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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal
Tuck this book under your arm, jump in your car, and get ready to
discover the ghosts of North Texas! These arent tall tales-- these
are stories about places you can visit on your own ghost-hunting
excursion! Read and enjoy interviews with the people who have
actually heard, felt, and seen the spirits. nterviews with the
people who have actually heard, felt, and seen the spirits.
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Blue Weeds
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Francois Meaux
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In this book, you'll find plenty of evidence that the supernatural
is alive in the Golden Isles. Crumbling slave cabins, plantation
homes and grand mansions, ancient forts, even a hospital that once
cared for the five hundred slaves of Retreat Plantation -- all have
their own aura, created by those long since dead.
-- A silent Indian couple wanders, looking with pleading eyes to
anyone who can help find something precious lost long ago.
-- The ghost of a lonely woman still haunts the theater where she
killed herself.
-- Two men grapple with swords in a graveyard, replaying a scene
from their lives again and again.
-- A woman visiting an old inn experiences deja vu when she is
transported to an elegant party that took place there a century
before.
-- The ghost of a young polo player killed in a bizarre horseback
riding accident strides silently through the place that was his
last destination on earth.
These stories of restless souls, heartbroken lovers,
skin-walkers, and protective spirits will give you a case of the
creeps. Keep the lights on!
In this witty, erudite, and thoroughly researched book, art
historian John Moffitt discusses the popular iconography depicting
alleged extraterrestrial (ET) visitors and the widespread appeal of
this New Age craze as a mass cultural phenomenon. A thorough
skeptic, Moffitt is interested in kitschy ET portraiture, not as
evidence of aliens among us, but for what this imagery reveals
about contemporary culture. By brilliantly placing the present
cultural moment in historical context, he demonstrates how typical
portrayals of aliens reflect long-running (even ancient) cultural
motifs.
Whether we realize it or not, among ET's precursors are the
ecstatic maenads of ancient Greek art, early depictions of Christ
in Byzantine icons, the religious visions shown in 15th-century
Spanish paintings, and the popular images of witches and incubi
from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, in our postmodern space
age, these timeless figures of imagination and art have taken on
the otherworldly trappings of alien creatures. By the same token,
centuries-old beliefs, whether in nature gods and goddesses,
demons, witches, Satan, or saints, have evolved into the current
New Age mythology that often surrounds the stories and pictures
connected with aliens. Fueled by a huge entertainment industry,
mass media, and the relentless profit drive of capitalism, alien
imagery has become ubiquitous, and in the process the line between
fantasy and reality ever harder to discern.
This sweeping and above all entertaining perusal of popular
culture presents a sophisticated yet very accessible and often
funny dissection of our current obsession with the possibility that
"we are not alone."
They reside in the darkest of places. They come in any number of
horrifying shapes and sizes. They are spoken of only in whispers.
They are the demons that terrorize our species--images of ultimate
evil that exist in every society. Evil in Our Midst provides a
chilling glimpse of fifty dark angels, each of which represents a
culture's greatest fears. Every chapter opens with a story that
shares the legend of a demon, and then provides fascinating
information on the culture that, in many cases, perpetuates this
belief. You'll learn about the Ligahoo, a Caribbean werewolf who
lives off the blood of its prey; the Windigo, who wanders the
frigid woods of North America, paralyzing victims with its
death-haunted screams; and Mexico's La Llorona, the Weeping Woman
who causes madness and death. Evil in Our Midst presents neither
ancient mythology nor mere folklore. Rather, it is a portal into
the reality of living in a world of demons. For those who believe
in these creatures, it gives reason to fear the unknown in a world
where brutal death may be waiting around the next bend. For those
who do not believe in demons, this book provides terrifying reading
for a stormy night.
This classic casebook chronicles the author's personal experience
with psychic phenomena from when she was six years old and into her
later years. Facsimile reprint of the 1920 edition.]
Ranging from the 18th century to the present and from Beacon Hill
to windswept Cape Ann, Holly Nadler's collection of true ghost
stories from Boston and its environs offers a varied sampling of
supernatural phenomena. Many of these tales offer a satisfying dose
of ghoulish and frightening details; others are colored with a
certain poignancy or even humor.
Archangel Michael taught interactive healing to author Rekha
Vidyarthi; through this technique, she has assisted the healing
process in people for sixteen years. Michael said to her "You need
to heal yourself in order to heal others." Written with Jesus's
guidance, Healing Hands of Jesus illustrates how you can choose to
change the karmic things and past lives that are happening right
now. Angels heal many lives at once by healing one personality and
integrating one fragment at a time into the higher self, shortening
the incarnation of a troubled past and present. Every experience in
life is created by unconscious thoughts. Your outer situation
triggers your innermost emotions and feelings. The mind requires
answers in order to change one's perspective. Because most answers
lie either in childhood or in a past life, it is necessary to look
within. The angels trigger our memories to identify the connection,
which is when healing begins. Such things as parental imprinting,
family karma, ego, anger, fear, guilt, sadness, depression, or
learned behavior perpetuate from one life to the next. These issues
repeat themselves through many lives until we learn how to heal the
issues. Healing Hands of Jesus explains that we must ask
forgiveness for the negative things that are happening to us now in
order to heal ourselves.
