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.

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day

6 pages in this part of Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

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 an effort…

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day: Myers

While he was still laboring in this valley of indecision, Sidgwick was visited by a young man, Frederic W. H. Myers, who had studied under…

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day: Hodgson

In this region of inquiry no one was more successful than a recruit from distant Australia, by name Richard Hodgson. Hodgson, unlike…

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day: England

From this inquiry he returned to England with an international reputation as a detective of the supernatural. With the aid of two…

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day: Sidgwick

Not content with this, he gave himself, with all the earnestness that had originally drawn him into activity with Sidgwick, to the…

Ghost Hunters of Yesterday and To-Day: Podmore

Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Mr. Frank Podmore are other members of the society who have granted the outside world…

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