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This is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them. Are there ghosts here? Yes. Are there strange coincidences here? Yes. Are there strange creatures of the forest here? Yes. Are there conspiracies here? Yes. Are there horors here aplenty? Yes, yes! The accounts come from many regions of Canada and cover the last hundred or so years. These fascinating first-person accounts originate in the columns of old newspapers or in the highly readable narratives derived from correspondence conducted by the author with present-day witnesses.
Shake hands with your fears and dreads. Here are engrossing and unsettling occurences that are supernatural or psychical, paranormal, or parapsychological, all betweent he covers of one book. Not for the faint of heart! Highly exciting reading!
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Shake hands with your fears and dreads. This is a chilling collection of 50 truly unusual events told by the people who experienced them.
About the Author:
John Robert Colombo, Canada's Mr. Mystery, is editor of such collections of horrifying tales as Mysterious Canada, The Midnight Hour, and The Terrors of the Night. He is an advisor to the Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society and a consultant to the Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical Inquiry. He is also known as the Mater Gatherer for compilations like The Penguin Book of Popular Canadian Quotations.
John Robert Colombo, the author of the best-selling Colombo's Canadian Quotations and Fascinating Canada, has written, translated, or edited over two hundred books. He is the recipient of the Harbourfront Literary Prize and the Order of Canada, and is a Fellow of the Frye Centre.
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- PublisherDundurn Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1550027352
- ISBN 13 9781550027358
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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