Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters

Paranormal experiences, such as ghosts and haunted houses, are often associated with eerie circumstances. This book offers a unique approach by reviewing a leading-edge research program that reveals consistent evidence of a Haunted People Syndrome, with implications for future research across academia. The participation of new citizen scientists is invited to further explore paranormal mysteries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 277 pages
Publication date: 05 July 2022
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc

Reports of paranormal encounters vary significantly, but they are frequently connected with ghosts, haunted houses, and other unsettling situations. Both traditional and contemporary literature on ghosts and haunted or possessed individuals, locations, and spaces exist; many of these works discuss conventional notions about such phenomena or employ now-outdated research in highly academic and technical ways.

This book takes a very different approach to the reviews provided by a cutting-edge research program focused on those who have ghostly experiences and why. This collaboration, involving five researchers, yields consistent evidence that anomalous experiences constitute a genuine Haunted People Syndrome—a term referring to anomalous experiences that recur to the same percipients and are interpreted as ghostly—with implications for future research across academia. The participation of new citizen scientists (the field investigators and researchers among us) is invited to advance the exploration of paranormal mysteries.

Photos and figures depicting concepts and models are included, as is a glossary.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781476685779