Auteur: Robert Bartholomew

**Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria. **This title discusses America's ‘kissing bug’ scare of 1899; Seattle' …

History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpe …

This book comprehensively surveys the colorful history of mass hysteria and kindred phenomena in schools, documenting outbreaks of demonic possession during witchcraft scares, to modern incidents of …

This work provides an accurate, in-depth examination and scientific evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history as depicted in popular films and television programs.Neither a debunkin …