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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 15:53:03 GMT
Yet another good vintage book of true ghost stories from 1978 with an unforgettable cover image.
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Post by ripper on Nov 13, 2020 17:58:00 GMT
Apparitions by Celia Green (1975)
Unusual book where the author attempts to catalogue the characteristics of apparitions from various accounts, many from old SPR publications, such as how they appear, disappear, if they intercept light, how they are integrated into the landscape, and so forth.
Evidence for Phantom Hitch-hikers by Michael Goss (1984)
Very interesting investigation into the seemingly worldwide phenomenon of the vanishing hitch-hiker. He also covers more general cases of road ghosts such as the famous Bluebell Hill apparition that is alleged to walk into the road in front of vehicles.
Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1936)
Compiled by Lord Halifax over many years from stories of various friends, relatives and visitors to his home. Originally published in 2 volumes, but in 1936 they were combined into a single volume.
The Night-Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe (1848)
Very popular in Victorian Britain, it is probably Crowe's best-known book. She may have become a bit too obsessed with the spirit world as she was alleged to have been found walking in the street "stark mad and stark naked" according to Dickens, having been informed by the spirits that if she held a card in her right hand and hankerchief in her left she would be invisible. She did refute that this happened.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 13, 2020 18:23:24 GMT
I didn't realize that there were so many of those.
Only saw some of those TV reality ghost documentary shows on fringe channels and couldn't take anything seriously. The only I liked was the parody on Supernatural back then.
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 18:35:11 GMT
I didn't realize that there were so many of those.
The ones that Dem, Ripper and I have mentioned are just a fraction of them!
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 18:50:39 GMT
Apparitions by Celia Green (1975) Unusual book where the author attempts to catalogue the characteristics of apparitions from various accounts, many from old SPR publications, such as how they appear, disappear, if they intercept light, how they are integrated into the landscape, and so forth. Evidence for Phantom Hitch-hikers by Michael Goss (1984) Very interesting investigation into the seemingly worldwide phenomenon of the vanishing hitch-hiker. He also covers more general cases of road ghosts such as the famous Bluebell Hill apparition that is alleged to walk into the road in front of vehicles. Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1936) Compiled by Lord Halifax over many years from stories of various friends, relatives and visitors to his home. Originally published in 2 volumes, but in 1936 they were combined into a single volume. The Night-Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe (1848) Very popular in Victorian Britain, it is probably Crowe's best-known book. She may have become a bit too obsessed with the spirit world as she was alleged to have been found walking in the street "stark mad and stark naked" according to Dickens, having been informed by the spirits that if she held a card in her right hand and hankerchief in her left she would be invisible. She did refute that this happened. The only one I hadn't heard of is the Celia Green book, I'll have to look into it. I have the Goss book which is indeed interesting, as is the much bigger and more thorough "The Ghost of Bluebell Hill & Other Road Ghosts" by Sean Tudor, both of which are mentioned elsewhere in the Vault. I'm half-way through the Haunted Cars book I posted about a few days ago, which inevitably has a few chapters on ghostly hitchhikers who appear both outside and inside people's cars. Lord Halifax's book & Catherine Crowe's are both classics, are available on Int*rn*t Arch*v*, and have had some very cool covers, which are probably posted somewhere else in the Vault.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 13, 2020 19:20:51 GMT
Here in the US, my friend who is watching the Holzer show said that one of the channels--I think it is either the Travel Channel or the History Channel--has been taken over by paranormal investigation shows. I stopped having the energy to watch any current broadcast TV at all several years ago--I live with high blood pressure, and my Doctor told me it's not good when I start screaming at the TV set (or the computer, which is all I have now for watching anything), so I had to give it up. Apparently a lot of these shows involve goofy characters with trademark eccentricities and they are very repetitively filmed with "spooky" camera angles and music cues to fill out stories that tend to keep circling the drain of various hobbyhorses (Ouija board sessions gone pear-shaped, secret Satanic cabals raising devils, victims of unsolved murders shrieking their need for vengeance at 3 a.m., etc.)
It seems to be beyond a cottage industry at this point. Who would have thought?
Perhaps in some ways reminiscent of how popular Dance of Death motifs became during the years of the Bubonic Plague.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 13, 2020 19:50:00 GMT
Another personal favourite. Terence W. Whitaker - North Country Ghosts & Legends (Grafton 1983) John Atkinson Grimshaw, A Moonlit Lane, c. 1874. Foreword by Joan Laprell Preface
Yorkshire’s Ghosts & Legends
Spectral Workmates Mysterious Grey Ladies Knights of the High Toby Things That Go ‘Bump’ The Haunts of the Drinking Man Mary Queen of Scots and Turret House Ghostly Monks and Phantom Nuns Psychic Phenomena If Only It Could Talk Ghosts and Greasepaint Dark, Mysterious Gentlemen Some Classic, Authenticated Ghosts Fairies, Trolls and Spectral Hounds Yorkshire Witches York - City of a Thousand Ghosts
Lancashire’s Ghosts & Legends
Unexplained Phenomena Spectral Workmates More Grey Ladies And More Dark, Mysterious Gentlemen A Touch of Evil Kindly Leave the Stage Highway Horrors More Ghostly Clerics Chingle Hall Boggarts Aplenty Witches Galore Old Nick Himself More Favourite Legends
IndexGhouls from the North Country
Spectres, ghosts, grey ladies, hell-hounds, witches and hobgoblins... the North of England teems with such macabre apparitions. The gory dripping head of Lancashire's Mowbreck Hall and the spectre of Yorkshire's Spotforth Castle are widely known, Not so the haunted factories, council estates and TV studios of the region, where the tormented performers of yesteryear know no resting place. These are the stories that Northerners know to be true, stories told to beguile the hours of darkness - stories that will make you start awake in shrieking terror ... Regional chills and thrills. Little could the author have realised that he was penning an ideal true ghost companion to Paul Finch's Terror Tales of Yorkshire[/i] and Terror Tales of Northwest England (with occasional excursions to Terror Tales of the Lake District.
