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Title: Paranormality  | views:179 |   Paranormality is not your usual run of the mill ghost book. It’s not a book designed to be read from cover to cover, more delved into when you need to find that unusual paranormal term or word as the book is a glossary of paranormal terminology.
The book is broken down into two easy to read sections. Section one is the Timeline, a fascinating look at various important events of paranormal origin and includes some amazing facts such as St. Colombo witnessing the Loch Ness Monster. Section two is an A-Z of paranormal words but it is written in a way so that it doesn’t clash with any other glossary book that I have read. The words chosen in the A-Z don’t tend to appear in many other publications so this book is a welcome relief for those irritating words that you cant find anywhere else.
This book is fascinating reading and is a definite must for any serious paranormal researcher who needs a glossary of words that don’t appear in other publications.
Well done Karyn, a refreshing new look at an old topic!
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David Scanlan
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| Review submitted: 07/06/2004
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   Title: Paranormal Hampshire | Rating: 10.00 views:307 |  Paranormal Hampshire is by far the leading book in its category to date, the extent of the locations covered is remarkable with not only accurate versions of events but snippets of history too. It is absolutely perfect for research into alleged hauntings and a very easy layout that makes the reading easy to digest.
Looking at the cover alone one can see this book will stand out from the rest and this is also portrayed in its contents.
They say never judge a book by its cover but with Paranormal Hampshire you can.
Excellent read and a definite 15 out of 10, if you want a book that will keep you intriuged then Paranormal Hampshire is the one to choose.
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| Review submitted: 10/03/2009
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 Title: Paranormal Wiltshire | views:337 |  Paranormal Wiltshire is the most informative book for haunted locations in this county. With fifty nine locations listed, spanning right across the county of Wiltshire, David Scanlan has opened the imagination of people in the category of ghost hunting. Whether you believe in ghosts or are just a sceptic, you can not deny his commitment to research all possibilities of the paranormal which are beyond the norm itself in some instances! With personal experience at some of these locations myself, the accuracy and information of events leaves you wanting to find out more! This book is a must for any future research into alleged haunted locations and a very easy alphabetical layout by location that makes the reading easy to follow.
If ever there was a book to give a few hairs on the back of the neck, this is it. It’s not a book of your everyday horror stories, more of an account of what to keep your eyes open for if ever you visit any of these locations. You never know, you may just be entering one of the locations David has written about!
Paranormal Wiltshire should be without a doubt one of today’s bibles for any sceptic or believer of ghosts.
Once you start to read this book, you will not want to put it down in fear that you want to know where there could be more phenomenons. A most excellent read that will keep you intrigued to the end.
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Mike Bourne
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| Review submitted: 03/12/2009
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| Title: Paranormal Bedfordshire | views:396 |  Firstly let’s get rid of the subtitle, “true ghost stories” because this book covers so much more. From ghosts and apparitions, to pre-emptive dreams and all the way to crop circles and aliens, all areas of the paranormal are in here.
You have to take your hat off to Damien, the author has covered some miles looking into these stories, his research is thorough and where possible he has found more than one witness to try to verify the stories contained in this publication. Eye witness accounts are here for you to examine, any reports from investigations are included, plus where possible directions to the locations where paranormal happenings have been included. Photographs also show the locations of some of the events
Casual observers of the paranormal will probably find this book heavy going, some will feel they don’t want to trawl through the background information and just want the nitty gritty facts of haunting’s, well im sorry this book wont do that, it’s a serious look at events and as such will be appreciated by the groups of investigators that do a bit more than a weekend walk in the dark looking for thrills.
Let’s examine one chapter of the book, The Wilden Poltergeist story near the end gives a true example of the work Damien has put into this. The history of the location is thoroughly examined and explained, from the name of villages in the area and there connection to Viking settlers, the owners of the area from the doomsday book (Bishop of Bayeaux) through the St Remy in the 12th and 13th centuries and up to today’s present owners.
The Wilden Poltergeist appears to be connected to one of the former owners, Rev. William Shrove Chalk who purchased the house in 1837.
The legend of two local witches is then reported along with an alledged sighting from the 1930’s by a bride and groom but more interestingly and more recent sighting in 1973 which led to the phantom receiving a certificate of authenticity, I don’t know who decided that this case was authentic, or how it was proved, or even who received the certificate, but im sure Damien has the answer.
Back to the book, Damien then relates other famous witches from Bedfordshire’s past, tells how even just being old and living alone was enough for people to accuse you of being a witch which would often lead to your death.
The present day village is then described, including the fact that the sole remaining pub has had visits from the poltergeist of the manor, the house had fallen into a bad state of repair.
Damien’s attention to the poltergeist was drawn from a meeting with two couples who had witnessed an apparition of a female entering the manor, plus all swore to having stones thrown at them in the area, including in the pub garden, one of them still has a chip on the roof of his car as a result of this phenomena. Perhaps the worst part of this case was the ability of the poltergeist to follow people to their homes, surely this isn’t wanted and is, I would have thought, the biggest nightmare of all investigators.
The telling of legends continues, witches being burnt on a path by the Manor, the house itself being struck by lightning , ghostly voices being heard at night, two gypsy brothers who lived in caravans on the lane dying within one week of each other, also that the house itself had been cursed …………
The author then describes how he met with someone with knowledge of the haunting’s and the trip they took to investigate, first the village church, the seven headstones story was tantalising to say the least, On a second visit to the site (after the quiet first trip) Damien took a medium with him who immediately hit on a cover up in the graveyard.
Two of them then moved on to the Manor itself, a small 4 bed roomed house, in a bad state, roof fallen in, stairs missing, but allegedly nothing bad had happened in the building to any investigator, it was on the way back down the pathways things happened, sudden noises from animals they hadn’t noticed on the way in, stones being thrown at them, pebbles and general noise around a single tree, another stone thrown at the caravan, a smell of burning, what sounded like handfuls of stones being thrown on corrugated roofs of a shed on the land, this place sounds really active.
Damien then sought out other witnesses to the phenomenon, heard stories of pebbles hovering in midair before landing near people but no-one seemed to be hit, more cases of the poltergeist following people to their homes, but one thing struck all of them, it seemed the ghost was drawing attention to itself, almost craving company. But a meeting with the present owner dispelled the lightning theory (the roof had been damaged by a tree) and in the end after a visit by a 2nd medium who found nothing on the site, its hard to tell the truth about the whole affair, was the poltergeist attached only to certain people?, did it fear the visiting mediums and their abilities? We cant tell, but if you decide to follow the story up, Damien has given you a good insight into the history and legends behind it.
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Bob Hunt
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| Review submitted: 25/01/2010
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| Title: Phillips Toucam Pro Webcam | views:431 |  Well this is a nice little webcam that you can get pre modified at most astronomy suppliers to be used better in low light conditions
It costs around £90-100.00 for one of these although it gives a nice clear, crisp image it fails to live upto its expectations in the night time conditions of an investigation.
Once the light dims, not even gone out yet, the image loses its clarity and starts to judder after a while where the camera is trying to focus on something which it cant quite do
Great for normal useage...avoid for investigations though :( |
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| Review submitted: 19/02/2006
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