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marriage, c01.1, c02.1
Martin, Alexander, c04.1
Maskelyne, John Nevil, c02.1
Matla, J. L. W. P., c04.1
Maynard, Nettie Colburn, c02.1
McDougall, William, c02.1, c02.2
medieval ghost tales. See ancient and medieval ghost tales
mediums. See Spiritualism
Meek, George W., c04.1
Merchant House Museum, c04.1
Mesmerism, c02.1
Miller, William, c02.1
Moon, Christopher, c04.1
Moore, Nellie C., c02.1
Moses, William Stainton, c04.1, c04.2
Mueller, George Jeffries, c04.1, c04.2, c04.3
Mumler, William, c04.1
Munn, Orson, c02.1
Munsterberg, Hugo, c02.1
Murdie, Alan, c04.1
musical ghosts, c02.1
Myers, Valarie, c03.1, c03.2, c04.1
N
Nagy, Ron, c02.1, c02.2, c02.3
Newkirk, Greg, c03.1
Newman, Harley, c01.1
Nickell, Joe, c03.1
Noé, Gaspar, c04.1
O
Odyssey (Homer), c01.1
O’Neil, William, c04.1, c04.2, c04.3
O’Rourke, Heather, c03.1
oscillograph, c04.1
O’Sullivan, J. L., c04.1
Ouija board, c02.1
P
paintings by spirits, c02.1
Palladino, Eusapia, c02.1
paranormal. See ghost sightings and paranormal phenomena
Parker, Ray Jr., c04.1
Partridge, Charles, c02.1
Pecoraro, Nino, c02.1
Persinger, Michael, c04.1, c04.2, c04.3
Peter of Bramham, c01.1
Peterson, Terrance, c04.1
Pfeiffer, Karl, c04.1
Phifer, Charles Lincoln, c02.1
Philbin, Regis, c04.1
Philosopher’s Stone, c01.1
photography: capturing thoughts and emotions, c04.1; spirit, c04.2
physics, c04.1
Piper, Leonora, c02.1
planchette, c02.1
Playfair, Guy Lyon, c03.1, c03.2, c03.3
Pliny the Younger, c01.1
Poe, Edgar Allen, c02.1
Polozker, I. L., c02.1
Poltergeist, c03.1
poltergeists, c03.1; Bell Witch of Robertson County, Tennessee, c03.2; Eleonore Zügun, c03.3; Enfield poltergeist, c03.4
pressing, c01.1
Price, Harry, c03.1, c03.2, c04.1, c04.2
Prince, Walter Franklin, c02.1, c02.2, c02.3
psychic Dictaphone, c04.1
Psychic Howler, c04.1
psychography, c02.1
psychopomps, c01.1, c01.2, c01.3, c01.4
purgatory, c01.1
Putnam, Ann, c01.1
R
Raleigh, Sir Walter, c04.1
Randall, Connor, c04.1
Raudive, Konstantin, c04.1
recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis (RSPK), c03.1, c03.2, c03.3
REM Pod, c04.1
Repplier, Agnes, c02.1, c02.2
Rhine, Joseph Banks, c03.1
Richet, Charles, c02.1, c02.2
Rinn, Joseph, c02.1, c02.2
Rivers, David, c04.1
Robbins, Todd, c02.1, c02.2, c04.1
Robinson, Yankee Jim, c04.1
Ruickbie, Leo, c01.1, c04.1
S
Salem witch trials, c01.1
Sampson, Will, c03.1
Samuel, c01.1
Saul, c01.1
Saul, Barnabas, c01.1
Saunders, Niki, c03.1, c04.1
Schapiarelli, Giovanni, c02.1
Schrader, Dave, c04.1
Scientific American, c02.1
Seeker, c04.1
Seybold, John, c02.1
Shaker movement, c02.1
Shakespeare, William, c01.1, c02.1
shamans, c01.1, c01.2
Shatford, Sarah, c02.1
Shourds, Charles, c02.1
Shue, Edward Stribbling (Trout), c03.1
Shue, Zona Heaster, c03.1
Simmonds-Moore, Christine, c04.1
Slade, Henry, c02.1
slate writing, c02.1
Slee, William, c04.1
Smith, Joseph, c02.1, c02.2
Smythe, Colin, c04.1, c04.2
social customs, ghosts and enforcement of, c01.1
souls: photos of, c04.1; weighing, c04.2
sound waves, low-frequency, c04.1
Spectropia, or Surprising Spectral Illusions Showing Ghosts Everywhere (Brown), c04.1
Spiricom, c04.1
spirit box (Frank’s Box), c04.1
spirit cabinet, c02.1
spirit phone, c02.1
spirit photography, c04.1
spirit slate writing, c02.1
Spiritualism, itr.1; Bradford’s experiment, c02.1; celebrity ghosts, c02.2; cons under guise of, c02.3; Doyle and Houdini’s debate, c02.4; Eusapia Palladino, c02.5; Eva Carrière’s ectoplasmic ghosts, c02.6; false mediums and ESP, c03.1; Fox sisters, c02.7; Home and levitation, c02.8; Ira and William Davenport, c02.9; Koons’s spirit room, c02.10; Leonora Piper, c02.11; Margery, the Witch of Lime Street, c02.12, c03.2; Mary Todd Lincoln, c02.13; Ouija board, c02.14; paintings by spirits, c02.15; rise of, c02.16; slate writing, c02.17
Stanley Hotel, c04.1
Steiner, Rudolph, c02.1
stereoscopy, c04.1
Stollznow, Karen, c04.1
stone tape theory, c03.1
Sturges, Dan, c04.1, c04.2, c04.3
suicide, c02.1, c03.1
Summerland, c02.1
Sumption, Frank, c04.1
Swedenborg, Emanuel, c01.1, c01.2, c02.1
Swedenborg, Galen, c02.1
Swedenborgianism, c01.1
syphilis, c03.1
T
Taggart, Shannon, c02.1
talking horse, c03.1
Tandy, Vic, c04.1
