Let's enter the spirit world -- In the beginning: First famous phantoms -- Do the dead return? -- Something wicked this way comes -- Poltergeists: They're here! -- Don't call us, we'll call you: Over my dead body! -- Spirit, move me: Birth of spiritualism -- Things that go bump in the night -- Striking a happy medium -- Who ya gonna call?: Ghost hunters and ghostbusters -- Method to the madness: Conducting a ghost hunt -- If not a ghost, then what? -- Make yourself at home: Hauntings -- Urban legends -- This old house: Haunted America -- There'll always be an England -- Castles in the air -- Get me to the church on time -- That these honored dead -- Al the world's a stage -- Trains and boats and planes -- School daze: America's most haunted schools -- Haunted Hollywood -- Where (else) on Earth? -- We are not alone: Magic connection -- Apparitions and the arts -- Appendixes -- Index.

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