This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts
of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dea
d platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a hou
se near Tintagel in Cornwall that led actress Kate Winslet to pull out of buying
the property. It covers the full spectrum of credible hauntings, from poltergei
sts (the noisy, dangerous and frightening spirits that are usually associated wi
th pubescent girls, like the Bell Witch), to phantoms (like the Afrits of Saudi
Arabia) and seduction spirits (such as the Lorelei, which have lured German men
to death). Also included are the notes of the most famous ghost hunters of the t
wentieth century such as Hans Holzer, Susy Smith (USA); Harry Price, Jenny Randl
es (UK); Joyce Zwarycz (Australia), Eric Rosenthal (South Africa), and Hwee Tan
(Japan).
