More than fifteen years after the famous South Shields Poltergeist case of 2006, and its well-received book, The South Shields Poltergeist: One Families Fight Against an Invisible Intruder, Darren W. Ritson brings you Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion, a fascinating revised and updated study of the poltergeist enigma. After researching other equally bewildering cases - post South Shields - a number of serious thought-provoking hypotheses regarding the aspect of the poltergeist called 'contagion' have now been raised. Poltergeist contagion has been seldom discussed or studied by psychical researchers, despite many well documented historic cases making mention of it - that is, until now. During the South Shields case and its subsequent years, Darren W. Ritson and his co-investigator Michael J. Hallowell were also subjected to acts of poltergeist 'contagion'. Also noted, were astonishing similarities between cases they had investigated. This book, which was previously released as Contagion: In the Shadow of the South Shields Poltergeist in 2014, has been broadly revised and includes a new lengthily chapter on historic poltergeist cases from the UK and from overseas that feature striking parallels, and events of contagion. With its thought-provoking new ideas, Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion promises to cause some serious debate about the nature of the poltergeist and it begs the question; are there many poltergeists, or is there simply one?

In his latest book, One Big Box of 'Paranormal Tricks'? From Ghosts to Poltergeists to the Theory of Just One Paranormal Power, John Fraser reflects on his motivations for involvement in paranormal research from an early age, recalling his experiences to date, the people who have influenced him, and the conclusions he's come to. Whilst Fraser refers to events in his life, this book is not a memoir or 'life story' in any conventional sense. It's presented as a meditation on what the paranormal might mean for us in our universal quest to give our lives meaning. One Big Box of 'Paranormal Tricks'? takes more of a zen-&-the-art-of-spending-a-night-in-a-haunted-house approach than an autobiographical one.

"From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen, but do happen all the time. These are the kinds of fantastic experiences that Jeffrey J. Kripal takes up in How to Think Impossibly. The impossible, Kripal asserts, is a function not of reality, but of our present social constructions and subsequent perceptions and cognitions. In other words, we think these events and experiences are impossible, but they are only impossible within our historically constructed frameworks. In How to Think Impossibly, Kripal thinks-with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways. These lines of thought interweave the mental and material dimensions of humanistic and scientific inquiry, resulting in a developing awareness in the reader that what we think of as the impossible is not impossible at all"--

Join Paul Eno, cohost of the popular radio show Behind the Paranormal, as he examines his most controversial cases. From battles with demons to people trapped in parallel worlds, get ready to have your existence rocked as you learn about multiverse, ghosts from elsewhen, and "neighbors" who don't yet have names. Eno, one of the world's first and most experienced supernatural adventurers, puts forth theories that are shaking the paranormal world to its core. What do these cases say about our understanding of God and our own place in the universe? Do we really understand who (or what) we are? You'll never look at your existence the same way again.

A compelling examination of poltergeist phenomena. At least thirty-five police officers around the world -- in at least thirteen separate cases dating back to 1952 -- claim to have witnessed some form of poltergeist activity. Nine of them were assaulted by what they say was a poltergeist, but none was seriously injured and no one has been charged nor have the mysteries been solved definitively. There are numerous cases of "hauntings" studied throughout the world every year, many of which hold up to close scrutiny. Poltergeists takes a look at a number of these in-depth case studies: An eleven-year old boy inhabited by a poltergeist, who causes photographs to become moving pictures and elevates a chair with a police officer sitting on it; Fourteen-year-old Tina Resch who, with her anger, appears to make glasses airborne, move tables, and send telephones flying; The Hodgson family who are terrorized by flying Lego pieces that are hot to the touch and furniture that moves of its own accord, usually in the presence of eleven-year-old Janet; Eleven-year-old Virginia Campbell who seems to cause heavy furniture to move at home and desks to float at school, always in twenty-eight-day cycles; A twelve-year-old Kentucky boy who -- subconsciously -- moves heavy objects in the presence of two parapsychologists watching him closely for signs of trickery. For his investigations, Clarkson interviewed hundreds of witnesses, paranormal experts, psychologists, professors, magicians, and skeptics. While it may raise as many questions as it answers, Poltergeists is an undeniably fascinating study of the paranormal.