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Haunted World

101 Ghostly Places and Encounters

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Paranormal expert Theresa Cheung shares 101 of the most mysterious and spooky true stories of hauntings from around the world together with the latest afterlife science and research, providing fascinating insight into our never-ending love affair with ghosts.

Belief in ghosts is surprisingly common worldwide. Mysterious glowing orbs, unexplained chills, things that literally go bump in the night: signs of paranormal activity have reportedly surged during the pandemic. As have specialist investigators, organized ghost hunts, eerie podcasts, TV shows and reports of everyday hauntings.

Sharing the details of some well-known and particularly mysterious hauntings together with some less-well-known tales and personal stories from her readers and listeners, Theresa explores these ghostly encounters through four categories of hauntings: residual, poltergeist, inhuman and intelligent.

With an introduction to modern parapsychology, a look at the latest science that digs deeper into our never-ending love affair with ghosts, psychic-themed self-help advice and ghost hunting tips, Haunted World is a timely and entertaining journey through the thrilling world of afterlife research.

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This book is at its best when it focuses on the historical facts, investigations, research and so on into various events and phenomena reported throughout history. It covers a lot of ground (a clue is in the title, it's 101 instances) and will probably have some new history that you hadn't heard about before.

Where it falls down is the confident credulity. A substantial amount of the book is taken up explaining terms and ideas with the authority of a research citation but with no sources at all - wondering what the different between a ghost, spook, spectre or wraith is? You get told specific definitions for each, which appear to have been made up on the spot. "Some scientists say" that water can remember chemicals (ie: homeopathy); "Allegedly" people lived in places despite there being no record; "Some believe" that demons are inhuman spirits while "others" say they're fallen angels. Goblins are apparently real, in an off hand comment, and according to the author a lot of people get demons and vampires confused, the difference being that vampires drink blood.

If you enjoy listening to someone (quite calmingly - the narrator is fine and gives an unearned sense of gravitas to the text) list off campfire stories with the authority of the claymation pirate captain telling you why a shark would beat a Dracula, and skipping over passages that would be littered with "citation needed", "weasel words" and "who?" if they were on Wikipedia, then go for it. If you want to hear about investigation, rigorous testing, folklore, sources, counter-theories or any level of holding beliefs up to the light rather than just starting from a position of everything being true, probably best to look elsewhere.

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