It's True! Hauntings Happen and Ghosts Get Grumpy - Softcover

Costain, Meredith

9781554510214: It's True! Hauntings Happen and Ghosts Get Grumpy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155451021X ISBN 13: 9781554510214

Publisher: Annick Press, 2006

What would you do if furniture threw itself down stairs and fires broke out in the cupboards? Or if you saw a festering green hand appear behind you in a mirror? In this engrossing book about the supernatural, discover spine-chilling stories and examine the evidence on teleportation, UFOs, psychic detectives, premonitions about the sinking of the Titanic, Christopher Columbus' experience inside the Bermuda Triangle -- and many other mysteries of mind, time and space. Complete with instructions for holding your own fork-bending party and cartoons to tickle your funny bone, this collection of freaky phenomena will scare up interest even among skeptics.

About the It's True! series

Gross! Creepy! Amazing! Kids will love it.

This non-fiction series for older readers features wacky writing, funny cartoons, and remarkable photos that make each book as delightfully entertaining as it is informative. It's True!

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About the Author:

Meredith Costain is a writer and musician who has reviewed kids' books, edited a kids' magazine, and taught a professional writing course.

Craig Smith has illustrated over 300 books, including I Hate Fridays, The Comic Book Kid, and several books in the Emily Eyefinger series.

Why the Supernatural?

My grandmother was peeling potatoes at the sink when she had sudden "vision." She saw her mother, 17,000 kilometers (10,600 miles) away in the north of England, waving goodbye to her. The next day Gran received a telegram that said her mother had died--at exactly the same time she'd "seen" her the day before.

My mother often has dreams about events that are about to take place and I seem to have a knack for prediction too. If I feel something really, really bad is going to happen, it usually does. (My computer crashed twice while I was typing that sentence.) And if I suddenly start thinking about my mum or sister, and check the clock, the display will usually read 11:11. I don't know if some kind of "sixth sense" runs in my family. What I do know is that I'm interested in things that science can't always explain.

Meredith Costain

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