The Unexplained: Ghost stories from Malta and beyond

by Vanessa MacDonald

Don't expect to find predictable stories about rattling chains and headless knights, about dark, stormy nights and misty cemeteries, embellished over the years until no one remembers how and when they started...

These first-hand accounts are extraordinary because they are so unexpected, so far removed from the eerie ghosts of legend. There are stories about floating phantoms in white but there are also stories about ones mistaken for living beings, ones that inhabit the dark but others seen regularly in broad daylight.

There are stories of benevolent spirits who have saved peoples' lives, apparitions of poeple who are still alive, malicious poltergeists haunting houses which are lived in to this very day and demons that have driven terrified families out of their homes.

Since the first edition was published in 2001, the author has chronicled a number of new stories and has also added spine-tingling postscipts to the original ones, recounting similar experiences that happened to other people.

The result is a collection of over 60 fascinating true stories, based in Malta and overseas.

Believe them if you dare.

227 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Paola · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought this book on a holiday visit to Malta. I was looking forward to some spooky stories, but found them, overall, a bit disappointing. I think the way it’s written contributes to it. The writer often builds up the suspense only to end them in the very matter-of-fact way a journalist reports the news. The details on some of the stories are so all over the place, it’s tough to say when they took place. For example, one story describes a chamber pot and a page later the family is moving everything into trucks and vans. Very confusing.

[Fabian · Rating 1 out of 5]

I bought that book on my vacations in Malta. It is a collection of stories in which people see ghosts or good spirits in Malta. Unfortunately the stories are all super short (sometimes 2, sometimes 10 pages) and a bit dull so that it is no real fun to read.

[Bibi · Rating 4 out of 5]

perfect quirky bizarre souvenir from malta