Ghost Sightings

Ghost Sightings is a thorough study of a subject that has intrigued, amazed, and terrified mankind throughout history. Ghost Sightings is a wide-ranging guide to ghostly phenomena from all parts of the globe up to 2015. It covers cases throughout many of them famous, others less well known. It examines malign spirits and gentle ghosts, apparitions, wraiths, haunted houses, and spooky urban myths. Each entry gives details of the date, location, and course of events, as well as providing a historical context and analytical assessment of the phenomenon. The book's extensive appendices provide fascinating additional information, including the differing roles of ghosts in the world's religions, an exploration of out-of-body and near-death experiences, and modern theories offered to explain ghosts by figures such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.