79
ghosts/ghostly phenomena
of ancient Greece, 27
of animals, 13
in Buddhism, 29
in films, 33–34
forms of, 10–11
history of belief in, 23–24
as hoaxes, 55, 57–60, 63–64
in Judaism, 28–29
in literature, 31–33
in photographs, 13–14, 49
prevalence of belief in, 6
reasons for belief in, 23, 24, 26,
35–36
during the Renaissance, 30–32
in scriptures, 29–30
on television, 34
vengeful, 19–20
Greece, ancient, 24, 26, 27
Gregory I (pope), 9, 30
grey ladies, 14–15
grief hallucinations, 67–68
hallucinations, 65–66
grief, 67–68
sleep paralysis and, 68
Harmon, Kenneth, 44–45
Harry Potter series (Rowling), 33
Hartlein, Jane, 19–20
Haughton, Brian, 37
Haunting, The
(film), 34
Hawes, Jason, 7, 42–43, 66
Hines, Terence, 9, 22
Homer, 26
Houdini, Harry, 4–5,
6
, 54, 68
Human Personality and Its Survival of
Bodily Death
(Myers), 40
humans, as meaning-seeking
creatures, 26
hygrometers, 47
Iliad
(Homer), 26
ion detectors, 47
Irving, Washington, 33, 37
Jackson, Shirley, 34
Jalal, Baland, 68
James, Henry, 33
Jefferson, Thomas, 18
Judaism, 28–29
Juliano, Dave, 17
Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare), 32
Kaczmarek, Dale, 58, 60
Kaplan, Stephen, 63–64
Kaysersberg, Geiler von, 37
Keckley, Lizzie, 18
King, Katie, 5
Layforth, Miles, 38
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving),
33, 37
Lemuralia
(ancient Roman ritual),
27–28, 38
Leppard, Mike, 13
Leppard, Renee, 13
Lincoln, Abraham, 15–17,
16
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 18,
56
, 56–57
Lincoln, Willie, 18
LSD, 65
Lutz, Danny, 62
Lutz, George, 61, 62
Lutz, Kathy, 61, 62, 63
Macbeth
(Shakespeare),
31
, 31–32
Magician Among the Spirits, A
(Houdini), 4–5
mazzikim
(Hebrew spirits), 28
Meehan, Michael, 59–60
Miller, Belle, 18
Mumler, William, 56–57
Myers, Frederic W.H., 39–41
night-vision scopes, 7
O’Donnell, Elliott, 13
Ogden, Daniel, 27
O’Neill, Susanna, 15
orbs, 19, 47
Paine, Grace Benedict, 15
Patroclus, 26
photographs
fakery in, 55–58, 59
ghosts in, 13–14, 19, 49
Poe, Edgar Allan, 33
