The Ghost Files

by Mike Covell

For over a decade, Mike Covell has investigated the unexplained. His quest has led him to appearances on Most Haunted, Most Haunted Live and Paranormal Lockdown, documenting his search for answers. The Ghost Files is a collection of ghost stories from haunted shops, restaurants, hotels, theaters, factories and educational centers - packed with hundreds of historical contemporary sources, historical timelines, logs of reported activity, photographs, maps and more. Mike's articles have been seen in the Hull Daily Mail, Grimsby Telegraph, Outer Limits Magazine and Haunted Magazine. Whether you believe or not, Mike explores both sides of history and myth, the stories, sightings, and historical sources, showing a different and often thrilling insight into the haunted, ghostly locations in his hometown of Hull.

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 19, 2017

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well researched and was not afraid to debunk stories where historical records didn’t back the stories up. For me though, forget the paranormal, I learnt more about my city from this book then anything else!!

[Sarah bailey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reading very intesting

Brilliant especially coming from hull .great to know the past what our parents and grandparents family's lives like in that earer

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great local read!

Loved this introduction to Mike's work - he most certainly knows his stuff. I've now moved onto the sequel! Great to find out local history and Mike is our man!

[Megan Weiss · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the idea the author had for this project, but it was poorly executed. A lot of the historical information was irrelevant to the paranormal research, and there was no need to input pages-long lists of names and dates that didn’t seem to add much of anything to the narrative or the author’s argument. The book clearly needed another round of editing (or two), as there were grammatical issues and many typos, which were distracting.the reports of paranormal activity should have been the main focus of the book, based on the beginning chapter, but a lot of them time these seemed to take a backseat to the general history of a location. I also found that at times the author used a condescending tone, which was really off-putting as a reader. Basically if he couldn’t find “written” proof then a claim was nonsense, but soooo many instances of human history were ignored or have been diluted over the years. This had a lot of potential, but read like an early draft of a thesis project.