Paranormal expert Theresa Cheung shares 101 of the most mysterious and spooky true stories of hauntings from around the world together with the latest afterlife science and research, providing fascinating insight into our never-ending love affair with ghosts.
Belief in ghosts is surprisingly common worldwide. Mysterious glowing orbs, unexplained chills, things that literally go bump in the night: signs of paranormal activity have reportedly surged during the pandemic. As have specialist investigators, organised ghost hunts, eerie podcasts, TV shows and reports of everyday hauntings.
Sharing the details of some well-known and particularly mysterious hauntings together with some less-well-known tales and personal stories from her readers and listeners, Theresa explores these ghostly encounters through four categories of hauntings: residual, poltergeist, inhuman and intelligent.
With an introduction to modern parapsychology, a look at the latest science that digs deeper into our never-ending love affair with ghosts, psychic-themed self-help advice and ghost hunting tips, Haunted World is a timely and entertaining journey through the thrilling world of afterlife research.
This is a great book to read as the nights get darker and the spooky season approaches. Let's just say I'm glad I read it during the day as I was creeped out enough, thank you very much. It's a great book for dipping in and out of but I read it cover to cover as I couldn't put it down.
In this spooky virtual tour of 101 paranormal events from around the world, Theresa Cheung both captivated and chilled me with these ghostly tales. There were some I had heard of but most of them were new to me. I loved how each story is written concisely but often directing the reader to do some further research on the internet. I would have read the book a lot quicker if I hadn't been googling to see the creepy photos.
The book is split into four parts: residual, poltergeist, inhuman and intelligent. Residual hauntings is the largest part as it's the most common type of haunting, that of past events playing on a loop, such as reports of the sighting of two young princes in the Tower of London. The scariest haunting is that of the poltergeist that can move objects and people, but is often faked. Equally scary perhaps (for me, at least) are the inhuman hauntings; things like dolls, paintings or other inanimate items. I was particularly interested in the intelligent hauntings which suggest a level of consciousness remains when a person has died.
Whatever your interest or belief in ghosts, this is a very interesting and informative book. It has a good spread of stories from around the world, although there are a few geographical bloopers that might annoy readers from Pontefract and Vancouver.
Haunted World is chilling, goosebumpy read that both enlightens and entertains the reader and I highly recommend it for Hallowe'en reading.
I chose to read the paperback I received from Tandem Collective as part of a TikTok mailout and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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