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Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms
Chronicles the lives transformed by encounters with the ghosts and supernatural hauntings through disquieting testimonials, enlightening research, and informative historical accounts. Bringing forth the spirits, touching on near-death experiences and parallel universes, and presenting the full range of ghostly manifestations, Haunted: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms pulls back the curtains on the hidden and frightening world of supernatural spirits, malevolent phantoms, menacing beings, paranormal encounters, spectral apparitions, threatening poltergeists, and sinister hauntings. Thrown into the middle of the action, master storyteller, Brad Steiger shares true accounts of ghostly encounters in the ancient world; horrors and hauntings in the forests and fields; possessed houses and homes; night terrors, poltergeists, and malevolent spirits; speaking to spirits; near-death experiences and out-of-body visits; visitations from dead loved ones; and much, much more. Nearly 300 hair-raising tales found everywhere, including ...
384 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2018
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September 5, 2018
Fans and followers might mourn HAUNTED: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms as Steiger's final book. Brad died on May 6, 2018 at the age of 82. Many readers will purchase this paperback for purely sentimental reasons.
Let us set sentimentality aside for this review.
Even if I had never read a single volume by the amazing Steiger duo before now, HAUNTED would immediately become a crown jewel in my library. It validates one of my core epiphanies:
Death is not the finish line for participants in the human race.
Consider now the personal story of an astonishing encounter and incredible aftermath sent to the Steigers by an Australian housewife. Anita Stapleton wrote that her day had been a normal one. She finished her chores, watched television in the evening, and went to bed while her husband was still watching the late movie. Once her head hit the pillow, she noticed that a middle-aged man, dressed like a Catholic priest, stood before her.
"He was rather a frail man with hollow cheeks. His face showed traces of a hard life and illness... He looked so real, not like a ghost. I was not a bit scared, because he radiated vibrations of utter peace and tranquility. There was nothing to be afraid of."
After giving Anita a few personal messages and stressing the point that there is survival after death, he identified himself. He was Frederick William Faber and he had lived in England from 1814 to 1863. She remarked that at the time of his passing, he was only forty-nine years old. He confirmed this and added that he had died of a kidney disease. After quietly talking about religious matters for a few more minutes, Frederick bade Anita farewell and disappeared.
Despite the late hour, Anita immediately wrote down her visitor's name and other details, and then told her husband about what had happened. The incident troubled her for days. Her husband reminded her of Somerset House in London, where a record of every person born and deceased in Britain was kept. Anita wrote to Somerset House and was sent a form to fill out, asking for details of the required person, and was asked to include a small search fee. Two weeks later, an airmail letter from London arrived.
In Anita's own words: "The letter contained a certified copy of a death certificate. It stated that Frederick William Faber's death had occurred on September 26, 1863, and that he had been forty-nine at the time of his death and had been a doctor of divinity, in Brompton, County of Middlesex. The cause of death was stated as kidney disease. In other words, the official document in my hands confirmed what the apparition had told me."
HAUNTED can be an absorbing and rewarding sanctuary. Readers are uplifted with ghostly visitations by loved ones; deathbed visions and observations; near-death and out-of-body experiences; and heavenly angels and spirit guides. We even learn about the first time that Brad Steiger became a ghost.
However, as the title of this book suggests and scholars of the unknown attest, the paranormal is not all peppermints and rainbows. There are malevolent apparitions. There are "ghosts" of evil things that never walked this Earth as human beings. We have nasty poltergeists and shadow people and spirit parasites. Some specters never leave their hotels while other phantoms hitchhike rides to nowhere. Paranormal encounters can lead to injury or worse.
The eighteen chapters of HAUNTED encompass all manner of ghostly manifestations. Pioneers that contributed their insights and discoveries to this book reads like a Who's Who of the unexplained and unknown. I am honored to have Brad and Sherry Steiger devote several pages to my research.
If it was the intent of the authors to create a definitive work, they succeeded, in spades.
HAUNTED: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms comes with my highest recommendation. Whether you are a casual reader looking to scare yourself silly or a serious student of the supernatural or an author and investigator of things that go bump in the night, HAUNTED will satisfy your every desire. Be careful what you wish for!
Let us set sentimentality aside for this review.
Even if I had never read a single volume by the amazing Steiger duo before now, HAUNTED would immediately become a crown jewel in my library. It validates one of my core epiphanies:
Death is not the finish line for participants in the human race.
Consider now the personal story of an astonishing encounter and incredible aftermath sent to the Steigers by an Australian housewife. Anita Stapleton wrote that her day had been a normal one. She finished her chores, watched television in the evening, and went to bed while her husband was still watching the late movie. Once her head hit the pillow, she noticed that a middle-aged man, dressed like a Catholic priest, stood before her.
"He was rather a frail man with hollow cheeks. His face showed traces of a hard life and illness... He looked so real, not like a ghost. I was not a bit scared, because he radiated vibrations of utter peace and tranquility. There was nothing to be afraid of."
After giving Anita a few personal messages and stressing the point that there is survival after death, he identified himself. He was Frederick William Faber and he had lived in England from 1814 to 1863. She remarked that at the time of his passing, he was only forty-nine years old. He confirmed this and added that he had died of a kidney disease. After quietly talking about religious matters for a few more minutes, Frederick bade Anita farewell and disappeared.
Despite the late hour, Anita immediately wrote down her visitor's name and other details, and then told her husband about what had happened. The incident troubled her for days. Her husband reminded her of Somerset House in London, where a record of every person born and deceased in Britain was kept. Anita wrote to Somerset House and was sent a form to fill out, asking for details of the required person, and was asked to include a small search fee. Two weeks later, an airmail letter from London arrived.
In Anita's own words: "The letter contained a certified copy of a death certificate. It stated that Frederick William Faber's death had occurred on September 26, 1863, and that he had been forty-nine at the time of his death and had been a doctor of divinity, in Brompton, County of Middlesex. The cause of death was stated as kidney disease. In other words, the official document in my hands confirmed what the apparition had told me."
HAUNTED can be an absorbing and rewarding sanctuary. Readers are uplifted with ghostly visitations by loved ones; deathbed visions and observations; near-death and out-of-body experiences; and heavenly angels and spirit guides. We even learn about the first time that Brad Steiger became a ghost.
However, as the title of this book suggests and scholars of the unknown attest, the paranormal is not all peppermints and rainbows. There are malevolent apparitions. There are "ghosts" of evil things that never walked this Earth as human beings. We have nasty poltergeists and shadow people and spirit parasites. Some specters never leave their hotels while other phantoms hitchhike rides to nowhere. Paranormal encounters can lead to injury or worse.
The eighteen chapters of HAUNTED encompass all manner of ghostly manifestations. Pioneers that contributed their insights and discoveries to this book reads like a Who's Who of the unexplained and unknown. I am honored to have Brad and Sherry Steiger devote several pages to my research.
If it was the intent of the authors to create a definitive work, they succeeded, in spades.
HAUNTED: Malevolent Ghosts, Night Terrors, and Threatening Phantoms comes with my highest recommendation. Whether you are a casual reader looking to scare yourself silly or a serious student of the supernatural or an author and investigator of things that go bump in the night, HAUNTED will satisfy your every desire. Be careful what you wish for!
December 27, 2018
Not what I expected. I confess I skim read this book.
Some good stories did appear in this book.
Some good stories did appear in this book.
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