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| School Spirits Volume 1: College Ghost Stories of the
East and Midwest, Mark Marimen, 1998, biblio,161 pp, $14.95 |
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Marimen, who wrote the popular Haunted
Indiana, now visits the Graves of Academe. College students have always had an
affinity for campus legends, but Marimen gives enough independent witnesses to make you
wonder how legendary these urban legends really are. Old school spirits often fall into
predictable patterns: the coed who leaped to her death from the clock tower of the
Administration Building; the frat pledge who died during hazing. Marimen, bless his
researcher’s heart, has given us more varied and substantive stories. My favorites
were the story of the phantom cadet at West Point, which included insider details of a
Navy "debunking" of the ghost; and "The Curse of Rafinesque" from the
aptly named Transylvania U at Lexington. I’ve been there; it’s a very
peculiar place.
Chillingly atmospheric and packed with historical facts and details
about a dozen haunted colleges and universities, School Spirits will have you
pulling an all-nighter. A+! |
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| Show Me One
Soul, A True Haunting, Nancy L. Stallings, 1996, photos, 363 pp.
THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. PLEASE ASK US TO FIND YOU A GOOD USED COPY. |
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| Unembellished and utterly sincere, this fascinating book
details the nightmare the Stallings endured in their haunted home. From the old lady who
appeared to Nancy, warning, "I'll drive you out or ruin you." to a white dog who
bit and clawed her baby to a nausea-inducing stench, the property seems to have been a
chamber of horrors. Nancy or one of her six children may have been
producing some poltergeist effects, but that would not explain the sinister atmosphere
felt in the house from the start, or such things as Nancy's recurring dream that she was
dying in a fire while the old lady laughed. Finally, a furnace repairman found that a pipe
fitting had been deliberately unscrewed, filling the house with explosive gas.
In a forward, Hans Holzer speaks of the Stallings "scientific"
approach to the haunting, but there was never any real effort to systematically study the
phenomena. The Stallings never even kept a diary or journal of the events. Witches,
priests, ministers, psychics, all visited the house, with mixed results. Eventually Holzer
brought in a medium. Her revelations do not seem to me to fit particularly well with the
Stallings' experiences--she saw a black slave woman while the woman the Stallings saw was
white--and unfortunately she wasn't able to end the haunting.
The Stallings have since moved into another haunted house--this one with
a more benign ghost. They now work in psychic photography and research and view the
experience (with much more equanimity than I could call up!) as a stepping stone to
discovering and developing their psychic powers. |
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| The Strangers,
Matthew Manning, 1978, photos, appendices, 176 pp. $9.95 |
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| Manning was the teenage psychic/poltergeist vector who told
him story in The Link. He claims to do automatic drawing under the influence of
various famous artists. As an art historian, I wasn't at all convinced. And I'm not sure
I'm convinced by this rather strange book. It all began when Manning met a man upon the
stair--one Robert Webbe, who believes he's living in 1733. Manifestations
included knocks, smells, including strong haliotosis! and apports, including books,
tradesmen tokens, bread, a snuff box, a fossil in slate, and port wine. In the weirdest
feature of this case, Webbe offered to prove his vitality by writing "halfe a
thousande" names of his friends on the dining room wall. Every day Manning and his
family found sharpened pencils blunted and fresh names on the walls. In an extensive
appendix, Manning gives the results of his research into the reality of these individuals.
But which came first, the research or the names? Although I am not an expert, the
handwirting seems like an imitation of 18th century scripts. Where are the paleographers'
reports? An odd book. And one that raises the fascinating question: Are we already someone
else's ghosts? |
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| The Terror that
comes in the night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions, David J. Hufford, 304 pp. $19.95 |
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| Have you ever been "hag-ridden" or wakened to
find a body pressing down with suffocating force on your chest? (Not including your cat.)
Discusses various possible causes for "the Hag" including the intriguing theory
that incubi and succubi are a form of sleep apnea! |
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