The Invisible Hand - True Ghost Stories

- Quality Digital Text- Linked table of ContentsFirst-hand accounts of historic ghost stories.Contents:Chapter I - What Is A Ghost?- The Terror Of The Dark- What Is A Ghost?- Historic Investigations- Death-Coincidences- Are They Due To Chance?- The Explanation- Experimental Apparitions- Telepathic Hallucinations- Ghosts Which Move Material Objects- Photographs Of Ghosts- The "Double," and The Spiritual Body- What Happens At The Moment Of Death- How The Soul May Leave The Body- Theories Of Haunted Houses- The Ghosts Of Animals, Etc.- The Clothes Of Ghosts- Telepathy From The Dead- The Psychic Atmosphere- Forms Created By Will- Physical Manifestations- Can Haunted Houses Be "Cured"?Chapter II - Phantasms of The Dead—I.- A Russian Ghost- Grasped By A Spirit Hand- "I Am Shot!"- "Heave the Lead!"- The Rescue At Sea- How Ghosts Influence Us- How A Ghost Warned The King- The Stains Of Blood- Face To Face!- Julia, Darling!- The Cut Across The Cheek- The Invisible Hand- The Apparition Of the Radiant Boy- Fisher's Ghost- Harriet Hosmer's Vision- The Apparition Of The Murdered Boy- The Ghost In Yellow CalicoChapter III - More Phantasms of The Dead—II.- Compacts To Appear After Death- Lord Brougham's Vision- The Tyrone Ghost- "Dead Or Alive!"- The Scratch on the Cheek- A Ghost In Hampton Court- Half-Past One O'clock- My Own True Ghost StoryChapter IV - Haunted Houses- The Record Of A Haunted House- Proofs Of Immateriality- Conduct Of Animals In The House- B— House- Willington Mill- The Great Amherst Mystery- Brook HouseChapter V - Ghost Stories of A More Dramatic Nature- Disease-Phantoms- The Tale Of The Mummy- Face Slapped By A Ghost- Alone With A Ghost In A Church- A Haunted House In France- A Haunted House In Georgia- Shaken By A Ghost- The House And The BrainAppendix A - Historical GhostsAppendix B - The Phantom Armies Seen In France Read more