Project Gutenberg 2014-01-08 Public domain in the USA. 141 Carrington, Hereward 1880 1959 Carington, Hereward 15025967 True Ghost Stories E-text prepared by eagkw, Robert Cicconetti, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana) "True Ghost Stories" by Hereward Carrington is a collection of allegedly real ghost stories and accounts of supernatural experiences written in the early 20th century. The work compiles authentic and well-documented instances of ghostly phenomena, aiming to present not mundane fiction but narratives grounded in investigative findings from psychical research. Carrington, an advocate for the study of psychical phenomena, uses this collection to explore various theories regarding the existence and nature of ghosts, as well as the human experiences associated with such encounters. The opening of the text delves into the concept of ghosts, discussing their historical prevalence across cultures and the instinctive human fear of the dark. The author introduces various cases that illustrate the fear and fascination associated with ghostly appearances, such as a personal account wherein an apparition snuffs out a light in the protagonist's bedroom, leaving them in total darkness and terror. Carrington also reflects on the nature of apparitions, suggesting that many ghostly experiences can be understood through recent scientific theories, including telepathy and hallucinations. Overall, the beginning serves to set the groundwork for a deeper inquiry into the mysteries of the supernatural, piquing the reader's interest in the scientifically grounded exploration that follows. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44625/44625-h/images/cover.jpg en Ghosts BF Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 363412 363153 2024-09-18T17:10:48.041194 2023-09-19T12:35:27.025004 text/html text/html 373924 2014-01-08T11:50:28 text/html 242525 2014-01-08T11:53:41 text/html application/zip 260649 2024-09-18T17:10:54.319336 application/epub+zip 262747 2024-09-18T17:10:49.329150 application/epub+zip 205830 2024-09-18T17:10:48.686171 application/epub+zip 368552 2024-09-18T17:10:58.393140 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 334703 2024-09-18T17:10:53.648121 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277986 2022-09-20T11:16:22.342304 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 315804 315588 2024-09-18T17:10:47.250321 2023-09-19T12:35:26.249037 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 315351 2014-01-08T11:44:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 121635 2014-01-08T11:44:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 315365 2014-01-08T11:44:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 121629 2014-01-08T11:44:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20433 2024-09-18T17:10:58.536113 application/rdf+xml 10030 2024-09-18T17:10:48.790150 image/jpeg 1841 2024-09-18T17:10:48.738148 image/jpeg 240901 2024-09-18T17:10:48.079187 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia