Haunted Wirral
Title | Haunted Wirral PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Slemen |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2015-07-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781515169826 |
The Wirral which Tom Slemen writes about in this fascinating book is a peninsula of ghosts, phantoms, spectres, doppelgangers, premonitions, reincarnations, astral voyages to another world and timeslips. The cases in Haunted Wirral confirm the old adage that truth really is stranger than fiction. Most ghost story books about Wirral include the same old weathered yarns about Mother Redcap's ghost and the spectres of smugglers, but the mysterious peninsula proved to be a stranger place than even Tom Slemen took it to be, with 51 tales weirder than anything found within the books of Stephen King, or Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. This edition includes a lost Wirral tale of Tom's that was recently found by the author concerning the "Thin Man" of Telegraph Road...
Wirral Walks
Title | Wirral Walks PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Annakin-Smith |
Publisher | Sigma Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781850588238 |
Presenting over 20 walks in Wirral, this title discovers the best of the local landscape, with sights spanning thousands of years of history, from ancient tracks to remnants of industrial past - from woodland heath to an expansive saltmarsh.
Haunted Liverpool 13
Title | Haunted Liverpool 13 PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Slemen |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2006-12-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781904438465 |
Spirits of Place
Title | Spirits of Place PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-11-22 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780994617637 |
Stories are embedded in the world around us; in metal, in brick, in concrete, and in wood. In the very earth beneath our feet. Our history surrounds us and the tales we tell, true or otherwise, are always rooted in what has gone before. The spirits of place are the echoes of people, of events, of ideas which have become imprinted upon a location, for better or for worse. They are the genii loci of classical Roman religion, the disquieting atmosphere of a former battlefield, the comfort and familiarity of a childhood home. Twelve authors take us on a journey; a tour of places where they themselves have encountered, and consulted with, these Spirits of Place.
Haunting Experiences
Title | Haunting Experiences PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Goldstein |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2007-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1457174839 |
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts
800 Years of Haunted Liverpool
Title | 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool PDF eBook |
Author | John Reppion |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2008-06-02 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0750959916 |
This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a tour through the streets, cemetaries, alehouses, attics and docks of Liverpool. Containing many tales which have never before been published, it unearths a chilling range of supernatural phenomena, including the Grey Lady of Speke Hall, the poltergeist who scrawled 'I want you out' on a blackboard in a cottage in Hunts Cross, and the truly terrifying tale of 'Spring Heeled Jack', the unidentified apparition who terrorised the citizens of Everton during the 1830s. Illustrated with more than sixty photographs, maps and drawings, this book will delight anyone with an interest in the paranormal history of the area.
Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places
Title | Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Haughton |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1442971215 |
WHAT IS BEHIND THE STRANGE PHENOMENA AT OUR WORLD's ANCIENT SITES? Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the archaeology, legends, and modern mysteries of 32 ancient places throughout the world - from the mysterious megaliths of Britain and Ireland, the haunted tombs of the Etruscans, and the Pagan origins of Germany's Aachen Cathedral to the ancient Native American city of Cahokia, the enigmatic Cambodian Temple of Angkor Wat, and the sacred Aboriginal rock formation of Uluru. Why are strange phenomena so often connected with these ancient sites? Are certain sacred places somehow able to generate or attract paranormal phenomena? Or can such events be explained in terms of modern myth and contemporary folklore? What can the legends and folklore of ancient places throughout the world reveal to us about the beliefs and ideas of our ancient ancestors? These are just some of the questions answered in Brian Haughton's enthralling book.