True Ghost Stories

In the following Chapter, I shall give a number of cases in which "Ghosts," or "Phantasms of the Dead," as they are called, have appeared to one or more persons at one time; som...

In the cases which are adduced in the present chapter, the standard of evidence cannot be considered so high; many of them have been recorded in good faith as actual experiences...

Ghosts have been believed in by every nation, at every time and at every stage of the world's evolution. No matter where we may go, we find them stalking through the pages of hi...

The cases included in this chapter are also very well authenticated--some of them being longer and more detailed than those included in the last chapter. I shall begin with a gr...

When "phantasms of the dead" constantly appear in one house, and there only, that house is said to be "haunted" and, in such a case, the phantasms seem to be attracted to the _l...

Ghost Stories of a More Dramatic Nature 194 Disease-Phantoms 194 The Tale of a Mummy 198 Face Slapped by a Ghost 204 Alone with a Ghost in Church 207 A Haunted House in France 2...

I wish to express my thanks in this place to the Council of the English S. P. R. for special permission to quote and to summarize several striking cases here reproduced; also to...

What is a Ghost? 13 The Terror of the Dark 14 What is a Ghost? 18 Historic Investigations 20 Death Coincidences 21 Are They Due to Chance? 24 The Explanation 26 Experimental App...

Phantasms of the Dead--I 65 A Russian Ghost 65 Grasped by a Spirit Hand 71 "I Am Shot!" 74 "Heave the Lead!" 75 The Rescue at Sea 78 How Ghosts Influence Us 86 How a Ghost Warne...

More Phantasms of the Dead--II 120 Compacts to Appear after Death 120 Lord Brougham's Vision 122 The Tyrone Ghost 125 Dead or Alive! 128 The Scratch on the Cheek 135 A Ghost in...

Haunted Houses 163 The Record of a Haunted House 165 Proofs of Immateriality 168 Conduct of Animals in the House 169 B---- House 170 Willington Mill 174 The Great Amherst Myster...