apparitions

Readers will learn about eerie sightings and unexplained happenings, along with well-known haunted houses, possible explanations, and ghost hunters.

Readers will learn the legends and facts about spirits and phantoms, including historical sightings, famous ghosts, and researchers' investigations.

Among the 11 haunted libraries in this book, children will discover one that is home to the spirit of a young girl who is depicted in its beautiful stained-glass window, one that is filled with ghosts who are distressed because it is built on top of their burial place, and one that has now turned into a bookstore yet is haunted by library patrons of the past--as well as a phantom cat.

"[Traces] local ghost stories back to Native American legends and then forward through horror tales both ancient and modern ... Revisits some of the best known haunted locales, as well as some of the most obscure creepy places, in America ... Includes chapters on ghostly books, movies, and television. Also included is an A-Z of reality-TV ghost hunts and a state-by-state gazetteer of haunted spots."--Provided by publisher.

For centuries there have been tales about haunted houses; sometimes there are multiple witnesses who insist they are telling the truth.

People have believed in ghosts since ancient times and recently paranormal investigators have developed methods to detect evidence of the spirit world.

"Stories of ghost encounters are told using eyewitness accounts in graphic novel format"--.

Psychologist Sam Towne, certain that the human mind has the psychic ability to create a ghost, assembles a group of eight people to test his theories and ends up fighting for his life against a powerful and deadly apparition.

This graphic novel the story of the White Lady ghost including the origins of this legend and related sightings.

Successful Manhattan science journalist Jeremy Marsh is invited to the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, to investigate a sighting of strange lights in a local cemetery and meets librarian Lexie Darnell, who causes the smitten Jeremy to make some difficult choices about his life.