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 19:52:10 GMT
Here in the US, my friend who is watching the Holzer show said that one of the channels--I think it is either the Travel Channel or the History Channel--has been taken over by paranormal investigation shows. I stopped having the energy to watch any current broadcast TV at all several years ago--I live with high blood pressure, and my Doctor told me it's not good when I start screaming at the TV set (or the computer, which is all I have now for watching anything), so I had to give it up. Apparently a lot of these shows involve goofy characters with trademark eccentricities and they are very repetitively filmed with "spooky" camera angles and music cues to fill out stories that tend to keep circling the drain of various hobbyhorses (Ouija board sessions gone pear-shaped, secret Satanic cabals raising devils, victims of unsolved murders shrieking their need for vengeance at 3 a.m., etc.) It seems to be beyond a cottage industry at this point. Who would have thought? Perhaps in some ways reminiscent of how popular Dance of Death motifs became during the years of the Bubonic Plague. H. An interesting correlation, Steve! The channel you mention is T& E (Travel and Escape) but Detour also shows a lot. I agree with you about many of the series' eccentricities; I don't like any of the investigative programs (ex "My Ghost Adventures" or worse "Most Haunted") except for Help! My House is Haunted which is fairly serious & the female team member does not shriek at every "uexpected" noise. I prefer ones featuring the people things happened to narrating their story (or a narrator doing that) & actors recreating it such as:
- Paranormal Nightshift (current) - My Paranormal Nightmare (current) - Paranormal Captured (current - mostly same as just below) - Paranormal Caught on Film (current)
- Paranormal 911 (season ended) - Haunted Encounters (series ended ?) - Haunted Hospitals (season ended) - Paranormal Witness (series ended) - Paranormal Emergency (series ended ?) - Paranormal Survivor (series ended ?) - My Ghost Story (several seasons, now in rerun) - Celebrity Ghost Stories (" " )
- Hotel Paranormal (10 episode series now finished, narrated by Dan Ackroyd)
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 19:53:41 GMT
Another personal favourite. Terence W. Whitaker - North Country Ghosts & Legends (Grafton 1983) John Atkinson Grimshaw, A Moonlit Lane, c. 1874. Same here!
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Post by Shrink Proof on Nov 13, 2020 20:01:24 GMT
Apparitions by Celia Green (1975) Unusual book where the author attempts to catalogue the characteristics of apparitions from various accounts, many from old SPR publications, such as how they appear, disappear, if they intercept light, how they are integrated into the landscape, and so forth. Celia Green has published some intriguing stuff over the years. She's probably best described as an extreme libertarian cum radical sceptic. Her "Apparitions" book is linked to some of her long-standing interest in hallucinations, out-of-body experiences and other altered mental states. She followed it up with "Lucid Dreams", one of the first books to focus on dreams in which the dreamer actually knows that they are dreaming while it's happening. She made some theoretical links between lucid dreaming, OOB states and apparitions. Impressively, she correctly predicted that periods of lucid dreaming should correlate with periods of REM sleep, which sleep labs later showed to be the case. Even better, she went on to predict that it would be possible for the dreamer to signal to a waking onserver that they were now dreaming, allowing direct communication between the "normal" waking state and the dream state. Some years later this prediction was also proved conclusively by psychology researchers. Her "Lucid Dreaming", though a little dated now, is definitely worth reading.
