Conducting a paranormal investigation, a training guide

Posted by Melissa

Feb 13

Originally developed as a training manual for the Virginia Society of Paranormal Education and Research (VASPER), this guide is now available to all beginners and would-be ghost-hunters hoping to capture evidence of the supernatural for themselves. The book takes a step-by-step approach and teaches readers the fundamentals of planning investigations, researching haunted locations, collecting data in the field, and analyzing that data following an investigation. Topics covered include: interviewing witnesses, surveying a site, safety tips, investigation etiquette, data analysis, and advising clients of your findings. A handy resource section features sample interview questions, a Site Access Agreement, an Investigation Activity Log, and a collection of recommended websites to keep readers informed of current events in the world of paranormal research.
· Paperback: 52 pages
· Publisher: Iron Cauldron Books (April 14, 2008)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0615204562
· ISBN-13: 978-0615204567
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    • Everyone loves a good ghost story

    Posted by Melissa

    Feb 13

    Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side
    by James Van Praagh

    Everyone loves a good ghost story. Perhaps the human fascination with the supernatural stems from the fact that most of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced something we couldn’t quite explain. From a very young age James Van Praagh was aware of a dimension that most of us cannot see, and he has dedicated his life to explaining it to the rest of us. Ghosts Among Us takes us on an incredible journey into the spirit world that brings to light one of our greatest mysteries—what happens to us after we die?

    Van Praagh, the New York Times bestselling author and co-executive producer of the CBS series The Ghost Whisperer, shares his knowledge and life experience about ghosts, a subject that can seem to many of us both bizarre and terrifying. But when the world beyond is explained fully by an experienced guide, dismissal and apprehension can be turned into knowledge and inspiration. With incredible true ghost stories and surprising details about how ghosts actively participate in our lives, Van Praagh challenges us to question our perceptions and shows us how we can live more fully through understanding the world of spirits. Including eerily accurate readings, the author’s development as a medium, and detailed how-to information, Ghosts Among Us is an all-encompassing guide to the supernatural.

    James Van Praagh is the New York Times bestselling author of Talking to Heaven and Reaching to Heaven. Currently, Van Praagh is the co-executive producer of the primetime series Ghost Whisperer, the #1 CBS drama starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Van Praagh is developing additional projects for Paramount and guest hosts the entertainment news shows Entertainment Tonight and The Insider.

    • Hardcover: 224 pages
    • Publisher: HarperOne (May 13, 2008)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0061553395
    • ISBN-13: 978-0061553394

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    • Weird Hauntings by Joanne Austin

    Posted by Melissa

    Feb 13

    Weird Hauntings:True Tales of Ghostly Places
    By Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman

    Compiled by Joanne Austin, Foreword by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman

    From Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, the authors of the bestselling Weird U.S. series, comes something a little different, designed to send shivers down the spine: a book on America’s scariest haunted places. Some of these spirit-filled spots are well known and open to the public, while others are private residences that will have to remain intriguing from a distance: No visits allowed! The stories include firsthand tales that have a powerful “creepiness factor” and believability. The various sites include haunted houses, ghostly graveyards, cursed roads, eerie eateries, spirited saloons, and more. But be warned: This collection of true tales set in actual locations is so chilling that you may not want to read this alone at night.
    • Hard cover: 320 pages
    • Publisher: Sterling (September 1, 2006)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1402742266
    • ISBN-13: 978-1402742262
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    • Clear your clutter with Feng Shui

    Posted by Melissa

    Feb 13

    Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
    by Karen Kingston

    From The Publisher:
    Clear Your Clutter and Transform Your Life!

    Clutter is trapped energy that has far-reaching effects physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The simple act of clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions, generating energy, and allowing you to create space in your life for the things you want to achieve. In Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston, pioneer of a branch of Feng Shui known as Space Clearing, expertly guides you through the liberating task of clutter clearing.

    You will learn:
    Why you keep clutter
    How to identify and clear clutter in your home or workplace
    How to clear clutter from your body, mind, and spirit
    How to stay clutter-free
    From the Back Cover

    “A great book and long overdue. I have read it twice in a week. . . . Thanks, Karen Kingston, for helping me to simplify my life in a joyful way.”
    –Louise L. Hay, author of Empowering Women and You Can Heal Your Life

    “Elevates cleaning clutter from a mundane task to an experience of the sublime.”
    –Michelle Passoff, author of Lighten Up! Free Yourself From Clutter

    About the Author

    Karen Kingston’s first book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, is an international bestseller. Karen divides her time between Bali and London, and she teaches to packed audiences in the United Kingdom, the United States, and around the world.

    • Paperback: 192 pages
    • Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (May 4, 1999)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0767903595
    • ISBN-13: 978-0767903592
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    • Coast To Coast Ghosts: True Stories of Hauntings Across America by Leslie Rule

    Posted by Melissa

    Feb 13

    Coast To Coast Ghosts: True Stories of Hauntings Across America
    by Leslie Rule (Author), Ann Rule (Foreword)
    Ghosts have been the entertaining subject of many works of fiction. But they’re even more intriguing (and perhaps even scarier) when they are the focus of real-life hauntings in our own backyard. An employee of the St. James Hotel in New Mexico watches in shock as a fair-haired toddler with a terribly disfigured face disappears into the floor. This is just one of the paranormal mysteries Leslie Rule shares with us-a result of extensive interviews and research uncovering the reasons behind ghost sightings across the country.
    Coast to Coast Ghosts features dozens of spine-tingling, real-life ghost stories and approximately 50 black-and-white photographs, taken by Rule, including some believed to have captured actual apparitions.
    Only the reader can decide. . . .
    About the Author
    Leslie Rule is a professional photographer and author of Whispers from the Grave and Kill Me Again. The daughter of best-selling true-crime author Ann Rule, she grew up in a haunted house overlooking Puget Sound. She now lives in Seattle.
    • Paperback: 272 pages
    • Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (August 7, 2001)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0740718665
    • ISBN-13: 978-0740718663
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