Tanner, Amy, c02.1
Taoism, “hungry ghosts” in, c01.1
Tate, Michelle, c04.1
Taylor, John H., c01.1
technology. See electronics; machines, ghosts in
telekinetic temper tantrums, c03.1
telephone to the afterlife, c02.1
Thornton, Gregory, c02.1
Thorpe, T. E., c01.1
thoughts, photos of, c04.1
Thurlow, Anna, c02.1, c02.2, c02.3
Thurston, Howard, c02.1
Tomson, Elizabeth Allen, c02.1, c02.2
torture, c03.1
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, c03.1, c04.1
Tredwell, Gertrude, c04.1, c04.2
Tredwell, Seabury, c04.1
Truesdell, John W., c02.1
Twain, Mark, c02.1, c02.2
Tyrone, Lord, c01.1, c01.2
U
ululometer, c04.1
Uriel, c01.1
V
van Zelst, G. J. Zaalberg, c04.1
Vega, Vivian, c03.1, c03.2, c03.3
von Schrenck-Notzing, Albert, c02.1
W
Wade, Jennie, c03.1
Warren, Ed, c03.1, c03.2
Warren, Lorraine, c03.1, c03.2
Wasser, Eric, c01.1
Wassilko-Serecki, Zoé, c03.1, c03.2
Whaley, Thomas, c04.1
Whaley House, c04.1
white witches, c04.1
Wilkins, Bill, c03.1
Wilson, Philip, c03.1
Wilson, Robyn, c03.1, c03.2
Winchester, Oliver Fisher, c03.1
Winchester, Sarah, c03.1
Winchester, William Wirt, c03.1, c03.2
Winchester Mystery House, c03.1
witch of Endor, c01.1
Worth, Patience, c02.1
Y
Yudin, Michael, *
Z
Zöllner, Johann Karl Friedrich, c02.1
Zügun, Eleonore, c03.1
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PHOTO CREDITS
1 Photo by author.
2 Photo by author.
3 The Star Press, March 13, 1916.
4 Henry Justice Ford, 1913. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
5 Johann Heinrich Füssli, circa 1800. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
6 Unknown artist, late twelfth century. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
7 Edward Henry Corbould, “Saul and the witch of Endor,” 1860. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
8 Illustration by Gustave Doré for Canto XXVIX of Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1857). Public domain.
9 British Library. Public domain.
10 left: From A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits by Meric Casaubon (D. Maxwell, 1659). top right: Ebenezer Sibley, “John Dee and Edward Kelly evoking a spirit.” Circa 1825. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. bottom right: From A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits by Meric Casaubon (D. Maxwell, 1659).
11 Wellcome Collection.
12 From Witchcraft Illustrated by Henrietta D. Kimball (G.A. Kimball, 1892).
13 San Francisco Examiner, November 27, 1927.
14 Published by N. Currier, New York. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
15 Photo by author.
16 From The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations and A Voice to Mankind by and through Andrew Jackson Davis (S. S. Lyon, and Wm. Fishbough, 1847).
17 The Spirit World Unmasked by Henry Ridgely Evans (Laird & Lee, 1897). Author’s collection.
18 From The Davenport Brothers, the World-Renowned Spiritual Mediums: Their Biography, and Adventures in Europe and America (William White and Company, 1869).
19 Armand DeGregoris Collection.
20 From Les Mystères de la Science by Louis Figuier (Librairie illustrée, 1880).
21 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 30, 1916.
22 Medium and Daybreak, October 6, 1876. International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (iapsop.com).
23, 24 Photo by author.
25, 26 From Mysterious Psychic Forces by Camille Flammarion (Small, Maynard and Company, 1907).
27 San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 1921.
28 From Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics by Albert von Schrenck Notzing (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1923).
29 San Francisco Examiner, July 15, 1923.
30 Motion Picture News, November 3, 1923.
31 John Cox Collection.
32 Libbet Crandon de Malamud Collection.
33, 34, 35 Courtesy of the Winchester Mystery House.
36 Photo by author.
37 Courtesy of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site.
38 Collection of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, gift of the family of John D. Shearer.
39 Photo by author.
40 West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries.
41 Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, September 22, 1929.
