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Summary: The Absolute Authority on Paraphsychology
Review: An excelent book, by an excelent author, over 100 True stories complete with transcripts from seances, photographs, descriptions of ghostly phenomena, and also how to tell ghosts from non ghosts. The book covers all kinds of spirits and tells about each one of them. Covering famous ghosts like bloody mary,robert louis stevenson, even the guy who played MR BELVEDERE!!! Chapters include THE NATURE OF LIFE AND DEATH, WHAT EVERY WOULD-BE GHOST HUNTER SHOULD KNOW, GHOSTS AND THE WORLD OF THE LIVING, WHAT EXACTLY IS A GHOST, FAMOUS GHOSTS,THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED, HAUNTED PLACES, HAUNTED PEOPLE, STAY BEHINDS, POLTERGEISTS, GHOSTS THAT ARENT, AND PHSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHY-THE VISUAL PROOF. The most thorough ghost guide I have ever read
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Summary: It's big. It's good. I like it.
Review: Believe it or not--as big as this book is, I've pretty much read the entire thing cover to cover. That's how good I think it is. Really, it's the only book on ghosts you need...not that anyone really needs a book about ghosts. Okay so some of it is just a bunch of scientific mumbo jumbo, but the actual ghost stories are pretty interesting. It also contains some cool photos. My only complaint, really, is that it's size makes it a bit awkward to carry around. I guess it's well worth the workout though.
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Summary: It's big. It's good. I like it.
Review: Believe it or not--as big as this book is, I've pretty much read the entire thing cover to cover. That's how good I think it is. Really, it's the only book on ghosts you need...not that anyone really needs a book about ghosts. Okay so some of it is just a bunch of scientific mumbo jumbo, but the actual ghost stories are pretty interesting. It also contains some cool photos. My only complaint, really, is that it's size makes it a bit awkward to carry around. I guess it's well worth the workout though.
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Summary: Fun book even for the skeptic
Review: Ghosts: True Encounters With the World Beyond by Hans Holzer is a comprehensive volume of the author's extensive research into the world of ghosts, spirits, and poltergists performed over the past 30 or more years. Whether one believes in these phenomenon or not, the book makes interesting reading. While many of the stories have appeared in other books, Holzer adds interesting updates and background information which give them a new perspective. Of particular interest to me was the historical research done with respect to the life and times surrounding some of the occurrences. The author discusses the American Revolution and Civil War and some of the events of early European history as well as some of the central figures of these events. Where he is able, he also adds information about the history the specific houses and other buildings he inspected. He gives advice to the would be ghost hunter, and describes some of the mediums with whom he worked. It sounds as though Dr. Holzer had a fun and exciting career that has taken him all over the world.
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Summary: Excellent reading for those with inquiring minds
Review: Good research, great stories (and plenty of them), make this worth purchasing and keeping. Not only will the extensive collection of incidents and hauntings hold your interest, the definitions of types of spirits and the Do's and Don't of encountering them are absolutely fascinating. And who knows, the information could come in handy one day! Informative enough to consider a study guide , but long enough to provide hours and hours of reading satisfaction. I have read my copy three times in five years, and always look forward to the next time.
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Summary: Ghosts
Review: Hans Holzer is a throughly refreshing read! This is a very big book, but it is well worth the read. A word of caution though, if you have read his other books on ghosts, most of the stories are taken from those text.
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Summary: Very interesting and thorough !
Review: I found this book to be very interesting and to cover all the bases concerning factual accounts of ghostly sightings. If you want a scary read try Stephen King or Hitchcock. If you want the names and places of actual ghostly sightings this is the book for you.
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Summary: Ignore the above review who says Hans is full of himself
Review: I like this book so far. He writes about a lot of ghost hunts he's been on...but I'd rather read a book about things that actually occured than read a book about things that MAY have occured. I'm glad he stays on the topic of stuff he knows happened from personal expieriences rather than possible urban legends about small towns. I really don't agree with the review above.You get a huge book and lots of information for your money here!
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Summary: The Complete Hans Holzer
Review: I like to refer to this book as the complete Hans Holzer because it appears to be compilation of his books mostly from the 60's and 70's, but the stories are still fascinating to read. If you want scary ghost stories, try something in the Michael Norman series, but if you want to read about actual investigations of hauntings, I highly recommend this book. A HUGE book with over 750 pages printed on high quality paper and lots of photographs, there is enough material here for at least three books!
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Summary: Who Gave Him the Ph.d?
Review: I yearn for a good compilation of all the houses and places in America reputed to be haunted. This, however, is nothing more than an extended (and, physically, weighty) advertisement for the ghost-hunting services of Mr. Hans Holzer. Mr. Holzer proves the existence of ghosts through the use of selective truth-telling, suspect methods, bad photography, and, often, hilariously stupid reasoning. I remain unconvinced of anything other than the fact that there is a large market of gullible souls who can't handle the fact that their minds and a few crafty entenpreneurs like Mr. Holzer can play tricks on them. Holzer is reputed to be a Ph.d: I'd like to know what stalwarts of senility were on his doctoral defense committee.
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