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For people who believe in the paranormal-ghosts, spirits, and other unexplainable encounters-most will agree that old hospitals and asylums are the most haunted places you can visit. With thirteen chilling chapters, “Haunted Hospitals” delves into the history of the most infamous asylums, sanitariums and hospitals on Earth, unlocking their dark histories and detailing their paranormal activities.

Take Waverly Hills Sanatorium, home to Mary, the apparition of a little girl who “wasn’t normal”. Left behind after a disease cut her young life short.

Mary went from innocent in life to something more horrific in death.

Then there’s Old Changi military hospital, where a history of wartime bloodbaths still stains the old abandoned halls-leaving behind chilling images in the minds of trespassers.

Or what about any of the other haunted hospitals contained within, where apparitions, disembodied voices, and strange occurrences are commonplace. With overcrowding and barbaric medical procedures being practiced, these buildings were the torture houses of the 20th century, and the eeriest haunts of the 21st.

“Haunted Hospitals” unlocks the dark histories of the most chilling abandoned hospitals from around the world. Every chapter describes the eerie and often frightening details of the best ghost encounters. Are these sightings based on myth of true horrors? Only you can decide.

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In the darkness of night, the witching hour, when spirits, monsters, and demons walk free, who interprets the call when someone encounters something they cannot explain? In fiction, it’s a specialist-someone ready to face the forces of darkness. In reality, most of the time it’s the officers of our police force.

Late on a dark, cold night, an officer gets a call from a desperate, frantic man that his possessed sister is trying to kill him. Another caller confronts a red-eye creature that walks through walls while another two officers desperately try to stop a man from being kidnapped by a creature controlling time.

What would you do faced with a little girl who vanishes before your very eyes? What about a terrifying encounter with a shape-shifting being? Would you be able to stay calm and do your job? Or would you run screaming and never look back?

These examples might sound like fireside tales or urban myths, but you would be mistaken for they are all real. Taken from reports, interviews, and statements for officers all around the world, this book contains eighteen of the most chilling and unexplainable encounters the police have endured with the paranormal.

When dealing with the fringes of humanity, where society starts to break down, disturbing things are called forth and these stories will show you just how disturbing it can be for those in uniform who answer the call of citizens in need.

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Have you ever visited a truly haunted castle? There are many castles across the world with a reputation for being preoccupied with spirits. This book shares the true stories of hauntings in fairytale-like castles with towering spires and majestic rooms as well as mysterious castles seemingly built to keep something inside, rather than outside.

Scotland, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, and more have castles included in this spine-tingling account of ghosts, demons, elementals, and spectral creatures that have been in the haunting business for hundreds of years.

Famous haunted sites like the Tower of London in England and the Leap Castle of Ireland are discussed, as well as lesser known, but equally chilling accounts of hauntings in castles like Houska Castle of the Czech Republic. Every single one of these castles has ghosts that haunt the living still to this day.

Not all spirits are human, as in the castle believed to be built to keep evil spirits within its confines, protecting the villagers in the surrounding countryside, and later used by the Nazis for paranormal experiments during World War II. Another was built on a sacred Druid site, its residents enduring the deep-seeded misfortunes of their ancestors.

Some of the ghosts you will read about are aggressive, their hatred and bitterness consuming them and ensuring they do harm to the living. Others seem content with their place in the afterlife, browsing library contents or quietly guarding the castle halls. Some of these restless spirits are famous, like those of King Henry VIII and his many wives, while others remain sadly unknown.

Many spirits were victims of the violence that so often stems from political intrigue while others from unprovoked murder, suicide, or horrific accidents, like the ghost of little Harriet who still plays near the staircase where she lost her life. Still others never recovered from the heartache they experienced in life.

Delve into the majestic and eerie life of haunted castles; just be sure if you decide to tour these century-old dwellings not every encounter may be with the living.

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You might not think of forests as being the dwelling place of ghosts and spirits, but this book will certainly change your mind. From the truly spooky Hoia-Baciu Forest of Romania filled with twisted trees and even more twisted phenomena to the deceptively quiet and peaceful Freetown State Forest in Massachusetts, you will delve into the chilling stories of hauntings taking place in woods and forest across the globe.

Some of these forest ghosts within these pages were murder victims, like the black-eyed phantom girls of Cannock Chase Wood in England or the Dungarvon Whooper in Blackville Forest of Canada. Other ghosts are torn by an eternal grief, like the Lady in Black in the Indiana Morgan Monroe State Forest. A handful of apparitions are still on a mission, like the haunting armored soldiers found in the Old House Woods of Virginia or the ghost of Little Ottie, still trying to find his way back to school in the Bluff Mountain region of Virginia.

Other wooded areas are filled with malevolent entities, like the infamous suicide forest Aokigahara in Japan where hundreds of people committed suicide and ghostly activity abounds. History and ghosts spanning hundreds of years like the Epping Forest and Wychwood Forest of England are explained along with the hauntings often overshadowed by legends, like the infamous Pine Barrens, home of the Jersey Devil.

Be assured after reading this book, you will never look at forests the same way again. You’ll know there is far more than meets the eye and some of them you really don’t want to hang around in after dark.

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Are you interested in real ghost stories? How about chilling tales involving haunted ships? By haunted ships, I don’t mean ghost ships wandering abandoned seas (as disturbing as that may be), but something much more frightening: ships haunted by ghosts, some friendly and some, well, deadly.

Discover the true stories about ghosts who tear the sheet off the beds of unsuspecting guests on a famous luxury liner, ghastly crew members tragically, and possibly maliciously. Killed whose faces appear in waves beside the ship, and a lifeboat rowed by a literal skeleton crew.

Learn about horrific accidents, rumored cruses, and even exorcisms of seafaring vessels. Read about beautiful ghosts dressed to dance in one ship’s former ballroom, officers in their dress whites still hard at work, wet footprints left behind by ghosts enjoying a swimming pool no longer present, and mischievous ghosts just wanting to have some fun at the expense of the living. Find out why you shouldn’t take a modern cruise ship for granted for it might be haunted, and discover some ghosts are just trying to be helpful and comforting in the own, somewhat twisted ways.

You’ll also find true stories of haunted beaches across the globe. Find out about the types of ghosts that choose to haunt beaches, including aggressive sailors, frightening mermaid-like creatures, and spirits whose presence can be felt even more powerfully than if they were physically present.

Once you finish this book of true ghost stories involving ships and beaches, you might find yourself afraid to go near the water again.