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.
表中的内容
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. What Is a Ghost, Anyway?
2. Haunted Hollywood
3. Haunted Movie Sets, Studios, and Sound Stages
4. Haunted Hollywood Landmarks
5. Historical Ghosts
6. Haunted Plantations
7. Haunted Ships and Lighthouses
8. Haunted Vehicles, Trains, Tracks and Roadways
9. Haunted Bridges, Byways and Highways
10. Haunted Battlefields, Cemeteries, and Churches
11. Haunted Hotels, Motels, Houses, and Inns
12. Prisons, Hospitals, and Asylums
13. Creepy Schools, Colleges, and Universities
14. Ghostly Planes and Airports
15. Notorious Urban Legends and Creepy Encounters
16. Famous Hauntings and Notorious Hot Spots
Appendix: Personal Experiences of Ghostly Encounters
Bibliography
Index
关于作者
Marie D. Jones is the author of over fifteen nonfiction books on the paranormal, conspiracies, ancient knowledge, unknown mysteries, and cutting-edge science, including Visible Ink Press’
Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels plus
PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena;
2013: End of Days or a New Beginning;
Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History; and
The Deja Vu Enigma. She is a regular contributor to
New Dawn Magazine, FATE, Paranoia Magazine and other periodicals. Jones has been interviewed on over a thousand radio shows worldwide, including
Coast-to-Coast AM, and has appeared on History Channel’s
Ancient Aliens. She makes her home in southern California.