Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Eleven famous hauntings examined by a man who believed the question deserved evidence — Loudun, Tedworth, the Wesleys' parsonage, the Cock Lane ghost — and then the investigators who went after them.

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Preface

That dealt, it may briefly be recalled, with the achievements of those scientists whose special endeavor it is to illumine the nature of…

The Devils of Loudun

4 pages

The Drummer of Tedworth

4 pages

The Haunting of the Wesleys

5 pages

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg

7 pages

The Cock Lane Ghost

7 pages

The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham

2 pages

The Seeress of Prevorst

5 pages

The Mysterious Mr. Home

7 pages

The Watseka Wonder

10 pages

A Medieval Ghost Hunter

7 pages

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day

6 pages

Highlights

The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham

T is comparatively easy, when seated before IT a roaring fire in a well-lighted room, to sneer ghosts out of existence, and…

The Cock Lane Ghost

HE quaint old London church of St.

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day

PSYCHICAL research, of which so much mention has been made in the preceding pages, may be roughly yet sufficiently described as…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter

HE name of Dr. John Dee is scarcely known to-day, yet Dr. Dee has some exceedingly well-defined claims to remembrance. He was one…

The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg

N mid April of the memorable year 1745, IN two men, hastening through a busy London thoroughfare, paused for a moment to follow…

The Seeress of Prevorst

ODERN spiritism, as every student of that fascinating if elusive subject is aware, dates from the closing years of the first half…

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