Despite widespread skepticism on the matter, a significant number of people today have stories of religious experience--moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death experiences of the afterlife, encounters with angels, heavenly voices, and premonitions. How should rationally minded people respond? What would your reaction ......
Explores the question of evidence for the paranormal. Containing chapters that deal with topics such as psychics, life after death, parapsychology, astrology, UFOs, faith healing, alternative medicine, and many other, this title examines the empirical evidence supporting these popular paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
DREAM IT Embark on a thrilling expedition through the wilds of New England with Haunted Hikes New England. This hauntingly beautiful guide features concise descriptions and detailed maps for dozens of trails across six states, each with its own ghost stories, eerie legends, and mysterious encounters that bring the region's folklore to life. PLAN ......
Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee showcases their braided workings in social and political fabrics. Drawing on this intertwined idea of play and hauntings, Chatterjee goes to the heart of conundrums within transnational postcolonial feminisms by examining the ......
108 of the Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Wonderful Attractions of the Adirondack Region
The Adirondack Park is a huge and diverse region that has earned a special place in the hearts of millions who live and visit its mountains and lakes, vistas and views, and natural and man-made attractions. There are many books that list the major sites, well-trodden trails, and "tourist traps" of the Adirondack region. Bizarre Adirondacks is a ......
Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee showcases their braided workings in social and political fabrics. Drawing on this intertwined idea of play and hauntings, Chatterjee goes to the heart of conundrums within transnational postcolonial feminisms by examining the ......
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Pull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for twenty-four creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Tennessee folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman's evocative illustrations. ......
Located off the coast of Delaware City on Pea Patch Island lies the 160 year old Fort Delaware. The present structure was completed between 1848 and 1859 and became the largest fort of its day. Three years after its completion the fort and surrounding island were put to use as a prison for captured Confederate soldiers.
* Riveting ghost stories from all the major engagements of the war * Includes Manassas, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Petersburg, and Appomattox * Chilling accounts from haunted Civil War prisons - Johnson's Island, OH; Point Lookout, MD; and Andersonville, GA * Field ...
