Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter

Elliott O'Donnell spent twenty years doing something most people only imagine: chasing ghosts. After failing to find success as a novelist, he discovered that readers far preferred his real obsession, hauntings, over fiction. So he set out with notebook and nerve to document the supernatural, buttonholing everyone from aristocrats to servants for their spectral encounters, volunteering to sleep in the most notorious haunted houses in Britain and America, and meticulously cataloging every phantom footstep, every cold spot, every restless spirit that refused to find peace. He called his work 'Superphysical Research,' and approached it with the earnest rigor of a Victorian scientist. The World War sections are particularly chilling, visiting bombed-out battlefields and ruined cities where the violence of war had torn open doors between the living and the dead. This book is a remarkable historical document: a catalog of Edwardian-era hauntings, a window into how our ancestors understood the supernatural, and a testament to one man's singular obsession with proving that ghosts are very, very real. For readers who love Victorian ghost stories, folklore, or the strange history of paranormal investigation.