Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters
Brian Laythe, James Houran, Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater, & Ciaran O’Keeffe
Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters
Ghosted! features easily understood reviews from a leading-edge research program devoted to understanding who has ghostly experiences and why.
The unique investigative team behind these new insights is global in scale and multidisciplinary in scope. In a piece best described as an “adversarial collaboration,” this “global ghost gang” of Ph.D.s uncovers consistent evidence that these anomalous experiences represent a very real “haunted people syndrome” with far-reaching implications for future research across academia.
Their theory might be incomplete; however, the ghost gang invites a new generation of citizen scientists to join the search for an ultimate answer to this tantalizing mystery.
Testimonials I
Steve Gonsalves
Paranormal Investigator, television host & producer; Executive Producer & Host of Ghost Nation; Director of The House In Between.
“The work laid out in this book will remind people how seriously this field of research should be taken! Readers are given extremely well-thought out ideas, insights, arguments, procedures, and investigation techniques. This book is sure to smash some of the tropes in the field of paranormal research, while reinforcing others. A solid foundation for any investigator and a fascinating read for enthusiasts of paranormal research -- whatever it may eventually reveal about the nature of all things that go bump in the night.”
Lorraine Sheridan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Curtin University, co-author of Stalking and Psychosexual Obsession and Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: An International Perspective.
“Loved it! Ghosted! is a highly entertaining account of ‘Haunted People Syndrome’ — a fresh and intriguing theory deserving of more study. In fact, this innovative book openly invites and guides both academics and citizen scientists to participate in the authors’ quest for a scientific answer to the enduring and meaningful mystery of ghosts.”
Winner of the 2020 D. Scott Rogo Award for Parapsychological Media
Testimonials II
Brandon J. Alvis, Writer
Director/Filmmaker (Ephemera, Formula of a Haunting) and Ghost-hunter. Founder of the American Paranormal Research Association (APRA) and Paranormal Technician for the ‘Ghosthunters’ Team (on A&E).
“Ghosted! is a major step in the right direction for the advancement of the paranormal field. The mix of science and academia is a breath of fresh air for a genre surrounded by pseudoscience. I highly recommend this book to all paranormal investigators and researchers that want to take paranormal studies credibly.”
Ursula Bielski, M.A.
Historian, Host of PBS' “The Hauntings of Chicago,” and Serial Author, including Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City
“From the explosion of the subculture of “ghost-hunting” in the early 2000s, almost no attempt has been made by academic parapsychology to even acknowledge—let alone embrace—the enormous and ever-growing population of self-styled paranormal investigators across the globe (except to ridicule). Similarly, the latter have shown little to no interest in academic parapsychology.
Winner of the 2020 D. Scott Rogo Award for Parapsychological Media