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Ghosts are everywhere--whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know--and is embedded in the very fabric of American history. Writer and historian Marc Hartzman dons the mantle of tour guide, taking readers on a fascinating journey through supernatural history, including: Famous haunted sites like...
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2024.
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English
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The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul de sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his...
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Based on true events, The Ouija Experiment tells the story of five friends who decide to record their experiments with a Ouija board. This found footage film follows the five friends as they reach out to the spirits, but when they break the first rule of Ouija boards and leave without saying goodbye, they inadvertently invite the spirits into their lives. As the spirits hunt down them one by one, the remaining friends must uncover the truth behind...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Another ghost story collection (part of a trilogy), from Granger T Barr. Do you enjoy ghostly tales from beyond the grave? Paranormal spooky unexplained tales? This collection of stories are again based on true real life tales, personal accounts from those that have experienced strange but true happenings around the world." -- Back cover.
8) Ghosts
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Examines the world of spirits, poltergeists, investigating ghosts and why they should stay or go.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The author, a paranormal investigator and co-star of Kindred Spirits, has spent years studying the otherworldly. She's uncovered back stories that explain and corroborate apparitions, and says that recognizing that ghosts are people can help us move from fear to empathy for them.
12) Ghosts
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ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ghost House Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Enjoy this spooky romp through a world of restless spirits, from the ghost who warns hikers in the Cascades about a dangerous path, to the phantoms that roam the Seattle Underground. You'll read a fascinating account about a man wrongly lynched near Rockford. He swears revenge on the drunken vigilantes who strung him up-and they each die screaming. Another story tells of the spirits that ring the bells in the tower of Tacoma's Old City Hall-even...
14) Ghosts unveiled!
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English
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"Ghosts Aghast! explores another true and spine-chilling topic that kids are sure to love: ghosts! Packed with facts but light in tone, award-winning author Kerrie Logan Hollihan takes a humorous but meticulously researched, well-balanced look at ghost appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie hauntings around the world-from the perennial Vanishing Hitchhiker, the child-nabbing La Llorona, and Korean water ghosts to school hauntings and wraiths in...
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Paranormal researcher Hans Holzer documents more than fifty locations where he has personally investigated ghosts, often with the assistance of a psychic. Complete with details about each spectral phenomenon as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells who they were and why they are found in each location. Where the Ghosts Are allows you to visit such fascinating sites as: - America's most haunted house, the California Whaley House...
16) Dead Wednesday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When the school assigns each eighth-grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year as a lesson in mortality, Worm Tarnauer, who thrives on being invisible, doesn't count on Becca Finch, the seventeen-year-old car crash victim who changes everything.
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Sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent maidens, wronged lovers, former slaves, even the occasional axe-murderess--America's female ghosts differ widely in background, class, and circumstance. Yet one thing unites them: their ability to instill fascination and fear, long after their deaths. Here are the full stories behind some of the best-known among them, as well as the lesser-known--though no less powerful. Tales whispered in darkness often...
18) Long way down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
19) Spot 7 spooky
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Two photos that look the same... but seven things in them have changed! Can you spot them all?
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