by Joe Nickell
CHAPTER 24. SPIRIT SEARCH
1. In addition to Blum's discussion of Paladino's trickery, see Hansel 1966, 209–17.
CHAPTER 25. GHOSTWRITTEN TEXTS?
1. For these statistical analyses, I chose two passages from “Ingersoll” (Message from Robert G. Ingersoll 1904), the third paragraph on page 7 and the first full paragraph on page 20. From Ingersoll (1887), I selected a paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 421 and ending on page 422 and another beginning at the bottom of page 423 and ending on page 424.
CHAPTER 28. “MESSAGES” FROM THE 9/11 DEAD
1. There are two types of waking dreams: the hypnagogic experience, in which one is going to sleep, and the hypnopompic experience, in which one is waking up. Sometimes the person is unable to move—experiencing what is called sleep paralysis—because the body is still in the sleep mode. (See Baker and Nickell 1992, 130–31.)
CHAPTER 29. SYNCHRONICITIES
1. For a discussion of forensic pathology, see my Crime Science (Nickell and Fischer 1999, 246–68).
CHAPTER 30. JOHN EDWARD
1. The transcript was of the June 19, 1998, Larry King Live show on CNN.
CHAPTER 32. SYLVIA BROWNE
1. For a contrary, scientific view, see my Real-Life X-Files (Nickell 2001, 28–36, 240–44).
CHAPTER 33. GHOST HUNTING
1. According to physicists who debunk the idea (Efthimiou and Gandhi 2007, 28), “It has become a Hollywood cliché that the entrance of a ghostly presence is foreshadowed by a sudden and overwhelming chill (see, for example, The Sixth Sense).”
CHAPTER 43. POLTERGEIST ATTACKS!
1. All quotes from Mather are from Quinn 1938.
2. Powel seems to refer to the boy, Abel Powell, as if he's being mentioned by a demon speaking through him. (See also Salem 1860, 30–31.)
INTRODUCTION
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. 2000. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. New York: Checkmark Books.
Nickell, Joe. 2011. Tracking the Man-Beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Stravinskas, Peter M. 2002. Catholic Dictionary. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor.
CHAPTER 1. GHOSTS
Baker, Robert A. 1990. They Call It Hypnosis. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Baker, Robert A., and Joe Nickell. 1992. Missing Pieces: How to Investigate Ghosts, UFOs, Psychics, and Other Mysteries. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia. 1987. 3rd ed. New York: Harper & Row.
Blum, Deborah. 2006. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death. New York: Penguin.
Brandon, Ruth. 1983. The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. 1996. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland.
Christopher, Milbourne. 1970. ESP, Seers, and Psychics: What the Occult Really Is. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.
Cohen, Daniel. 1984. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts. New York: Dorset.
Crowe, Catherine. 1848. The Night-Side of Nature; or Ghosts and Ghost-Seers. Reprint, Wellingborough, England: Aquarian, 1986.
Edwards, Emily. 2001. “A Filmography.” In Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, by James Houran and Rense Lange. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 100–19.
Finucane, R. C. 1984. Appearances of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 2001. Historical introduction in Houran and Lange 2001, pp. 9–17 (below).
The Ghost Breakers (plot summary). 2007. IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032520/ (accessed October 19, 2007). See this site for other movie plot summaries.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. 2000. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. 2nd ed. New York: Checkmark Books.
Haining, Peter. 1982. A Dictionary of Ghosts. Reprint, New York: Dorset, 1993.
Hansel, C. E. M. 1966. ESP: A Scientific Evaluation. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Haunted Lives (show summary). 2007. tv.com. http://www.tv.com/hauntedlives/show/13147/summary.html (accessed October 20, 2007).
Houdini, Harry. 1924. Houdini: A Magician among the Spirits. New York: Ayer.
Houran, James, and Rense Lange. 2001. Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Internet Movie Database. 2007. IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280312/fullcredits (accessed October 30, 2007).
Keene, M. Lamar, and Allen Spraggett. (1976.) 1997. The Psychic Mafia. Reprint, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Moore, David W. 2005. “Three in Four Americans Believe in Paranormal.” Gallup, June 16, 2005. http://www.gallup.com/poll/16915/Three-Four-Americans-Believe-Paranormal.aspx (accessed July 1, 2005).
