Weird Stories from Real Life

by Marjorie Burns (Editor)

On a hunch you cancel a music festival date. The car in which you planned to drive there becomes involved in a serious accident!

You dream you see your teacher writing three questions on the board. Next day these questions turn up on a surprise test!

You walk to the phone to call a friend. Before you take the receiver off the hook, the phone rings. It's your friend, calling you!

Coincidence? ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception)? Or something else?

Far-out stories about real people up against strange and spooky happenings: an ancient wrong revealed by a ghost; a long-unsolved crime cleared up through automatic writing; a family treasure found through memory of a past life; and many more. Weird stories that will astound and delight you. And they are all true!

153 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Sarah Sammis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weird Stories from Real Life was one of the first books I received via BookCrossing that wasn't a ring or a ray. As it is such a thin book I remember thinking I would read it quickly and release it but somehow that that book sat on myself for four years. While working on my Book Traffic Control database I realized just how long I'd have this book I'd been meaning to read in an afternoon and finally got it read.

Each story is a paranormal event and all of the accounts are more than a hundred years old. The stories are written in a way reminiscent of the Ripley's Believe it Or Not books but are less convincing. Over all the book was an easy read but a rather bland one.

[Lee Bartholomew · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book kinda gives the false impression it's about Pychics or being able to lift things in the air an maybe some ghosts.. What you end up getting is the general Haunted tales for most of the book except the later in of being outside the body. I thing I'd read this ages ago. I likely got it in the late 80's from a book club for Scholastic . Interesting stories but more a book for a library reading.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the stories where very interesting and short, but as you near the end they were so-so.

[Christian · Rating 4 out of 5]

A super fun book about the paranormal/supernatural from about 1978 or so. I totally would have bought this in a book order and would have loved it as a kid.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly interesting. It's more anecdotal than trying to prove the paranormal is true, which was nice.

[CavyNomes · Rating 2 out of 5]

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