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_aClarke, Roger. _9264136 |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aNatural history of ghosts |
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_aGhosts : _ba natural history : 500 years of searching for proof / _cby Roger Clarke. |
| 250 | _aLarge Print edition. | ||
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_aFarmington Hills, Mich. : _bThorndike Press, a part of "Gale Cengage Learning, _c2015. |
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_a587 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm. |
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| 490 | 1 | _aThorndike Press large print nonfiction | |
| 500 | _aOriginally published under title: A natural history of ghosts : 500 years of hunting for proof. London : Particular Books, 2012. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references. | ||
| 520 | _aNo 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. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly do those who have been haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there? Taking us through the key hauntings that have obsessed the world, from the true events that inspired Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw right up to the present day, Roger Clarke unfolds a story of class conflict, charlatans, and true believers. The cast list includes royalty and prime ministers, Samuel Johnson, John Wesley, Harry Houdini, and Adolf Hitler. The chapters cover everything from religious beliefs to modern developments in neuroscience, the medicine of ghosts, and the technology of ghosthunting. There are haunted WWI submarines, houses so blighted by phantoms they are demolished, a seventeenth-century Ghost Hunter General, and the emergence of the Victorian flash mob, where hundreds would stand outside rumored sites all night waiting to catch sight of a dead face at a window. | ||
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_aParapsychology _xInvestigation _xHistory. _9264138 |
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