Moorman, F. W. 1905. “Shakespeare's Ghosts.” Modern Language Review 1, no. 196. Quoted in Finucane 1984, p. 112 (above).
Nickell, Joe. 1995. Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 1999. “The Davenport Brothers.” Skeptical Inquirer 23, no. 4 (July/August): 14–17.
———. 2001. “Phantoms, Frauds, or Fantasies?” In Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by James Houran and Rense Lange. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 214–23.
Scot, Reginald. 1584. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Reprint, New York: Dover, 1972 (from 1930 edition).
Summers, Montague. 1930. Introduction to Scot 1584, pp. xvii–xxxii (above).
Warren, Joshua. 2003. How to Hunt Ghosts: A Practical Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster.
CHAPTER 2. NAKED GHOSTS!
Answer Fella. 2005. “Pickled Eggs, Naked Ghosts & Getting Stood up Gracefully.” Esquire, September, p. 118.
Belanger, Jeff. 2007. The Ghost Files. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books.
Cawthorne, Nigel. 2006. Witches: History of a Persecution. Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books.
Evans, Hilary, and Patrick Huyghe. 2000. The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Appartions. New York: HarperCollins.
Finucane, R. C. 1984. Appearances of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
“Ghosts Gone Wild.” 2009. Carnivalia, http://www.carnivalia.com/ghosts_gone_wild.htm (accessed April 22, 2009).
Houran, James, and Rense Lange. 2001. Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. 2006. Ghosts: A History of Phantoms, Ghouls & Other Spirits of the Dead. Stroud, Gloucester, England: Tempus.
Nickell, Joe. 1988. Secrets of the Supernatural. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 1995. Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 2001a. Real-Life X-Files. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
———. 2001b. “Phantoms, Frauds, or Fantasies?” In Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by James Houran and Rense Lange. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 214–23.
———. 2006. “Ghost Hunters.” Skeptical Inquirer 30, no. 5 (September/October): 23–26.
Permutt, Cyril. 1988. Photographing the Spirit World. Wellingborough, England: Aquarian.
Podmore, Frank. 1909. Telepathic Hallucinations: The New View of Ghosts. New York: Frederick A. Stokes.
Roffe, Alfred. 1851. Essay upon the Ghost-Beliefs of Shakespeare. Cited in Finucane 1984, p. 209 (above).
Stenger, Victor J. 1990. Physics and Psychics: In Search of a World beyond the Senses. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Tyrrell, G. N. M. 1953. Apparitions. Rev. ed. London: Gerald Duckworth.
Waters, Colin. 1993. Familiar Spirits: Sexual Hauntings through the Ages. London: Robert Hale.
White, John, and Stanley Krippner. 1977. Future Science: Life Energies and the Physics of Paranormal Phenomena. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
CHAPTER 3. HEADLESS GHOSTS I HAVE KNOWN
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sp; Creason, Joe. 1972. Joe Creason's Kentucky. Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal.
De Vaux, Samuel. 1839. The Falls of Niagara. Cited in Dunnigan 1989, p. 100 (below).
Diachun, Elizabeth (former assistant director of Old Fort Niagara). 2003. Interview by Joe Nickell, September 24.
Dunnigan, Brian Leigh. 1985. A History and Guide to Old Fort Niagara. Youngstown, NY: Old Fort Niagara Association.
———. 1989. “The Ghost of Old Fort Niagara.” New York Folklore 15 (1–2): 99–104.
Gutjahr, Mirko. 2002. Interview by Joe Nickell and Martin Mahner, October 8.
Hauck, Dennis William. 2000. The International Directory of Haunted Places. New York: Penguin.
Hibbert, Christopher, et al. 1971. Tower of London. New York: Newsweek.
Johnson, Arthur. 1974. Early Morgan County. West Liberty, KY: Privately printed.
Jones, Richard. 2004. Haunted London. New York: Barnes & Noble.
Kasprzyk, Elaine. 2002. Interview by Joe Nickell, April 27.
Nickell, Ella T. N.d. Personal genealogical papers.
