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Product Description
"Whether they are bumping about our attics, hitchhiking on a moonlight road, or fraternizing with our reflections, ghosts tantalize us with their secrets." --Leslie Rule

Meet Leslie Rule--America's real-life ghost hunter with a penchant for sharing authentic, spine-tingling stories of the paranormal.

The Gallup Organization reports that more than 32 percent of Americans have seen a ghost. More than half the population believes in the spiritual, cosmic, or supernatural. To Leslie Rule, such revelations come as no surprise. Rule has spent more than a decade researching specters and spirits and has chronicled her ghostly tales in three previous titles, Coast to Coast Ghosts, Ghosts Among Us, and When the Ghost Screams.

Inside Ghost in the Mirror, Rule documents more than dozens of stories of paranormal apparitions that reveal themselves on the other side of the looking glass. Rule's painstaking archival research presents factual clues to each haunting, along with her own dramatic black-and-white photographs that capture the eerie unrest of the scenes she explores.

Started reading two days ago because it was the day before Halloween and I was in the mood for a ghost story. Unfortunately, this is Rule's weakest book by far. It's like she put all the top-tier stories she collected into her first three books, and she's scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill this latest volume with paranormal activity. The stories, for the most part, are pretty standard descriptions of 'typical' hauntings. Rule and her friends visit the places, mention their reactions, like a 'sensitive' psychic friend feeling sad in a room or whatever, and then on to the next story. She spends a lot of time theorizing *why* she thinks the place is haunted, but many of her reasons are truly vague. In the first chapter, a man reports being haunted by a ghost with white eyes who carries a basket. Rule speculates that this means the ghost is blind, and there was a school four hundred miles away from the man's home that taught blind people to weave baskets, and therefore his ghost is a blind basket-weaver. It's all a bit loose and silly.

In some cases, she has literally *nothing* about the history of the building that's being haunted, so she seems to make due with any scrap of history that can be remotely applied.

Also, the editing wasn't as tight and there were some fragmentary sentences. The writing just seemed less polished and organized, overall.

I'd say I quit reading this book about halfway through, somewhere in the chapter about haunted eateries.

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sent to Sheryl Gibson of South Lyon, MI to fulfill a request on Paperbackswap.com!