Ghosts : A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof

from TheRavenking

I read the Penguin paperback version of this book and have to say: it is not a very attractive publication. There are several pictures included, but there are all in black and white and of a rather dubious quality. For example: there is a picture of a room with a supposedly haunted bed, but you c...

from MrsLee

Roger Clarke sets out to decide whether or not ghosts are a real phenomenon, but along the way he becomes intrigued with those who have tried to determine this in the past and so decides to write about them. He looks at instances from distant history up through the present, finding some fraud, so...

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A natural history of the supernatural from Roger Clarke, lifelong investigator into England's creepiest real-life ghost stories 'Is there anybody out there?' No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. Th...

from whitsunweddings

Aargh I'm so annoyed by this book. I've been wanting to read it for years because I'm an inconsistent atheist and I low-key believe in ghosts. I'm so disappointed! This book takes a scattershot approach to famous hauntings - Clarke will be like "... Poltergeist activity reminiscent of the Little ...