I've just started reading 'How to be a Ghost Hunter' by Richard Southall, which seems to be a pretty good book. Does anyone else have any books on the paranormal that they could recommend to me?

Greetings.... Add these to your reading list.
1. How To Hunt Ghosts A Practical Guide By Joshua P. Warren -- as in Ed & Lorraine
2. The Ghost Hunter's Handbook A Field Guide To The Paranormal By Lori Summers
3. The Ghost Hunters Guide Book The Essential Guide To Investigating Ghosts And Hauntings By Troy Taylor
Hope these help you out.

"Ghost Tech" by Vince Wilson (no relation to Grant Wilson)

1) The Unexplained
by Judy Allen

2) Fantasy Encyclopedia
also by Judy Allen

The Alchimist....

I have read that ,, really interesting ......




Kimbely
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I like the book "Evolution of Consciousness" by John Kuykendall. I think it is controversial and explains Christian Mysticism so people can understand. Christian seem to be afraid of it. The site is Christian mysticism

*rubs paws together with glee*

Oh - have I got a list for you!!

Start with 'Will Storr versus The Supernatural' by Will Storr (lovely, lovely, sweet man - if not a bit sarcy)
'Three Men In Search Of Monster' by Nick Redfern
'Poltergeist', 'Mysteries' and 'The Occult' by the wonderful Colin Wilson

That should keep you occupied for a wee while

I second Three Men!! I love that freaking book!

Great book isn't it?
Sounds like they had a riot - wish I'd been there!!!

Karl Shuker's done a couple good books on the Unexplained, like World Atlas of the Unexplained. They go by several names though, but the gist is the same. Worth picking up.

That witch that they had tea with...holy cow, she was craaaazzyyy! I want to do what they did one day though. Just roadtrip looking for cryptids.

got any examples as to what is in it? stories?

Ghost Hunter's Guide by Peter Underwood

Also, for just really good ghost stories:

Haunted Britain by Marc Alexander
Haunted Heartland et al by Nancy Osborne and Richard Winer
Coast to Coast Ghosts by Leslie Rule
Young Ghosts and Animal Ghosts by Daniel Cohen (?)

Well, there are hundreds I suppose, but these are some good ones to start with. Anything by Peter Underwood is good, but he tends to use the same stories over and over so once you've read three or four of his books you've read them all. Ghost Hunter's Guide is nice, though. It has detailed how-to information, equipment lists (a bit out of date now probably) and a calendar of cyclic ghosts.

We've had the book Myths and Legends of Great Britain, a readers digest book for about 20 years and I've not found anything to top it yet. It's a big, hardback book, the do sell it on ebay occassionally.

Well worth a look.

Reg.

Just wanted to slap myself before anyone else slapped me. Haunted Heartland and the several very similar books that followed it were written by Michael Norman and Beth Scott. Beth Scott passed away a few years ago and Michael Norman is writing ghost books on his own now. I've just started his latest, which is called Haunted Homeland. (So far it's kind of a yawn, sorry to say.) I think Nancy Osborne is a Brit psychic and ghost hunter who wrote a book about her experiences, but the name escapes me. I don't know where I came up with the name Richard Winer.

You might like The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. It's not about paranormal per sé but it's an incredibly fascinating examination of quantum physics (in layman's terms!) and it provides possible answers to phenomena such as synchronicity and other phenomena that otherwise have no scientific explanation and would continue to be classified as paranormal.

Jeff Belanger is a great author and his site is ghostvillage.com there is a whole load of books listed about the paranormal

On another note:

If you are interested in the wonderful, magical, fantastic, wonderful (did I already say that?) Graphic Novels, please check out:

Hellboy
Freaks of the Heartland
Dark Horse Book of Monsters
Dark Horse Book of Ghosts
and other Dark Horse Book of... books.

And the thing that really got me seeking out "the truth" was Grant Morrison's the Invisibles. It's the best trip through a crazy man's head ever . I love Morrison, he's a Chaotic Magician.

Best evidence by michel schmicker

The concious universe - A scientific truth by nick radin

ghost of 29 megacycles - John G fuller ( any book by him is a good read really ) IMO

holographic universe- Michel talbot . a synopsis of this book i just found for ya is below


Synopsis
Despite its apparent materiality, the universe is actually a kind of 3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram, a 3-D image projected in space and made with the aid of a laser. Using this model, a world-renowned physicist and a Nobel prize winning neurophysiologist has developed a new description of reality. It encompasses not only reality as we know it, including hitherto unexplained phenomena of physics, but is capable of explaining such occurrences as telepathy, paranormal and out-of-the-body experiences, "lucid" dreaming and even mystical and religious traditions such as cosmic unity and miraculous healings. In part one, the author explains in simple prose the theory behind a holograph and its traditional applications to science. In part two, he shows the panoramic way in which the holographic model makes sense of the entire range of mystical, spiritual and psychic experience. Finally, in part three, he explores the implications for other universes beyond our own.

Thats all i can think of for now . happy reading

blessings SS79 x x x

If you are looking for books to actually hunt ghosts, there are a few I would reccomend. The first is the Ghost Hunter's Guidebook by Troy Taylor; this is probably the best one I've read so far, as it not only gives you investigation techniques and how to use the equipment, it also gives you a brief history of this field, which, in my opinion is excellent. While it only got 3 stars on Amazon, I would also suggest Ghost Hunting How to Investigate the Paranormal by Loyd Aurebach. This is a quick read, and you will gain quite a bit from it, such as questions you should ask a potential client, and even things that could be mistaken for a haunting (do some debunking like TAPS). Actually, anything by Auerbach is worth looking at. He is 'Professor Paranormal', after all.

An essential volume is the Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley. Its a literal a-z of the paranormal, everything from famous cases to myths and legends. Anyone interested in the paranormal should have this book.