OUR TOP 5 BOOK LIST

The Ghost Hunters Bible "Definitive Edition"
by Trent Brandon

The Everything Ghost Book
by Jason Rich
The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings
by Tom Ogden
GHOSTS: True Encounters With the World Beyond
by Hans Holzer

WASHINGTON


Ghosts and Strange Critters of Washington and Oregon
by Jefferson Davis

This book is the first in a series recounting true ghost stories from the Pacific Northwest. The stories in this book are taken from a variety of sources, including newspaper stories, historic accounts and first hand experiences from people who have had paranormal encounters. Including Jeff's experiences in the Vancouver Barracks, in Vancouver, Washington.


Ghosts, Critters & Sacred Places of Washington and Oregon
by Jefferson Davis
This is the second book in a Jeff Davis' series recounting true ghost stories from the Pacific Northwest. The stories in this book are not fiction, but come from many sources, like newspaper stories and first hand experiences from people who have had paranormal encounters.
This book is thirty pages longer than Jeff's first book: Ghosts and Strange Critters of Washington and Oregon. Although most of the stories in this book are new, some of the haunted sites from Jeff's first book have been updated. There are more public places in this book, like bars, restaurants, hotels or public buildings. Most of them can be visited by readers for their own experiences.


Ghost Stories of Washington
by Barbara Smith
Enjoy this spooky romp through a world of restless spirits, from the ghost who warns hikers in the Cascades about a dangerous path, to the phantoms that roam the Seattle Underground. You'll read a fascinating account about a man wrongly lynched near Rockford. He swears revenge on the drunken vigilantes who strung him up--and they each die screaming. Another story tells of the spirits that ring the bells in the tower of Tacoma's Old City Hall--even after the bells have been made unusable.


CALIFORNIA


Hollywood Haunted: A Ghostly Tour of Filmland
by Laurie Jacobson
  Haunted San Diego
by Gail White
Haunted Houses of California
by Antoinette May


MASSACHUSETTS

Haunted Happenings
By Robert Ellis Cahill
Ghosts… are they merely lost souls trapped in some kind of time warp, probably not knowing how to proceed to the next world? Maybe they might feel that they have some important unfinished business here. Whichever it is, this book should entertain you and, hopefully, give you further insight into the realm of the unknown. It will also provide you with a unique history concerning our forever haunting and mysterious New England.


TRUE ACCOUNTS

  The Entity
By Frank De Felitta
  The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare
By Robert Curran

WORLDWIDE

The National Directory of Haunted Places
By Dennis William Hauck
In almost every town in America there are places where strange things happen. The perfect companion to The International Directory of Haunted Places, this revised and updated edition of Haunted Places is both a fascinating and unusual travel guide as well as an indispensable casebook for those interested in the paranormal.

 

The International Directory of Haunted Places
By Dennis William Hauck

Describes over 750 haunted locales around the world, including sites of ghostly visitations, UFO landings, sacred shrines, and mysterious creatures, accompanied by travel directions, telephone contact numbers, and email addresses.

 

The Field Guide To North American Hauntings
By W. Haden Blackman
From headless phantoms and screaming specters to invisible poltergeists and disembodied voices, ghosts occupy our homes, infest cemeteries and graveyards, lurk in nearby caves and forests, and even wander city streets. However, despite the wealth of sightings, aspiring ghost hunters have few resources.
Now, for the first time, here is a fully functioning field guide for those courageous investigators who wish to observe and interact with supernatural beings and the spirit world. Drawn from all available evidence, including recent research and sightings, modern urban legends, and Native American mythology and North American folklore, this book describes in detail over 100 haunted sites and their resident specters.

 

The Ghost-Hunting Casebook
By Natalie Osborne-Thomason
From the files of one of the British Ghost Club Society's most experienced investigators, this book presents a diverse collection of stories and first-hand experiences of the spirit world.

 

Where The Ghosts Are
By Hans Holzer
In these pages Professor Hans Holzer documents more than 50 locations where he has personally investigated ghosts, often with the assistance of a psychic. Complete with photos and details about each spectral phenomenon as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells who they were and why they are found in each location.

 

More Where The Ghosts Are
By Hans Holzer

 

Ghostly American Places
By Arthur Myers
Outlining more than forty documented cases of ghostly encounters in the United States, an enthusiast's tour includes witness interviews, photographs, and the stories behind famous and lesser-known cases.

 

The Ghostly Register
By Arthur Myers
The Register covers haunted places in thirty of the fifty states. It's in essences a ghostly tourist guide. Each chapter includes the location, description of place, ghostly manifestations, history, identity of ghost, personality of ghost, witnesses, best time to witness, and info on any investigations done and who the data was submitted by.

 

Coast To Coast Ghosts
By Leslie Rule
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. . . .

 

Ghost: Investigating The Other Side
By Katherine Ramsland
With the same open and personal style that won her much praise for Piercing the Darkness, Katherine Ramsland turns her keen and curious eye to the phenomena of ghosts to uncover the truth behind a number of supernatural "sightings". Written in the bold tradition of participatory journalism, Ramsland's extraordinary investigative memoir takes readers directly into the world of ghost hunting and paranormal activity, offering an unflinching account of this mysterious world. On the track of an authentic "haunting," Ramsland encounters psychics, shamans, voodoo practicioners, and high-tech ghost hunters eager to reveal how to contact spirits. But through her own daring experiments, Ramsland is able to penetrate the supernatural mystery that has inspired paranormal investigations worldwide.

 

 

Haunted House Album
By Hans Holzer

 

Sightings (from the TV series)
By Susan Michaels
An intriguing collection of accounts and anecdotes about unexplained phenomena, from the popular television series, encompasses stories of ghostly hauntings, UFO abductions, psychic awareness, and many other mysterious events. 50,000 first printing.

 

America's Most Haunted Places
By Nancy Roberts
Fifteen ghost stories associated with historically important locations in the United States including Fort Ticonderoga, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry, and the Comstock Lode.

 

 

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts
By Daniel Cohen
Daniel Cohen is an incredibly prolific writer, with books spanning several topics. He has a lot of books on ghosts, aimed at all ages.
This book is a great resource... it examines nearly every famous ghost case and provides an objective look at all of them, without presenting an overly critical eye.

 

Graveyard
By Ed and Lorraine Warren
The authors of The Haunted recount horrifying stories about a centuries-old Connecticut graveyard, including the tale of the murderer who put his victim's body in a sink hole and watched as the body rose up and revealed itself.

 

Ghosts II: More true stories from British Columbia
By Robert C. Belyk

 

The Complete Book of Ghosts and Poltergeists
by Leonard R.N. Ashley
In this seventh book in his series on the supernatural--the popularity of which mounts with each new title--Dr. Ashley takes us into the world of the dead and the "undead." Within you will read about hauntings from the departed who have returned, to poltergeists who fling objects and persecute the living. This book will entertain with its range of stories--for the believer and skeptic alike. It will impress you with its wide scope of research on the subject.

 

 

The Poltergeist Phenomenon: An Investigation Into Psychic Disturbance
by John and Anne Spencer

 

 

America's Restless Ghosts
by Hans Holzer

 

Guide to GHOSTS & Haunted Places
by Peter Underwood
Peter Underwood is acknowledged as the worlds leading authority and writer on the paranormal, those who read this book will understand why. Mr Underwood avoids sensationalism and goes to the very heart of the worlds haunted history, adhering to the facts and substantiated accounts of ghost visitations the reader is provided with the raw details to decide for his/her self whether ghosts walk amongst us. Believer and sketic will agree on one thing, this book is a great read.

*all photos & descriptions taken from www.amazon.com