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1) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
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In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for...
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Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased loved ones with his camera. Despite the whispers around town that Moody is a fraud of the basest kind, no one has been able to expose him, and word of his gift has spread, earning him money, fame, and...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"London, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant Barrett - but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly, take the case. The dead man is Charles Firth, whose...
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DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
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Katie and Micah are a young middle class couple who are engaged to be married. After moving into a suburban 'starter' house in San Diego, California, they begin hearing noises while trying to sleep. Not knowing if the presence is demonic or not, they attempt communicating through a Ouija board, angering the spirit further. Now they may never sleep again, or they may never wake up!
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Ediciones B, S. A
Pub. Date
2013.
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Second Sight takes readers into the simmering passions and paranormal secrets of the Victorian age. Venetia Milton earns big bucks photographing the artifacts owned by the brooding Gabriel Jones, whom she also manages to seduce, but after hearing that he is dead, she is stunned when he winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.
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Light Technology Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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"On a secluded ranch near Sedona, Arizona, strange events mysteriously began in 1992 ... What does it portend for us all? Over 100 actual photographs of incredible events, otherworldly beings, strange flying craft, and unexplained light anomalies!"--Back cover
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NorthSouth Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"In 1918, Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffith photographed fairies in their garden, in the small village of Cottingley (Yorkshire). Without expecting it, many people paid attention-- including renowned writer and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the story, narrated by Elsie herself, of the true events that led to the Cottingley Fairies becoming a international phenomenon"--Provided by publisher.
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A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Delve into the strange and mysterious with Paranormal Research Society investigators as they try to unravel inexplicable paranormal phenomena such as sixth sense experiences; ghost sightings; demonic disturbances; and brushes with the dark side. PRS uses Electronic Voice Phenomenon recordings, video documentarion, old-fashioned research and the help of renowned psychics, demonologists, psychologists, and counselors to explore the bizarre cases.
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A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Delve into the strange and mysterious with Paranormal Research Society investigators as they try to unravel inexplicable paranormal phenomena such as sixth sense experiences; ghost sightings; demonic disturbances; and brushes with the dark side. PRS used Electronic Voice Phenomenon recordings, video documentarion, old-fashioned research and the help of renowned psychics, demonologists, psychologists, and counselors to explore the bizarre cases.
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[A & E Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In Season Five, the PRS travel to a quaint New England town, where a police officer's family is terrorized by demons; New Jersey, where a beauty salon sits in close proximity to deadly train tracks; and St. Helens, Oregon, where the team learns about the haunted history of the town where Twilight was filmed.
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10 Cloverfield Lane: A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to believe, the woman soon determines that she must escape at any cost.
An American Haunting: Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises...
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Katie and Micah are a young middle class couple who are engaged to be married. After moving into a suburban 'starter' house in San Diego, California, they begin hearing noises while trying to sleep. Not knowing if the presence is demonic or not, they attempt communicating through a Ouija board, angering the spirit further. Now they may never sleep again, or they may never wake up!
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[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
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A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Poltergeist: A young family is visited by ghosts in their home. At first, the ghosts seem friendly, then they turn nasty and terrorize the family before they 'kidnap' the youngest daughter.
House: Horror novelist Roger Cobb is a man on the edge, reeling from his recent divorce, haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his young son, and struggling with his new...
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