Nickell, Joe. 1991. Raids & Skirmishes: The Civil War in Morgan. West Liberty, KY: Nickell Genealogical Books, pp. 11, 17.
———. 2001. “Phantoms, Frauds, or Fantasies?” In Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by James Houran and Rense Lange. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 214–23.
———. 2003. “Germany: Monsters, Myths, and Mysteries.” Skeptical Inquirer 27, no. 2 (March/April): 24–28.
———. 2004. “Rorschach Icons.” Skeptical Inquirer 28, no. 6 (November/December): 15–17.
Perkins, Steven C. 2004. “Ancestry of Rev. Haute/Hawte Wyatt.” Ancestry.com. http://www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scperkins/hwyatt.html (accessed July 17, 2006).
“Pirate Biographies: Klaus Störtebeker.” 2002. http://www.extraweb.com/bpirates/bios/bio58.htm (accessed December 10, 2002).
Tour Guide of Burg Reichenstein. N.d. Pamphlet published by Reichenstein, “the castle of the family Schmitz.” Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Webster's New Universal Encyclopedia. 1997. New York: Barnes & Noble.
CHAPTER 4. EXPERIENCING THE OTHER SIDE
Baker, Robert A., and Joe Nickell. 1992. Hidden Memories: Voices and Visions from Within. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Blackmore, Susan. 1991. “Near-Death Experiences: In or Out of the Body?” Skeptical Inquirer 16, no. 1 (Autumn): 34–35.
Cockell, Jenny. 1993. Across Time and Death: A Mother's Search for Her Past Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. 1991. Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience. New York: HarperCollins.
———. 2000. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. 2nd ed. New York: Checkmark Books.
Nickell, Joe. 1988. Secrets of the Supernatural. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 2001. Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
———. 2007. Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Smith, Susy. 1970. Ghosts around the House. New York: World Publishing.
Wilson, Sheryl C., and Theodore X. Barber. 1983. “The Fantasy-Prone Personality: Implications for Understanding Imagery, Hypnosis, and Parapsychological Phenomena.” In Imagery, Current Theory, Research and Application, edited by Anees A. Sheikh. New York: Wiley, pp. 340–90.
Woerlee, G. M. 2004. “Darkness, Tunnels, and Light.” Skeptical Inquirer 28, no. 3 (May/June): 28–32.
CHAPTER 5. ENTOMBED ALIVE!
Bell, Betty. 2003. Interview by Joe Nickell, August 29.
Broeke, Robbert van den. 2005. Robbert—Van zorgenkind tot medium (Robert—From Problem Child to Medium). Utrecht: Kosmos.
Bunson, Matthew. 1993. The Vampire Encyclopedia. New York: Gramercy Books.
Catholic Apologetics. 2006. http://www.catholicapologetics.net/qb130 (accessed October 26, 2006).
Citro, Joseph A., and Diane E. Foulds. 2003. Curious New England: The Unconventional Traveler's Guide to Eccentric Destinations. Hanover: University Press of England.
Hauck, Dennis William. 1996. Haunted Places: The National Directory. New York: Penguin.
Marquard, B. K. 1982. “Beating the Grim Reaper.” Rutland Daily Herald (Rutland, VT), May 27.
Meder, Theo. 2005. “Het spook van het Singraven.” October 18. http://www.meerten.sknaw.nl/volksverhalenbank/detail_volksverhalen.php?id=thm00267 (accessed October 22, 2007).
Mulder-Bakker, Anneke. 2005. Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Nanninga, Rob. 2005. “Van zorgenkind tot wonderman: De avonturen van Robbert van den Broeke.” Skepter (Netherlands) 18, no. 4 (Winter): 24–29.
Nickell, Joe. 1995. Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 2001. “Phantoms, Frauds, or Fantasies?” In Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by James Houran and Rense Lange. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 214–23
———. 2005. “Legends of Castles and Keeps.” Skeptical Inquirer 29, no. 6 (November/December): 24–26.
———. 2007. “The Netherlands: Visions and Revisions.” Skeptical Inquirer 31, no. 6 (November/December): 16–19.
Palmer, John. 2003. Interview by Joe Nickell, August 29.
