Encyclopedia of Haunted Places, Ghostly Locales from Around the World by Jeff Belanger
With shades of Halloween approaching, I decided it was just the right time to delve into the paranormal. Everybody has heard and almost believes at least one legend he has heard. After all, ghosts make for powerful stories based on fact then seeped in tradition of the unexplained.
Jeff Belanger has compiled and edited some of the best of ghostly locales around the world. Far away Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Oceania, Asia, Africa, Europe has its hauntings. Closer by, the U S. A. has its folklore. I skimmed all the chapters before going back to read and reread the tales I was drawn to–of places I had seen.
Spirits love spirits is a great line. It drew me to Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar (Bourbon Street, New Orleans) rich in history with buccaneers, treasure, and curses. It hooked me on Chicago’s John Hancock Building, birthplace of satanic leader Anton Szandor LaVey, Lorraine Kowalski’s fall, and Cap Streeter’s curse. It enticed with the Black Dahalia Murder by the LA Biltmore. It dangled the phantom carriage sitings not far from Houdini’s burnt-out mansion in Laurel Canyon.
Washington. D. C.’s White House spirits include Redcoats, Abraham Lincoln and his son William Wallace, and Dolly Madison. St. Augustine’s Castillo de San Marcos has its native American Seminoles as well as murdered lovers Captain Manuel Abela and Delores Marti. Louisville has its riverboat captain Ben Winters on the Belle of Louisville. The RMS Queen Mary off Long Beach has its 600 ghosts. The Hotel Del Coronado has Kate Morgan, the woman who never checked out. The USS Arizona has its guilt-ridden officer who left his station moments before the day of infamy.
There is a house that sits along the river in a nearby time. Years ago Hollywood took it over as a movie set. The story about a family murdered in Amityville was grizzly. The family that fled it 28 days after moving in a year later is ominous and threatening. What is stranger still is now three decades later how it is told that the once movie set is plagued by something huge and black. Belanger has included six locations in New Jersey. I choose to count seven.
I am no ghost buster, but I am a curious woman who would like to check out the scene and any possible rational explanations. Perhaps I should wear my crucifix and bring cloves of garlic…. Why not learn a little of what Hans Hoilzer terms “the other side of life”?
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on Oct 28th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Hi Pat! I believe in the unseen, but have no stories to tell. This book sounds interesting and kinda spooky. I hope you read it during the daytime…
on Oct 28th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
VJ,
Not spooky. Just factual not lengthy pieces.
Pat.
on Oct 31st, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Sitting here, waiting in the dark for ghouls and vampires to ring my doorbell – what appropriate timing to read this review. I’d love to read of tales from other countries to see how their cultures accept the concept of hauntings.
Thanks for the review
on Nov 1st, 2009 at 8:52 am
This sounds interesting. It also might hook some reluctant student readers since it is an interesting topic and the articles are not lengthy! It could also send them to the map or globe to find the various locales!
on Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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on Nov 1st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
YEs, I believe in ghost. Never had a personal experience, not sure I want one. But am very interested in the subject
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I love close to a road called “Airplane” Road and a man was killed on his motorcycle there back in the 80′s-I have been his ghost on the road many times and one in the back seat of my car while driving down the road
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on Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Ive been to lots of spooky places..A “haunted cemetary”, “haunted trail”,places that are listed as haunted in books or on websites -like a store in my town and a house that has been relocated as a landmark etc..not to mention various halloween stuff
I believe in spirits/ghosts
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on Nov 4th, 2009 at 5:49 am
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Spooky is different ferom haunted, but I have been to lots of them as well.
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on Nov 4th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
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on Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I believe in ghosts. In fact, there was one that spooked me right out of an apartment about 20 years ago.
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on Nov 6th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
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I knwew a woman so superstitious she moved out of a house after she found someone had died in it (of old age).
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on Nov 8th, 2009 at 2:36 am
I believe in ghosts~as I remember years ago a real good friend of mine died unexpectedly and sudden. And~I was having a really hard time dealing with the death.One night I was sound to sleep and woke up because I felt someone hug me and tell me that it was going to be ok and then I saw a shadow..Not sure if it was my friend but I found some peace after that night.
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on Nov 8th, 2009 at 5:30 am
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on Nov 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I believe in ghost as lost souls wondering around trying to find their resting place.
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on Nov 9th, 2009 at 1:25 am
I have never been to a spooky place but I do believe in ghosts.
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on Nov 9th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Francine,
It is all how we take the atmosphere psychologically….
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on Nov 9th, 2009 at 3:19 am
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on Nov 9th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Tamara,
Not always lost ones though.
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on Nov 10th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I believe my current house has spirits of some sort.
on Nov 10th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I believe! I’ve had some spooky experiences in some old farmhouses around here!
on Nov 10th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
A strange story: My daughter never met her Grandmother,Sarah was born 6 weeks after she passed. I named gave Sarah her grandmothers middle name and she is so like her.
Sarah was in college and working at the school. She was cleaning up biology class when she found a picture. She called me and said,”Mom,I just found Grandmoms picture”. She asked if anyone lost the picture,the prof.said he didn’t know where it came from. She didn’t know for sure but thought it was her grandmother. She brought home the picture and sure enough,it was her grandmother! I thought that was so weird and I told her maybe your grandmother is watching over you.
There was no reason for this picture to be there.
Yes I believe in ghosts
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on Nov 10th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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on Nov 10th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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on Nov 10th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Peggy,
the unexplained often has no apparent explanation.
Pat.
on Nov 10th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Karen.
It is all in the atmosphere.
Pat.
on Nov 10th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Kathy,
Of what kind, good or bad?
Pat.
on Nov 13th, 2009 at 7:57 am
I’ve been to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose Ca…….it was many years ago…& yes Pat it was very spooky !!!!!!
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on Nov 14th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Birdie,
Architecture, atmosphere, and decoration help set the mood–personality does the rest.
Pat.