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Journeys into the Unknown: Mysterious Canadian Encounters with the Paranormal
This fascinating and bloodcurdling book takes the reader through a collection of amazing ghost stories and paranormal investigations across Ontario that have never before been reported. The circumstances behind fifteen unusual cases of hauntings and ghostly manifestations are explored together with the detailed sagas of full-scale investigations into six further spooky inexplicables occurring in or near Toronto.
The book concludes with a look into a complete investigation of a haunting, including a guide that explains the techniques used to conduct a paranormal investigation. The final section that explains the theories behind what a ghost is, how they manifest, and where they hide - challenging the classic theories of life-after-death research. So turn on all the lights, keep your back to the wall, and be prepared to take a journey into the reality of the unexplained.
The book concludes with a look into a complete investigation of a haunting, including a guide that explains the techniques used to conduct a paranormal investigation. The final section that explains the theories behind what a ghost is, how they manifest, and where they hide - challenging the classic theories of life-after-death research. So turn on all the lights, keep your back to the wall, and be prepared to take a journey into the reality of the unexplained.
- GenresParanormalCanada
212 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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April 25, 2023
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I know books about about communicating with the afterlife come in varying quality. I regard Lois Forsberg and Leslie Rule highly as the subject’s top shelf researchers and writers, who do not merely repeat ghost story newspaper clippings. They visit their locations and interview people for new manifestations that they witnessed. Richard Palmisano is with Lois and Leslie in high quality publishing and original content and does something different than them that one might call hardcore. He is an experienced paranormal investigator in Ontario. All three of them mull over spirit origins and workings but Richard organizes his books differently. They are for people with the scientific and philosophical thinking skills to ponder things seriously.
This is not light reading to breeze through. I debated giving “Overshadows” 5 stars in 2016 for appalling recordings. I took 6 years to revisit the series. Mercifully, “Journeys Into The Unknown: Mysterious Canadian Encounters With The Paranormal” involves no crime. However, it concludes with the companion Ontario teams evading an evil entity away from the original site!
Richard describes several of their investigations that I think were current at publishing time. One story tends to comprise a location with the most major paranormal phenomena. They are all very engaging, particularly occurring modernly and in Canada; closer to home and thus personally more poignant than most reading that we Canadians do. If they were not private residences, they are close enough for many folks to consider visiting and the events are not in the past. That is an unusual aspect of Richard’s testimonies.
Especially fresh are his essays: proposing that spirits appear based on emotions, weather, and ultraviolet light. I counter by believing that souls, ascended to Heaven or not, choose their visits. Richard is forward-thinking in cautioning that most researchers propagate old, insupportable assumptions.
I know books about about communicating with the afterlife come in varying quality. I regard Lois Forsberg and Leslie Rule highly as the subject’s top shelf researchers and writers, who do not merely repeat ghost story newspaper clippings. They visit their locations and interview people for new manifestations that they witnessed. Richard Palmisano is with Lois and Leslie in high quality publishing and original content and does something different than them that one might call hardcore. He is an experienced paranormal investigator in Ontario. All three of them mull over spirit origins and workings but Richard organizes his books differently. They are for people with the scientific and philosophical thinking skills to ponder things seriously.
This is not light reading to breeze through. I debated giving “Overshadows” 5 stars in 2016 for appalling recordings. I took 6 years to revisit the series. Mercifully, “Journeys Into The Unknown: Mysterious Canadian Encounters With The Paranormal” involves no crime. However, it concludes with the companion Ontario teams evading an evil entity away from the original site!
Richard describes several of their investigations that I think were current at publishing time. One story tends to comprise a location with the most major paranormal phenomena. They are all very engaging, particularly occurring modernly and in Canada; closer to home and thus personally more poignant than most reading that we Canadians do. If they were not private residences, they are close enough for many folks to consider visiting and the events are not in the past. That is an unusual aspect of Richard’s testimonies.
Especially fresh are his essays: proposing that spirits appear based on emotions, weather, and ultraviolet light. I counter by believing that souls, ascended to Heaven or not, choose their visits. Richard is forward-thinking in cautioning that most researchers propagate old, insupportable assumptions.
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September 29, 2022Interesting read. I do wish some of the cases had more of an ending or follow up to the investigation, but this seems to be a common format with many paranormal books. In other words, did the families that moved continue to have issues? Did the locations continue to have activity after the people moved? As a reader, it is like watching a movie for 2 hours and you miss the last 15 mintues, frustrating.
The theories he presents are unlike others I have come across, so nice to find new ideas and perspectives. As the book was published in 2006, the section of doing investigations and equipment was interesting to read as so much has changed with equipment that investigators now in 2022 use.
The theories he presents are unlike others I have come across, so nice to find new ideas and perspectives. As the book was published in 2006, the section of doing investigations and equipment was interesting to read as so much has changed with equipment that investigators now in 2022 use.
January 21, 2012
Interesting stories of hauntings in Toronto and Ontario.
The first chapter has stories of hauntings that had been reported. I enjoyed the second chapter more because not only were they stories of hauntings but they were investigated.
It would have been nice if the author had been able to research the background of the properties to report who the spirits were rather than just having a medium say it who they were.
Blog review: http://www.teenaintoronto.com/2011/08...
The first chapter has stories of hauntings that had been reported. I enjoyed the second chapter more because not only were they stories of hauntings but they were investigated.
It would have been nice if the author had been able to research the background of the properties to report who the spirits were rather than just having a medium say it who they were.
Blog review: http://www.teenaintoronto.com/2011/08...
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