Robinson, Duane L. 1950. General Catalogue of Middlebury College. Middlebury, VT: Publications Department of Middlebury College.
Roth, Hans Peter, and Niklaus Maurer. 2006. Orte des Grauens in der Schweiz: Von Spukhausern, Geister-plätzen und unheimlichen Begebenheíten (Sites of Horror in Switzerland: Of Haunted Houses, Ghost Sites, and Spooky Occurrences). Baden, Switzerland: AT Verlaq.
Schloss Neu-Bechburg. 2007. File of miscellaneous articles from city hall. Oensingen, Switzerland, copy obtained May 25.
Scott, Sir Walter. 1808. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable.
Wynia, Sjouke, René Notenboom, Ans Zekhuis-Stroot, and Leen van Rooden (tour guides at Singraven). 2006. Interviews by Joe Nickell, October 26; supplemented by typescript history of Singraven (in English), n.d.
CHAPTER 6. GHOSTLY LORE AND LURE
Belote, David. 2006. Quoted in “Ghost of Clement Hall” 2006 (below).
Bender, William N. 2008. Haunted Atlanta and Beyond. Toccoa, GA: Currahee Books.
Christian, Reese. 2008. Ghosts of Atlanta: Phantoms of the Phoenix City. Charleston, SC: Haunted America.
“The Ghost of Clement Hall: Is She Real or Just a Myth?” 2006. Pacer. http://www.utmpacer.com/sports/the-ghost-of-clement-hall-is-she-real-or-just-a-myth-1.2202396 (accessed March 24, 2010).
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. 2000. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. 2nd ed. New York: Checkmark Books.
Hauck, Dennis William. 1996. The International Directory of Haunted Places. New York: Penguin.
“Haunted Tour.” 2010. http://www.wwtntoday.com (accessed April 14, 2010).
Minervini, Peter. 2010. Interview by Joe Nickell, September 4.
Mueller, Stephanie. 2010. Interview by Joe Nickell, March 24.
Nickell, Joe. 2004. The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. (Additional sources are given in this source.)
The Winchester Mystery House. 1997. San Jose, CA: Winchester Mystery House.
Winer, Richard, and Nancy Osborne. 1979. Haunted Houses. New York: Bantam Books.
Wright, Earl. 2006. Quoted in “Ghost of Clement Hall” 2006 (above).
CHAPTER 7. THE DOCTOR'S GHOSTLY VISITOR
Brunvand, Jan Harold. 1978. The Study of American Folklore. New York: W. W. Norton.
———. 1981. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings. New York: W. W. Norton.
———. 2000. The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story! Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Colby, C. B
. 1959. Strangely Enough (abridged). New York: Scholastic Book Services.
Edwards, Frank. 1961. Strange People. New York: Signet.
Graham, Billy. 1975. Angels: God's Secret Agents. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Hurwood, Bernhardt J. 1967. Strange Talents. New York: Ace Books.
Mitchell, S. Weir. (1891.) 1909. Characteristics. New York: Century.
Musick, Ruth Ann. 1965. The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
Nickell, Joe. 1995. Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons, and Other Alien Beings. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.
———. 2007. Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Ronan, Margaret. 1974. Strange Unsolved Mysteries. New York: Scholastic Book Services.
Strange Stories, Amazing Facts. 1976. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association.
Tyler, Steven. 1970. ESP and Psychic Power. New York: Tower.
CHAPTER 8. ELVIS LIVES!
Banks, Amanda Carson. 1996. In Brunvand 1996, pp. 221–22 (below).
Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. 1991. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House.
“Best Epiphany.” 1994. Hamilton This Month (now Hamilton Magazine), summer.
Brewer-Giorgio, Gail. 1988. Is Elvis Alive? New York: Tudor.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. 1996. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland.
Christopher, Milbourne. 1975. Mediums, Mystics and the Occult. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.
Collier's Encyclopedia. 1993. New York: P. F. Collier.
“Elvis Is Alive Museum again for Sale on eBay.” 2008. Buffalo News, September 23.
“Elvis Presley Phenomenon.” 2008. Wikipedia. http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_sightings (accessed August 4, 2008).
