Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings
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Publisher Description
Rich. Famous. Glamorous. Dead … and Immortal!
From old Hollywood silent film stars to rock stars to athletes, past presidents, and famous generals, celebrated individuals sometimes become celebrity ghosts, and they haunt their homes, workplaces, and even burial places. In turn, those places become famous, even notorious, thanks to the ghost that is haunting it! Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings looks at many famous ghosts—dead celebrities that haunt old Hollywood locales, famous generals that appear to witnesses at great battlefields, and noted politicians that roam the hallways of courthouses, statehouses, and even the White House! Plus, this fascinating frightfest examines the famous haunted locations themselves, such as the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Hotel del Coronado, Gettysburg, the Stanley Hotel (which inspired Stephen King’s The Shining) and so many others that claim the supernatural as part of their heritage and history.
This riveting look at the unexplained also investigates movie lore, including the unsettling incidents on the Amityville Horror set; “The Dark Knight” curse that includes on-set accidents from the horrible death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker, to the mass shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises; the deaths and curse surrounding The Matrix; the Infamous Stage 28 at Universal Studios; and Paramount Studios’ long history of hauntings and strange goings-on.
Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Hank Williams. Presidents John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and Harry Truman. Henry VIII, beheaded Sir Walter Raleigh, and Prince Edward V. Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Marilyn Monroe, and “Superman” actor George Reeves. Houdini, Redd Foxx, Liberace, and serial-killer Ted Bundy. They all lurk in this riveting book. Haunted graveyards (of course), haunted historical landmarks and battlefields, plus haunted libraries, courthouses, ships, submarines, lighthouses, hotels, roadways, byways, bridges, prisons, and hospitals are all gathered together in this comprehensive look at the ghastly afterlife of the renowned. From famous faces to famous places, if it involves fame and celebrity, fortune and notoriety, legend and lore, Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings covers it.
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Jones (Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels) delivers an entertaining exploration of celebrity and other famous ghost sightings. She begins with an overview of the various types of ghosts, among them apparitions (they "take on a much more ethereal quality and can look like a mist or a fog"), residuals (they "do not interact with witnesses"), and poltergeists (which "move objects around, break things, open doors and cause actual physical trouble"), then briefly dives into theories about ghostly activity and answers such question as why ghosts prefer sad places ("because emotions such as pain, fear, and sadness are more powerful and likely to leave a spiritual imprint at locales such as cemeteries, hospitals, and orphanages"). Famous ghosts include Jean Harlow ("She and her second husband, producer Paul Bern, are often seen roaming the mansion they once owned together") and John Lennon (rumored to haunt the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan, where he lived when he was murdered). Haunted places include those familiar (the Lizzie Borden house and the Winchester Mystery House, which is said to be haunted by those killed by Winchester guns) and obscure (the Farnam Mansion, believed to be haunted by the ghost of a cat). Lightly illustrated with photographs and art, Jones's well-researched guide will be a treasure trove for amateur ghost hunters.
