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Ghosts & gallows, true stories of crime and the paranormal, Paul Adams

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Ghosts & gallows, true stories of crime and the paranormal, Paul Adams

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ghosts & gallows

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electronic resource

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dictionariesbibliography

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797919595

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Paul Adams

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true stories of crime and the paranormal

Summary

Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adored the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK, cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritual medium, a murder solved by a dream of the mother of the victim, and evidence at a Scottish murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim himself. Featuring visions, psychometry, ghos

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Hill of Christie spectre -- Chapter 2. The red barn murder -- Chapter 3. Autumn of terror -- Chapter 4. The Welcomes murder -- Chapter 5. The enigma -- Chapter 6. An English ghost hunter abroad -- Chapter 7. The death of innocence -- Chapter 8. The whispering woman -- Chapter 9. The power of the psychic detective -- Chapter 10. Ghost of the frozen girl -- Chapter 11. The psychic search for the Yorkshire Ripper -- Chapter 12. Viewing a killer -- Chapter 13. The voice from the grave -- Chapter 14. Fall of the house of death -- Chapter 15. The evil within -- Chapter 16. The haunting murderers

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