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Post by ripper on Nov 13, 2020 20:11:27 GMT
Apparitions by Celia Green (1975) Unusual book where the author attempts to catalogue the characteristics of apparitions from various accounts, many from old SPR publications, such as how they appear, disappear, if they intercept light, how they are integrated into the landscape, and so forth. Evidence for Phantom Hitch-hikers by Michael Goss (1984) Very interesting investigation into the seemingly worldwide phenomenon of the vanishing hitch-hiker. He also covers more general cases of road ghosts such as the famous Bluebell Hill apparition that is alleged to walk into the road in front of vehicles. Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1936) Compiled by Lord Halifax over many years from stories of various friends, relatives and visitors to his home. Originally published in 2 volumes, but in 1936 they were combined into a single volume. The Night-Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe (1848) Very popular in Victorian Britain, it is probably Crowe's best-known book. She may have become a bit too obsessed with the spirit world as she was alleged to have been found walking in the street "stark mad and stark naked" according to Dickens, having been informed by the spirits that if she held a card in her right hand and hankerchief in her left she would be invisible. She did refute that this happened. The only one I hadn't heard of is the Celia Green book, I'll have to look into it. I have the Goss book which is indeed interesting, as is the much bigger and more thorough "The Ghost of Bluebell Hill & Other Road Ghosts" by Sean Tudor, both of which are mentioned elsewhere in the Vault. I'm half-way through the Haunted Cars book I posted about a few days ago, which inevitably has a few chapters on ghostly hitchhikers who appear both outside and inside people's cars. Lord Halifax's book & Catherine Crowe's are both classics, are available on Int*rn*t Arch*v*, and have had some very cool covers, which are probably posted somewhere else in the Vault is a classic. I haven't read The Ghost of Bluebell Hill as yet, but am familiar with Sean Tudor's website on road ghosts roadghosts.com I find the Bluebell Hill haunting and other road ghost accounts so interesting. I remember when a wee lad that my dad used to tell me that a ghost haunted a particular road we would pass. It was supposed to climb over a wall at the side of the road and walk in front of cars. We didn't travel that road very often and now I have no idea where it was only it was in the Midlands, but each time I would hide my face while sitting in the back seat in case the ghost appeared.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 13, 2020 20:18:36 GMT
Hi Miss Scarlett, A friend of mine writes this blog--you might find this current entry of interest: newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-two-voices-ghost-story-from-maine.htmlI wouldn't describe this as a "ghost story" but people seem to have various concepts of just what the phrase "ghost story" means. My current commute read is Lady Gregory's Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, which has some fabulous tales. All of it consists of stories people told her which she wrote down. (No tape recorders back in those days!) Among other things, I learned just how scary mermaids were. Fascinating legends. H.
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Post by ripper on Nov 13, 2020 20:21:31 GMT
Here in the US, my friend who is watching the Holzer show said that one of the channels--I think it is either the Travel Channel or the History Channel--has been taken over by paranormal investigation shows. I stopped having the energy to watch any current broadcast TV at all several years ago--I live with high blood pressure, and my Doctor told me it's not good when I start screaming at the TV set (or the computer, which is all I have now for watching anything), so I had to give it up. Apparently a lot of these shows involve goofy characters with trademark eccentricities and they are very repetitively filmed with "spooky" camera angles and music cues to fill out stories that tend to keep circling the drain of various hobbyhorses (Ouija board sessions gone pear-shaped, secret Satanic cabals raising devils, victims of unsolved murders shrieking their need for vengeance at 3 a.m., etc.) It seems to be beyond a cottage industry at this point. Who would have thought? Perhaps in some ways reminiscent of how popular Dance of Death motifs became during the years of the Bubonic Plague. H. An interesting correlation, Steve! Sorry to hear you have high blood pressure; if I don't often scream at the tv I certainly feel like it so mine is probably higher than it should be. The channel you mention is T& E (Travel and Escape) but Detour also shows a lot. I agree with you about many of the series' eccentricities; I don't like any of the investigative programs (ex "My Ghost Adventures" or worse "Most Haunted") except for Help! My House is Haunted which is fairly serious & the female team member does not shriek at every "uexpected" noise. I prefer ones featuring the people things happened to narrating their story (or a narrator doing that) & actors recreating it such as:
- Paranormal Nightshift (current) - My Paranormal Nightmare (current) - Paranormal 911 (season ended) - Haunted Encounters (series ended ?) - Haunted Hospitals (season ended) - Paranormal Witness (series ended) - Paranormal Emergency (series ended ?) - Paranormal Survivor (series ended ?) - My Ghost Story (several seasons, now in rerun) - Celebrity Ghost Stories (" " )
- Hotel Paranormal (10 episode series now finished, narrated by Dan Ackroyd)
I am another who rarely watches TV, but have viewed a few ghost hunting programmes in the past. I have to say that I wasn't impressed. Too many seemed to be wandering about waving EMF meters around and seeing any deviation immediately used it as evidence for the presence of a ghost. I agree that the most interesting are the programmes where people sit and describe their experience, soberly and without all the dramatics of the typical ghost hunting show.
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 20:24:26 GMT
I haven't read The Ghost of Bluebell Hill as yet, but am familiar with Sean Tudor's website on road ghosts roadghosts.com I find the Bluebell Hill haunting and other road ghost accounts so interesting. I remember when a wee lad that my dad used to tell me that a ghost haunted a particular road we would pass. It was supposed to climb over a wall at the side of the road and walk in front of cars. We didn't travel that road very often and now I have no idea where it was only it was in the Midlands, but each time I would hide my face while sitting in the back seat in case the ghost appeared. If you like the website, you should like the book, & perhaps also the Antony Milne book. Thanks for sharing your ghost story even if you never saw it. I'd have hidden my face too....
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 13, 2020 20:29:54 GMT
For those who really never want to run out of true ghost stories....
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