Accounts from recorded history of unidentified flying objects
moving into and out of bodies of water.
For over fifty years an incident near Roswell, New Mexico, has
sparked the imaginations of UFO enthusiasts. Did the military
recover a crashed "flying saucer" there, along with several
extraterrestrial bodies? Has the government gone to great lengths
to hide the evidence? Over time these speculations have reached the
status of unquestionable truths in the minds of many ufologists.
In this definitive study of the Roswell incident, longtime UFO
researcher Karl T. Pflock-who is convinced that some UFO reports
are real alien sightings-concludes, after an exhaustive
investigation, that no alien craft or bodies were ever found at
Roswell. Pflock admits at the outset that he too once strongly
believed there might be something to the Roswell alien stories, and
he describes how he then came to discover the whole truth. Using
formerly classified records he proves that the U.S. government has
absolutely no physical evidence of aliens, shows how critical
weather data completely refute key claims of Roswell believers, and
explains why the case now rises and falls on the testimony of just
one witness, who cleverly manipulated leading investigators and
continues to do so today.
Pflock's intensive research and access to once-classified
documents-including facsimilies of important formerly classified
documents, 28 witness affidavits, and the entire Pratt-Marcel
interview transcript-make this book must reading even for UFO
buffs-believers and skeptics alike- who feel they know everything
about Roswell.
Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned
abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of
Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he
finds a winning poker hand. Next to a graveyard where an arm is
buried, the old piano in the fogotten church plays. These and other
tales along with some more recent real-life experiences will
intrigue you, skeptic or not. Read the tales with an open mind.
They are for pleasure, a bit of paranormal, a little seriousness,
and hopefully a laugh or two. If you are a nonbeliever in the
supernatural, you may change your skepticism is etched in stone.
Then again the author learned that nothing is etched in stone
forever. This humorous book also includes some unusual coffins,
tombstones, and epitaphs as well as some early Texas burial
traditions.
Spectral visions, footsteps in the attic, thumps in the night. Who
hasn't witnessed or heard such things and not thought of ghosts?
Join your guide, author Jack Powell, on a wild ride from Pensacola
to Jacksonville and down to Key West, touring Florida's places and
history through some of its best ghost stories. Powell has woven
together a creepy collection of tales. Explore the darker side of
the Sunshine State.
- What horrible fate awalted the pirate's lover in Pensacola?
- Care to check out the last crop Edgar Watson planted on his farm
in the Everglades?
- When will the ghost leave baby Carly's room?
This is book two of a trilogy. The first book titled; Awake, Arise
and Triumph and subtitled Book 1 - God's Original Intent spoke of
the period from Genesis 1: 1 of the Holy Bible through the time
that man fell (Genesis 3: 6) being decieved of Satan. This second
book titled; Awake, Arise and Triumph and subtitled Book 2 - God's
Road to Redemption reviews creation, the fall of man and the
mechanism by which Satan worked to decieve Adam. And how he
contines to work in our lives to our detriment. Than praise God we
see how our Redeemer, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed
in the Old Covenant on the Road of God's mercy.
"The definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a
memorable role in San Antonio's history....the fascinating story of
the people who owned the Menger and the noteworthy folk they
entertained.....This generously illustrated book is one that
visitors and San Antonians alike will want to make their
own".
Frank W. Jennings
Historian, journalist, and author of "San Antonio: The Story of an
Enchanted City"
"An engaging and generous history of a Texas institution. Williams'
work is a mix of panoramic views and detail, from resident ghosts
to army generals, from recipes to love stories, that should give
anyone a peg for their curiosity".
Dr. John L. Davis
Author, professor, historian/researcher at the University of Texas
Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
"Written with heart and humor throughout, whether she wrote of the
true German grit of William and Mary Menger or the eerie wanderers
of the Menger corridors. I love the Menger and so will you, if you
don't already".
Polly Price
Author, host/producer [Book Fare, ] Time Warner TV, San Antonio
Author Docia Schultz Williams is a longtime resident and certified
professional tour guide in San Antonio. Her books include "Best
Tales of Texas Ghosts", "Exploring San Antonio with Children", and
"When Darkness Falls: Tales of San Antonio Ghosts and Hauntings".
Are extraterrestrials real? Or are they the product of overactive
imaginations fed by weekly TV shows and tabloid headlines? Is the
government's silence due to ignorance, or to a plan that was
implemented long before the public ever heard of 'Martians'? Is the
motive of the media to simply profit from this phenomenon, or is it
to act as a medium of something much larger and more complex than
entertainment? This book is for both the believer and the sceptic
-- to be used to decipher the connection between the role of the
media and the history of UFOs. For nearly fifty years, in TV shows
from Captain Video to The X-Files, movies from The Day the Earth
Stood Still to Men in Black, from headline stories in both trashy
tabloids and respectable publications, and now on the internet --
we have constantly been exposed to extraterrestrials. This book
examines the media's saturation with UFOs and aliens, and addresses
a series of arguments as to how it became that way, when it will
end, and who's pulling the strings.
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