Copyright, 1915, by
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY

To
MY DEAR FRIENDS
THE MARSHALLS

CONTENTS

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH[7]
PREFACE[9]
CHAPTER I
What is a Ghost?[13]
The Terror of the Dark[14]
What is a Ghost?[18]
Historic Investigations[20]
Death Coincidences[21]
Are They Due to Chance?[24]
The Explanation[26]
Experimental Apparitions[27]
Telepathic Hallucinations[32]
Ghosts Which Move Material Objects[37]
Photographs of Ghosts[38]
The “Double” and the Spiritual Body[40]
What Happens at the Moment of Death[43]
How the Soul May Leave the Body[47]
Theories of Haunted Houses[51]
The Ghosts of Animals, etc.[53]
The Clothes of Ghosts[55]
Telepathy from the Dead[57]
The Psychic Atmosphere[59]
Forms Created by Will[60]
Physical Manifestations[62]
Can Haunted Houses be “Cured”?[63]
CHAPTER II
Phantasms of the Dead—I[65]
A Russian Ghost[65]
Grasped by a Spirit Hand[71]
“I Am Shot!”[74]
“Heave the Lead!”[75]
The Rescue at Sea[78]
How Ghosts Influence Us[86]
How a Ghost Warned the King[90]
The Stains of Blood[93]
Face to Face[96]
“Julia, Darling!”[98]
The Cut Across the Cheek[99]
The Invisible Hand[100]
The Apparition of the Radiant Boy[104]
Fisher’s Ghost[106]
Harriet Hosmer’s Vision[109]
The Apparition of the Murdered Boy[112]
The Ghost in Yellow Calico[116]
CHAPTER III
More Phantasms of the Dead—II[120]
Compacts to Appear after Death[120]
Lord Brougham’s Vision[122]
The Tyrone Ghost[125]
Dead or Alive![128]
The Scratch on the Cheek[135]
A Ghost in Hampton Court[139]
Half-Past One O’clock[147]
My Own True Ghost Story[155]
CHAPTER IV
Haunted Houses[163]
The Record of a Haunted House[165]
Proofs of Immateriality[168]
Conduct of Animals in the House[169]
B—— House[170]
Willington Mill[174]
The Great Amherst Mystery[176]
Brook House[186]
CHAPTER V
Ghost Stories of a More Dramatic Nature[194]
Disease-Phantoms[194]
The Tale of a Mummy[198]
Face Slapped by a Ghost[204]
Alone with a Ghost in Church[207]
A Haunted House in France[210]
A Haunted House in Georgia[213]
Shaken by a Ghost[220]
The House and the Brain[221]
APPENDIX A
Historical Ghosts[230]
APPENDIX B
The Phantom Armies Seen in France[236]
APPENDIX C
Bibliography[245]

PUBLISHER’S NOTE.