True Ghost Stories

About this eBook

Author

Carrington, Hereward, 1880-1959

Credits

E-text prepared by eagkw, Robert Cicconetti, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Ghosts

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44625

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44625

Release Date

January 8, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.True Ghost Stories
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PUBLISHER’S NOTE.
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED
6. 6.CHAPTER I — WHAT IS A GHOST? — THE TERROR OF THE DARK — WHAT IS A GHOST? — HISTORIC INVESTIGATIONS — DEATH-COINCIDENCES — ARE THEY DUE TO CHANCE? — THE EXPLANATION — EXPERIMENTAL APPARITIONS — TELEPATHIC HALLUCINATIONS — GHOSTS WHICH MOVE MATERIAL OBJECTS — PHOTOGRAPHS OF GHOSTS — THE “DOUBLE,” AND THE SPIRITUAL BODY — WHAT HAPPENS AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH — HOW THE SOUL MAY LEAVE THE BODY — THEORIES OF HAUNTED HOUSES — THE GHOSTS OF ANIMALS, ETC. — THE CLOTHES OF GHOSTS — TELEPATHY FROM THE DEAD — THE PSYCHIC ATMOSPHERE — FORMS CREATED BY WILL — PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS — CAN HAUNTED HOUSES BE “CURED”?
7. 7.CHAPTER II — PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD—I. — A RUSSIAN GHOST — GRASPED BY A SPIRIT HAND — “I AM SHOT!” — HEAVE THE LEAD! — THE RESCUE AT SEA — HOW GHOSTS INFLUENCE US — HOW A GHOST WARNED THE KING — THE STAINS OF BLOOD — FACE TO FACE! — JULIA, DARLING! — THE CUT ACROSS THE CHEEK — THE INVISIBLE HAND — THE APPARITION OF THE RADIANT BOY — FISHER’S GHOST — HARRIET HOSMER’S VISION — THE APPARITION OF THE MURDERED BOY — THE GHOST IN YELLOW CALICO
8. 8.CHAPTER III — MORE PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD—II. — COMPACTS TO APPEAR AFTER DEATH — LORD BROUGHAM’S VISION — THE TYRONE GHOST — “DEAD OR ALIVE” — THE SCRATCH ON THE CHEEK — A GHOST IN HAMPTON COURT — HALF-PAST ONE O’CLOCK — MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — HAUNTED HOUSES — THE RECORD OF A HAUNTED HOUSE — PROOFS OF IMMATERIALITY — CONDUCT OF ANIMALS IN THE HOUSE — B—— HOUSE — WILLINGTON MILL — THE GREAT AMHERST MYSTERY — BROOK HOUSE
10. 10.CHAPTER V — GHOST STORIES OF A MORE DRAMATIC NATURE — DISEASE-PHANTOMS — THE TALE OF THE MUMMY — FACE SLAPPED BY A GHOST — ALONE WITH A GHOST IN A CHURCH — A HAUNTED HOUSE IN FRANCE — A HAUNTED HOUSE IN GEORGIA — SHAKEN BY A GHOST — THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN
11. 11.APPENDIX A — HISTORICAL GHOSTS — ROYAL — EMPERORS — FAMOUS MEN
12. 12.APPENDIX B — THE PHANTOM ARMIES SEEN IN FRANCE
13. 13.APPENDIX C — BIBLIOGRAPHY

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