, my strength and my Muse.
-Brad Steiger
P HOTO S OURCES
Biblioth que Nationale de France: p. 276 .
Bs0u10e01 (Wikicommons): p. 32 .
Jason Chang: p. 250 .
Chester Beatty Library: p. 165 .
Ar stides Herrera Cuntti: p. 50 .
John Duncan: p. 146 .
G. W. Edmondson: p. 303 .
Paul and Ben Eno: p. 336 .
Federation of Spiritual Churches and Associations: p. 287 .
Bernard Gagnon: p. 247 .
Paul Hermans: p. 242 .
Thomson Jay Hudson: p. 281 .
P re Igor: p. 209 .
Drew Jacksich: p. 262 .
Roy Kerwood: p. 137 .
Philippa Lehar: p. 19 .
Library of Congress: p. 314 .
Life Magazine : p. 187 .
Los Angeles (Wikicommons): p. 86 .
Magicpiano (Wikicommons): p. 25 .
Rodolpho Hugo Mikulasch: p. 283 .
Larry D. Moore: p. 68 .
New York Sunday News : p. 197 .
Bill Oliver: pp. 6 , 44 , 144 , 333 , 339 .
Ortsmuseum Zollikon: p. 218 .
Ricardo Pustanio: p. 229 .
Nick Redfern: p. 305 .
Philippe Semeria: p. 320 .
Shutterstock: pp. 1 (and inset), 8 , 12 , 13 , 15 , 22 , 27 , 30 , 35 , 37 , 55 , 57 , 62 , 63 , 70 , 75 , 78 , 81 , 88 , 93 , 95 , 98 , 101 , 104 , 112 , 114 , 116 , 119 , 122 , 124 , 128 , 130 , 133 , 138 , 139 , 148 , 151 , 154 , 160 , 167 , 170 , 173 , 175 , 177 , 180 , 184 , 190 , 192 , 194 , 203 , 205 , 215 , 216 , 224 , 227 , 235 , 240 , 249 , 254 , 257 , 260 , 263 , 327 .
Smallbones (Wikicommons): p. 245 .
Brad and Sherry Steiger: pp. 10 , 16 , 73 , 107 , 163 , 212 , 251 , 269 , 270 , 273 , 335 , 338 .
Thomson200 (Wikicommons): p. 41 .
Warner Bros.: p. 200 .
S. W. White: p. 47 .
Dan Wolfman: pp. 307 , 310 .
Zereshk (Wikicommons): p. 331 .
Public domain: pp. 28 , 45 , 220 , 232 , 279 , 285 , 292 , 295 , 298 , 301 , 308 , 317 , 318 .
I NTRODUCTION
I t will come as no surprise to those readers, fans, and followers of Brad s works and writings that although his first published articles were of the paranormal in 1956, his very first major book in 1965 was entitled Monsters, Maidens and Mayhem: A Pictorial History of Hollywood Film Monsters, and his next big work was Strange Guests , which is about poltergeist phenomena-and that was in 1966!
Bizarre as it might seem in sending email to friends, fellow researchers, and associates, offering them the opportunity to share stories or accounts for this book, Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms, he announced that this was to be his final book. These words struck a note that brought a wave of responses of disbelief, followed promptly by pleas to never say never to which he acquiesced and vowed to take a little break, at least, from writing.
So now, in 2018, we come full circle. Whether or not he knew this truly was to be his very last book (on a soul level perhaps), he worked diligently and tirelessly, sharing the many hair-raising, goose-bumply stories with you, the readers.
Throughout his industrious career, he always cited how he, as this little farm boy from Bode, Iowa, was blessed to fulfill his dream to be a writer. Raised in a mystical, magical Shangri-la-type surrounding in Humboldt County, Iowa, he published close to 180 works. Writing was truly his life, and although we have five fabulous, creative, and industrious children and ten grandchildren, he/we considered every book to be like one of our children. Although they require a different kind of nurturing, each authored work is truly a creation.
Brad went into the Great Mystery, as he liked to call it, on May 6, 2018. I, too, am blessed, and I treasure each and every second that we shared 24/7. As we traveled the world, exploring, researching, lecturing, and conducting seminars, then writing about them in our many books, we were rarely ever apart. Going on forty years as husband/wife/best friend/partner/co-author, I find it hard to believe he does not still walk this plane. But free of earthly bonds, he perhaps now explores the many Mysteries of Time and Space and Other Dimensions.
I know many of you grew up reading Brad s books since you were teenagers and some of you are authors now, as well; so, it no doubt will also seem strange to you that he is gone or, at least, temporarily out of sight. One big family are we, traversing the known and unknown as we learn and grow in the rapid unfolding of new scientific discoveries that help us make sense or our life journey. The Force, the Great Mystery, is in us, around us, and is us.
The fact that Brad was known as The Grandfather of All Things Paranormal is not a mystery. He quite literally (no pun intended) spent his entire life with ghosts! He grew up in a haunted house, experienced the presence of ghosts, investigated, researched, and wrote about ghosts.
The very farm accident that almost took his life at age eleven, during which he had a near-death experience that proved to him that life survives death, catapulted him into a career of writing about ghosts.
The opening chapter of Haunted, 50,000 Years of Ghostly Encounters, is not about us researching for that long-although we d often joke sometimes it seemed like we are that old-but instead refers to how the first chapter dovetails with the last chapter in the book in which Brian Allen postulates, What is a ghost, really?
Ghosts are many things to many people, but what they are, most importantly, is a reminder that there is something more to our existence than the day-to-day, material world.
As our friend and associate William Kern wonders, are ghosts from parallel universes? Or as Robert Goerman, also our friend and associate, suggests, the presence of a ghost implies that the astral essence of a human being survives physical death.
This book, full of hair-raising, spooky stories, true accounts of shared paranormal experiences-spirits, ghostly apparitions, and energies of all sorts and kinds from benevolent to malevolent-just may offer some kind of evidence or substantiation that life does continue.
There are those energies that seem to exist on many different levels of the unknown, maybe even at the same time!
These can be scientifically explained by Einstein s quantum entanglement theory, which basically describes paired particles that demonstrate a mysterious form of instant communication regardless of how far apart they are. Einstein called this spooky action at a distance.
Dr. William Tiller, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Stanford University, told us that he believes there may be universes beyond our universe that are made up of more subtle kinds of matter, so there is no end to the reach of our being. He postulates that humanity might be experiencing a biological transformation to another sensory system.
We may be on the edge of some breakthrough discoveries through the efforts of other mainstream scientists as well. Dr. Dean Radin, Ph.D., of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas s Cognitive Research Division and post senior scientist of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) says that groups such as CRD are conducting respectable experiments and producing statistically significant results. Brian Josephson of the distinguished Cambridge University in England states that evidence for the paranormal and other subtle phenomena is accumulating, although the task of explaining them presents an interesting challenge.
That being said, our interest in writing this book is not to prove or disprove anything but to share the many stories that have been sent to both of us personally. We believe we must take care to think about the unthinkable, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. The universe is vast, deep, and profound, much more complex than any scientific certainty. The late Thomas Berry, C.P., Ph.D., a Catholic priest, cultural historian, and ecotheologian, is famous for proposing the idea that a deep understanding of the history and function of the evolving universe is a necessary inspiration and guide for