42 Everett Collection.
43 Democratic Herald, August 5, 1897.
44 Des Moines Register, September 29, 1935.
45 San Francisco Examiner, December 19, 1926.
46 Everett Collection.
47 Image courtesy of the Greenbrier Historical Society.
48 National Archives and Records Administration. Public domain.
49 Baltimore Sun, October 1, 1920.
50 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
51 From the collection of the College of Psychic Studies, London.
52 Author’s collection.
53 Buguet (Paris). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
54 From Spectropia or Surprising Spectral Illusions Showing Ghosts Everywhere by J. H. Brown (James G. Gregory, 1864).
55 Ada Deane. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
56 The National Media Museum, Bradford.
57 Washington Times Magazine, April 7, 1907. Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
58 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 29, 1914.
59 Times.
60–61 Spiricom by the Metascience Research Team (Metascience Foundation, 1982).
62 Photo by Karl Pfeiffer.
63 Photo by author.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many of the Spiritualists I wrote about in this book had the help of ghosts guiding their hand to write from the Other Side. I had no such help from the dead, but I did receive a wealth of assistance from those still among the living.
Loyd Auerbach and John Kruth were generous with their time on the phone and through email, and if you’re interested in classes at the Rhine Education Center, I recommend them both as teachers. Lily Dale Assembly’s historian, Ron Nagy, met with me at Squirrel Alter Park and stood six feet away as he fielded questions through his COVID mask (as dozens of squirrels congregated behind us to noisily munch on nuts and seeds). Bonnie White, one of Lily Dale’s many mediums, shared her personal experiences and beliefs after a spirit art session with my daughter Lela and me. And as I traveled from western New York through Pennsylvania, Niki Saunders and Vivian Vega took the time to chat with a stranger dropping in at the Farnsworth House Inn.
Many others within both the paranormal and cultural history fields kindly answered all my questions and offered opinions either by phone or email, sent photos, and truly helped make this book possible: Paul Adams, Natalie Alvanez, Mark Boccuzzi, Brandon Callihan, Jill Christiansen, John Cox, Joanna Ebenstein, John Fraser, Rebecca Jordan-Gleason, Alexandra Holzer, Brandon Hodge, Andrea Janes, Margee Kerr, Dr. David Kowalewski, Dr. Christine Simmonds-Moore, Julia Mossbridge, Alan Murdie, Valarie Myers, Greg Newkirk, Harley Newman, Karl Pfeiffer, Drs. Carl and Elena Procario-Foley, Connor Randall, Todd Robbins, Vivienne Roberts, Tom Ruffles, Dr. Leo Ruickbie, Sarah Shepherd, Lee Speigel, Dan Sturges, Shannon Taggart, Jackie Thomson, Anna Thurlow, Rabbi Eric Wasser, Robyn and Philip Wilson, Richard Wiseman, and Michael Yudin.
Thank you all for everything.
In addition, I’d like to thank a few friends and strangers who gave suggestions, provided imagery, connected me to others, or were willing to share their personal experiences: Pauletta Engrav, Todd Field, Jason Lambert, Rebecca Lazaroff, James Lynn, Anthony Monahan, Armand DeGregoris, Linda Briscoe Myers, Nancy Roberts, Gail Schoenberg, Steve Seril, Sarah Shepherd, Philip David Treece, and Lemley Mullett.
This ghost adventure began with my agent Katie Boyle, who suggested I write a book like this years ago. As always, thank you for your passion and guidance throughout my research and writing. I’m grateful for all that you do.
To my editor, Jhanteigh Kupihea, thank you for spending the last several years journeying from Mars to the beyond with me. Your enthusiasm and suggestions have undoubtedly made this a better book. To the rest of the Quirk team, including my copy editor Jane Morley; designer Ryan Hayes; illustrator Lauren O’Neill; Nicole De Jackmo, Jen Murphy, and Christina Tatulli in marketing and publicity; and John McGurk and Mandy Sampson in production: thank you for helping bring all the spirits within these pages to life.
Lastly, I want to thank my family. My aunt, Dr. Reva Wolf, discussed precipitated paintings and art history movements with me. During a summer weekend, Dr. Mark and Laura Tebbitt took me around western Pennsylvania in search of ghosts and gave me a quiet place to write. My parents, Bev and Paul Hartzman, bought me books about ghosts during my childhood and planted the supernatural seed. And my wife, Liz, and daughters, Lela and Scarlett, let me work and talk about ghosts perhaps more than they wanted. Thank you all for your love and support.
MARC HARTZMAN is “one of America’s leading connoisseurs of the bizarre” (ABCNews.com) and is the author of several books, including The Big Book of Mars (Quirk, 2020). Hartzman’s work has appeared in Mental Floss, Bizarre, AllThatsInteresting.com, and HuffPost/AOL Weird News. He has discussed oddities on CNN, MSNBC, Ripley’s Radio, and the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum. More of his love for the unusual can be found on his website, WeirdHistorian.com. Hartzman works in advertising and lives in New Rochelle with his wife, Liz, and their two daughters.
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